Naval and Defense News

[kevinkins]

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/20 ... -new-type/

Perhaps a surface effect class; so says the report.

[Blast33]

Iran Just Fired Its Sidewinder Missile Clone From A Drone

Next to Mk.82 bombs on the Karrar UAV now an air-to-air missile has been attached..
How the aiming would be quite a challenge, but in the end it could be dangerous to helicopters and larger UAV's maybe?

https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1346748935617056768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1346748935617056768%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedrive.com%2Fthe-war-zone%2F38580%2Firan-just-fired-its-sidewinder-missile-clone-from-a-drone
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/38580/iran-just-fired-its-sidewinder-missile-clone-from-a-drone

[Blast33]

Somthing like a US Perdix drone, Helicopter launched and a new unnamed model (again..) with some hooks / landing gear and a Harop like drone.

Ideas plenty, now must see what will become reality..
@Iran_Military

[Blast33]

Geolocation https://google.com/maps?ll=29.589659,34 ... n&t=h&z=16 of an Israeli Patriot air defense battery near Eilat, probably to counter a possible Houti/Iranian missile attack.
https://twitter.com/obretix/status/1347285851311628290
https://twitter.com/OrHeller/status/1347222991701159938

[kevinkins]

Not really news, but a short sobering essay:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2 ... 5d55c254e9

[DWReese]

PHILIPPINES and CURRENT US Military assigned there......

Exactly what US (or foreign) forces are stationed in the Philippines at this time? There has been much talk about their Agreement ending, and then there is later data indicates that the decision to terminate the Agreement being placed on hold.

There has been talk about 5 bases being operated by US forces, but then it would appear that those 5 bases are actual Philippine bases that the US (or other nations) merely have ACCESS to. Clark and Subic Bay appear to no longer appear to be bases that the US operates out of.

There are reports that there are only a total of 140 US Military personnel currently assigned to the Philippines, yet it appears that units (air squadrons and ships) are free to come and go as they desire.

I have read lots of web reports lately, but I can't see ANY US forces assigned, or even temporarily assigned, to the Philippines.

So, does anyone know what the real story is, or can they point me to a site that explains the current state?

Thanks in advance.

[kevinkins]

Maybe folks have seen this already. But it's fairly recent about the Philippines:

https://www.rand.org/blog/2020/12/the-p ... -side.html

However, it does not mention exact US forces there so not helpful in that regard.

[KLAB]

Times Saturday 9th January 2021
Page 27
"Oil tanker hijack case is scuppered by lack of proof"
All charges dropped,
K

ORIGINAL: .Sirius

Hi Guys



Tanker stowaways: Seven detained off Isle of Wight UK

[kevinkins]

How to make a fashion statement while threatening the US:

https://www.subsim.com/kim-jong-un-call ... -complete/

[Broncepulido]

Flight International's World Air Forces 2021 (no registration required this year):
https://www.flightglobal.com/reports/wo ... 56.article

[kevinkins]

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/j-20-fight ... h-fighter/

[Blast33]

China apparently hit a moving ship target in the South China Sea with a missile fired from Qinghai province, roughly 2300km away. Chinese military fired a Dongfeng-26B (#DF26B) missile with a range of about 4,000 kilometers targeting an old, unmanned merchant ship that was self-navigating.

This would be the equivalent of the U.S. hitting a moving ship target off the tip of Florida with a missile fired from Kansas.

The target was apparently hit near-simultaneously with a 2nd missile fired from just over 1500km away in Zhejiang Province.
This would be roughly like hitting that same target off of Florida near-simultaneously with a missile fired from Delaware.
https://t.co/Tv2LDERWGv

[Blast33]

US Navy submarine USS Georgia (SSGN-729) filmed by Iranian forces near Strait of Hormuz, apparently today. Am sharing ID as the video is out there and there's no doubt what/who it is.
https://twitter.com/CovertShores
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/01/u-s-navy-ohio-class-submarine-filmed-by-iranian-navy-while-submerged/

Nice thriller movie from the Iranians at:https://twitter.com/AuroraIntel/status/1349690428413587456

[BDukes]

Yeah kind of strange they got caught visually by a helicopter that seemed to be in the right place at the right time. You wonder if there are certain stretches that shoudl be only crossed at night etc.

Mike

[kevinkins]

http://www.understandingwar.org/backgro ... se-systems

[Blast33]

Interesting picture of two Iron Dome launchers on the heli deck of a Sa'ar-5 Corvette of Israel.

[Blast33]

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy and General Atomics in November used sonobuoys dropped from an MQ-9A Block V Reaper to track a simulated submarine target on a U.S. Navy Pacific test range, in what GA says is the first time an aerial drone has deployed a self-contained anti-submarine warfare system.

The Reaper deployed a mix of 10 sonobuoys – deployed to measure water conditions and monitor for targets – then received and transmitted the data in real time to a monitoring station at Laguna Flight Operations Facility located at Yuma Proving Grounds in California.

The test was part of the development of the MQ-9B SeaGuardian drone, which is part of a research and development project in conjunction with the Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command. If the Navy can make this concept of operations work, it has the potential to significantly lower the cost of submarine hunting and free up larger, more expensive manned sub-hunting platforms such as the P-8A Poseidon, to act as a command-and-control platform.

The Reaper managed to acquire and track an expendable anti-submarine warfare training target for three hours using General Dynamics UYS-505 acoustic processing software.
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2021/01/18/off-the-california-coast-the-us-navy-tests-hunting-subs-with-an-aerial-drone/?utm_campaign=Socialflow+DFN&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com

[Parel803]

nice, thx. almost might make my mounts on UAV easier to handle
the downside of being retired, miss out on this sort of stuff

[kevinkins]

Not really defence related, but might have long term strategic significance.

https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/arcti ... -sea-route

[KLAB]

http://navyrecognition.com/index.php/ne ... rvice.html
This is a quoted TASS article via Naval defence news.
Pretty much confirms MiG-31K hasn't got any alternative loads but the Khinzal. Therefore almost certainly no gun and no radar as previously reported.
K