The U.S. has deployed four aircraft-carrier strike groups in a move not seen in almost four years, Defense News reported late Monday.
“It’s all been in the works for months as part of the Global Force Management program,” a Navy official said, underscoring that the deployments were not in response to specific crises.
. Bingo ... thats where i was attached to his argument as well.brar_w wrote: He was claiming that they were selling equal capability at half the cost with the MiG-29K which was a distortion of reality and doing so all along. While the reality is, that within he same post, he was seeking for an upgraded MiG-29K (modernization, perhaps at MLU he said) with capability the current block Rhino already possesses.
http://www.thehindu.com/business/article53220.eceKhalsa wrote:Can a Super Hornet do a Ski-Ramp Take off ?
http://www.informationdissemination.net ... craft.htmlBut Boeing IDS' Head for India, Dr Vivek Lall, told India Strategic that Boeing had done a computer simulation to verify that the Super Hornet could operate from Gorshkov and Indian carriers as and when they are commissioned.
Rietz told reporters at Lemoore, which holds half of the US Navy’s striking power in the Pacific, “In our simulation, we discovered that not only could the Super Hornet take-off from a ski-jump, but could do so with a significant weapons load.” Landing the Super Hornet on the Gorshkov would pose no problem since the warship comes equipped with an arrester cable
The Vikrant will house the Mig-29K and N-LCA, hopefully a larger number of the latter. Its cost prohibitive to integrate a new aircraft type into the fleet for just one carrier, and is still cost-prohibitive to go back and integrate it with the VikA. The IN is still getting MIg-29K deliveries and they will continue to develop their tactics using it since its quite a big leap from he Harriers. The real fun starts when they have a lot more N-LCA's and can really develop tactics to best utilize it. The decision point for a future aircraft will come post IAC-2 design freeze, as it may give them an opportunity to re-look at their future carrier air wing for the 2030's, and 2040's and hopefully a more mature NLCA-2 ++ and even the nascent AMCA is in the play there. Other candidates would most likely include the Rafale (if still in production), N-FGFA (with development cost of course) F-35C, and perhaps the Mig-29K if that platform is still in production then. I doubt the Super Hornet would be around in the 2020's (beyond say the first year or two of the decade) but who knows what happens in that time-frame.Two questions
Which aircraft do you see embarking on the Vikrant ?
Can a Super Hornet do a Ski-Ramp Take off ? What does it take to get an aircraft to do that. Is it limited to the design or just something has to be worked out ?
MiG-29K. From day one, that was the plan.Which aircraft do you see embarking on the Vikrant ?
Why and what for? All This was done in the last decade. Boeing did the simulations no doubt to inform the IN at that stage. If there was more serious interest expressed, Boeing could have simply rented the facility at Lakehust ( and pay for reactivation) and done further demonstrations to inform the decision further. Its really cost-prohibitive to try to integrate another fighter into your fleet for essentially a 2 carrier Navy given that 2 will already be integrated. Such a decision may be justified if a larger carrier with CAT’s is chosen or if they commit to a constant enhancement of carrier and carrier air wing capability over the longer arc of time. It costs money to lease a jet from an OEM, and set up and run a demonstration program and its rather pointless if there is no real requirement to support that.Pratyush wrote:why not test the aircraft from the SBTF in Goa and arrive at a real conclusion rather than read about simulations and second hand information. WRT the sky jump take off capability.
Britain's £1bn ($1.4bn) warships are losing power in the Persian Gulf because they cannot cope with the warm waters, MPs have been told.
Six Type 45 destroyers have repeatedly experienced power outages because of the temperatures, leaving servicemen in complete darkness.
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Waters in the Persian Gulf can get as hot as 90 degrees F (32 degrees C). Leahy told MPs that turbines do not generate as much power when they run in a hot environment, which is not recognized by the system.
"This is when you get your total electrical failure," Leahy explained.
"Suddenly, you have lost your main generator on your system and you are plunged into darkness."
However, a spokesperson from Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) denied this, telling CNN: "The Type 45 was designed for world-wide operations, from sub-Arctic to extreme tropical environments, and continues to operate effectively in the Gulf and the South Atlantic all year round."
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Its just a passing phase wrt to economic and political upheaval . Their main concern would be lack of industrial capability to make nuke reactor for SSN plus the SSN itself that more of a big challengeBheeshma wrote:With the current political and economic crisis the PROSUPER and PROSUB aren't really going anywhere. Even the Barroso hasn't found any favor with their navy and they want more modifications.
The US Navy has made two further steps in the field of manned-unmanned cooperation. At a flight test in 2 June 2016, a Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton unmanned air system (UAS) and a Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) showcased two new key capabilities that will bring maritime operations to a new level.The two platforms were successful in exchanging full motion video via Common Data Link (CDL) during flight. It was the first time that the UAV and the aircraft conducted such an interoperability operation. The Triton tracked a target with its electro-optical/infrared camera and transmitted the video to a P-8, which was flying at a distant area.
In practice this means that the P-8 could remain out of a high-threat area whilst maintaining coverage of that area, have early warning long before it reaches a designated area of patrol or simply focus on a core mission leaving the secondary to the unmanned platform.
Moreover, last week, an MQ-4C Triton completed its second heavy weight flight configuration, at a height of 30,000 feet. That test will allow the expansion of the platforms estimated time on station significantly.
As US Navy Cmdr Daniel Papp, Triton integrated programme team leader, said, “the heavy weight envelope expansion work will enable Triton to realize its long dwell capability and become the unblinking eye for the fleet.”
More tests will take place in the following months until Triton’s full operational capability status and operational deployment with the US Navy.
because of the folks you see behind the un-manned drone.
The Saildrone autonomous sailboats look a little like shrunken America’s Cup racing yachts — small trimarans with hard, carbon-fiber sails. The Saildrone’s carbon fiber sail acts like an aircraft wing. When air passes over it, thrust is created. The sail is stabilized by a counterweight that is placed in front of it and a tab trailing behind it that can automatically make small corrections to make sure it maintains an efficient angle to the wind. Underneath the boat are both a rudder to aid in steering and a keel, which will right the boat if it is knocked over.
The big difference, of course, is that there are no sailors on board. The boats are controlled through communications satellites from the operations center here as they collect oceanographic data and monitor fish stocks and the environment.
One day, they may be used for weather prediction, oil and gas industry ocean operations, or even to police illegal fishing.
The USS Jackson, an Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) meant for patrols in shallow water, just passed the first of three scheduled "shock trials." The shock trials are composed of the ship sailing along as the Navy carefully detonates 10,000 pound bombs on either side of it. The results are then measured.“The shock trials are designed to demonstrate the ship’s ability to withstand the effects of nearby underwater explosion and retain required capability,” according to a Navy statement.“This is no kidding, things moving, stuff falling off of bulkheads ... Some things are going to break. We have models that predict how electronics are going to move and cabinets are going to move, but some things are going to happen, and we’re going to learn a lot from this test,”
https://youtu.be/4jdnG90ipo8?t=4
Russian New Yasen-Class Nuclear Subs Able to Carry All Sea-Based Cruise Missiles © Photo: press-service of JSC "PO "Sevmas
RUSSIA 15:08 29.07.2016(updated 15:28 29.07.2016) Get short URL 21444150 According to the sub’s designer, Russia’s new Yasen-class nuclear submarines are able to fire all sea-based cruise missiles from the country’s arsenal. © SPUTNIK/ PRESS-SERVICE OF JSC "PO "SEVMAS Russia'a 7th Yasen-Class Attack Submarine to Be Laid Down in July 2017 SEVERODVINSK (Russia) (Sputnik) – Russia’s new Yasen-class nuclear submarines are able to fire all sea-based cruise missiles from the country’s arsenal, the sub’s designer said Friday. A sixth Yasen-class submarine, the Perm, was laid down in Severodvinsk earlier today, with four more vessels of this class under construction. "Yasen subs can be fitted with all types of cruise missiles that can be fired from submarines," Vladimir Dorofeyev, the director general of the Malakhit Design Bureau, told RIA Novosti.
Read more: https://sputniknews.com/russia/20160729 ... siles.html
Similar story for borei class ssbn. Russians do not believe in pussyfooting.Singha wrote:Very heavy investment to have 5 subs in various stages of production
WASHINGTON — The Navy successfully completed the longest range anti-air warfare intercept in its history at the Point Mugu Test Range in California, Sept. 22, the service announced in a Sept. 29 release.
During the Naval Integrated Fire Control-Counter Air (NIFC-CA) test, the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Princeton, equipped with the latest Aegis Baseline 9, successfully processed data from a remote airborne sensor to engage and destroy an over-the-horizon threat representative target using the Standard Missile-6 (SM-6).
This is not the first time that SM-6 has shattered its own distance record. The missile broke the previous long-range intercept record in January onboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones at Pacific Missile Range Facility.
This NIFC-CA test was the 10th consecutive successful live-fire test to demonstrate an over-the-horizon, engage-on-remote capability. This particular test also successfully validated the NIFC-CA from the sea kill chain concept.
“NIFC-CA is a game changer for the U.S. Navy that extends the engagement range we can detect, analyze and intercept targets at sea,” said Rear Adm. Jon Hill, the program executive officer for Integrated Warfare Systems. “This test is a significant accomplishment, one that will shape the future of surface warfare.”
NIFC-CA From The Sea is a program of record that uses four pillar programs to act as a kill chain for the surface fleet: Aegis Baseline 9.0, Cooperative Engagement Capability, E-2D Hawkeye and SM-6.
“We are looking at every ship as a potential offensive weapons platform in an effort to gain and maintain sea control,” said Vice Adm. Tom Rowden, commander, Naval Surface Forces.
“Neutralizing enemy cruise missiles at range, as demonstrated in this test, is one of the dramatic leaps forward the surface force is making to implement the concept of Distributed Lethality and extending the offensive battlespace.”
While on a visit to the Earth Observatory of Singapore, I was first introduced to wave gliders. The researchers of EOS were using it for studies of the ocean floor. The design is very very stable as the CG is way below the waterline. They have never had a boat overturn, or run out of power, although they are barely larger in size than a surfboard. EOS used theirs for weeks on end guided by preset GPS coordinates. In fact, other researches have made them cross the Pacific ocean.chaitanya wrote:While not exactly a weapons platform, something like this could be easily modded to create a sub-hunting network with hydrophones:
No Sailors Needed: Robot Sailboats Scour the Oceans for Data
while they may not be comparable, a lot of destroyers have SM-3's. If it comes to defense of the fleet they are not going to sit on their hands as hostile a/c approaches.brar_w wrote:SM3 is a exoatmospheric BM defense system while the SM6 is an long range anti aircraft, cruise and ballistic missile weapon. Not comparable at all.
