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Hi All, @donaldseadog let me know that no new Raw Intel threads have been appearing for a couple of weeks so I looked into it just now and of the four blogs we had feeding Raw Intel, three have no posted recently and the other put their feed behind CloudFlare making it inaccessible. In any event, if you had a topically appropriate RSS feed you'd like to see feed our Raw Intel section, please note it on this thread and I'll have a look. Thanks!

Aircraft Carrier Killer: What Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles Are, And Who Has Them (Naval News) A topic that came up during the recent Zoom get together.

Flight Global 2023 World Air Forces directory (pdf)

The Flight Global World Air Forces Directory 2022 is here (free, only needs registration): https://www.flightglobal.com/searchresults?qkeyword=world+air+forces

Here (requires registration): https://www.flightglobal.com/asset/21905/waf/

2018 World Navies in Review (Proceedings, March 2018)

The worlds' biggest submarine Still only a design, mind.

Taking Airpower for Granted: A Smart Bomb Story (War on the Rocks) Another excellent article from Mike Benitez. Worth your time.

Computing the Value of Stealth: It’s Not That Simple (War on the Rocks) These guys get it.

Radars matched with aircraft types. Probably at long term useful for database editing (in Russian): https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5_%D0%A0%D0%9B%D0%A1

On Perdix and other micro-UAVs swarms, fot the future history: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/03/08/inside-the-secretive-pentagon-office-planning-skyborg-fighters-and-drone-swarms/ https://warisboring.com/imagine-f-16s-deploying-swarms-of-tiny-drones-8c6593fe51c6#.glcsfd99c https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/Article/1044811/department-of-defense-announces-successful-micro-drone-demonstration https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/Perdix%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a24494/chinese-drones-swarms/?src=social-email

How US nuclear force modernization is undermining strategic stability: The burst-height compensating super-fuze (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) Maybe I am morbid, but this stuff is fascinating.

Could America Win a War Against Russia and China at the Same Time? (National Interest)

Flight Global's World Air Forces 2017 inventory available now (Free registration on the web site): https://www.flightglobal.com/asset/14484

An early 1980's BBC documentary about the Royal Navy's Submarine Command Course otherwise known as 'Perisher'. Part 1 of 6 parts.

The Need for SEAD Part II: The Evolving Threat (War on the Rocks)

As consequence of many chats with some analyst friends, I think is a good idea to start a tread with publications explicity devoted to Cold War Two, this can be one of many, David Cenciotti (The Aviationist) compilation of recent aerial incidents (You can open it with Sumatra, and some other readers): http://bit.ly/1LF9XOf

The Need for SEAD Part I: The Nature of SEAD (War on the Rocks)

I did reference it other time, but I think the site is improved and expanded: http://www.hisutton.com/Analysis%20-%20Russian%20Status-6%20aka%20KANYON%20nuclear%20deterrence%20and%20Pr%2009851%20submarine.html