Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Airbus H-160M....
The Airbus #H160M #Guepard joint light helicopter together with the #MBDA new generation multipurpose antiship #missile ANL/Sea Venom will be displayed on the @Defense_gouv stand at #PAS19 pic.twitter.com/YXqLv8zIuZ— MBDA (@byMBDA) May 28, 2019
Everyone is fired up about this helicopter but I don't get it. Nothing revolutionary about it...not really much to get excited about. I guess cause its shiny!
Finish Air Force intercept Russian aircraft....plus a "Blast From The Past"
Ilmavoimat suoritti maanantaina 27. toukokuuta operatiivisen lennon Suomenlahdelle. F/A-18 #Hornet -hävittäjä tunnisti Venäjän asevoimien Antonov An-12 ja Antonov An-72 -kuljetuskoneet Porvoon edustalla kello 11 jälkeen. Alueloukkausta ei tapahtunut. #valmius #ilmavoimat pic.twitter.com/0uMLqQ5KLf— Ilmavoimat (@FinnishAirForce) May 27, 2019
Translation by Microsoft...
The Air force was executed on Monday 27. May the operative flight to the Gulf of Finland. The F/A-18 #Hornet Destroyer recognized the Russian armed forces Antonov an-12 and Antonov An-72 transport machines in front of Porvoo at 11 a.m. No territorial infringement occurred. #valmius #ilmavoimat
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| The YC-14 lives on... |
Off topic but this should have been our C-130 replacement!
Mig-31s escorting T-95s over the Pacific near Alaska...
Story here.
This was a predictable reaction. We push in Europe so they'll push in the Pacific. Exactly what we didn't want to happen...or at least I hope didn't want.
Regardless, does anyone see what's happening here? Pushing NATO to extend, a dubious alliance whose reason for being evaporated with the end of the Soviet Union, is having the knock effect of making the US less secure!
Take a look at US deployments.
We are OVER EXTENDED! We are in more places today than during the Cold War.
The current strategy isn't working.
If you defend everywhere you defend nowhere!
Lockheed Martin officially teams with Rheinmetall to offer the CH-53K to Germany...
Seit heute offiziell: zusammen mit einem starken deutschen Industrieteam, u.a. @RheinmetallAG , beteiligen wir uns mit dem @Sikorsky #CH53K am Wettbewerb für Deutschlands neuen schweren Transporthubschrauber #STH. https://t.co/8lNFtQhpzn pic.twitter.com/Vpfll4vLGp— Lockheed Martin DE (@LMGermanyNews) May 27, 2019
Use a translator to suss it out but its basically the title of this blog post. I'm a bit amazed. With all the problems and the tremendous cost, the USMC and Lockheed really believe the Germans will buy this helicopter?
If they do then we're being robbed by our own Foreign Military Sales program. The program only works if we're buying them at a premium and selling them at a discount!
Monday, May 27, 2019
Unique Fashion/Art...
The unique designs of European city streets are being turned into wearable art pic.twitter.com/g2egoVywCT— Mashable (@mashable) May 27, 2019
Chinese Navy vs The Quad Navy...
They're listing Type 55 as cruisers? So what is being listed as a US cruiser! I thought we retired all ours. Also I guess the Type 52 is listed as their destroyer but vs what US platform? The Burkes?
I'm a bit confused. Anyone care to clear this up.
Bundeswehr - Mountain Infantry Brigade 23 .... via Instagram
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| What is this contraption? Some type of remote control anti-tank missile/mine/thing? |
Blast from the past. The part of WW2 you never read about...
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| RAF Alconbury, Cambridgeshire. A 500lb bomb detonated while being loaded onto a B-17, setting off the other bombs on the aircraft; 19 were killed and 21 injured. 27 May 1943 |
It'll never happen but I wonder how many US troops died in training accidents during WW2. Add to it incidents like this one and then compare it to actual combat related deaths.
I'm not sure how they accounted for things back then (I'm sure it was much more straightforward than today) but a comparison would be instructive.
On this Memorial Day, may their memory be a blessing...
2008 Russo-Georgian War, Georgian drone films its own demise after a Russian Air Force’s MiG-29 intercepts it.
Are missiles the preferred weapon when encountering drones?
China’s meter wave anti-stealth radar capable of guiding missiles to destroy stealth aircraft: senior designer
via Global Times.
China's meter wave anti-stealth radar not only detects advanced stealth aircraft, but also guides missiles to destroy them, a senior Chinese radar designer said at a recent interview.
Meter wave radar can be deployed on vehicles, on land and warships, creating a dense web that gives hostile stealth aircraft nowhere to hide, Chinese military experts told the Global Times on Thursday.
"As long as they are designed to serve this purpose, meter wave anti-stealth radars can fulfill the requirement," Wu Jianqi, a senior scientist at the state-owned China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) who conducts researches and designs anti-stealth radar, said when asked in an interview with the Naval & Merchant Ships magazine whether a meter wave radar can guide missiles to shoot down stealth aircraft.
Meter wave radars can detect stealth aircraft because modern stealth aircraft are mainly designed to avoid detection by microwave radar, and are less stealthy to meter wave radar, military experts noted.
However, analysts previously said that because of their low resolution and accuracy, meter wave radars can only send warnings about incoming threats. And even if microwave radars compensate for the shortcomings of the meter wave radars, they are unable to entirely overcome these shortcomings.
Wei Dongxu, a Beijing-based military analyst, told the Global Times that older meter wave radars could only see roughly an object's general direction, not its exact location.
Wu solved the issue by designing the world's first practical meter wave sparse array synthetic impulse and aperture radar.
I know the reaction from many will be NO! He's lying. But I simply ask this. Is it possible? Does this sound at all plausible?
Leaving this here for the actual and self proclaimed radar experts to discuss.
I just want to know if its possible and if it is then what next. My response would be to look at what we're working on. Hypersonics. A quiet shift to long range, high capacity bombers...at least that appears to be the focus...the B-52 being re-engined, the B-21 coming online...seems like the USAF is going for a payloads with platform approach. Just a hairbreath away from the Navy's view of things.
They know something we don't.
This could be it.
Taiwan practices repulsing amphibious assaults (vid)...
Question.
Name the only nation on the planet that actively practices repulsing amphibious assaults.
Answer.
Taiwan.
I wonder if the Marine Corps shouldn't invite a few Taiwanese Battalion Commanders to the US to give us their take on this subject so that we can adjust accordingly.
From my seat they're the premier anti-amphibious assault specialist on the planet. That probably includes airborne assaults as well. This is their entire reason for being so we could probably learn a thing or two from them.
Just a thought.
Memorial Day 2019
Memorial Day 2019.
Everyone's busy. Everyone has stuff going on. Everyone has things to do. Essentially life goes on. I get it.
But this isn't one of those superfluous holidays that you can just piss away. It doesn't take much. Just a quick remembrance of those that gave all. Maybe a toast of your favorite beverage to a young man that didn't make it home.
And then you can get on with whatever you were doing.
It ain't much but it's worth it.
They're worth a few minutes of your time.
You need a funny...here it is...
Ah get over yourself. I thought it was funny. Learn to relax a bit!
Sunday, May 26, 2019
Ajax Atlas completes recovery trials...
#DidYouKnow that #ATLAS, a variant of the #AJAX Family of Vehicles, has successfully completed vehicle recovery trials? During these trials, ATLAS was able to pull a 61 tonne Challenger Armoured Repair and Recovery Vehicle (CRARRV) up a 45 degree incline. #GDUKNews pic.twitter.com/NMe0HnPfw5— General Dynamics UK (@gduknews) May 25, 2019
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