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[Gunner98]

Not a new idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_offshore_base

Can't remember if that ever made it to the DB - Hypothetical at best

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[Dysta]

ORIGINAL: Gunner98

Not a new idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_offshore_base

Can't remember if that ever made it to the DB - Hypothetical at best

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Only static one, like an oil rig, divided with 3 classes.

[Coiler12]

ORIGINAL: Gunner98

Not a new idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_offshore_base

Can't remember if that ever made it to the DB - Hypothetical at best

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It did. You even used them as placeholder runways. It's ship #2755 in the DB3K

[Gunner98]

You even used them as placeholder runways

Gadoouks! I had forgotten

Aardvarks Revenge! This age thing and memory... I tell ya...

[kevinkins]

Might be a cool experience for those who live nearby ...

http://www.htrnews.com/story/entertainm ... 475539001/

[Hongjian]

CH - 5 reconnaissance attack unmanned aircraft mass production type performed the first flight. Max weapon loading capacity 1000 kg, cruise distance 10000 km, maximum duration 60 hours, practical ceiling limit 7600 m. Airtime with AR-1 missile loading exceeded 30 hours

They say that it can load up to 24 AR-1 UAV-missiles on its eight hardpoints, with triple pylons.

[Dysta]

Neither anyone comes with any agreement between India and her two neighbors for weeks already, because these countries got nukes, and one of them is posturing they will use it if war breaks out.

Might be a scenario opportunity because it's the highest border conflicts since Sino-Indo war and Indo-Pak war, and the threat multiplies when combined. This could also be the first SCO civil war between 3 nuclear-armed countries, and possibly the deadliest if the ugliest decision has made.

However, it seems like India is confident enough that Pakistan won't win this war at all. Rumor said India has pointed their AGNI nuclear BMs to China, with a mention of 'last resort'. This is hardly a convincing message to avoid nuking each other, but at least to ensure China will have second though before making fun out of 1963's disastrous battles:

http://www.dw.com/en/is-india-turning-i ... a-39698420

[AlphaSierra]

Sadly the runway length for #2755 is 26M!!

[Triode]

Kh-38 and Kh-35U start testing on Su-35S

[Hongjian]

Wow. Do I see RCS reduction features on those missiles?

Can you tell me what is what? Bigger one being the Uran, slimmer ones the Kh-38?

[Dysta]

I guess these are dummy missiles, given by the obvious red paint, and rather crude-looking air intakes. They are still looks cylindrical to me though.

The one with a bulge of intake is Kh-35U:



And Kh-38, given by the sleeker length and no bulge, but unlike the dummy, the fins aren't folded:

[edsw]

ORIGINAL: Dysta

I guess these are dummy missiles, given by the obvious red paint, and rather crude-looking air intakes. They are still looks cylindrical to me though.

The one with a bulge of intake is Kh-35U:



And Kh-38, given by the sleeker length and no bulge, but unlike the dummy, the fins aren't folded:

Wow. Do I see RCS reduction features on those missiles?

Can you tell me what is what? Bigger one being the Uran, slimmer ones the Kh-38?

Well, of course, there will be an occasion for another Russian missile not to be added to the Su-35S suspension. Where are we to you, with your aim-120d, which you hang already almost on the phantom 4 phantom, and this "realism" (sarcas)

[xavierv]

China's 34th Type 056 Corvette (Jiangdao class) Commissioned in PLAN South Sea Fleet

The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) just commissioned the new Type 056 Corvette (Jiangdao class) Hanzhong (hull number 520) during a ceremony in a South Sea Fleet naval base. Hanzhong is the thirty-fourth Type 056 Corvette delivered to the PLAN fleet and the twelveth Type 056A variant specialized in anti-submarine warfare (ASW).

http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.ph ... fleet.html

[Dysta]

Do you guys believe in climate change? Wait what, not relative to military?

Well, how about 'Nuclear Autumn' then? A study from University of Nebraska-Lincoln made an estimated conclusion, about a single 5MT nuclear bomb is enough to send the world into slow death, equally as 'nuclear winter' but not as instantaneous. They called it the 'Nuclear Autumn' based on the effect called carbon particles dispersion, when they are spreading over the stratosphere (usually achievable by over 1MT), forming the huge amount of carbon density and impairing raining, significantly harming the global agriculture.

Interestingly, the article mentioned China is the 'only capable' country to cause 'Nuclear Autumn' because other countries doesn't armed with megaton-yield warheads (Despite Tsar is still in Russian arsenal, it's not loaded with any delivery platform yet. Most of the H-bomb warheads are disassembled under Nuclear Disarmament Treaty since the USSR collapse).

http://newatlas.com/nuclear-autumn-clim ... cts/50510/

[Cik]

wasn't tzar like 15+ MT?

you'd think we would have already proven this or disproven this already considering we went through a period where we were insane enough to detonate thousands of nuclear weapons inside our only biosphere.

[Dysta]

ORIGINAL: Cik

wasn't tzar like 15+ MT?

you'd think we would have already proven this or disproven this already considering we went through a period where we were insane enough to detonate thousands of nuclear weapons inside our only biosphere.

Erm, 100MT. But people do have doubts about it because the first reported test is only 57MT, and the debate about its full potential is still ongoing. But I guess one Tsar is easily strike the world into... erm... 'Nuclear Ice Age'?

Not to mention the low yield warheads can air-burst at very high altitude. There will not be dirt and ash blasting off from the surface, but the immense heat and radiation linger on stratosphere is still enough to pollute the world very quickly.

[Cik]

well, i meant the test. as far as i know it was purposefully toned down due to worries about, well. the tzar bomb and all sorts of unforeseen effects setting off such a massive explosive may entail. granted it was still the most powerful by a fair margin, just not at it's quoted 50+ possible yield.

[stilesw]

Here is some information on the so called "Father of all Bombs".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba

[Dysta]

Well, the article's point is only China has >5MT nukes in missiles today, and the only potential country to create 'Nuclear Autumn' if used.

Could be hinting the DF-5A, the only single-warhead ICBM that is still subpar to the now-retired Titans (6MT Max) and Scarps (18MT Max) series. The article tend to dwarfed the nuclear threats from US and Russia and not putting any MAD scenario or sort in it, instead to treat the Chinese H-bomb as the biggest threat in the world, amplify the possibility of 'Nuclear Autumn'.

[Triode]

"Peter the Great" project 1144.2 BCGN and "Dmitry Donskoy" project 941UM SSBN go to Baltic Sea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lokg7FSbxIo

also there is some Chinese vessels go to Baltic Sea:

https://twitter.com/GeneraalVerkerk/sta ... 4820813824