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[Broncepulido]

ORIGINAL: Dysta

I would like to cite more military hardware news from Chinese news sites, but given by their increasingly absurd tones and not everybody can understand Chinese, I have difficulty to find these sources in English either.

And some of my non-military news are serving as tangents, which I must say it does induce some political and philosophical perspectives in it. I find it not all players would buy what they said, let alone making a scenario about it.

I will slow down and looking for translational solutions instead of quick-posting, I must admit here and apologize.

Thanks everytime, Dysta!

[kevinkins]

A little esoteric for the DB:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rport.html

Been in the news before:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... rport.html

I wonder if a lesser, but still relevant, operational effect could be achieved with a non-nuke version. Flooding port facilities without poisoning the ocean.

- Kevin

[Filitch]

ORIGINAL: kevinkin

Symbolic bridge linking Crimea with Russia over the Kerch Strait opened by Vladimir Putin:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crimea-bri ... 018-05-15/

Nice target for JASSM-ER.

Be carefull with such talks

Russia opens criminal case against US citizen who called for blowing up Crimean Bridge

[kevinkins]

No worries ... was talking about simulation. And a scenario to that effect is on the way. Thanks for the link. I may use it in the briefing. On second thought, never mind, it's from TASS.

Kevin

[Filitch]

ORIGINAL: kevinkin

No worries ... was talking about simulation. And a scenario to that effect is on the way. Thanks for the link. I may use it in the briefing. On second thought, never mind, it's from TASS.

Kevin

Rogan's article also violates international law: the Convention on the Suppression of Bomb Terrorism, adopted by UN Resolution 52/164 in 1997. One of its points says that any actions that contribute to the commission of a terrorist act are considered a crime.
So in theory they can be bring to justice by US court.

[Dysta]

A sequence shot of J-20 when doing the sharp turn. Can someone help me calculate the angle?

[kevinkins]

Rogan's article also violates international law:

The dude needs to take his geopolitical frustrations out in CMANO. Here we can "kill off" NATO and Russians in huge numbers with "You Brexit, You Fix it!" and even sandbox the complete annihilation of any entity he wants with "nukes". Threatening an inanimate object like a bridge is child's play.

[Dysta]

A God of War was deployed in Paracel island airfield. CSIS and SCMP are published long journals about PLAAF's bomber garrison and what it can do in SCS:

https://amti.csis.org/china-lands-first ... ea-island/
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomac ... omber-took

EDIT: Added ChinaDaily journal:

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2018-05/1 ... 409658.htm

Also, expect some radical comments when news outlet added "Nuclear" on it:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/79e64e68-0 ... mbers.html

[Filitch]

ORIGINAL: kevinkin

Rogan's article also violates international law:

The dude needs to take his geopolitical frustrations out in CMANO. Here we can "kill off" NATO and Russians in huge numbers with "You Brexit, You Fix it!" and even sandbox the complete annihilation of any entity he wants with "nukes". Threatening an inanimate object like a bridge is child's play.

Be calm. I mean real life no CMANO. This thread is about real life news, isn't it?

[kevinkins]

Yup. And we enjoy it.

[Dysta]

I have not find the similar news about it, but Cao has twitted a rumor about a newer KJ-500 AWACS will receive L-Band radar upgrade along with IFR probe. Previously KJ-series EW radars are run on S-Band only:

https://mobile.twitter.com/xinfengcao/s ... 9348180992

[Hongjian]

https://twitter.com/xinfengcao/status/9 ... 3280575488

The two Type 055s at Dalian are now painted and should be ready for launch by next month.

Makes three 055s for 2018, when they indeed launch.

[Dysta]

Many forum netizens are exchanging rumors and doubts over a recent news about Su-30MKI picked up J-20's signature near Tibet region, stated by one of the Indian local news. Originally the statement is announced by IAF spokesman on late March, but until few days ago this news has put afloat and many Western medias follows the report at the same time. However, it seems the seller of Su-30, Russia, is actually the mastermind for such propaganda:

https://sputniknews.com/asia/2018032310 ... table-iaf/ (23 March 2018)
https://sputniknews.com/military/201805 ... -detected/ (19 May 2018, ironic that Sputnik didn't state their own older source!)

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Budget time:

https://intelligence.house.gov/uploaded ... 7may18.pdf

[Sharana]

Nothing unbelievable. If it flies somewhere close to the border J-20 will have the Luneburg lens. On the J-20 photo in the articles you posted it even has one. With such RCS there is no wonder that it's picked up, on radar it should be almost as big as some Boeing or Airbus. Can find you enough articles where the Chinese say they detected F-22. Well of course they detected it with RCS enhancer, no one would let 5th gen jets fly in peace time without them if they are close to potential enemies.



F-35 even has 3.

[Dysta]

ORIGINAL: Sharana

Nothing unbelievable. If it flies somewhere close to the border J-20 will have the Luneburg lens. On the J-20 photo in the articles you posted it even has one. With such RCS there is no wonder that it's picked up, on radar it should be almost as big as some Boeing or Airbus. Can find you enough articles where the Chinese say they detected F-22. Well of course they detected it with RCS enhancer, no one would let 5th gen jets fly in peace time without them if they are close to potential enemies.

The airfield however, does have Y-20 stationed previously. If IAF can mistaken Y-20 as J-20, then I'm not surprised either:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/BQ9rSzY3msGnPZEEqTAyzg
(Translated to English)

Nevertheless, they did not denied the Chinese state report about the deployment of "20" at the plateau, because:

"Y-20 military transit to plateau airfield."

Say, are Indian actually saw that kind of "20"?

[Dragon029]

https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-ne ... bat-debut/

Lockheed Martin’s F-35 has seen combat for the first time.

The Israel Defense Forces announced on its Twitter account that the Israeli version of the aircraft, using its “Adir” moniker was used in operational missions.

“The Adir planes are already operational and flying in operational missions,” the tweet said, quoting Israel Air Force head Maj. Gen. Amikam Norkin. “We are the first in the world to use the F-35 in operational activity.”

The Israeli Air Force used the F-35 in two recent strikes in Syria, Norkin said, according to the news outlet Haaretz.

[tjhkkr]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/isr ... ar-AAxCaFS

I did not know that Israelis used the F-35...
WOW!

[Dysta]

Could the Putin's official mouthpiece denied the failure of Project Plutoski, tells the existence of such weapon?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... tests.html
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... lear-miss/

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Also, another F-35 fiasco trigger a same, expected debate wherether pitting against China with it is a good idea. However, they are way too focused on partial sense of quality/quantity discussions, and failed to point out the importance of combat range for stealth fighters:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... port-says/

[Filitch]

Four ballistic missile salvo by Pr.955 Borey-class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUdIUdouLv0

[tjhkkr]

ORIGINAL: Filitch
Four ballistic missile salvo by Pr.955 Borey-class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUdIUdouLv0

Yeah, I would have to say that was impressive -- even without a soundtrack music (yes, I know it is the real thing.)
Thank you; that was interesting to watch.