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https://pulse.mail.ru/article/pochemu-t ... 664769095/

Not the most authoritive source but a very clear message that the T-14 Armata is never going to be put into serial production or procured in meaningful numbers.
Quantity has a quality of it's own....

Another Akula, Tigr, converted to Project 971M with Kalibr missiles? https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... siles.html

Hypersonic ARRW Flies Successfully for Second Time, Completing Booster Tests

https://www.airforcemag.com/hypersonic- ... ter-tests/


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news from HAWC project

Raytheon Missiles & Defense, Northrop Grumman Complete Second Hypersonic Weapon Flight Test

https://news.northropgrumman.com/news/r ... light-test

Last Typhoon Class Submarine decommissioned and to be scrapped?

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/07/ ... rts-a78349

? because TASS is saying another thing: "still part of the navy until at the end of the year. Where they would deliberate on the status of the submarine itself".


Graphic by H I Sutton.

And a little homage to the iconic submarine class.

The CMO splash screen modded, with the best pic I could find.

To use it, go to this folder:

"Command Modern Operations\Symbols\StartMenu"

Backup the original file:

CMO_logo.jpg

And paste the modded one in the same folder.

DEFENSE OF JAPAN (Annual White Paper) 2022. English pdf in the link below.






https://www.mod.go.jp/en/publ/w_paper/index.html

It seems we'll see soon how good are the Iranian drones in a real war. Beyond the Arabian peninsula, anyway.

https://sundries.com.ua/en/iran-handed- ... ederation/




This comes after US intelligence disclosed the visits of Russian officials to an Iranian airbase for inspecting drones. And then Putin's visit to Iran.





Iran denied they were going to sell the drones.

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/474747 ... -to-Russia


Information war or reality? We'll soon discover, when the first video of a wreckage or of an action of an Iranian drone is made public in Ukraine.

RG pretty much confirms it,
https://rg.ru/2022/07/31/szhech-himars- ... tniki.html

Nikel wrote: Sun Jul 24, 2022 4:02 pm It seems we'll see soon how good are the Iranian drones in a real war. Beyond the Arabian peninsula, anyway.

https://sundries.com.ua/en/iran-handed- ... ederation/




This comes after US intelligence disclosed the visits of Russian officials to an Iranian airbase for inspecting drones. And then Putin's visit to Iran.





Iran denied they were going to sell the drones.

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/474747 ... -to-Russia


Information war or reality? We'll soon discover, when the first video of a wreckage or of an action of an Iranian drone is made public in Ukraine.

https://airrecognition.com/index.php/ne ... tries.html

FA/50 Poland preliminary agreement and MRO arrangement. Presumably SU17/22 Fitter replacement?

https://www.defensenews.com/2022/08/02/ ... rabia-uae/

The news isn't the acquisition. Its that they are depleting their missile stocks with almost no news about it.

edit:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/9 ... -months-ft

So dug into it a little. SA has been attacked 375 times by missile or drone since the start of the Yemen intervention. Thats a lot of interceptions. It highlights the missile attrition part of any war that we have discussed a lot on these boards.

KLAB wrote: Thu Jul 14, 2022 9:27 pm https://pulse.mail.ru/article/pochemu-t ... 664769095/

Not the most authoritive source but a very clear message that the T-14 Armata is never going to be put into serial production or procured in meaningful numbers.
Quantity has a quality of it's own....

https://rg.ru/2022/08/12/bmp-manul-sozd ... racii.html

Amongst the hypebole the Kurganets 25 bites the dust in favour of a reconfigured BMP-3 with a new turret. A trend is developing.

The Belgorod has been found. Graphics and news by HI Sutton.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/20 ... in-arctic/

Ukroboronprom, the Ukrainian State Defense Industry is saying:

"The range is 1000 km, the weight of the warhead is 75 kg. We are finalizing the development."

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=42 ... 1185965016





Note that is enough to reach Moscow.

Any scenario designer?

Pic by The Intel Lab. Though he was corrected in the coordinates, that supposedly are 32.623346°, 51.694685°

Nikel wrote: Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:31 pm Any scenario designer?

For some reason, the image is not displaying for me. Here is the URL, which works well. Juicy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfRt26JWYAAIVVn?format=jpg

Finally no ship was sunk in the attack to the Black sea Fleet in Sevastopol made by sea drones (USV).


Pic by HI Sutton:







Some data made public by the Ukrainian side:

Length 5.5 meters
Full weight up to 1000 kg
Operational radius up to 400 km
Range up to 800 km
Autonomy up to 60 hours
Combat load up to 200 kg
Max speed 80 km/h
Navigation methods automatic GNSS, inertial, visual
Video transmission up to 3 HD video streams
Crypto protection 256-bit encryption

Airbus has showcased a new modular concept for an armed ‘heavy loyal wingman' to be operated as part of the wider Future Combat Air System (FCAS).

Shown at the International Fighter Conference 2022 (IFC 2022), taking place in Berlin on 16 November, the Remote Carrier (RC) concept features a common fuselage with interchangeable mission and weapon systems to suit the needs of the mission.

As depicted in the artwork, the heavy RC features three interchangeable radar payloads for air-to-air, air-to-ground, and electronic attack, respectively. An internal weapons bay can carry jamming pods or a range of munitions or effectors, including two MBDA Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles (BVRAAMs), two GBU-54 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), four MBDA Select Precision Effects At Range-Electronic Warfare (SPEAR-EW) effectors, or two smaller ‘light' RCs.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/air- ... t-for-fcas

Of interest for databases, at current times (12/2022) only the US and Australian F-35 are equipped with the ALE-70 active towed decoy (and flares, as F-35 apparently has not chaff decoys):

https://theaviationist.com/2022/11/29/t ... door-open/

About no chaff on F-35:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/2 ... althy-skin

Satellite pics from the recent attacks with soviet era drones? to airbases, deep in Russian territory.


Tu-141 Strizh, soviet era drone. Was this?





Tu-95MS damaged in Engels-2.





Tu-22M3 in Dyagilevo, Ryazan.





Reference map from the BBC.

Kind of "old news" by now, but the Zhuhai Airshow of November 2022 has concluded and some interesting things were revealed.

First of all; a H-6K carrying two YJ-21 air-launched missile variant:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/c ... ic-missile


Secondly, a much improved LO-shaped missile system.
Zhuhai is no stranger, to various LO-designs, but this time it got one that also has an index designation of some sort, pointing it to be adopted by the PLAAF. "AKF98A" points to it being designated "YJ-98", as the YJ-83K/KD-88 was shown as AKF88 etc.

Jane's has more:
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... s-unveiled