Naval and Defense News

[redcoat]

The first F-35A for South Korea has made its public debut at a roll out ceremony at Lockheed Martin's production facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

https://www.f35.com/news/detail/u.s.-and-south-korean-officials-celebrate-debut-of-the-republic-of-koreas-f

[thewood1]

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Report ... ran-547421

Related to Israel's concerns about an Iranian reactor.

[Lionheart]

Croatia set to replace their Mig-21s with 12 F-16s from Israel.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-sells-croatia-12-f-16-fighter-jets-for-500-million-1.5961627

[Ghost0815]

Fight to Hawaii: How the U.S. Navy is Training Carrier Strike Groups for Future War
https://news.usni.org/2018/03/22/fight- ... future-war

[Dysta]

Building a military is not just a long term commitment, but also a multitude of challenge to civilian and industrial sectors. Andrew Erickson persumed and wrote a book about PLAN's newest threat the US Navy is facing: maintenance uproars. Despite the truth of Chinese naval expansion is unshakable, it's just the beginning to prove how long they can keep these warships working for not just few years, but many decades or longer.

In the midst of Trade War, some readers and commenters believes Chinese military, especially PLAN will not be able to expand further, or even start to rust under the increasing debt and loss of profit from tariffs in the short future. But doubts also casted back to the author why PLAN would need to concern about this when both industrial costs and manpowers are vastly superior to US counterparts. Also wear and tear factor does applied to older PLAN vessels too and they are still serviceable:

https://mobile.twitter.com/AndrewSErick ... 5211739136

[Triode]

Funny "unoficial" news from VVS :

- Su-35S cant use R-27R/ER missile(not perspective missile, MOD dont payfor integration), so only R-27ET and R-77-1 AAM
- Su-30SMs of first series(~50 planes) cant use R-77-1 , only R-27 family and export RVV-AE (inherit from Su-30MKI) , but since there is no RVV-AE in VVS they fly with R-27s
currently MOD consider upgrade programme for this planes (integration of R-77-1)

funny thing is sometimes on trials Su-35S, since there is shortage of R-77-1, fly with mockup/real R-27s that he cant use (and we have photos of this)
and Su-30SMs from first series fly with R-77-1 mockup they cant really use (and we also have photos of this)

also there is somthing like ~30 Su-30SMs of late series that can use R-77-1

consider all this rumours as "rumors" [8D]

also explain why Su-30SM in Syria don't use R-77-1 while Su-35S use them in same place , mystery solved ![:D]

[User2]

It turns out that 65-76A torpedo is still in service in RuNavy.

http://weaponews.com/weapons/25856-uniq ... 5-76a.html

Recently Russian military channel Zvezda, which has direct ties with Russian MOD, has shown the documentary about Akula class subs where it was stated that 65-76A is in service.

For a long time it was believed that those torpedoes were withdrawn from RuNavy after the Kursk disaster.

[KLAB]

http://www.airrecognition.com/index.php ... rvice.html

The SU-30SM story from TASS is interesting on two levels.
Firstly it appears to confirm the R-77-1 has been integrated on the SU-30SM.
Secondly it implies that the R-77-1 has only just been approved and adopted (i.e March 2018!) contrary to popular media mythos that it was adopted on the SU-30SM years ago.
Of course with the caveat that a government news agency may or may not be taken at face value.
One day a genuine picture of the SU-30SM with R-77-1 may finally confirm its status.
Regards
K.

[Dysta]

So in other words, misinformation is worse than lack of transparency...

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JL-9G has been adopted by PLA (Army) aviators:

https://mobile.twitter.com/HenriKenhman ... 3171961860

[SunlitZelkova]

ORIGINAL: Dysta

So in other words, misinformation is worse than lack of transparency...

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JL-9G has been adopted by PLA (Army) aviators:

https://mobile.twitter.com/HenriKenhman ... 3171961860

PLAGF? Or PLAAF?

[Dysta]

ORIGINAL: FlyForLenin

PLAGF? Or PLAAF?

Ground force. They got Y-9 last year as well.

[redcoat]

Happy 100th birthday to the Royal Air Force – the world’s first independent Air Force.

RAF100 Events

The RAF100 Appeal – A joint venture between the RAF and four major RAF charities

The RAF scrambles its latest stealth jet. [:D]

[thewood1]

Interesting drone/aircraft info. I missed whether their was a pilot on board. I assumed there was.

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-nav ... -joystick/

[Gneckes]

That seems like an April's Fools joke to me.

[thewood1]

Could be...

[Dysta]

Tiangong is Tian-gone. JFSCC confirmed it re-entered over the Southern Pacific region. People who adore such memes and hypes may be very disappointed:

https://mobile.twitter.com/18SPCS/statu ... 8745406465
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04 ... -burns-up/

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It's not militarily relevant, but such event conducted by China won't give India any positive impression. It may be a military scenario when water hoarding and weather modding get into lethal concerns of Indian water security:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/ ... work-three

[Hongjian]

J-10D testbed with WS-10X TVC engine. First ever clear piture of this new AVEN-styled thrust vectoring engine that also features stealthy sawtooth edges.
This engine is also the current interim engine for the J-20A.

[hellfish6]

ORIGINAL: redcoat


Happy 100th birthday to the Royal Air Force – the world’s first independent Air Force.

RAF100 Events

The RAF100 Appeal – A joint venture between the RAF and four major RAF charities

The RAF scrambles its latest stealth jet. [:D]

This feels like a statement on British military funding...

[redcoat]

Lol. I suppose it could be seen like that. Though to be fair the UK has one of the largest defence budgets in the world. Moreover, there is now political support for an increase. There has already been a big increase in chemical and biological warfare research – and the creation of another 1,000 man cyber warfare division.

Actual RAF stealth aircraft.

[Dysta]

ORIGINAL: redcoat

Though to be fair the UK has one of the largest defence budgets in the world.

You mean 'had'.

I must say UK has very impressive military forces, both present and past, as I saw the documentary about the colonial Hong Kong. They even proposed to deploy nukes in Hong Kong to deter Chinese invasion if they want to forcefully retake Hong Kong (which isn't happens after the agreement in 1984).