Krieger22
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A nuclear-powered Russian missile remains lost at sea after a failed test late last year, and Moscow is preparing to try to recover it, according to people with direct knowledge of a U.S. intelligence report.
Crews will attempt to recover a missile that was test launched in November and landed in the Barents Sea, which is located north of Norway and Russia. The operation will include three vessels, one of which is equipped to handle radioactive material from the weapon's nuclear core. There is no timeline for the mission, according to the people with knowledge of the report.
The U.S. intelligence report did not mention any potential health or environmental risks posed by possible damage to the missile's nuclear reactor.
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Similar working principles as Starstreak? I wonder how it handles bad weather or extreme heat.
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https://news.usni.org/2018/08/14/35796
It's official: the Blue Angels are getting Super Hornets.
9 Es and 2 Fs, with completion of conversion work on the airframes expected to be in December 2021.
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https://taskandpurpose.com/army-xm25-cdte-system-punisher/
The XM25 program is officially terminated.
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And now for some content that actually is the title. By which I mean, share my misery.
Spoiler
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The Royal Malaysian Air Force's Cap55 plan is out.
We're looking at reduction in simultaneously operated types, notably with combat capable aircraft. We're going from 3 (2 in practice since the Fulcrums are grounded indefinitely) fighter types to just one.
MALE drones would be pretty useful for dealing with those damned Sulus, but we shall see if the budget exists for what the TUDM wants.
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Doesn't work for me either.
I'd like to see how the energy is dissipated. The bulge on the reverse side suggests that it's still pretty concentrated, which would be pretty bad news for one's internal organs anyway...
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In which opposed piston engines are described as some miraculous thing that hasn't caught on for some reason.
I'm sure British and Soviet ex-tankers of a certain vintage can say otherwise.
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There appears to have been some sort of leak at Roskosmos
QuoteThe state space agency Roskosmos said its security staff were co-operating with FSB officers on a criminal case.
Russia's Kommersant daily says about 10 staff at a Roskosmos facility called TsNIIMash are under suspicion. A director's office was searched.
On Thursday Russia released video of new hypersonic missile systems.
"It was established that the leak came from a TsNIIMash employee," a source told Kommersant.
TsNIIMash is a top scientific subsidiary of Roskosmos, which runs Russian space programmes.
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Pratt & Whitney's new Growth Option 2.0 package for the F135 has interesting potential benefits:
QuoteAdditional power and thermal management capability will enable the use of directed energy weapons and other advanced offensive and defensive systems and, if approved, would feature in an upgrade package called Growth Option 2.0 (GO2). Pratt & Whitney, which would roll PTMS into a suite of compressor and turbine enhancements originally proposed in the first upgrade package, G01, says the complete upgrade could be available within four years of getting the official go-ahead.
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I was hoping the absurdity of the situation (the first assumption already requires the existence of competent Syrian air defense soldiers, or the dumbest IAF pilot ever cleared for duty) would give the joke away.
Anyway, Raytheon is waiting on a concrete timetable of integration of the SDB II.
QuoteIntegrating the StormBreaker — GBU-53/B small diameter bomb II — is still included in the C2D2 integration, but the “dust hasn’t settled yet on exactly” when, Raytheon officials say.
In the queue are several F-35 operators planning to integrate the StormBreaker before clearing the aircraft for operational service. Last year, for example, the State Department approved a potential StormBreaker sale to Australia. Meanwhile, the USN has resequenced the timing of StormBreaker integration, moving the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet ahead of the F-35C, Raytheon says.
Who at marketing decided to CamelCase that?
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Well, according to Southfront, the F-35I has already tanked an S-200 hit and came out of it looking little worse than if it had flown into a bird. It's plenty armored.
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The latest round of negotiations over the next USAF F-35 batch has seen a drop in price of 6 percent. Unit cost for the F-35A is now $89 million.
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Well, it's the 11th in my time zone, but better late than never.
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http://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=485254
So the latest rumblings are that the Su-57 may be pivoting towards an export focus, and that work on a sixth generation fighter should begin.
I suppose asking the Indians about that first part is inadvisable.
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POGO might be a bit upset about the recent A-10/F-35 close air support flyoff.
(although seriously there need to be more situations that involve more involved air defenses beyond "angry warband belt dumping PKs into the air")
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The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines
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Late/transitional model UDs? Supposedly the T-84's turret is an evolution of what they wound up building for the last UDs after they lost access to the ceramics and casting facilities needed.