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krishnan wrote:Image

wonder how will they run if some emergency situation arises , with those heels
Are we sure they are real millitary and not some females put up for show purpose?
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sean o connor has found another saudi CSS3 base
http://www.janes.com/article/24321/saud ... e-revealed
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July 17, 2013 :: Russia to design a new strategic bomber
by Staff Writers Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jul 17, 2013

Russia will start designing a new strategic bomber in 2014, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army, Valery Gerasimov, said. Here are more details about the project by expert at Centre for Strategic Technology Analysis, Vasily Kashin, who compares this with the similar Chinese and American projects.

The new Prospective Air Complex for Long Range Aviation (PAK DA) will replace the Tu-95MS and Tu-160 bombers that Russia is using now. The Tupolev Designing Bureau will develop the new bomber. It will deliver its plan for the development of the aircraft and the estimation of the cost of this work to the Defence Ministry.

Reportedly, the serial production of the bomber is expected to start in 2020. However, some other reports say that the aircraft will make its maiden flight in 2020. Concerning its engines, their development was started in 2011. It's quite possible that the aircraft will be equipped with the updated models of the 117S or NK-32 advanced engines. The weapon systems are also being developed.

It has been suggested that the bomber will carry X-101 cruise missiles that can hit a target at a distance of 5,500 kilometers. Moreover it may carry short-range missiles and glide bombs.

At present, according to the approved project, the future bomber will be built under the "flying-wing" scheme similar to the American B-2 Spirit. At present, this is the only stealth strategic bomber that has been developed to a level for launching serial production. The price of a bomber with the necessary equipment and spare parts was estimated at over $900 million in the 1990s, while the overall cost of the development and the production of all aircraft was about $45 billion.

Most likely, similar to the American B-2, the Russian bomber will fly at a high subsonic speed. Basic attention will be focused on its long-range and stealth technology. In this case, the Russian bomber will differ from the future Chinese strategic bomber, which judging by mock-up models, will be a supersonic aircraft.

At the same time, analysts insist that the Chinese project will cost huge sums and experience technical difficulties when taking into account, that unlike the U.S. and Russia, China has no experience at all in this area. Practically, if China wants to implement the programme up to serial production, it will have to spend huge sums comparable to that of the entire manned-space programme.

In fact, the Russian project is not starting from scratch. The Tupolev Design Bureau worked on the Tu-202 project in the 1970s and 1980s. It planned to develop this aircraft in two versions, strategic bomber and long-range anti-submarine aircraft.

The aircraft was planned to be built according to the "flying wing" design. Its total range was 16,000 kilometers, while the range of the bomber carrying 6 cruise missiles was 5,500 kilometers. In the 1980s, a large number of aerodynamic experiments were carried out using models of the aircraft.

New strategic bomber projects are always linked with huge technical risks. Nevertheless, the development of the PAK DA will provide Russia an effective system capable of hitting targets at any points on the Earth, within several hours of receiving the order, without need for foreign bases.

Source: Voice of Russia
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Stationing US Air Force squadron at Indian air base?

http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/pos ... surrounded

....maybe it's only for practice in cooperation?
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TSJones wrote:Stationing US Air Force squadron at Indian air base?

http://killerapps.foreignpolicy.com/pos ... surrounded

....maybe it's only for practice in cooperation?
That is a subscription (or need a sign in) site.

Try:

US deploying jets around Asia to keep China surrounded
This is just the start of the Air Force's plan to expand its presence in Asia, according to Carlisle. In addition to the Australian deployments, the Air Force will be sending jets to Changi East air base in Singapore, Korat air base in Thailand, a site in India, and possibly bases at Kubi Point and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines and airfields in Indonesia and Malaysia.
May be, just may be, it is time to buy the F-XX instead of the Rafale.
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Not terribly sure, but, I think it was the same general who stated that the US and India are looking into what items they can procure together.
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The Marines started last year rehabing old WWII air fields on the pacific islands. While that is much too primitive for the US Air Force and Navy, it works for the Marines. Here is an article with two vids about the Marines using an old field on Tinian island. Idon't see these exercises as offensively worrying (attacking China itself) to the Chinese but it is definitely a defense in depth kind of thing for the US.

http://defensetech.org/2012/06/04/air-s ... e-pacific/
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Military Robots Demonstration

http://youtu.be/L2uIIQWgP68
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^^^^.....some of those robot designs look very familiar......how could that be?
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http://rt.com/usa/pentagon-f35-stealth-bomber-963/
Pentagon considers cancelling F-35 program, leaked documents suggest
Leaked documents from a Pentagon budget review suggest that the agency is tired of its costly F-35 fighter jets, and has thoughts about cancelling the $391.2 billion program that has already expanded into 10 foreign countries.Pentagon officials held a briefing on Wednesday in which they mapped out ways to manage the $500 billion in automated budget cuts required over the next decade. A slideshow laid out a number of suggestions and exposed the Pentagon’s frustration with its F-35 jets, which are designed and manufactured by Lockheed Martin Corp. based out of Bethesda, Md. The agency also suggested scrapping plans for a new stealthy, long-range bomber, attendees of the briefing told Reuters. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke to reporters on Wednesday and indicated that the Pentagon might have to decide between a "much smaller force" and a decade-long "holiday" from modernizing weapons systems and technology.
Pentagon briefing slides indicated that a decision to maintain a larger military "could result in the cancellation of the $392 billion Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 program and a new stealthy, long-range bomber," Reuters reports. When officials familiar with the budget review leaked the news about the F-35s, the agency tried to downplay its alleged intentions.
Although the warplane is the most expensive combat aircraft in history, its quality is lacking. In February, the US military grounded an entire fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters because of a crack found on a turbine blade on one of the jets, marking the fourth time that a fleet was grounded because of manufacturing problems. In April, Bogdan told a Senate committee that he doubted the planes could withstand a sophisticated cyberattack. Earlier this year, an investigation revealed that lobbying efforts by Northrop Grumman have kept a costly Global Hawk drone flying, despite the Pentagon’s attempt to end the project. A defense authorization bill passed by Congress requires the Air Force to keep flying its Block 30 Global Hawks through at least 2014, which costs taxpayers $260 million per year. The US spends more money on defense than any other nation, but lawmakers from both parties often insist that the agency continue to buy tanks and keep ships and planes it no longer needs. Although the Pentagon has expressed its frustration with the costly F-35 fighter jets, there is little the agency can do without congressional support.
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The F-35 needs a vacation.

And then perhaps, after some cool thinking (if that is possible), rethink the entire program.

Most of the technologies can be reused some place and not a total loss.
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90's tech and demos IMO.

Northrup_AESA_AEHF
"Our demo marks the first time that AESA antenna technology has been used to communicate with the AEHF network," said Byron Chong, Northrop Grumman's B-2 deputy program manager. "We showed that our antenna will consistently produce and maintain the high-gain beam needed to communicate with AEHF satellites." Not sure if this is really true :)

During the test, he added, Northrop Grumman successfully demonstrated extended data rate (XDR) communications between the AESA antenna and the AEHF satellite at EHF frequencies. XDR communications take advantage of the AEHF satellites' most advanced, most secure signaling protocols and communication waveforms.

The new antenna is designed to support both tactical and strategic missions. Its innovative "no radome" design allows it to bring new communications capabilities to the B-2 while maintaining the aircraft's major operational characteristics.
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I found this very readable excerpt about the events that led up to the soviet intervention in AF, the reluctance of their politburo incl brezhnev, gromyko, ustinov and andropov to get into that mess, good details of the mass islamist rebellion in Herat and of life in the war incl a lot of photos..also the events of the palace raid that killed Amin and took control of kabul using sf and airborne units plus karmal loyalists
http://www.afghanscene.com/july-issue-j ... fghanistan

there is also haunting music composed by soldiers there
yuri kirsavnov "over the mountains the helicopters circle" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bANlOGu47CI
alexander rosenbaum "the black tulip" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL76a9R0yIU
Alexander Rosenbaum "Caravan" and Alexander Doroshenko - "Afghan - Swallow Dust" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn7eHKXgwOw
alexandur rosenblum "we will return" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyearxFc ... 6EA32A6C0E
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America's largest rocket set for launch Wednesday
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d36 ... huL3ZIye8I

The strap ons and the first stage seems awesome and powerful in flight and all are cryogenic engine.

looking into the various configurations that other launchers go through Is there a feasibility for ISRO to try for some more configuration
for PSLV for greater payload.
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some pictures of Japanese exercises

http://tinyurl.com/lf37pcl

the video clips were more impressive - showed longbow equipped helos
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Export variant of SAM Vityaz displayed at MAKS

http://saidpvo.livejournal.com/203840.html

Specs http://i42.tinypic.com/16gc3t5.jpg

-16 aircraft engaged at once
-12 ballistic targets engaged at once
-32 missiles in flight at once, implying two per target
-1.5 to 60 km range against aircraft
-10 to 30,000 m altitude against aircraft
-1.5 to 30 km range against missiles
-2000 to 30,000 m altitude against missiles
-5 minute setup time
-crew is 3 people

The middle:

-50K6E command post
-50N6E radar
-50L6E TEL with 12 9M96E2 tubes
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dhiraj wrote:America's largest rocket set for launch Wednesday
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/delta/d36 ... huL3ZIye8I

The strap ons and the first stage seems awesome and powerful in flight and all are cryogenic engine.

looking into the various configurations that other launchers go through Is there a feasibility for ISRO to try for some more configuration
for PSLV for greater payload.
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RU-Today says no soup for US!

http://rt.com/news/russian-rocket-engine-ban-039/
Russia’s Security Council is reportedly considering a ban on supplying the US with powerful RD-180 rocket engines for military communications satellites as Russia focuses on building its own new space launch center, Vostochny, in the Far East.

A ban on the rockets supply to the US heavy booster, Atlas V, which delivers weighty military communications satellites and deep space exploration vehicles into orbit, could impact NASA’s space programs – not just military satellite launches.
It's gotta be true because...it's straight from RU-Today!
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Some good pictures and details on Vityaz ( S-350E ) SAM from MAKS 2013 ( in russian )

http://bastion-karpenko.ru/s-350%D0%B5_ ... maks_2013/

Janes: MAKS 2013: Russian industry unveils new SAM systems
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Zenit rocket resumes flights after February failure

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n130 ... iTLmDYwrMs

It launched a communication satellite from Israel weighing around 4300 KG built by Israel Aerospace Industries which thus turns out to be
a lot bigger than the largest satellite made by ISRO till date.
It seems apart from spy satellite , Israel is better even in case of large communication satellite vis-a-vis ISRO
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dhiraj wrote:Zenit rocket resumes flights after February failure

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n130 ... iTLmDYwrMs

It launched a communication satellite from Israel weighing around 4300 KG built by Israel Aerospace Industries which thus turns out to be
a lot bigger than the largest satellite made by ISRO till date.
It seems apart from spy satellite , Israel is better even in case of large communication satellite vis-a-vis ISRO
Aah, now I get it. Larger is better now, isn't it?
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^^^^^^^

No ...No... may be i did not express properly. My mistake :)
But it was really surprising for me at least to know that Israel has the capability to build such heavy satellites (4.3 tonnes)
ISRO max around 3.4 tonne till date
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Russia to Spend $650Bln on Arms Purchases by 2020
CHISINAU, September 3 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will spend $650 billion for the rearmament and modernization of its armed forces up to 2020, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Tuesday.

Those funds will be spent only on the procurement of arms and military equipment, he said, adding that another $100 billion would go toward the technical modernization of defense enterprises. He also said Russia’s missile- and aircraft-manufacturing industries would be moved to the country’s eastern regions.

His remarks appear to be a little bit out of sync with a budget-optimization report released by the Finance Ministry earlier that day, suggesting that by putting off certain defense expenditures until 2016, the federal budget could save between 250 billion rubles ($7.4 billion) and 1.155 trillion rubles ($34.5 billion) within the next three years.

In June, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said defense spending priorities should be shifted from arms procurement to personnel and infrastructure. A month later, a deputy finance minister said the idea was not to cut defense spending, but optimize it.

The Russian government has reportedly allocated 20 trillion rubles ($640 billion) for a comprehensive rearmament of the Armed Forces that will see the share of modern weaponry reach 30 percent by 2015, and surpass 70 percent by 2020.
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The Pakis would be having wet dreams about these...

Jobaria MCL Multiple Cradle 122mm rocket launcher system

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NRao wrote:Not terribly sure, but, I think it was the same general who stated that the US and India are looking into what items they can procure together.
You mean General Herbert J.'Hawk' Carlisle?

http://www.af.mil/AboutUs/Biographies/D ... lisle.aspx

My only surprise with his moniker is that his middle initial isn't 'D' as in

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/quotes

General Jack D. Ripper :)
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Modernized Patriot: Smarter, Faster, Tougher

Nice article.

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A U.S. dime dwarfs components for the Patriot air defense system.
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U.S. tests layered missile defense
A U.S. missile defense test over the Pacific Ocean stressed layered defenses in an attempt to shoot down two ballistic missile targets launched “nearly simultaneously.”

The Sept. 10 test was conducted near the U.S. Army’s Kwajalein Atoll test site in the western Pacific and included the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) systems along with other sensor assets.

DOD’s Missile Defense Agency said two medium-range missile targets were tracked by unspecified “space assets” that detected the launches along with surface surveillance and control radars. Missile track information was then relayed to a command and control battle management system that handed off data to the Aegis and THAAD missile defenses.

The Aegis Weapon System aboard the destroyer USS Decatur used its SPY-1 radar to detect and track the first target before launching a Standard-3 missile to intercept it.

Meanwhile, the THAAD’s TPY-2 radar acquired and tracked the second target before launching an interceptor missile at the second target. A second THAAD interceptor was also launched at the target destroyed by the Aegis system as a planned contingency in case the Standard missile missed its target.

The agency said initial indications were that Aegis, THAAD and other missile defense components performed as designed. The agency did not disclose the exact timing of the target missile launches, but did say they flew “operationally realistic trajectories.”

Test managers also stressed that the Pacific missile test was planned more than a year ago and “is not in any way connected to events in the Middle East.”
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Jul 2013 :: Latest commercial technology works for next USAF fighter engine
If a new kind of engine technology called an adaptive turbofan works for the next supersonic fighter, the military will have today's booming commercial aircraft market partly to thank.

New analytical results show that several commercially-derived technologies inserted into the core of General Electric's adaptive turbofan ground test engine (Advent) worked better than expected in tests performed last February.

Although the baseline figures are classified, GE says the high-pressure turbine stage ran 10˚C (50˚F) hotter than the temperature goal set by the US Air Force Research Laboratory, and it operated at that elevated state for 10min longer than required.

An upcoming test in the fourth quarter of this year will check out the adaptive part of the GE engine, but the activity in February validated that the technologies borrowed from today's commercial engines actually exceed the air force's performance requirements.

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"We basically took GE's commercially-developed technology and applied it and proved that it in fact met the military customer's needs," says Dan McCormick, the company's Advent programme manager.

To meet commercial requirements for ever-improving fuel efficiency, GE's newest turbofan engines are operating at hotter temperatures than ever before. The CFM International Leap engine family will be the first to use ceramic matrix composites to cope with the higher temperatures in the hottest section of the engine aft of the combustor. GE is now repurposing the CMCs for the military market with the Advent programme.

Another commercial technology embedded in the Advent core includes a new die casting process that allows GE to insert more interior cooling passages in each turbine blade, allowing the metallic structures to survive in temperatures that would otherwise cause them to melt, McCormick says.

Now that the engine core tests are complete, the next step is to assemble and run a full-scale engine with the adaptive fan technology.

An adaptive fan adds a third stream of airflow that bypasses the engine core. Opening the third stream raises the engine's bypass ratio, which improves fuel efficiency but limits maximum airspeed. Closing the third stream allows the engine to run at top speed. Having the auxiliary airflow also helps with cooling the turbine section, as airflow can be extracted from the compressor and cooled in the third stream before being reinserted into the turbine section.

Most of the hardware for the first complete Advent engine test is already delivered and is now in assembly, McCormick says. The tests will be complete in the fourth quarter.

The Advent programme will be succeeded by the advanced engine technology development programme, for which both GE and Pratt & Whitney are designing a follow-on engine with a third-stream airflow and highly efficient core. The AETD programme will conclude at the preliminary design review milestone of a production-ready engine with adaptive fan technology at the end of fiscal year 2016.

At that point, the military will have to decide whether it needs a new engine technology. The adaptive fan has been considered for sixth-generation fighters on the drawing boards for the US Air Force and US Navy. It has also been discussed as a mid-life update for the Lockheed Martin F-35.
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Does the soviet era grom thunder kgb special forces unit still exist? It was formed by and reported under the then kgb chief yuri andropov and staffed with the best of best seasoned officers versed not just in combat, but foreign languages, infiltration, assassination, delivery of suitcase nukes and so on. I think some of them also led the raid on the kabul palace on day1 of the afghan invasion.
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In the comments section of the article someone said ask the Soviets how they left Afghanistan. The answer is the Sovs left their equipment. There are old Sov tanks and trucks all over Afghanistan, rusting away.

Hopefully, the US will get most of its stuff out of the country but it will be a tricky process. Also, we don't have hardly any tanks in Afghanistan, we never sent them there, although we have the giant bomb proof trucks MRAPS there. They are very heavy and there are a couple of thousand of them. It will take a long slow process through Pakistan to get them out.
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I think USMC has some abrams there.
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Flame Throwers in Action

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Epsilon flies . Once stabilized will require only 7 days launch preparation and a couple of laptops to monitor and control :-o

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/epsilon/s ... jSqPcYwrMs
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Consequences for Russian Missile Crash Will Be Harsh, Official Says
20 September 2013 | Issue 5217
RIA Novosti

The people responsible for the crash of a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile at the start of September will be held accountable and possibly fired, a Russian military official told reporters Friday.

The solution to the problem of the Sept. 6 launch failure of a Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) will be "implemented very harshly," said Oleg Bochkarev, deputy chairman of the Military-Industrial Commission, adding that personnel would not be exempt from the consequences for the launch's failure.

"Of course they'll get to the bottom of it, don't doubt it for a second," he said.

Bochkarev said that the commission is still investigating what caused the missile to malfunction in the second minute of its flight during state trials of the Alexander Nevsky nuclear-powered submarine in the White Sea.

He told RIA Novosti earlier this week that all Bulava missiles from the same batch as the one that failed on Sept. 6 will undergo additional tests by their manufacturer.

Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu also ordered that trials of two nuclear submarines be halted as a result of the crash.

Including this latest failure, 8 out of 20 test launches of the troubled Bulava have been officially declared unsuccessful.

Despite repeated problems with the missile, the Russian military maintains that there is no alternative to the three-stage Bulava, which carries up to 10 MIRV warheads, has a range of over 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles) and is designed for deployment on Borey-class nuclear submarines.

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