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ORIGINAL: ColonelMolerat

The Japanese have unveiled a new Stealth Plane, the X-2. They are expecting the demonstration plane to make its maiden flight in mid-February.

Boeing will further equip the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) with maritime patrol capabilities, building 20 more P-8A Poseidon aircraft following a $2.5 billion U.S. Navy order announced yesterday.

A commissioning, naming and flag-presenting ceremony of the new Gaoyouhu fleet replenishment oiler (hull number 966) of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) was held solemnly at the Zhoushan naval base in east China’s Zhejiang province. The event means that the vessel is officially commissioned in the PLAN.

Gaoyouhu is the sixth Type 903A fleet replenishment oiler (Qiandaohu class) of the PLAN and the third one for the PLAN East Sea Fleet.

1991年，我国高超声速再入空气舵机动飞行器预研攻关项目起步，朱广生以室主任助理的身份负责十大关键技术之首的“气动特性研究”项目。研究内容便是以国外20世纪80年代先进机动飞行器为原型，进行“反设计”。
　　“有关国外先进飞行器的性能只能收集到零星的报导，具体尺寸不知道，只能通过别人在国外展览馆参观的时候拍的照片来推断。”朱广生介绍，“而且拍的角度不同照片也不同，只能得出一个大概的轮廓，而要得到气动外形设计的主导思想，只能另谋出路。”
　　为此，朱广生独辟蹊径，采用理论分析、计算及典型风洞试验相结合的方法，反推断国外某先进飞行器的设计思路。“看照片，我就会思考他们为什么会设计成两个锥？根据人家展览的实际外形等反推出他们的设计思路，这就叫‘反设计’。”朱广生说。通过对组成飞行器的“舵”与“体”气动特性作用机理的研究，朱广生揭示了空气舵机动飞行器双锥体匹配、“体”“舵”匹配的气动变化规律。

一直到2000年，才进行我国第一个机动飞行器的飞行试验，飞行攻角被限制为14°。尽管试验很成功，但朱广生并不服气。国外专家所谓的“头激波不允许打到舵上”的说法对吗？
　　后来，朱广生自己从各大资料中寻找答案。在攻克了一个个难题、破解了一道道拦路虎后，朱广生终于找到了答案。他将教科书中激波压缩之后的公式结合外形实际进行推导，再结合飞行器的实际飞行参数进行量化处理，最后发现扰动区和未扰动区的分界面形成的并不是激波而是膨胀波，而膨胀形成的热流并不高。
　　朱广生将此发现写成了一篇论文向上级汇报，并得到了总师陈福田院士的支持。2002年，一院又先后打出了4发导弹，选择的攻角分别为14°、16°、18°、20°，均获得圆满成功，回收的残骸外观验证了朱广生的判断，同时也证明了当初国外专家误导了中国设计人员。

China Central Television news channel (CCTV 13) released a video showing the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) Type 056 Corvette (Jiangdao class) Quanzhou in a live fire exercise. The video is interesting as it shows a live launch of the HQ-10 close-in weapon system (CIWS) which is often compared to the American RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) system.

ORIGINAL: AlGrant

Unmanned strike or unmanned recon roles look to have been shelved in favour of ........ a tanker!

“And the last project I want to highlight is one that we're calling the arsenal plane, which takes one of our oldest aircraft platform and turns it into a flying launchpad for all sorts of different conventional payloads. In practice, the arsenal plane will function as a very large airborne magazine, network to fifth generation aircraft that act as forward sensor and targeting nodes, essentially combining different systems already in our inventory to create holy new capabilities.
So these are just a few examples of what the SCO has done so far and they're working a lot more.”

In February 2015, the U.S. Navy announced the Carrier Onboard Delivery, commonly referred to as COD, platform of the future would be a maritime variant of the V-22 Osprey. Until recently, that aircraft was referred to as the Navy variant. Now, that V-22 has an official designation: CMV-22B.
The main mission of the COD platform is to provide the Joint Force Maritime Component Commander with time-critical, long-range aerial logistics support by transporting personnel, mail and priority cargo from advance bases to the sea base. The CMV-22B will be the same as the MV-22B with three additions. It will include an extended-range fuel system, a high-frequency radio and a public address system.

Thales announced the first flight of the SEARCHMASTER radar, developed as part of France’s Atlantique 2 (ATL2) maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) upgrade programme, and available for export. According to Thales, this major milestone for the ATL2 upgrade and the SEARCHMASTER is proof of the advanced state of development and maturity of the radar, just two years after the contract was awarded.

ORIGINAL: hellfish6

CMV-22B? That's pretty lame. I blame the Marines for bucking standards - "Marine" V-22, as opposed to "Cargo" V-22 or "Multimission" V-22. How about UV-22B?

My Question,

Does this mean that a prototype or such has already been flown or tested by the SCO or DARPA or the like and the results have been appraised to the point where it appears to be a feasible concept that the DOD is actually going to consider?

Its always seemed like a Megafortress like vehicle would make sense in modern combat environment assuming its survivability can be worked out. Also using another fictional Dale Brown aircraft as my point of refence wasn’t there also a B-1 bomber that used AA and ASM and even Laser or Anti SAT wepons to crush the bad guys? Would modern jammers & stealth enhancements allow for this to work?

Just throwing it out for convo.

thanks

Brian

ORIGINAL: hellfish6

CMV-22B? That's pretty lame. I blame the Marines for bucking standards - "Marine" V-22, as opposed to "Cargo" V-22 or "Multimission" V-22. How about UV-22B?

ORIGINAL: navyrecognition

Doesn't the C hint at a possible ASW mission kit for the V-22 ?
I know Boeing worked on it. May the Navy will get it down the road.