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Now China don't want to make a word of reply, and instead, they are gladly listening the US's suggestions......ORIGINAL: jtoatoktoe
Stennis Strike Group went through some disputed waters in the South China Sea over the last 24 hrs.
http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/2016/03/03/stennis-strike-group-deployed-to-south-china-sea/81270736/
Indonesia evaluating China’s AF902 FCS/T35mm AA Gun/PL9C air defense system
A senior officer from Indonesia’s Ministry of Defense revealed that the TNI AU is currently evaluating Norinco AF902 FCS/T35mm AA Gun/PL9C Missile Integrated Air Defense System.
Air Vice Marshall Syaugi told Antara news agency that evaluation is part of Indonesian Armed Forces 2015-19 strategic plan to meet the needs of the military.
Syaugi, who was on a working trip to China from Feb. 25 to Mar. 1, added that the Chinese system was comparable to the Oerlikon SkyShield air defense system that is operational with the Indonesian Air Force. It has a range of 4 kilometers and can fire at 550 rounds per minute.
Shoulder-mounted SkyWall launcher takes aim at illegal drones
From trained eagles to radio beam disabling systems, countermeasures to deal with rogue drones illegally entering sensitive airspace are proliferating almost as fast as drones themselves. British engineering firm OpenWorks' approach to dealing with unmanned aerial interlopers takes the form of a shoulder-mounted launcher that captures errant aircraft in a net from up to 100 m (330 ft) away.
With drones exploding in popularity over the past couple of years, it follows that concern around exactly who is flying them and where is also on the rise. From lurking around the Japanese Prime Minister's office to crash landings on the White House lawn, the potential for malicious or irresponsible use of the technology has inspired some imaginative approaches to ensuring public safety.
Kind of like the drone-hunting drone that we covered earlier this year, the SkyWall launcher is designed to disable unauthorized aircraft by trapping them in a net. The system uses a compressed gas-powered launcher to fire a programmable projectile that deploys a large net at just the right time to net the drone. Once the drone is all wrapped up in the net, an attached parachute then safely brings it back to earth.
The user can take aim at the drone with the help of a so-called SmartScope, which consists of a laser range finder and inertial measurement unit. This calculates both the distance and flight path of the target, and then the trajectory required for a direct hit and informs the user of a target lock via a continuous beep. If the projectile fails to meet its target, the parachute will still deploy and the projectile can be reused.
The SkyWall launcher is man portable and though it appears pretty sophisticated, can apparently be used with minimal training. The entire system weighs 10 kg (22 lb) and can be reloaded in eight seconds. There is no word yet on pricing, but OpenWorks does describe the Skywall as cost-effective, and says it expects to see them in use before the end of the year.
You can see it in action in the video below.
https://youtu.be/6uu4yoi0TqY
http://www.navyrecognition.com/images/s ... _small.jpgRaytheon's Standard Missile-6, successfully engaged five targets and shattered its previous maximum engagement range record, set in June of 2014. This test series, supported by the Cooperative Engagement Capability, validated the tactical warfighting capability of SM-6, by demonstrating both maximum down range and a maximum cross range intercepts in over-the-horizon, engage-on-remote missions.
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... ew&id=3666Raytheon Company's Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) successfully engaged a surface target -- the decommissioned USS Reuben James (FFG 57) -- in a recent flight test. The test was a demonstration of the U.S. Navy's concept of "distributed lethality," employing ships in dispersed formations to increase the offensive might of the surface force and enabling future options for the joint force commander. The USS John Paul Jones fired the SM-6 during the test...
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... ew&id=3668Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) delivered the "Jinryu" submarine to the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MOD) today in a ceremony held at the MHI Kobe Shipyard & Machinery Works' No.3 pier in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. The Jinryu is the seventh Soryu-class submarine supplied to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), and the fourth built by MHI. MHI also built the first Soryu-class submarine, and has produced a total of 26 submarines at the MHI Kobe Shipyard over the last 70 years.
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... ew&id=3671Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Berhad (BHIC) and the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN or Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia; TLDM) held today the keel laying ceremony of the first Gowind frigate Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) as part of the Second Generation Patrol Vessel (SGPV) program.
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... ew&id=3684According French weekly news magazine L'Obs citing a senior French source, the French Navy (Marine Nationale) would have spotted a Russian nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) in the Bay of Biscay, off the French coast in early January. Contacted by L'Obs, the French Ministry of Defence didn't deny the information.
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... ew&id=3680The US Navy released a video and pictures showing the first ever live-fire tests of the SeaRAM weapon system from an Arleigh Burke class (DDG 51) destroyer. The successful tests were conducted with USS Porter (DDG 78) during Combat Systems Ship Qualifications Trials at El Arenosillo Test Range off the coast of Huelva, Spain.
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I'd like to see them combine the Ram Missile and the actual gun for better protection. I'd rather have the backup of hundreds of bullets instead of a 11 cell missile launcher. I guess at the end of the story it does say they'd both be deployed on destroyers. But mount both together and configure the radar system to know how and when to fire each system and you got a pretty damn good close in shield...in theory.
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ORIGINAL: jtoatoktoe
I'd like to see them combine the Ram Missile and the actual gun for better protection. I'd rather have the backup of hundreds of bullets instead of a 11 cell missile launcher. I guess at the end of the story it does say they'd both be deployed on destroyers. But mount both together and configure the radar system to know how and when to fire each system and you got a pretty damn good close in shield...in theory.
You mean, like the Kashtan system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashtan_CIWS
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Like Kashtan, but the CIWS platform will be drastically bigger and complicated than a single weapon mount. Increasing weight which will affect the seaworthiness, built cost, maintenance complexity, radar signature, and even the gun's oscillation when firing will giving risk to affecting the SeaRAM (Or relative missiles)'s performance to intercept simultaneously.
The safer approach is giving each platform a different kind of single weapon mount, like autocannon upfront, and SeaRAM/SAM at the stern. It's indeed weaker than two Ks defensively. However, like most of the warships, they're not designed to be hit, so why not put longer ranged SAMs in VLS some better use?
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... ew&id=3692The Project 11356 lead frigate Admiral Grigorovich has joined the Russian Navy. The St. Andrew’s flag has been hoisted on the vessel, a TASS correspondent reports from the scene. "This day is, indeed, an important event for the Black Sea Fleet. We are receiving a frigate that can operate in distant waters. This is the first vessel built at the Russian rather than Soviet wharves," Black Sea Fleet Commander Alexander Vitko said.
The mini-drones were tested over Alaska last year as part of the military exercise Northern Edge, which focuses on training for crises in the Pacific. The program is named after Perdix, a character in Greek mythology who was changed into a partridge by the god Athena. It costs about $20 million, Roper said. The drones are constructed using 3-D printing — important considering the specific size needed to launch them through an aircraft’s flare dispenser and the toughness needed to survive such a violent birth.
Roper said SCO has been testing the mini-drones since 2014, but last year’s experiment during Northern Edge showed that they can find each other while airborne and create a swarm. Perdix drones were tested 150 times during the exercise in Alaska, including 72 from fighter jets. They also can be launched from the ground by U.S. troops, either with a slingshot-like launcher or by hurling them.
One of the office’s ideas is to transform F-16s and other fast jets into high-speed launchers for swarms of small drones that could confuse enemy defenses or perform surveillance.
“Just imagine an airplane going in against an [integrated air defense] system and dropping 30 of these out that form into a network and do crazy things,” Bob Work, the deputy defense secretary, told trade publication Breaking Defense. “We’ve tested this. We’ve tested it and it works.”
The Perdix drones are 3D-printed out of Kevlar and carbon-fiber. Powered by lithium-ion batteries — the same kind you’d find in a cell phone — the Perdixes launch from a standard flare dispenser, like on the F-16, F/A-18 and other warplanes.
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... ew&id=3691Military expert Konstantin Sivkov, a member of the Russian Academy of Rocket, Missile and Artillery Sciences, Ph.D. (military sciences), has assessed a hypothetical battle between a Russian Navy Project 1164 Atlant-class (NATO reporting name: Slava-class) missile cruiser and a US Navy Ticonderoga-class cruiser. The calculation has been performed for each of the compared ships. It has covered all of the missions considered and possible courses of action, and the calculation of an integral effectiveness index of the ships.
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... ew&id=3696When responding to questions from Congressman Bradley Byrne (R-AL), U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) Commander Admiral Harry Harris outlined his strong support for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) programs during a House Armed Services Committee this morning. The Independence class LCS and EPF are built by Austal USA in Mobile.
Admiral Harris called the LCS a “terrific platform to work with our allies and partners in the region.” He went on to say that he has always valued the LCS, dating back to his time as Pacific Fleet Commander for the Navy. “I believe there is a place for LCS in the joint force, now that I am the PACOM commander,” Harris said.
Byrne also asked Admiral Harris to explain why the LCS is so important as it relates to supporting United States allies in the region from adversaries like China and Russia.
“A lot of our friends and partners in the region have small navies,” Admiral Harris said. “They want to learn from us, or they want to learn from somebody, and I’d rather they learn from us than other potential partners. There navies are small and when a cruiser comes in there or even a DDG for that matter, it can overwhelm them. So, an LCS is the right platform to do that. It is also the right platform to train in areas of shallower depths.”
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... ew&id=3693Russia is in talks with India to sell three Project 11356 frigates originally intended for the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Vice-President of the United Ship-Building Corporation for Warship Construction Igor Ponomaryov told TASS on Friday. "We are fulfilling the state defense order and building these frigates. At the same time, we are holding talks on the possibility of selling these vessels to India," Ponomaryov said.
"This has not been decided," Ponomaryov said in reply to a TASS question about whether a decision had been made to sell these frigates. "We are holding talks and fulfilling the state defense contract. But such talks are in progress," he said.
According to Ponomaryov, the engines for these frigates "have been fully paid for by the Ukrainian side. They are in Ukraine and we will be resolving the issue related to these engines."
French shipbuilder DCNS will deliver France's third Aquitaine-class FREMM (Frégate Européenne Multi-Mission) frigate on 16 March, a company's spokesperson told IHS Jane's on 10 March.
Languedoc (D653) will be delivered to the European defence procurement body Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation (OCCAR) on behalf of the French procurement agency (DGA) at the French Navy's Toulon Naval Base in southern France.
The ship was launched at DCNS's Lorient shipyard, western France, in July 2015; sea trials commenced in October. Languedoc sailed for Toulon in mid-February 2016, where final trials were held.
Languedoc follows lead ship Aquitaine (D650), which was delivered in November 2012, and Provence (D652), which was delivered in June 2015. Languedoc is the first FREMM to be based in Toulon.
Of the planned eight-ship FREMM programme, three anti-submarine warfare (ASW) variants are in build. These ships - Auvergne , Bretagne , and Normandie - are scheduled for delivery in 2017, 2018, and 2019 respectively, the company spokesperson told IHS Jane's . Ship six, Normandie , has taken the name of the second unit built for France, which subsequently was sold to Egypt.
France's programme will deliver by 2022 six ASW ships to replace its F 70 and F 67 ships, and two anti-air warfare ships to replace F 70 ships Cassard (D614) and Jean Bart (D615).
