Naval and Defense News

[Gunner98]

Or China wants the real-time comms technology, with variable bandwidths that is difficult to spoof or intercept. It was claimed by a US-Taiwanese responsible to the media and Chinese news redirect it, but I cannot find the original source: http://3g.china.com/act/military/111327 ... 62022.html (Simplified Chinese)

Yeah heard this too but this technology should be well known by China now. My sense is the technology gap on most things doesn't exist anymore mostly because of globalization and well...cyberwarfare and industrial espionage.

I doubt that the comms and other high tech gear would ship with the vehicles. Even routine shipment old tech comms stuff is separated and shipped via different carrier. Anything's possible though.

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[Hongjian]

Jane's take on the mystery missile:

http://www.janes.com/article/65922/imag ... ir-missile

Images show PLAAF testing possible new air-to-air missile

Andrew Tate, London and Neil Gibson, London and Richard D Fisher Jr, Washington, DC - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
02 December 2016

China's People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) has been flight testing what appears to be a new long-range air-to-air missile (AAM), according to images posted on Chinese online forums.

Published on the social media platform Weibo on 20 November, the photographs show a PLAAF Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) J-16 (J-11BS derivative) twin-seat fighter carrying two AAMs not previously seen in open sources.

The photographs were removed from the micro-blogging website soon after appearing.

Analysis by Henri Kenhmann, an experienced observer of Chinese military developments, suggests that the missile may be intended to target airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft or other high value airborne units such as air-to-air refuelling aircraft.

The size of the missile is significant, with an estimated length of 5.8 m and a diameter of 300 mm. With no air intakes visible, it is assumed that the missile uses a solid-propellant-based propulsion system.

It is also noteworthy that the only control surfaces are tail fins: a similar configuration to the cancelled US Joint Dual-Role Air Dominance Missile or Next-Generation Missile.

The nose (radome) is ogival and likely to house an active radar seeker. Also seen on the upper surface and offset to the rear of the nose, is an object which could be associated with an infrared sensor window, although this cannot be confirmed due to the limited quality of the imagery.

Sitting behind the nose is a cylindrical section, slightly longer than the nose, which likely holds the missile guidance, proximity fuzing, and power systems. Present near its rear are four equally spaced strips, which are most likely antennas of a radio frequency proximity fuzing system.

Sitting behind this is a short cylindrical section, which likely houses the missile warhead section, the type and mass of which remains unclear.

The longest portion of the missile is the cylindrical motor section.

[Dysta]

Elizabeth and Prince Wales @ SCS >2020

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/british-fight ... 51071.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - British fighter planes visiting Japan will fly over the South China Sea and Britain will sail aircraft carriers in the Pacific once they are operational in 2020, given concerns about freedom of navigation there, Britain's ambassador to the United States said on Thursday.

[Hongjian]

VDS and TASS onboard the DDG-175 Yinchuan (4th Type 052D)




The VDS somehow looks like the ACTAS low frequency VDS:
https://www.atlas-elektronik.com/what-w ... are/actas/


Also, the 5th 052D DDG-117 Xining received its pennant number and will be commissioned soon.

[kevinkins]

Your mom always said "be careful who you talk to"

http://freebeacon.com/national-security ... -missiles/

[Dysta]

A new Chinese ELINT ship is commissioned. Several antennas are different from older ships.

Strangely, this ship name is not using planet/moon names, she was called "Kai Yang Xing", as Chinese word of fortune and added star (Xing) at the end. Pennant number is 856.



EDIT: The actual in naval service time is 10 Jan 2017

http://news.china.com/domestic/945/2017 ... 64389.html

[Hongjian]

Finally some more recent satellite pictures of Shanghai Jiangnan-Changxing shipyards. And another confirmation that the first Type 055 hull has been assembled, while the newly spotted modules are indeed of the 2nd hull. Rumors say that modules for a third hull were spotted as well, but so far no images exist.



Comparing the assembled hull with the newly constructed 052Ds also in that shipyard, one can see the size difference between these two classes. Pixel-counting estimates gives us roundabout 180m length and 21-22m beam for the Type 055.

[Dysta]

It's not a military news, but oil is heavily essential for both civilian and military machines, and it's still a strategic resource.

A new oil field has been founded at Anhui, China, estimate 500M tons:

http://www.top-news.top/news-12558224.html
http://news.china.com/domestic/945/2016 ... 63344.html (Simplified Chinese)

[Triode]

Mig-29k from "Kuznetsov" with R-77-1 and KAB-500Kr

[tomrlutong2]

Hongjian, thanks for the deep information. Certainly makes me wish I'd kept up on my Chinese.

Might be reading too much into it, but calling the missle a "reentry vehicle" seems significant. Can you tell if the technologies would allow for an AAM payload on a MRBM/IRBM? As ridiculous as it sounds, putting 2-4 AAMs on top of a DF-21 could actually fit well with China's A2AD strategy.

It's a very expensive approach, but still, being able to plink tankers and AWACS at 3000km could be a game changer. Hell, if you can do it at 5500km, it's a B-2 counter.

[Raptorx7_slith]

Kunetsov loses another plane...

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/ ... 480940373/

[Hongjian]

Christmas came early.

Looks like the J-20 received a five digit serial number, indicating that it is in service now.

176th Brigade, CFTE Dingxin/14th Air Base.

[ziolo]

The guided missile frigate INS Betwa, a 3,850-ton ship more than125 meters (410 feet) in length, rolled over on a 90-degree angle while being docked, Indian Navy spokesman D.K. Sharma told CNN.

Do not use her in your new realistic scenarios for some time...

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/06/asia/ ... ml?ref=yfp

[kevinkins]

Not big on the source. But this would be hard to fake.

http://tass.com/defense/917068

[kevinkins]

rolled over on a 90-degree angle while being docked,

Someone's career took a dive as well ... ouch!

[Gunner98]

That's an old ship - one of the first Udaloy's I think. Probably over 30 years old, probably upgraded though.

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[Broncepulido]

Admiral Kulakov should be returning from her deployment with the Admiral Kuznetsov CVBG in Eastern Mediterranean. Was one of the ships in the original CVBG steaming from Murmansk in 15 October 2016.

[Dysta]

An interesting report about the Anti-Helicopter drone, or "Flying IED". Rumored of use during anti-ISIS operations:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/militar ... nes-mosul/

All of this news comes in addition to an already strange drone discovery in February, when the group Conflict Armament Research inspected an ISIS workshop in Ramadi, Iraq, and found several large drones built from scratch from plywood, Styrofoam, and extruded polystyrene. They also discovered disassembled components from a shoulder-launched Strela surface-to-air missile, which indicated that ISIS were attempting to fit the missile's warhead to a drone, presumably as an anti-helicopter weapon. The three-pound warhead would be too big for the Phantom quadrotor drones that ISIS uses for reconnaissance (and occasionally for carrying explosives), hence the bigger fixed-wing drones with its larger 10-foot wingspan.

Drone delivery has a few advantages over just firing a Strela missile like normal. For one, there is no rocket exhaust, so the launch position can't be spotted. Also a drone will not set off helicopters' missile warning receivers and can't be decoyed away from its target by infrared flares.

[wild_Willie2]

Yes, and it will be a ***** to fly and to hit a moving target like a helicopter with it. But if you have no guided weapons what so ever, even a minimally effective one is better than nothing.
Even if these things where even minimally effective, countering them would be dead simple. Just strap some cheap Remote Control jammers on your helicopters and be done with it.
W.

[Gunner98]

Too bad even these jabonies aren't stupid enough to have a 'return to point of origin' setting if comms is lost [:D]

Look what followed me home!