LoooSeR Posted September 16, 2016 Report Share Posted September 16, 2016 IRSG new ship: The command of the naval forces of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran reported that the troops received the first high-speed long-distance sailing boat, which can carry helicopters and conduct operation furing storms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted September 16, 2016 Report Share Posted September 16, 2016 MAXIMUM ALLAKH SPEED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramlaen Posted September 17, 2016 Report Share Posted September 17, 2016 Underwater shock trials. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted September 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 18, 2016 R2D2 getting an upgrade for surface targets and drones. Adding FLIR and improving the signal processing of the radar with COTS components. http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1662498-navy-ciws-can-now-hit-surface-small-boats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted September 20, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 20, 2016 https://news.usni.org/2016/09/20/21690 Zumwalt down for two weeks for repairs of an engineering issue. "The crew discovered the casualty after detecting a seawater leak in the propulsion motor drive lube oil auxiliary system for one of the ship’s shafts. The built-in redundancy of the ship’s propulsion plant allows this first-in-class ship to operate with multiple engine configurations. However, it was determined that the repairs should be completed in port prior to the ship transiting to sea. Repairs like these are not unusual in first-of-class ships during underway periods following construction. Zumwalt will conduct the repairs at Naval Station Norfolk prior to getting underway for training and certification operations." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted September 29, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2016 http://www.scout.com/military/warrior/story/1711759-us-carriers-deploy-new-torpedo-defense-system Hard kill anti torpedo system in the works. Interesting stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted October 9, 2016 Report Share Posted October 9, 2016 Looks like Kuznetsov first combat mission will be soon. Kuznetsov is being loaded, it will departure somewhere between 15-20 of October. Collimatrix 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Random question: Has anyone seriously contemplated what a drone-only carrier would look like in terms of displacement, layout, crew, systems etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Random question: Has anyone seriously contemplated what a drone-only carrier would look like in terms of displacement, layout, crew, systems etc? Depends a lot on what the drones look like, and how many you want to carry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Depends a lot on what the drones look like, and how many you want to carry Good questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 So, the ranges of options: On the small side (ignoring things like tactical drones) you have something like my reusable Tomahawk (boomerang?) concept: capable of carrying 1000lb of ordinance in a single weapons bay over a radius of 1000km, with zero-length launch and paraglide recovery. Something like this allows you to pack a ship to the gunwales with cheap strike platforms which don't do much more on the operational level than lower the cost of ordinance over just using a conventional missile. On the other end, you have things like X-47B. The first option allows you to make a carrier which displaces under 5000 tonnes and carries 50-100 UCAVs (including perhaps a few unmanned helicopters for use as anti-submarine and radar platforms). The second option gets you a pretty conventional aircraft carrier: at minimum 10 000 tonnes displacement, carrying a dozen X-47-class planes and a bunch of (full-sized) unmanned helicopters and the like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted October 11, 2016 Report Share Posted October 11, 2016 Whatever it is you'll probably want a certain minimum level of air wing size just to get requirements for parts and maintenance facilities down to a reasonable amount of overhead. By the time you get to full sized capability that's pretty much to full size planes that need a full sized supercarrier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 Whatever it is you'll probably want a certain minimum level of air wing size just to get requirements for parts and maintenance facilities down to a reasonable amount of overhead. By the time you get to full sized capability that's pretty much to full size planes that need a full sized supercarrier. That is the nub of the issue, yes. As nobody but the US can actually afford a full-sized carrier anyway, my guess is that you'd give up on a certain amount of capacity and capability simply to have some of the advantages of an air wing. Which is pretty much the same as the present, tbh. What changes is that going unmanned allows you to play with a much wider range of airframe sizes and capabilities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 HSV-2 Swift was hit by C802 anti-ship missile, here is interesting picture of damage and warhead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khand-e Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 So, we basically know what Iran was denying all along, that they're supporting the Houthis in this conflict. *shrug* I'm pretty amazed they never found the launch vehicle though, they're pretty large. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 Kuznetsov is going out of base. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted October 12, 2016 Report Share Posted October 12, 2016 Thinking more about drone carriers, I'd say that a reasonable airframe size (equivalent to current-gen MALE UAVs) is something like 10m in length. This means, happily, that you can take things like the F-4 Wildcat as a roughly analogous aircraft and estimate sizes from there. The result is that you could use something in the size range of a modern frigate as a hull for a fast drone carrier. This would support around 20 MALE UAVs (suitably navalized), giving you a neat platform for round-the-clock surveillance and limited strike. Range is up to 3000 km if satellite links are available. So current-gen tech points to something like a floating listening post with the secondary ability to deliver light weapons (hellfire, griffon, baby JDAM, stinger and so on). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted October 13, 2016 Report Share Posted October 13, 2016 But what if we had a drone carrier that was itself a drone? <Insert MindBlown.gif here> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2016 http://www.defensenews.com/articles/diux-offers-36-million-in-fy-16-contracts Poland likely to go with Saab subs vs the Scorpene class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LoooSeR Posted October 17, 2016 Report Share Posted October 17, 2016 Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted October 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2016 India has their first SSBN apparently. Been in commission since august, but not announced. Carries 8 http://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/ins-arihant-indian-navys-first-indigenously-made-nuclear-submarine-commissioned-quietly-all-you-want-to-know/422327/ The pic is from a random FB blog, so not sure if accurate. http://www.newsx.com/national/43966-what-is-ins-arihant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 Little known British submersible landing craft design http://www.hisutton.com/Submersible%20Landing%20Craft.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted October 24, 2016 Report Share Posted October 24, 2016 The lead ship of the new Russian multi-mission corvettes (pr. 20386) will be laid down on Oct 28. Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoooSeR Posted October 25, 2016 Report Share Posted October 25, 2016 More details of the new deadly #RussianNavy Project 20386 "corvette". Images by dmirg78 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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