LoooSeR Posted April 16, 2016 Report Share Posted April 16, 2016 More of IAI loitering munitions/UAVs: Rotem. It carries 2 grenades, 450 gr. each. It can "bomb" target ,designated by operator. Green Dragon. 40 km range and 2 hours working time. It have a 3 kg warhead, UAV is aimed by operator. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted April 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 Congress wants to look at the possibility of restarting F-22 production. Because BEAR NO, DRAGON NO. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/04/19/house-lawmakers-air-force-study-restarting-f22-production.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted April 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2016 An interesting article on THAAD for those that don't know much about it. http://thediplomat.com/2016/02/what-is-thaad-what-does-it-do-and-why-is-china-mad-about-it/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted April 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 Whoa. USMC Hornet Readiness is down to 60%. They only have 87 Hornets in usable condition. They have 159 aircraft out of order 'long term' due to maintenance issues. http://breakingdefense.com/2016/04/marines-are-flying-only-60-of-f-18-hornets-they-need/?__hstc=174454333.23642324354311ce0db4bd6d6e3222c1.1461194720983.1461194720983.1461197395224.2&__hssc=174454333.1.1461197395224&__hsfp=797100936 Khand-e 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted April 21, 2016 Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 Congress wants to look at the possibility of restarting F-22 production. Because BEAR NO, DRAGON NO. http://www.military.com/daily-news/2016/04/19/house-lawmakers-air-force-study-restarting-f22-production.html That is a great many steps from actually doing anything and the studies on the subject say it'd be prohibitively expensive. Whoa. USMC Hornet Readiness is down to 60%. They only have 87 Hornets in usable condition. They have 159 aircraft out of order 'long term' due to maintenance issues. http://breakingdefense.com/2016/04/marines-are-flying-only-60-of-f-18-hornets-they-need/?__hstc=174454333.23642324354311ce0db4bd6d6e3222c1.1461194720983.1461194720983.1461197395224.2&__hssc=174454333.1.1461197395224&__hsfp=797100936 So like their CH-53 fleet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scolopax Posted April 21, 2016 Report Share Posted April 21, 2016 So like their CH-53 fleet? Seems that way. 42 out of 147. You know it's bad when you have to go looking around in a museum to find a part for your plane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted April 22, 2016 Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 It's also pretty bad when apparently your service is getting less flying hours than the Chinese and Russians at the same time that the other services are counting on their huge edge in flying hours in comparison to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted April 22, 2016 Report Share Posted April 22, 2016 Brasil stopped their financial support of SAR-Brasil joint development of A-Darter ("Agile Darter") short range AA missile. SAR and Brasil started this project in 2006. Missile is planned to be very agile and capable of doing almost 100 G maneuvers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted April 25, 2016 Report Share Posted April 25, 2016 Bronezhilet, Zyklon and Belesarius 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted April 28, 2016 Report Share Posted April 28, 2016 Su-25 30 mm GSh-30-2 cannon. On Mi-24P: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted April 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2016 https://www.flightglobal.com/assets/getasset.aspx?itemid=66793 Development of the V-280 Valor tilt rotor continues. FVL-M contender vs the SB-1 Defiant (The raider-based Pusher-prop helo), supposedly to replace the Blackhawk and Apache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 That looks cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 Turkish strike UAV "TB2". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 9, 2016 Report Share Posted May 9, 2016 Despite the serious financial problems facing the program, the creation of the Brazilian middle-transport and refueling aircraft Embraer KC-390, on April 28, 2016 at the company's factory airfield in Embraer Gavião Peixoto (São Paulo) KC-390 second prototype made its first flight Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted May 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 USN has turned to the USAF and one of their manufacturing partners to make wing spars for legacy Hornets, which apparently is one of the mission critical parts that are keeping the Hornets grounded. "Warner Robins (ALC) will be making these for as long as we support the aircraft, as this is a very complex part. They've done a wonderful job here," said Ed Koenig, NORDAM's Warfighter Support director.Having excess capacity in the 402nd CMXG allowed much-needed manufacturing workloads such as this to take place, said Mark Johnson, 402nd CMXG deputy director. http://www.robins.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123473164 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted May 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 RFP issued for converting 2 747-8 series aircraft into VIP derivatives, with the same level of connectivity as the White House to replace the VC-25s that came into service 26 years ago. https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/usaf-issues-rfp-for-initial-design-of-next-air-force-425180/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 12, 2016 Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 FSB is purchasing 2 Diamond DA42M-NG for reconnaissance use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted May 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 Holy fuck that is one fugly aircraft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted May 13, 2016 Report Share Posted May 13, 2016 Report on Denmark's selection of a new fighter aircraft; http://www.fmn.dk/temaer/kampfly/Documents/type-selection-denmarks-new-fighter-aircrafts-english-summary5.pdf Original in nordspeak; http://www.fmn.dk/temaer/kampfly/Documents/typevalg-af-danmarks-kommende-kampfly-reduceret-vers-20160509.pdf JSF wins by a landslide, Eurofighter beats out Super Hornet for 2nd. Other highlight; Surprised they ranked the Eurofighter as higher risk than JSF. While the F-35's development hasn't been as much of a dumpster fire as Tyler Rogoway or WarIsBoring would have you believe, it definitely has had its share of difficulties. Also, I was under the impression that the Eurofighter was a fairly mature design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 13, 2016 Report Share Posted May 13, 2016 Sort of. EF and Rafale both are being hastily upgraded enhanced beyond the abilities of their original production tranches with new AESA and IRST. The original models of all three eurocanards lacked AESA. I think uprated engines were planned, but later canned for all the eurocanards except the gripen E/F, although that's such a radical change over the original gripen it's practically a new plane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostCosmonaut Posted May 13, 2016 Report Share Posted May 13, 2016 Naturally, the FA comments section has concluded that this could only have happened through widespread bribery and that the F-35 is still useless; http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/f-35-beats-every-other-fighter-jet-in-scandinavian-air-1776511111 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 14, 2016 Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 #Russia New ‘Frigate’ drone unveiled in #Moscow Looks like VTOL UAV. Collimatrix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 14, 2016 Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 Thing must be very light to work like that. I would also love to see the crazy gearbox for the tilt-rotors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted May 14, 2016 Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 "Orion" first Russian strike/armed UAV started test flights yesterday. Weight of this thing is 1.2 tons. Can fly for 24 hours, up to 8 km height of fly, 300 kg of weapons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted May 14, 2016 Report Share Posted May 14, 2016 ALL HAIL SATAN 2 MAY HIS PASSING CLEANSE THE EARTH. https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31571274/russia-prepares-to-start-test-firing-nuclear-missile-satan-2/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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