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China carrier AEW plane spotted

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2 ... de9f1c7723

A Russian fighter jet has violated NATO airspace over the Danish island of Bornholm.

https://ac.nato.int/archive/2020/russian-fighter-jet-violates-nato-airspace-over-bornholm-island

This concept comes up now and again:

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedi ... a-monsters

Undersea drones:

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedi ... -under-sea

and an interesting Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Strikepod/status/13 ... 15297?s=20

Nice summary of the 2020 report to Congress re: China that was released yesterday.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your ... look-like/

A link to the full report is in the article.

Also today, an analysis of the proposed Thai canal.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/01/ch ... kra-canal/

Nice summary of the 2020 report to Congress re: China that was released yesterday.

Kevin,

Interesting, thanks for this reference. I've added it to the CMANO/CMO unofficial Dropbox reference library.


Unofficial - i.e. not sponsored by WarefareSims, MatrixGames, Slitherine, their employees, relatives, pets or ancestors.

As always, any forum member can have access to this Dropbox resource. Just PM me with your email address.

-WS

https://www.military.com/daily-news/202 ... s-why.html

Given the pictures presented, it seems a high tech center is long overdue.

M-109 shooting down cruise missiles! [&o]

BQM-167 Air Force target drones served as surrogates for Russian cruise missiles during today’s ABMS on-ramp.WASHINGTON: The Air Force’s second demonstration of its burgeoning Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) today included a series of ‘firsts’ — including enabling rapid detection and destruction of surrogate Russian cruise missiles by linking multiple sensors to multiple shooters in near real-time.

Air Force acquisition czar Will Roper told reporters during the same briefing that one of the exercise’s big successes was the shoot-down by a novel hypervelocity projectile of one of the surrogate cruise missiles, played by BQM-167 target drones flying over White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The small projectile, which can fly at Mach 5, was developed by the Navy and the Army, he said, and was launched from an Army M109 Paladin-based 155mm howitzer and a Navy deck gun during the demo.

But the “star of the show,” Roper said, was the way data was used to enable the kill chain using both 4G and 5G networking and the cloud to produce a kill chain “that took seconds, not minutes.” He noted that there were some 60 different types of data feeds utilized in the demo.

https://breakingdefense.com/2020/09/abms-demo-proves-ai-chops-for-c2/

Not warfare related, but given what we have been through the pass 6 months ...

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2 ... te/168222/

Here is an interesting opinion piece:

https://warontherocks.com/2020/09/lesso ... mbat-ship/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2 ... 1f0623372a

Chinese Navy May Be First To Get Ballistic Missiles

If they get it, it might not be ASBMs, but actual hypersonic glide weapons. The "YJ-21" (which is the rumored designation for this missile), would be more comparable with the canceled ArcLight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcLight_%28missile%29

DARPA wants a gaming AI that cheats and it looks like Grumman Northrup is using Command PE as a platform:

Breaking Defense

-C

Just coming in:

https://defence-blog.com/news/mig-29-fi ... libya.html

I saw this video at morning. AFAIK fake. Joke at search and rescue team's drill

This slipped under my radar until today:

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/china ... e-pacific/

Might foster a scenario idea.

A bit more on potential crashes in Libya:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3 ... l-official

Turkish Weapons Catalog, perhaps of interest, 2019/1:
https://www.ssb.gov.tr/urunkatalog/en/403/

Short article on China's AEW for carriers:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2 ... 74a83517a5

More scenario ideas here, with USMC and F-35B on HMS Queen Elizabeth, also notional air wings:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/3 ... re-to-stay

https://iz.ru/1060712/2020-09-14/v-sukh ... r-pantciri
Synopis for those avoiding any websites with Cyrillics is that there is to be another variant of Pantsir SM- the SM-SV. This is the Pantsir SM turret and a new radar mounted on an as yet unspecified tracked carrier to match the mobility, and to accompany S-300SV batteries.

http://bastion-karpenko.ru/kab-100-kronshtadt/
From Army 2020 a guided bomb KAB-100 mating GPS/Glonass guidance to a variety of warheads from 300mm Rockets primarily to arm Russian UCAV's.