https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoB7NlhDKLs

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Brahmos with indigenous dual mode imaging synthetic aperture radar and targeting X band monopulse seeker.

Previous Russian seeker was only monopulse based seeker.

The hit was around 3-4m above ground.

But in anti-ship mode it can hit at the waterline of the ship thereby increasing the kill chances.

Plus in anti-ship mode it can do a 90 ° vertical dive on the ship, it is basically used for aircraft carriers becz if It hits them at the sides the reserve boyuncy of the aircraft carriers is huge enough to keep it afloat and due to compartmentalization the damage is reduced , aircrafts can still be launched from the deck which will be safe from any penetration at the sides of the hull , but if flight deck is destroyed the aircraft carrier becomes useless.

According to stimulations it will require minimum 3 brahmos hits to complete disable a aircraft carrier.

Best moments of China's J-10 fighter jet since its 1st flight in 1998

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teZ-Uf6un1g

Russian company release photos of new Orion UAV





http://defence-blog.com/news/russian-company-release-photos-new-orion-uav.html

700$ billion largest #defense #budget in the history of #United #States....



http://www.armyrecognition.com/march_2018_global_defense_security_army_news_industry/700$_billion_largest_defense_budget_in_the_history_of_united_states.html

DRDO Nuclear submarine sonar console , old version

kikuyu1:


Be specific! Who do you have in mind?

Good luck with parsing the inconsistent ramblings.

The squadron of supersonic fighter-interceptors MiG-31BM completed the flight from the airfield Falcon in Perm Krai to the polygon Ashuluk under Astrakhan in the framework of the flight-tactical exercise

The wholly Chinese submersible "Shen Hai Yong She", capable of reaching 4500 metres in depth, leaves for its first operational mission to be held in the South China Sea.

According to the spokesperson of the Chinese Air Force, H-6k bombers and Su-35 fighters were sent on patrol recently South China Sea.

12 H-6k bombers, departed from a base in Shaanxi in central China, to conduct a long-range strike training today.

So, the French sold the crappy Super Frelon to China and it was cloned to produce the Z-8. Sikorsky didn't learn the lesson and sold them the BlackHawk. And as true as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, the BlackHawk has been cloned as the Z-20.

So the PLA will soon replace the clone of the crappy Frelon with the clone of the BlackHawk!

EDIT: Let's not forget the Israelis in passing on much Western tech to China to clone"reproduce".

Frumentum:
So, the French sold the crappy Super Frelon to China and it was cloned to produce the Z-8. Sikorsky didn't learn the lesson and sold them the BlackHawk. And as true as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, the BlackHawk has been cloned as the Z-20.

So the PLA will soon replace the clone of the crappy Frelon with the clone of the BlackHawk!

EDIT: Let's not forget the Israelis in passing on much Western tech to China to clone"reproduce".

The Chinese never fails to disappoint. But cloning is not just an exclusive preserve of the Chinese.
Even the Israelis clone other nation's technologies like no body's business. Just that they do it covertly.

it isn't friendly skies for saudi coalition aircrafts over northern yemen,the crafty houthi rebels want to shoot every aircraft the spot

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZawdnmXwKQ

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXUirTBWvYk

GAIC delivers a new batch of JL-9G to the china PLAAF

Satellite imagery from this Monday show that at least 40 surface and submarine vessels accompanied the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning to the South China Sea.

china PLA South Sudan peacekeeping force

Turkey has produced a beautiful looking assault rifle.

Henry240:
Turkey has produced a beautiful looking assault rifle.

i especially love the round chambered on that rifle(7.62x51)compare to the M-4

Tonbo Imaging's EK uncooled Smart Thermal Weapons Sight (STWS), EK is a compact, lightweight uncooled Smart Thermal Weapons Sight (STWS) designed and optimized for assault rifles and snipers. It can also be used as a standalone hand held thermal imager.

It features an inbuilt wireless video interface enabling real time video output to head mounted or hand held display equipped with advanced Android OS.

EK is based on state-of-the-art HawkVision thermal imaging core. With a resistive Amorphous Silicon based 640 x 480 micro-bolometer array on a 17-micron pitch and advanced thermal image processing, EK STWS provides outstanding sensitivity and crisp thermal images at high frame-rates to the soldier.

with tactical head mounted display allows soldiers to accurately shoot around corners.

Since over Fifty percent of kills happen on the corners, EK STWS lets soldiers see around corners and shoot targets without entering the line of fire.

A soldier can crouch behind a blockade, stick his weapon over his head, and shoot his target with the same accuracy as if he were taking aim normally.

Unlike any other weapon sight, EK STWS system is designed with custom tactical mounts that provide zero retention even after firing hundreds of rounds. The sight is designed to maintain zero even if detached and reattached thus allowing soldier to change optics on the battlefield without requiring to zero the weapon.

US-Made Missile Defenses Spectacularly Failed in Saudi Arabia
"It's nothing but an unbroken trail of disasters with this weapon system."

At least five American-made Patriot missiles apparently missed, malfunctioned, or otherwise failed when Saudi forces tried to intercept a barrage of rockets targeting Riyadh on March 25.

That's bad news for the US military and its closest allies, who are counting on the Patriot to stop large-scale enemy attacks during a major war.

The ground-launched, radar-guided Patriot missile, which is 19 feet long in its basic version, has been controversial since shortly after its introduction in 1984. It missed many of its targets during the 1991 Gulf War. Twelve years later during the US-led invasion of Iraq, Patriot crews shot down two allied warplanes, killing three crew members.

"It's nothing but an unbroken trail of disasters with this weapon system," Theodore Postol, an MIT physicist and prominent critic of US missile defenses, told me.

Rebel forces from the Houthi group, which has taken over much of Yemen in recent years, fired at least seven rockets at Saudi Arabia on the night of March 25. Saudi Arabia leads a coalition of Middle East countries battling the Houthis in Yemen.

The Saudi military launched Patriot Advanced Capability-2 missiles in an attempt to destroy the Houthi rockets in mid-air. The Saudis claimed seven of the Patriots struck their targets.

One man reportedly died after being struck by metal fragments. It's unclear whether the fragments came from a malfunctioning Patriot, a successful intercept or a Houthi rockets striking the ground.

Amateur videos that appeared online in the aftermath of the missile skirmish indicate that many of the Patriots—which are manufactured by US firm Raytheon—exploded in mid-air or veered off course.The same thing happened during the 1991 Gulf War, said Postol, a former Pentagon science advisor. "It seems in 25 years they haven't fixed it."

The Patriot flies a straight trajectory for the first four seconds after launch, during which time the missile accelerates past the sound barrier. The missile has a habit of malfunctioning during those initial seconds in the air. Of the apparent five separate Patriot launches that appear in videos from Riydah, two seem to have ended in premature explosions during the acceleration phase, Postol pointed out.

After four seconds in the air, a Patriot begins maneuvering and searching for a signal from the ground-based radar that helps to guide it. Three of the Saudi Patriots appear to have malfunctioned during this phase of flight. "They suddenly went downward and exploded," Postol said.

The failures over Saudi Arabia last weekend could point to a design flaw that critics such as Postol have been trying for decades to fix. "In the Gulf War of 1991, we definitely saw Patriots take off, turn around and dive to ground in both Saudi Arabia and in Israel," Postol told me.

"When we reported what we saw in videos from Israel, Raytheon claimed this only occured in Israel because the Israelis didn't know what they were doing. Then we uncovered videos of the missiles doing the same thing in Saudi Arabia."

Raytheon did not respond to a request for comment. In 2018, the US Defense Department set aside $1.1 billion to buy 240 Patriot missiles.

Patriots continued to malfunction in 2003. US Army Patriot crews mistakenly shot down a US Navy F/A-18 fighter and a British Royal Air Force Tornado bomber, killing the American pilot and both British crew members. Coalition aircrews grew to fear their own air-defenses.

“The Patriots scared the Hell out of us,” one F-16 pilot remarked. Another F-16 pilot actually fired a missile at a US Patriot system after the Patriot crew locked onto the F-16 with its radar.

Postol blamed the 2003 incidents on a combination of poor training and technical flaws in the Patriot. Like many air-defense systems, the Patriot searches for radio-transponder signals in an effort to separate allied warplanes from enemy ones. Following the 2003 shoot-downs, the U.S.-led coalition ordered its aircrews to switch to more reliable transponders that the Patriots hopefully would be better able to detect.

As recently as 2010, the US Missile Defense Agency claimed it had improved the Patriot. "Over the past decade the United States has made significant progress in developing and fielding essential capabilities for protection against attack from short- and medium-range ballistic missiles," the agency reported. "These capabilities include increasingly capable Patriot batteries."

The Missile Defense Agency did not respond to a request for comment.

Multiple failures on the part of Saudi Arabia's Patriots could indicate that, in fact, the air-defense system hasn't gotten much better since its inauspicious 1991 debut and subsequent friendly-fire incidents in 2003. That could jeopardize the safety of US and allied forces in a future conflict.

Postol said he's especially worried about South Korea, where US and South Korean troops count on Patriots to defend against North Korea's huge arsenals of ballistic missiles. "In South Korea there could be a real problem if these systems don't work as expected," Postol told me. "I frankly don't think they will work."

link https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xkgw4/patriot-missile-saudi-arabia-yemen

newafricaken254:
US-Made Missile Defenses Spectacularly Failed in Saudi Arabia
"It's nothing but an unbroken trail of disasters with this weapon system."

link https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xkgw4/patriot-missile-saudi-arabia-yemen

It's patriot again

tdayof:


It's patriot again

the last time when the saudi launched 4 patriots against a single houthi tactical ballistic missile,individuals here claimed it was procedure not the exception

newafricaken254:
the last time when the saudi launched 4 patriots against a single houthi tactical ballistic missile,individuals here claimed it was procedure not the exception

Yes, I remember the issue here then. The houthi TBM landed close to the airport then.

Latest LCA off production lines

china PLAAF The KG800 ECM jammer pod

Turkish troops in afrin,syria

The US Navy USS Nebraska, an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine assigned to SUBGRU9 , tests two unarmed Trident D5 missiles. These were the 166th and 167th successful test flights since 1989

Frumentum:
So, the French sold the crappy Super Frelon to China and it was cloned to produce the Z-8. Sikorsky didn't learn the lesson and sold them the BlackHawk. And as true as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, the BlackHawk has been cloned as the Z-20.

So the PLA will soon replace the clone of the crappy Frelon with the clone of the BlackHawk!

EDIT: Let's not forget the Israelis in passing on much Western tech to China to clone"reproduce".

Shlomo is actually the secret bridge between Western tech and Wu's eager hands. The story of the J 17 confirm this. This much heralded FSB is actually a rebuilt F 20 Tigershark,itself derived form the F5,yet with bigger engines and better avionics suite for its era. The Israelis directly transferred all the tech. Ofc there are differences in the nose and intakes but look closely and you'll see the J 17 ancestry.

BABUR Cruise Missile Successful Test Conducts By Pakistan

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_16MHKAKTqo

The French MQ-9 UAVs are used for surveillance and reconnaissance purposes (helping the French Air Force conduct combat sorties or ground commanders by acquiring and tracking dynamic targets).
On Sept. 6, 2017, French MoD announced that France’s MQ-9 drones would be armed.