LoooSeR Posted October 12, 2020 Report Share Posted October 12, 2020 Radar station of Su-35, allows to guide missiles while plain flies in "side" direction from target. Scolopax 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Beer Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 A week ago USAF C-17 made an emergency landing with nose gear up in Kandahar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 Unknown AA missile that Iran supplies to Houthis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted October 31, 2020 Report Share Posted October 31, 2020 50 minutes ago, LoooSeR said: Unknown AA missile that Iran supplies to Houthis. Nice, looks fit for purpose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted November 1, 2020 Report Share Posted November 1, 2020 To me it looks like this missile is rather slow (large wings, turbojet engine), i.e. probably not useful for engaging jets. Still probably good for UAVs or helicopters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 1, 2020 Report Share Posted November 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Beer said: To me it looks like this missile is rather slow (large wings, turbojet engine), i.e. probably not useful for engaging jets. Still probably good for UAVs or helicopters. Not sure about perfomance of this missile, but loitering AA missile possible purpose is to area denial for UAV. Missile is being fired when drone is spotted in area, but exact location is unknown, IMO. Kal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alzoc Posted November 1, 2020 Report Share Posted November 1, 2020 UK block the sale of 10 South-Korean F-50 trainer/fighter aircraft to the Argentinian air force Beer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 1, 2020 Report Share Posted November 1, 2020 2 hours ago, Beer said: To me it looks like this missile is rather slow (large wings, turbojet engine), i.e. probably not useful for engaging jets. Still probably good for UAVs or helicopters. Heh, found claims that it managed to shot down a jet. "At the moment, we know of one successful case of the missile's combat use. On February 14 of this year, a "product 358" shot down a Saudi Tornado IDS in Marib." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted November 1, 2020 Report Share Posted November 1, 2020 Interesting. What is the source? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted November 2, 2020 Report Share Posted November 2, 2020 16 hours ago, LoooSeR said: Not sure about perfomance of this missile, but loitering AA missile possible purpose is to area denial for UAV. Missile is being fired when drone is spotted in area, but exact location is unknown, IMO. without knowing the size of the missle, I'm guessing they could launch it from the back of a Toyota... And ferry them around using a motorbike. perhaps launch from rooftop like oversize manpad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal Posted November 2, 2020 Report Share Posted November 2, 2020 http://www.amtjets.com/pdf/Titan_specifications.pdf Beer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted November 2, 2020 Report Share Posted November 2, 2020 3 hours ago, Kal said: http://www.amtjets.com/pdf/Titan_specifications.pdf From that pdf: Max- thrust 392N, maximum operating altitude 8000 m, maximum speed 1000 km/h. Hard to believe they could hit a Tornado with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 2, 2020 Report Share Posted November 2, 2020 3 hours ago, Kal said: without knowing the size of the missle, I'm guessing they could launch it from the back of a Toyota... And ferry them around using a motorbike. perhaps launch from rooftop like oversize manpad. Missile is about 2.75 meters long IIRC. According to NYT article, missile could be launched from crude mounts, it have a booster to facilitate that. 3 hours ago, Kal said: http://www.amtjets.com/pdf/Titan_specifications.pdf Iranian copy of it, AFAIK. I think i already posted about engine of that thing back in February. 28 minutes ago, Beer said: From that pdf: Max- thrust 392N, maximum operating altitude 8000 m, maximum speed 1000 km/h. Hard to believe they could hit a Tornado with that. 358 could have been already in the air, loitering, and attacking any plane from frontal arc doesn't require high speed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted November 2, 2020 Report Share Posted November 2, 2020 1 hour ago, LoooSeR said: 358 could have been already in the air, loitering, and attacking any plane from frontal arc doesn't require high speed. IMHO that missile is way too slow for that. It could hit basically only if the jet would fly directly against it in the same altitude. Even to get into a scenario like that would be such an extremely lucky coincidence that I can't believe it actually happened. I mean, in theory it's possible but only in theory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 2, 2020 Report Share Posted November 2, 2020 24 minutes ago, Beer said: IMHO that missile is way too slow for that. It could hit basically only if the jet would fly directly against it in the same altitude. Even to get into a scenario like that would be such an extremely lucky coincidence that I can't believe it actually happened. I mean, in theory it's possible but only in theory. Do you think planes are doing max speed all the time they fly over Yemen? There are videos of Saudi jets speeding up and hitting afterburners when they detected incoming missile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted November 2, 2020 Report Share Posted November 2, 2020 1 hour ago, LoooSeR said: Do you think planes are doing max speed all the time they fly over Yemen? There are videos of Saudi jets speeding up and hitting afterburners when they detected incoming missile. No, but that doesn't change a thing on what I wrote. Cruise speed of Tornado is somewhere between 900-1000 km/h. It means that such target (flying strictly straight) can be hit by something flying the same speed without advanced guidance by radar only on purely theoretical conditions (even with the radar it's near impossible), i.e. when the target and the missile somehow manage to get to fly near directly against each other in the near same altitude. The probability of such encounter is close to zero. There is a reason why every existing AA missile is way faster than that (and IR guided missiles especially). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 5, 2020 Report Share Posted November 5, 2020 Quote The deeply modernized missile carrier Tu-160M performed its maiden flight with new engines. At the KAZ airfield. S.P. Gorbunov, a branch of Tupolev PJSC (part of PJSC UAC of Rostec State Corporation), the first flight of the deeply modernized Tu-160M missile carrier with new serial NK-32-02 engines took place. The plane was piloted by a crew led by Anri Naskidyants. The flight took place at an altitude of 6,000 meters and lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes. During the flight, the necessary checks were performed on the updated general aircraft systems and on-board electronic equipment installed as part of a deep modernization of the aircraft, as well as the performance of the new NK-32 series 02 engine, developed and manufactured by the United Engine Corporation (as part of the Rostec State Corporation). According to the crew's data, the flight proceeded normally, the systems and equipment worked without any comments. As reported, the production of Tu-160 strategic missile carriers, which are the air component of the nuclear triad, is being restored at the Kazan aircraft plant after a 10-year hiatus. On February 2, the first flight of the deeply modernized "strategist" Tu-160M "Igor Sikorsky", created on the basis of a combat aircraft, took place. Earlier, the Ministry of Defense announced plans to modernize all 16 Tu-160 aircraft in service with the Russian Aerospace Forces. In addition, on January 25, 2018, a state contract was signed between the Russian Defense Ministry and the Tupolev company for the supply of the first batch of Tu-160M strategic bombers - it provides for the production of 10 aircraft worth 15 billion rubles each. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 5, 2020 Report Share Posted November 5, 2020 Iranian F-4E with Iranian Ghased guided bomb Spoiler Iranian Yasin gliding bomb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krieger22 Posted November 17, 2020 Report Share Posted November 17, 2020 ROCAF F-16A Block 20 tail number 6672 Unfortunately, this F-16 disappeared today during a nighttime training mission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 21, 2020 Report Share Posted November 21, 2020 Quote At the Nile Eagles-1 exercise, the Egyptian Air Force MiG-29M / M2 fighters with RVV-SD R-77-1 with an increased range of up to 110 km were shown for the first time; the previous version had a range of 80 km. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted November 22, 2020 Report Share Posted November 22, 2020 Polish border guard took two new L-410 patrol planes equiped with 360° radar and optical EO/IR gimball. Photos here: https://www.idnes.cz/technet/technika/l-410-polska-pohranicni-straz-letoun-kunovice-pzl-m-20-mewa.A201118_122125_vojenstvi_erp/foto/ERP877e8a_01_L410_Polsko.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted November 23, 2020 Report Share Posted November 23, 2020 On 17th November Hungarian AF evaluated L-39NG in flight with their pilots trying both seats. http://www.aero.cz/cz/o-nas/media/tiskove-zpravy/l-39ng-na-hodnoticich-letech-v-madarsku/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Posted November 24, 2020 Report Share Posted November 24, 2020 Hungarian Air Force is buying two KC-390. https://www.armadninoviny.cz/madarsko-kupuje-strategicka-dopravni-a-tankovaci-letadla-kc-390.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted November 30, 2020 Report Share Posted November 30, 2020 Libyans (LNA) playing with Su-24Ms. LNA (Haftar troops) is supported by mainly UAE and partially by Russia. Quote A pair of front-line bombers Su-24M during the exercises of the 106th brigade of the Libyan National Army. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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