Current Events

Found this while trying to find out more about the SA-10b. Scroll to the bottom for an outstanding graphic. Find it here at the Australian Airpower website.

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/pop...14&src=news You know they look defeated but their probably still getting better chow then if they were at home.

I will try to post in this thread articles, links or news relatives to the current Second Cold War and perhaps Second Fake War. This first one is about the current relevance of the GIUK gap: http://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/03/russian-subs-are-reheating-cold-war-chokepoint/126428/

Secret Projects (Aviation Week)

From Defense Aerospace DRS Technologies to Develop Shaftless Propulsion Technology for Next-Generation Nuclear Submarine Design (Source: DRS Technologies, Inc.; issued June 28, 2005) PARSIPPANY, N.J. --- DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today that it was awarded a new $30 million contract, including options, to develop advanced shaftless propulsion technology for a next-generation U.S. Navy nuclear-powered submarine design study under the Tango Bravo program. Tango Bravo is a joint effort established by the U.S. Navy and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Advanced Technology Office (ATO), in Arlington, Virginia, to develop a demonstrati…

From National Defense Magazine, March 2005 issue http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/iss...ewd_Tactics.htm Shrewd Tactics Underpin Navy Strategy to Defeat Diesel Submarines In preparation for future wars, U.S. ship commanders will be trained to employ unconventional tactics against enemies equipped with diesel submarines. Navy planners anticipate that adversaries will try to deny U.S. forces access to key strategic coastal areas by deploying quiet diesel-electric submarines. These hard-to-detect boats would make it difficult for U.S. ships to move around freely without exposing themselves to an enemy torpedo shot. For that reason, the U.S. Navy is adop…

SINKEX Live-fire Exercises Deliver Realistic Training (Defense Media Network)

Six Rules for Wargaming: The Lessons of Millennium Challenge ‘02 (War on the Rocks)

Reading some of the naval blogs I subscribe to, I'm a bit out of my depth. Can you help me? 1. What's the big issue with the DDG-1000? What are its advantages/disadvantages over more DDG-51? 2. What's a Future Surface Combatant and is it the same thing as the Royal Navy are planning to order to replace the Type 22/23 frigates? 3. Explain the Littoral Combat Ship to me and the controversy over that. 4. When does the US need to start building more cruisers to replace the Ticos? On other subjects: 1. If the PRC are completing Varyag, when would we be likely to see it in service? 2. Are the Russians actually building vessels at a half-decent rate now? 3. What, in y…

SOSUS- The "Secret Weapon" of Undersea Surveillance By Edward C. Whitman Born of a three-way marriage of early Cold War strategic necessity, World War II progress in underwater acoustics, and an extraordinary engineering effort, the Navy’s pioneering Sound Surveillance System – SOSUS – became a key, long-range early-warning asset for protecting the United States against the threat of Soviet ballistic missile submarines and in providing vital cueing information for tactical, deep-ocean, anti-submarine warfare. And although subsequent events – most notably the end of the Cold War – robbed SOSUS of much of its mission, its history remains an object lesson in how inspire…

Russian forces have entered this breakaway territory of Georgia. This looks like turning into a war. My thoughts and prayers are with all those affected, including a Georgian friend of mine.

Strategic Stability in the Second Nuclear Age (pdf, Council on Foreign Relations)

Opinion: Submarine Tech Outpacing ASW (Aviation Week)

Yes, I know its Carlo Kopp ... read it anyway, its good for you. Surviving the Modern IADS

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

From Defense Aerospace [excerpt] CV32: Glad to hear it.

For news on procurement of weapons. First one: http://alert5.com/2012/10/10/iraq-inks-4-3-billion-arms-deal-with-russia-buying-30-mi-28ne-and-pantsir-s1/

From Air Force Magazine, July 2007 “Enemy troops 75 meters away. ... I need guns only!” The Art of Strafing By Richard B.H. Lewis Modern fighter pilots risk their lives every day performing the act of strafing, which to some may seem like a tactic from a bygone era. Last November, an F-16 pilot, Maj. Troy L. Gilbert, died strafing the enemy in Iraq, trying to protect coalition forces taking fire on the ground. My first thought was, “Why was an F-16 doing that mission?” But I already knew the answer. In the 1980s, at the height of the Cold War, I was combat-ready in the 512th Fighter Squadron, an F-16 unit at Ramstein AB, Germany. We had to maintain combat…

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.

Interesting subject matter, for sure ... Lethal autonomous systems: The ethics of programming robots for war