Naval and Defense News

[Nikel]

4 more Modernized Tu-160 M2 strategic bombers.

Some pics of the visit of Putin today to the Gorbunov aviation plant located at Kazan.

https://riamediabank.ru/story/list_327312888/

[thewood1]

Putin better looking than I thought. Must be the lighting.

[Nikel]

Putin better looking than I thought. Must be the lighting.

[DeepTyphoon]

Putin better looking than I thought. Must be the lighting.

How can that be?

Western media told me he was dying of cancer like two years ago.

The Houthi are reporting another British ship has been hit off the coast of Yemen. That's the second British ship this week if true.

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[Nikel]

Second Trident II failure since 2016, if this is deterrence in current times...

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news ... uard-fails

[Nikel]

There is a video supposedly displaying the shooting down of a second Russian A-50U aircraft?

Flares and an impact (2 impacts in fact, the second in a different object)?

I am asking because I do not see any flares cartridges in the A-50/A-50U aircrafts in the game.


https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/17 ... mp4?tag=12








Meanwhile in Sweden.

https://www.usafe.af.mil/News/Article-D ... orce-24-2/

[Nikel]

Black Sea fleet after today sinking of patrol ship “Sergey Kotov” Project 22160, graphics by Torger78 and Frederik Van Lokeren.

[Broncepulido]

Improving installations in Yap and other places:

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/air-f ... rades-ace/

[Blast33]

This is out-of-the-box thinking!

A 1963... GE concept for a gigantic 256m long submarine-aircraft carrier:

https://youtu.be/y1DUxM-FtZ8
Start atthe 20:00 minute mark
It would accommodate an 18m wide flight deck for 30 SVTOL fighter jets. The idea is that it'd cross an ocean undetected, pop up on a shore and deploy its aircraft within half an hour.

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https://twitter.com/i/status/1771159907502301428

[Nikel]

These pics of a B-2 by Dylan Phelps at Palmdale, CA. would make a perfect cover for a postapocalyptic scenario

[Broncepulido]

Future of Royal Navy estimations March 2024 (excluded carriers and submarines):
https://www.navylookout.com/the-factors ... ace-fleet/

[Nikel]

HDMS Iver Huitfeldt shooting down Houthi drones in the Red Sea. English subtitles available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-daGXN_t7aQ


The same ship that suffered problems in several systems.

https://www.twz.com/sea/danish-frigate- ... ps-reports

[Nikel]

New missile details, used by russia against Ukraine energy sector.





Link from 2022, but is only for subscribers, anyone?

https://www.key.aero/article/russia-sho ... se-missile




Rare battle, a Russian FPV vs Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopters, but it is too slow and was downed by EW.


https://t.co/CWXfIEtWtT

[Nikel]

The expected attack of Iran vs Israel has started, this time directly, not through one of its proxies.

Drones and missiles launched.







Let's see how this escalates further...

[Sanyr1310]

https://twitter.com/Schizointel/status/ ... 2946131094

170/170 or (100%) of OWA-UAV's intercepted.
113/120 or (94.1%) Ballistic Missiles (no specific number of interceptions given just that "some hit Nevatim Airbase resulting in minor damage" Currently, 7 missile impacts have been recorded in Israel.
30/30 or (100%) of Cruise Missiles intercepted.

If this is true, Israel's BMD systems are surprisingly effective.

[Nikel]

A complete defensive victory indeed by Israel and partners






Iran was already asking for a draw during the attack.

Let’s see what Israel does to retaliate.

[DeepTyphoon]

https://twitter.com/Schizointel/status/ ... 2946131094

170/170 or (100%) of OWA-UAV's intercepted.
113/120 or (94.1%) Ballistic Missiles (no specific number of interceptions given just that "some hit Nevatim Airbase resulting in minor damage" Currently, 7 missile impacts have been recorded in Israel.
30/30 or (100%) of Cruise Missiles intercepted.

If this is true, Israel's BMD systems are surprisingly effective.

"...according to the IDF."

Now there's an unbiased source.

I don't see the IDF allowing journalists on the targeted airbases to report on this stunning defensive victory though.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[thewood1]

Iran announced missiles and drones were launched. They showed some launching. There's video of a lot of explosions over Israel. There is enough stuff to at least show that Iran did something and it was defended by Israel and others. I guess we can say that we shouldn't believe anything Iran says, but Israel and Iran both seem to agree on the fact an attack was launched. And no one has been able to find anything except one crater in the desert.

[DeepTyphoon]

Iran announced missiles and drones were launched. They showed some launching. There's video of a lot of explosions over Israel. There is enough stuff to at least show that Iran did something and it was defended by Israel and others. I guess we can say that we shouldn't believe anything Iran says, but Israel and Iran both seem to agree on the fact an attack was launched. And no one has been able to find anything except one crater in the desert.

I've heard in several places Nevatim base was hit, Ramon base was hit, an intelligence center in Tel Aviv was hit and an intelligence gathering site was hit in the Golan Heights.

Israel has admitted Nevatim base was hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-LuFTtX1kY

I also heard Israel spent more than one billion during this attack in air defense. Clearly they can't do that too many nights. And Iran probably has more than 100,000 things to throw at them.

[thewood1]

I suspect Iran spent a lot too. Israel and others can afford it more than Iran. Especially if BMs are running 40% failure.

The other interesting aspect is that several TV reporters stated that shortly before the BM attacks, their phone GPSs shifted their location from Tel Aviv to Beirut. One of the disadvantages of any country using a GPS capability they have no control over.