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[DeSade]

ORIGINAL: seaman

Who could help me identify this radar of Chinese origin?

Thank

Hmm, looks like Nanjing ChangJiang REL-2B. Its quite recent (+/- 2013), so if I'm correct and your pictures come from Venezuela, then it looks like they managed to find some petrodollars regardless of economy meltdown. Or maybe they pay Chinese with their oil fields?
They bought its older distant cousins JYL-1 in 2005, so its logical upgrade path.

Good catch

[trujillocorreo]

ORIGINAL: DeSade

ORIGINAL: seaman

Who could help me identify this radar of Chinese origin?

Thank

Hmm, looks like Nanjing ChangJiang REL-2B. Its quite recent (+/- 2013), so if I'm correct and your pictures come from Venezuela, then it looks like they managed to find some petrodollars regardless of economy meltdown. Or maybe they pay Chinese with their oil fields?
They bought its older distant cousins JYL-1 in 2005, so its logical upgrade path.

Good catch

Thank you @DeSade

Yes, it's from Venezuela and they arrived earlier this year.

Any link with information on this radar?

[orca]

US awards $450m contract for MMSC production for Saudi Arabia

https://www.naval-technology.com/news/u ... di-arabia/

Links to info on MMSC
https://www.naval-technology.com/projec ... tant-mmsc/
http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... -mmsc.html

[Dysta]

Now I learned two new acronyms today: DAM and SOW. This article explained why most of the PLAAF photographs lacks of bombs, and instead fielded with bigger AGMs:

https://thediplomat.com/2018/07/where-a ... ded-bombs/

[kevinkins]

"an aerial laser that can detect underwater mines, and it could change naval warfare"

https://www.businessinsider.com/navy-us ... ime-2018-7

[Hongjian]

Type 003 aircraft carrier segment section spotted at Shanghai Jiangnan-Changxing Shipyard.

Displacement will be around 80,000 tons and CATOBAR.



Official CGI shows how it would look like.

[Dysta]

Another picture of J-20 test flight with WS-10 engines, notice those serrated nozzles.

https://twitter.com/OedoSoldier/status/ ... 5201433601

[kevinkins]

Sub movie coming in October:

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22 ... r-or-worse

[VIF2NE]

Good old times.

http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9802/112 ... 21108_orig

[Eggstor]

China "gifts" a frigate to Sri Lanka

https://www.businessinsider.com/chinas- ... dia-2018-7

[kevinkins]

Learned something today. Never knew this type of thing existed.

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/22 ... the-arctic

Or if I did, I completely forgot. Anyway, a nice read.

"Still, in terms of its basic shape and performance, the established Orlyonok design might provide a good starting place for a new ekranoplan missile craft. It has a good payload capacity due to its original role as a transport and reportedly boasted a cruising speed of nearly 250 miles per hour over a range of more than 900 miles. The original type had a turret on top with a pair of 12.7mm machine guns and a simple navigational radar."

A little more:

https://defence-blog.com/navy/russia-eq ... siles.html
Interesting paragraph at the end on the Russian nuclear drone sub:

https://breakingdefense.com/2018/08/nor ... 1531745790

[Dysta]

I don't think Nuclear War can be the same as Trade War -- there is no reason to retaliate the first-strike destruction with equal measure. However, CSIS believed LNW (Limited Nuclear War) with some points, and that is 4 months before US-China tariffs come to effect:

https://nuclearnetwork.csis.org/limited-nuclear-war/

[stilesw]

Dysta,

Thanks for this reference. I've added it to CMANO's unofficial Dropbox reference library.

Any forum member can have access to this resource. Just PM me with you email address.

-Wayne Stiles

[Dysta]

Syrian intervention by China should be a material for making a scenario long time ago. Until today, the still-opaque plan had brought to surface. However, Chinese Ambassador did not mention which "Syrian Force" they will help yet:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08- ... -territory
https://www.twitter.com/joshua_landis/s ... 8453841920

EDIT: The report is fake.

[kevinkins]

Thanks. More on the same topic:

https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/ ... take-idlib

[Dysta]

In many RTS video games, scuttling and deconstructing ships will return some funds. But IRL, deconstructing that behemoth is a whole different reality -- could scrap metals cover the cost?

https://sputniknews.com/military/201808 ... d-Carrier/

[Hongjian]

China has released footage of a flight test of the 星空/Sky Star-2 waverider hypersonic missile.

As we can see from the released photos, this missile looks very compact, is cannister launched and can be made road-mobile. Dimensions-wise, it definitely would fit inside the UVLS-cell of the Type 055 (which was rumored to receive a hypersonic anti ship weapon in the future).

https://defence-blog.com/aviation/china ... craft.html

CAAA successfully test flew waverider hypersonic flight vehicle 星空/Sky star-2 in the northwest test range on Friday morning, the rocket completed active phase turning, stage/fairing separation, flight vehicle autonomous flight and high maneuvering turning in 10 minutes' flight.

[kevinkins]

Interesting view of the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. A high value target. Are those projection screens?

https://breakingdefense.com/?sponsored_ ... the-future

[ExNusquam]

I can't open the BreakingDefense link, but based on this image, they are projections. The 609th AOC certainly earns their pay given how busy their AOR is.

[Dysta]

The trade war continues, but I am talking about the victim here:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... ar-with-us

In CMANO, the ship that keep circling around a fixed point like an aircraft is actually authentic. The ship will drift all the time so a random moment of 'spinning' could explain the difficulty to stay in position, especially for some behemoths like merchant vessels and aircraft carriers. It will be more intense without reverse.