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Iran displays captured ScanEagle UAV (Jane's)

Iran Shipping Signals Conceal Syria Ship Movements (Aviation Week)

Eurofighter Typhoon releases first Meteor missile (Flight Global)

U.K. Mulls Sea King Successors (Aviation Week)

Pentagon's Maverick F-35 Manager Values Accountability (Aviation Week/Reuters)

Reading secret USAF bomber, ISR plans (Aviation Week)

A three part series from Time magazine's Battleland blog If more money buys a smaller fleet what will less money buy? More than the Navy's numbers could be sinking Is the fleet steaming forward or backward?

Lockheed working on new air-to-air hit-to-kill missile (Flight Global)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IuQDqM2M_k&feature=plcp

Magic Wand missile makes first flight (Jane's) aka David's Sling

You should offer some details of your error messages so we can get it figured out.

Welcome, Galahad78.

Latest F-35 Contract Agreement Hard to Decipher (Defense Aerospace)

Appears to be a good source for video and imagery: Brown Moses blog

Alarm as China issues rules for disputed sea (New York Times)

Pakistani Ballistic Missile Test Failed (DefenseNews)

Secret Projects (Aviation Week)

My nomination for 2012 Pooner goes to Mark Gellis. Formal recognition of Mark's long lived contribution to Harpoon is badly overdue. Looking back, you will find excellent scenarios built by Mark from the late 1990s, and probably earlier. His most recent efforts have focused on Harpoon 3/ANW, and between his yeoman service here and that of Gunny (working on the HUD4 database), those gents are singlehandedly keeping that side of Harpoon alive.

Thanks for the contribution, davek. Great first post, for sure. You might have noticed that the HCDB hasn't been updated in about six months now, so inevitably time catches up with it as new developments come on stream and clarifications become known. (The commissioning of the Chinese carrier Liaoning, for example). In the meantime, other issues can be clarified, such as: Some units, like New Hampshire, New Mexico, LCS-2, etc were added long before the Virginia and LCS programs were clarified into separate flights or classes, as the case may be. Since they already appear in scenarios, they cannot be removed (which would break the scenarios), and instead their names are substituted by their pennant numbers to show the distinction. It will probably be the New Year before a new update is released, and as available space in the annexes is rapidly diminishing, suggestions for new entries are going to bear even greater scrutiny.

Linebacker II (Air Force Magazine, December 2012)

The Early War Plans (Air Force Magazine, December 2012)

Here Comes Adversary Stealth (Air Force Magazine, December 2012)

Launch of modernized Project 877EKM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o19rmiU-CuI Test launch of 3M14 (SS-N-27 Sizzler) cruise missile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFyAJhJfjQU&feature=share

Lockheed, DoD Agree on F-35 Fifth Block Purchase (DefenseNews) Appears to be $4bn for 32 aircraft (incl 22 F-35A, 3 F-35B, 7 F-35C).