Folks, with Saudi's also going for Russian equipment it wont take long before our friends across the border getting their hands dirty on them.
Saudis To Buy 150 Russian Helos
What are the repercussions of this strategy by the Saudis on us?
International Military Discussion
Could have deliberately exposed itself to cock a snook at the Yanks, or realised it couldn't get away without detection & exposed itself before being detected to prevent the Yanks claiming they'd caught it.cshankar wrote:Why would the sub "pop up" if it was undetected.
Stands to reason that such incidents mean that the ASW package was successful in detecting the intrusion and forcing the bogey to "pop-up" in order to identify itself.
But ultimately, it doesn't matter if it was detected as long as it got the carrier in its sights first.
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International News
Very interesting read...
Will Russia create the world's second largest surface navy?
Russia Denies Reports of Copter Sales to Gulf States
Reports: Iran looking to Russia, China to help modernize air force
BAE Is Talking With 10 Countries About Eurofighter
BAE Systems' HERTI Makes Middle East Debut at Dubai 2007
The competition is heating up
Dubai 2007: Temperatures soar in UAE’s advanced jet trainer contest
Saw a similar system on the US Couger... More like a cannon blowing off the terrorists while all the peronal are inside the vehicle including the person controlling the cannon.
Boeing Tests Laser-Mounted Humvee as IED Hunter
And now for some fun... This list includes the X-48B Blended-Wing body aircraft.
The Best Inventions Of The Year
Very interesting read...
Will Russia create the world's second largest surface navy?
Russia Denies Reports of Copter Sales to Gulf States
Reports: Iran looking to Russia, China to help modernize air force
BAE Is Talking With 10 Countries About Eurofighter
BAE Systems' HERTI Makes Middle East Debut at Dubai 2007
The competition is heating up
Dubai 2007: Temperatures soar in UAE’s advanced jet trainer contest
Saw a similar system on the US Couger... More like a cannon blowing off the terrorists while all the peronal are inside the vehicle including the person controlling the cannon.
Boeing Tests Laser-Mounted Humvee as IED Hunter
And now for some fun... This list includes the X-48B Blended-Wing body aircraft.
The Best Inventions Of The Year
That article has been rubbished on British forums. Seems to have been a major misunderstanding by the Beeb on the level of security, & the number of steps to be gone through. That little key did not, in itself, permit the nuke (BTW, a model long out of service) to be detonated, but the nuke could not be fired without it.
Thank god for small mercies. I was genuinely surprised about the article.PaulJI wrote:That article has been rubbished on British forums. Seems to have been a major misunderstanding by the Beeb on the level of security, & the number of steps to be gone through. That little key did not, in itself, permit the nuke (BTW, a model long out of service) to be detonated, but the nuke could not be fired without it.
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Hmm.. The effects of banging his skull against the T-72s "compact onlee" hull seems to wearing off Ajai Shukla.. His eyes seem to have uncrossed and he can actually seem to be able to think now rather than harrumph on "Arjun is Dabba Onlee" .
In his article in the Business Standard .titled From Russia With Bills, he actually makes a lot of sense and interesting points. Posting the article in full below.
Notice he finally realizes what we business /strategy folks call as "Switching Costs" (and the strategic lock in) .. yeah the 70% dependency on Russian weapons thingy and how the strategic environment today is vastly different today and that the future trajectory is divergence rather than convergence!.
If someone who is smart enough to actually recongnize /realize these things, I actually wonder what the big thing about "Harrumphing" on Arjun as "Dabba Onlee" was.. What prevented him from actually seeing the Arjun and the LCA and other DRDO stuff as viable options that would give strategic options in mutlitple dimensions (very valuable just as a negotiating tool itself) to break the strategic lock in. Is it a case of learning gradually after the beating he received here at this forum and the effects of the hard knocks from the T-72 and the Army live wearing off (Military intelligence is surely an oxymoron) and that some wisdom has dawned on him.. Wonder.. Anyway.. quoting his article in full, coz I think it is pretty much on the money.
[quote]
Ajai Shukla: From Russia with... a bill
BROADSWORD
Ajai Shukla / New Delhi November 20, 2007
With collective eyes glued on the warming relationship with the US, and the talked-up contest with China, most watchers have brushed off the icicles forming on the India-Russia partnership. But the foreign ministry rhetoric of “historical tiesâ€
In his article in the Business Standard .titled From Russia With Bills, he actually makes a lot of sense and interesting points. Posting the article in full below.
Notice he finally realizes what we business /strategy folks call as "Switching Costs" (and the strategic lock in) .. yeah the 70% dependency on Russian weapons thingy and how the strategic environment today is vastly different today and that the future trajectory is divergence rather than convergence!.
If someone who is smart enough to actually recongnize /realize these things, I actually wonder what the big thing about "Harrumphing" on Arjun as "Dabba Onlee" was.. What prevented him from actually seeing the Arjun and the LCA and other DRDO stuff as viable options that would give strategic options in mutlitple dimensions (very valuable just as a negotiating tool itself) to break the strategic lock in. Is it a case of learning gradually after the beating he received here at this forum and the effects of the hard knocks from the T-72 and the Army live wearing off (Military intelligence is surely an oxymoron) and that some wisdom has dawned on him.. Wonder.. Anyway.. quoting his article in full, coz I think it is pretty much on the money.
[quote]
Ajai Shukla: From Russia with... a bill
BROADSWORD
Ajai Shukla / New Delhi November 20, 2007
With collective eyes glued on the warming relationship with the US, and the talked-up contest with China, most watchers have brushed off the icicles forming on the India-Russia partnership. But the foreign ministry rhetoric of “historical tiesâ€
He still doesn't have his facts right! Kitty Hawk (CV-63) is not nuclear-powered.vina wrote:...
In his article in the Business Standard .titled From Russia With Bills, ...
Ajai Shukla: From Russia with... a bill
BROADSWORD
Ajai Shukla / New Delhi November 20, 2007
... New best friend America has signalled its willingness to sell India one of its front-line nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, the Kitty Hawk. ...
ajaishukla.blogspot.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kitty_Hawk_(CV-63)
Propulsion: Eight steam boilers
T[quote]he aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk is the first in a class of three super carriers. Constructed by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, N.J., Kitty Hawk was commissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on April 29, 1961. It is the second U.S. Navy ship named after the small North Carolina town near which Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the first-ever successful, controlled, powered aircraft on Dec. 17, 1903.
Following commissioning, Kitty Hawk’s first commanding officer, Capt. William F. Bringle, took his new ship around South America to its new homeport in San Diego. Kitty Hawk departed San Diego in September 1962 on her first extended Western Pacific (WESTPAC) deployment. From 1963 to 1976, Hawk and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11 completed eight extended deployments, including six in support of American forces in Vietnam.
In March 1976, Kitty Hawk underwent a yearlong overhaul in Bremerton, Wash., to convert from an attack (CVA) to a multi-mission carrier (CV). Additional changes allowed Kitty Hawk to launch and recover the Navy’s new F-14 Tomcat and S-3 Viking aircraft.
In the late '70s, the ship teamed with CVW-15 for another WESTPAC deployment, which included search and assistance operations to aid Vietnamese refugees. Hawk also offered contingency support off the coast of Korea. The deployment was then extended to support contingency operations in the North Arabian Sea during the Iran hostage crisis. Hawk returned to San Diego in February 1980, and was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation and the Battle Efficiency “Eâ€
Following commissioning, Kitty Hawk’s first commanding officer, Capt. William F. Bringle, took his new ship around South America to its new homeport in San Diego. Kitty Hawk departed San Diego in September 1962 on her first extended Western Pacific (WESTPAC) deployment. From 1963 to 1976, Hawk and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11 completed eight extended deployments, including six in support of American forces in Vietnam.
In March 1976, Kitty Hawk underwent a yearlong overhaul in Bremerton, Wash., to convert from an attack (CVA) to a multi-mission carrier (CV). Additional changes allowed Kitty Hawk to launch and recover the Navy’s new F-14 Tomcat and S-3 Viking aircraft.
In the late '70s, the ship teamed with CVW-15 for another WESTPAC deployment, which included search and assistance operations to aid Vietnamese refugees. Hawk also offered contingency support off the coast of Korea. The deployment was then extended to support contingency operations in the North Arabian Sea during the Iran hostage crisis. Hawk returned to San Diego in February 1980, and was awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation and the Battle Efficiency “Eâ€
Historical:
Most successful sniper in recorded history?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3% ... %A4#_ref-0
Most successful sniper in recorded history?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3% ... %A4#_ref-0
vishal,
the original link to that video is now dead.
Is this what you are referring to ?
Or perhaps this ?
By the way, the original link to the video which you are asking for was this
http://cops.zive.net/c-board/file/jsdf2.wmv
the original link to that video is now dead.
Is this what you are referring to ?
Or perhaps this ?
By the way, the original link to the video which you are asking for was this
http://cops.zive.net/c-board/file/jsdf2.wmv
December Edition - Indian Hawks, Raptor, Brahmos, Israeli - F16I
Defence technology International - December
Defence technology International - December
Russia: A New Patrol Submarine on the Market
Rostekhnologii: defense industry supercorporation
In order to attract private capital to the state corporation and to reduce the manufacturing costs of weapons and military equipment, the bill on Rostekhnologii included a point on the corporation's fulfillment of the government's defense order. The initiators were guided by the fact that today orders for Russian weapons from other countries often exceed those from the Russian army.
For example, India wants to buy over 300 T-90S tanks, while the Russian Defense Ministry plans to get about 50 tanks. To combine the two orders means to sharply reduce the cost of production of every single vehicle. The military thinks it will be put at a disadvantage. A plant will begin to fulfill the foreign currency order and only after that it will take the ruble order, which is much cheaper. But what the army needs is just the opposite.
The government's defense order was not included in the law on Rostekhnologii. The Defense Ministry will keep control only over the Defense Order Agency and will want all companies involved, including those incorporated in Rostekhnologii, to fulfill the state order and to begin work on foreign orders only after that.
Rostekhnologii: defense industry supercorporation
In order to attract private capital to the state corporation and to reduce the manufacturing costs of weapons and military equipment, the bill on Rostekhnologii included a point on the corporation's fulfillment of the government's defense order. The initiators were guided by the fact that today orders for Russian weapons from other countries often exceed those from the Russian army.
For example, India wants to buy over 300 T-90S tanks, while the Russian Defense Ministry plans to get about 50 tanks. To combine the two orders means to sharply reduce the cost of production of every single vehicle. The military thinks it will be put at a disadvantage. A plant will begin to fulfill the foreign currency order and only after that it will take the ruble order, which is much cheaper. But what the army needs is just the opposite.
The government's defense order was not included in the law on Rostekhnologii. The Defense Ministry will keep control only over the Defense Order Agency and will want all companies involved, including those incorporated in Rostekhnologii, to fulfill the state order and to begin work on foreign orders only after that.
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Blackwater's Bu$ine$$
Jeremy Scahill
Gunning down seventeen Iraqi civilians in an incident the military has labeled "criminal." Multiple Congressional investigations. A federal grand jury. Allegations of illegal arms smuggling. Wrongful death lawsuits brought by families of dead employees and US soldiers. A federal lawsuit alleging war crimes. Charges of steroid use by trigger-happy mercenaries. Allegations of "significant tax evasion." The US-installed government in Iraq labeling its forces "murderers." With a new scandal breaking practically every day, one would think Blackwater security would be on the ropes, facing a corporate meltdown or even a total wipeout. But it seems that business for the company has never been better, as it continues to pull in major federal contracts. And its public demeanor grows bolder and cockier by the day.
Rather than hiding out and hoping for the scandals to fade, the Bush Administration's preferred mercenary company has launched a major rebranding campaign, changing its name to Blackwater Worldwide and softening its logo: once a bear paw in the site of a sniper scope, it's now a bear claw wrapped in two half ovals--sort of like the outline of a globe with a United Nations feel. Its website boasts of a corporate vision "guided by integrity, innovation, and a desire for a safer world." Blackwater mercenaries are now referred to as "global stabilization professionals." Blackwater's 38-year-old owner, Erik Prince, was No. 11 in Details magazine's "Power 50," the men "who control your viewing patterns, your buying habits, your anxieties, your lust.... the people who have taken over the space in your head."
In one of the company's most bizarre recent actions, on December 1 Blackwater paratroopers staged a dramatic aerial landing, complete with Blackwater flags and parachutes--not in Baghdad or Kabul but in San Diego at Qualcomm Stadium during the halftime show at the San Diego State/BYU football game. The location was interesting, given that Blackwater is fighting fierce local opposition to its attempt to open a new camp--Blackwater West--on 824 acres in the small rural community of Potrero, just outside San Diego. Blackwater's parachute squad plans to land at the Armed Forces Bowl in Texas this month and the Virginia Gold Cup in May. The company recently sponsored a NASCAR racer, and it has teamed up with gun manufacturer Sig Sauer to create a Blackwater Special Edition full-sized 9-millimeter pistol with the company logo on the grip. It comes with a Limited Lifetime Warranty. For $18, parents can purchase infant onesies with the company logo.
In recent weeks, Blackwater has indicated it might quit Iraq. "We see the security market diminishing," Prince told the Wall Street Journal in October. Yet on December 3 Blackwater posted job listings for "security specialists" and snipers as a result of its State Department diplomatic security "contract expansion." While its name may be mud in the human rights world, Blackwater has not only made big money in Iraq (about $1 billion in State Department contracts); it has secured a reputation as a company that keeps US officials alive by any means necessary. The dirty open secret in Washington is that Blackwater has done its job in Iraq, even if it has done so by valuing the lives of Iraqis much lower than those of US VIPs. That badass image will serve it well as it expands globally.
Prince promises that Blackwater "is going to be more of a full spectrum" operation. Amid the cornucopia of scandals, Blackwater is bidding for a share of a five-year, $15 billion contract with the Pentagon to "fight terrorists with drug-trade ties." Perhaps the firm will join the mercenary giant DynCorp in Colombia or Bolivia or be sent into Mexico on a "training" mission. This "war on drugs" contract would put Blackwater in the arena with the godfathers of the war business, including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon.
In addition to its robust business in law enforcement, military and homeland security training, Blackwater is branching out. Here are some of its current projects and initiatives:
§ Blackwater affiliate Greystone Ltd., registered offshore in Barbados, is an old-fashioned mercenary operation offering "personnel from the best militaries throughout the world" for hire by governments and private organizations. It also boasts of a "multi-national peacekeeping program," with forces "specializing in crowd control and less than lethal techniques and military personnel for the less stable areas of operation."
§ Prince's Total Intelligence Solutions, headed by three CIA veterans (among them Blackwater's number two, Cofer Black), puts CIA-type services on the open market for hire by corporations or governments.
§ Blackwater is launching an armored vehicle called the Grizzly, which the company characterizes as the most versatile in history. Blackwater intends to modify it to be legal for use on US highways.
§ Blackwater's aviation division has some forty aircraft, including turboprop planes that can be used for unorthodox landings. It has ordered a Super Tucano paramilitary plane from Brazil, which can be used in counterinsurgency operations. In August the aviation division won a $92 million contract with the Pentagon to operate flights in Central Asia.
§ It recently flight-tested the unmanned Polar 400 airship, which may be marketed to the Department of Homeland Security for use in monitoring the US-Mexico border and to "military, law enforcement, and non-government customers."
§ A fast-growing maritime division has a new, 184-foot vessel that has been fitted for potential paramilitary use.
Meanwhile, Blackwater is deep in the camp of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Cofer Black is Romney's senior adviser on counterterrorism. At the recent CNN/YouTube debate, when Romney refused to call waterboarding torture, he said, "I'm not going to specify the specific means of what is and what is not torture so that the people that we capture will know what things we're able to do and what things we're not able to do. And I get that advice from Cofer Black, who is a person who was responsible for counterterrorism in the CIA for some thirty-five years." That was an exaggeration of Black's career at the CIA (he was there twenty-eight years and head of counterterrorism for only three), but a Romney presidency could make Blackwater's business under Bush look like a church bake sale.
In short, Blackwater is moving ahead at full steam. Individual scandals clearly aren't enough to slow it down. The company's critics in the Democratic-controlled Congress must confront the root of the problem: the government is in the midst of its most radical privatization in history, and companies like Blackwater are becoming ever more deeply embedded in the war apparatus. Until this system is brought down, the world's the limit for Blackwater Worldwide--and as its rebranding campaign shows, Blackwater knows it.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071224/scahill
Jeremy Scahill
Gunning down seventeen Iraqi civilians in an incident the military has labeled "criminal." Multiple Congressional investigations. A federal grand jury. Allegations of illegal arms smuggling. Wrongful death lawsuits brought by families of dead employees and US soldiers. A federal lawsuit alleging war crimes. Charges of steroid use by trigger-happy mercenaries. Allegations of "significant tax evasion." The US-installed government in Iraq labeling its forces "murderers." With a new scandal breaking practically every day, one would think Blackwater security would be on the ropes, facing a corporate meltdown or even a total wipeout. But it seems that business for the company has never been better, as it continues to pull in major federal contracts. And its public demeanor grows bolder and cockier by the day.
Rather than hiding out and hoping for the scandals to fade, the Bush Administration's preferred mercenary company has launched a major rebranding campaign, changing its name to Blackwater Worldwide and softening its logo: once a bear paw in the site of a sniper scope, it's now a bear claw wrapped in two half ovals--sort of like the outline of a globe with a United Nations feel. Its website boasts of a corporate vision "guided by integrity, innovation, and a desire for a safer world." Blackwater mercenaries are now referred to as "global stabilization professionals." Blackwater's 38-year-old owner, Erik Prince, was No. 11 in Details magazine's "Power 50," the men "who control your viewing patterns, your buying habits, your anxieties, your lust.... the people who have taken over the space in your head."
In one of the company's most bizarre recent actions, on December 1 Blackwater paratroopers staged a dramatic aerial landing, complete with Blackwater flags and parachutes--not in Baghdad or Kabul but in San Diego at Qualcomm Stadium during the halftime show at the San Diego State/BYU football game. The location was interesting, given that Blackwater is fighting fierce local opposition to its attempt to open a new camp--Blackwater West--on 824 acres in the small rural community of Potrero, just outside San Diego. Blackwater's parachute squad plans to land at the Armed Forces Bowl in Texas this month and the Virginia Gold Cup in May. The company recently sponsored a NASCAR racer, and it has teamed up with gun manufacturer Sig Sauer to create a Blackwater Special Edition full-sized 9-millimeter pistol with the company logo on the grip. It comes with a Limited Lifetime Warranty. For $18, parents can purchase infant onesies with the company logo.
In recent weeks, Blackwater has indicated it might quit Iraq. "We see the security market diminishing," Prince told the Wall Street Journal in October. Yet on December 3 Blackwater posted job listings for "security specialists" and snipers as a result of its State Department diplomatic security "contract expansion." While its name may be mud in the human rights world, Blackwater has not only made big money in Iraq (about $1 billion in State Department contracts); it has secured a reputation as a company that keeps US officials alive by any means necessary. The dirty open secret in Washington is that Blackwater has done its job in Iraq, even if it has done so by valuing the lives of Iraqis much lower than those of US VIPs. That badass image will serve it well as it expands globally.
Prince promises that Blackwater "is going to be more of a full spectrum" operation. Amid the cornucopia of scandals, Blackwater is bidding for a share of a five-year, $15 billion contract with the Pentagon to "fight terrorists with drug-trade ties." Perhaps the firm will join the mercenary giant DynCorp in Colombia or Bolivia or be sent into Mexico on a "training" mission. This "war on drugs" contract would put Blackwater in the arena with the godfathers of the war business, including Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon.
In addition to its robust business in law enforcement, military and homeland security training, Blackwater is branching out. Here are some of its current projects and initiatives:
§ Blackwater affiliate Greystone Ltd., registered offshore in Barbados, is an old-fashioned mercenary operation offering "personnel from the best militaries throughout the world" for hire by governments and private organizations. It also boasts of a "multi-national peacekeeping program," with forces "specializing in crowd control and less than lethal techniques and military personnel for the less stable areas of operation."
§ Prince's Total Intelligence Solutions, headed by three CIA veterans (among them Blackwater's number two, Cofer Black), puts CIA-type services on the open market for hire by corporations or governments.
§ Blackwater is launching an armored vehicle called the Grizzly, which the company characterizes as the most versatile in history. Blackwater intends to modify it to be legal for use on US highways.
§ Blackwater's aviation division has some forty aircraft, including turboprop planes that can be used for unorthodox landings. It has ordered a Super Tucano paramilitary plane from Brazil, which can be used in counterinsurgency operations. In August the aviation division won a $92 million contract with the Pentagon to operate flights in Central Asia.
§ It recently flight-tested the unmanned Polar 400 airship, which may be marketed to the Department of Homeland Security for use in monitoring the US-Mexico border and to "military, law enforcement, and non-government customers."
§ A fast-growing maritime division has a new, 184-foot vessel that has been fitted for potential paramilitary use.
Meanwhile, Blackwater is deep in the camp of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Cofer Black is Romney's senior adviser on counterterrorism. At the recent CNN/YouTube debate, when Romney refused to call waterboarding torture, he said, "I'm not going to specify the specific means of what is and what is not torture so that the people that we capture will know what things we're able to do and what things we're not able to do. And I get that advice from Cofer Black, who is a person who was responsible for counterterrorism in the CIA for some thirty-five years." That was an exaggeration of Black's career at the CIA (he was there twenty-eight years and head of counterterrorism for only three), but a Romney presidency could make Blackwater's business under Bush look like a church bake sale.
In short, Blackwater is moving ahead at full steam. Individual scandals clearly aren't enough to slow it down. The company's critics in the Democratic-controlled Congress must confront the root of the problem: the government is in the midst of its most radical privatization in history, and companies like Blackwater are becoming ever more deeply embedded in the war apparatus. Until this system is brought down, the world's the limit for Blackwater Worldwide--and as its rebranding campaign shows, Blackwater knows it.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071224/scahill
Russia completed the building of new type submarine: diesel-electric with the accessoried nulear reactor. The name of the vessel is B-90 Sarov (pr. 20120).
3950 t deadweight (bit more than Kilos)
crew - 52
commander - 1st rank capitan Sergey Kroshkin
state tests finish - 2008
source: http://www.rosbalt.ru/2007/12/14/440459.html (russian)
PS. Doesnt need AIP due to a small quiet reactor instead
3950 t deadweight (bit more than Kilos)
crew - 52
commander - 1st rank capitan Sergey Kroshkin
state tests finish - 2008
source: http://www.rosbalt.ru/2007/12/14/440459.html (russian)
PS. Doesnt need AIP due to a small quiet reactor instead
If listen to the published last 80th project, it's must to be very quiet. The most energy is producted from fission, not from chain reaction. This submarine has no high velosity option on such nuclear propulsion. Only 3-5 knots submerged IMHO. If one wants really jump with 15-20 knots, they must to use the battereis. The question remain whether this N-energy device can produce electricity to recharge the batareis too.vvijay wrote: how quiet is this SSN compared to akulas?
The A-50's Radome has a diameter of 10.8 meters (35 Ft) The A-50 I Phalcon's stationary radome is slightly bigger at 11.5m
and a height of nearly 2 meters. It will house 3 radars in an equilateral triangle with the base directed forwards
US E-3A features a radome with a diameter of 9.1m
Incidentally the chinese order was worth $ 1 Billion for FOUR planes, India's order is $1.1 Billion for THREE planes
and a height of nearly 2 meters. It will house 3 radars in an equilateral triangle with the base directed forwards
US E-3A features a radome with a diameter of 9.1m
Incidentally the chinese order was worth $ 1 Billion for FOUR planes, India's order is $1.1 Billion for THREE planes
Navy to Honor 100th Anniversary of Great White Fleet
The Great White Fleet departed from Hampton Roads one hundred years ago (today).... Sixteen battleships, plus auxiliary support ships and 14,000 Sailors and Marines, embarked on the 14-month journey that covered some 43,000 miles and made twenty port calls on six continents. The deployment demonstrated to the world that the United States had arrived as a significant, outward-looking world power
Besides being a CAEW, as demonstrated in the recent Syrian attack, it has the capability to conduct electronic attacks.Singha wrote:the side radar housing on G550 seems to be 6 feet tall x 25 feet wide.
if they house 3 such panels inside the Phalcon fixed rotodome, should be a
big E3 sized affair than the smaller A50.
Its companion (of sorts) is the Special Electronic Mission Aircraft (EL/I-3001) a signals intelligence aircraft.
In our 'hood:
Letting them use Indian infrastructure to train has oblique advantages.Singapore Introduces G550 CAEWs, With Israel As Role Model
Aviation Week & Space Technology
10/01/2007, page 50
Sunho Beck
Seoul
Low-profile AEW order helps transform Singapore’s military stance
Printed headline: Silent Partner
Singapore’s new Gulfstream G550 Conformal Airborne Early Warning aircraft, together with F-15SG strike fighters, will underpin a new offensive strategy that the country has adopted as it increasingly copies the order of battle of its long-time defense mentor, Israel.
By now, Singapore should have received its first of four G550 CAEWs, fitted with advanced Israeli electronics that are capable of monitoring air activity as far as north Malaysia as well as deep into Indonesia, which also flanks the city-state. No delivery has been announced, but, according to one supplier, the first aircraft was due to arrive during the northern summer.
Singapore’s modernization closely parallels that of Israel, which operates the same AEW aircraft and almost identical two-seat versions of the F-15 and F-16.
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