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  1. Beer
    That one deserves restoration. If for nothing else than for being one of the weirdest things ever.
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    UAV thread

    Beer replied to Toxn's topic in Aviation

    Genuine question. How about communication range? I mean long range is one thing but are they able to actually operate such UAV 2000 km from the command center?
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    IMHO the old Soviet era radars are rather useless against an enemy which has some EW, so the AD network will be broken just at the beginning. The Sentinel isn't powerful enough to bring the complex air situation awarness. Hence why for me an integrated network with more powerful radars than only those Sentinels is needed.
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    The pics don't work.
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    It's normal to have most of the parts from standard automotive suppliers. That's the case for basically all carmakers all around the world. Also some of those global suppliers also produce in Russia, just like Valeo which you named (Togliatti)
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    There is the lower pressure 57 mm in Epokha turret for Kurganets (and possibly BMP-3). That one is much smaller than the high pressure 57 from Derivatsya or T-15. See previous page where a video of BMP-3 with Epokha is posted.
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    I think that they need another modern radars between the RAT-31DL which is mainly for the general air situation and the battery target acquisition radar. It's same here in CZ but we already ordered Elta EL/M-2084 for that.
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    Hungary signed a contract with Kongsberg for unspecified number of NASAMS bateries. Most likely four. https://www.armadninoviny.cz/podepsano-madarsko-ziska-systemy-protivzdusne-obrany-nasams.html However Hungary still operates only ancient Soviet era radar network which means that the effectiveness of the system will be reduced until Hungary creates new radar network. Probably something is in the making but not public.
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    Hard to call it news when it's about more than 20 years old situation, but anyway retired Lieutenant Colonel Charlie “Tuna” Hainline, an F-117 pilot, said that in April 1999 his wingman was hit by Serbian SAM over Belgrade but managed to get back to base. According to him he saw two SAMs, one exploded and the other "kind of went into space". According to the article he was awarded DFC for managing the tanker randevous with the crippled bird. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/37894/yes-serbian-air-defenses-did-hit-another-f-117-during-operation-allied-force-in-1999
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    Everywhere I see only a talk about range but is there any information how large (or maybe better to say how small) warhead does it carry?
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    I think I have somewhere a magazine article about it from 90' as well...
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    Azeri 2S31 Vena. Combat premiere of the system I guess?
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    IMHO EMBT will come too late for being considered by the Poles.
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    Both of the helmets are 30 years old. I would say it is impressive considering their age. Anyway out of curiosity did US military or SWAT units use any sort of heavy ballistic helmets similar to these Soviet/Russian ones? Also a genuine question. Which helmets can withstand more than SS190?
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    IMHO the heavy helmets still make perfect sense with the close combat assault teams and anti-terror squads, just like they were mostly used.
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    Old photos of IRIAF F-14A armed with R-27.
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    Destroyed Azeri T-72 Aslan with a soldier who doesn't know that it's their own tank. The wind sensor is not present on Armenian T-72AV.
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    Prague aircraft museum Kbely finished restoration of Avia Av-14 (Czechoslovak built Il-14). When I was there two months ago I have noticed that since my last visit three years ago they restored C-47, Phantom FGR.2 and Su-25K. Next one to restore is probably going to be Il-18 (and I really really hope they'll restore the Tu-104 which is standing there too!).
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    Just out of curiosity, how is it nowadays being done with localization and acquisition of the carrier task force on the opened ocean?
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    More details about the Ukrainean Dana M2 deal. https://www.armadninoviny.cz/houfnice-dana-m2-pro-ukrajinu-puvodni-objednavka-znela-66-houfnic.html In short: - the contract was signed in 2018 and originally was for 66 units however it was reduced to 26 (possibly for financial reasons) - the contract contains 5000 HE-Frag and 1000 long range DN1CZ rounds - the price of the contract is 40 million USD The article discusses the controversy going around it especially due to the fact that the SPH uses the same old 152 mm old gun as the original vz.77 Dana, i.e. it's limited to maximum 25,5 km range, however it names a lot of reasons why it is still reasonably good deal for Ukraine. - Ukraine doesn't produce 155 mm ammo (Artem company went bankrupt with large debts) and Dana can fire Soviet 152 mm ammo - Ukraine probably isn't able to buy guided ammo and without it the fire on longer distances than 25 km makes little sense due to an enormous ammo quantity needed for guaranteed destruction of the target - Dana still outranges most of the other artillery guns around such as the most common 2S1, 2S3, D-20 and D-30 - The vehicle has number of advantages, namely fully automated operation with 36 ready-to-fire rounds, large ammo capacity (36+24), crew under armor during fire, high tactical mobility, modern FCS with automatic setting of action position, short time to deploy and to leave (90/60 seconds), higher rate of fire than most of the other guns around (5 RPM initial, 4 RPM sustained), high reliability and lower cost - The article states that Dana M2 is able to deploy, fire accurately 6 rounds and leave in 220 seconds and repeat this cycle six times by using only ammo stored in the automatic magazine which makes it rather safe from counter-battery fire - They also mention that Azeri Dana M1 were successfully used in Nagorno Karabakh on the souther front where they were heavily engaged in battles of Handrut, Schushi and Lachin corridor including repelling Armenian counter offensive on 7-9. October - Last but not least the article states that from the EU and Western countries only Czech and Slovak companies are willing/allowed to sell heavy weapons to Ukraine At the end it's mentioned that Ukraine is indeed going to use Tatra chassis in the future. For now it's confirmed for Neptum AShM and Bureviy heavy MLRS.
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    Possible game changer in the Czech IFV tender. Rheinmetall yesterday signed creation of a joint venture with Tatra defence (in Czech presidential palace) for production and development of tactical combat vehicles in Tatra facilities in Kopřivnice (not limited to Lynx). If nothing else it means that both ASCOD and Lynx would be produced in Tatra. https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/nato/czg-strand-rheinmetall-vozidla-obrana-armada-koprivnice-tatra-czechoslovak-group.A201126_163750_zpr_nato_inc
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    Actually none of these three weapons was ever used by ČSLA. We had our own weapons used in their roles. As a light AA weapon we had the 30 mm PLDvK vz.53 (you know for sure the self propelled version of armoured Praga V3S used a lot in Yugoslav wars). And as a recoilles rifle we had the 84 mm BZK vz.59A. Both weapons are already phased out.
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    Dana M2 being produced for Ukraine. More photos: https://thedeaddistrict.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-czech-dana-m2-sphs-are-already.html Catalog of artillery Excalibur artillery products with some photos of the FCS etc. https://www.excaliburarmy.cz/download/product/6/ea-artillery-program-howitzers-mlrs.pdf
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    Destroyed Armenian Shturm-S
  25. Beer
    Libya And Ukraine
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