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Pentagon ‘can't afford the sustainment costs‘ on F-35, Lord says (DefenseNews)

Why Russia is Retiring Its Akula Strategic Nuclear Subs (Sputnik)

F-35A gun struggles with accuracy (Jane's) Curse of the F-16 and GPU-5?

RAF to scrap twin-seat Typhoons (Jane's)

First modernised Tu-160 makes maiden sortie (Flight Global)

Interesting Photos Show USAF F-35A Stealth Jets Deployed To Japan About To Launch Without Radar Reflectors (Aviationist) Expect some Russian and Chinese interest to spike.

Pentagon’s weapons tester slams new F-35 modernization plan as unrealistic (DefenseNews)

Russia's Northern Fleet Brings The Fireworks In This "Explosive" Year In Review Video (The War Zone) some great footage here

That stuff was promising.

Its been an interesting start to the New Year in Syria. Who is attacking Russia’s bases in Syria? A new mystery emerges in the war (Washington Post)

We Shall Fight Them on the Tabletop: What the Game of “Churchill” Teaches Us About Alliance Politics (War on the Rocks)

Somewhat related, or at least similar, is the observation of how aircraft on final approach to a carrier landing drop from many thousands of feet to the deck in the space of seconds. I observed an E-2C Hawkeye, for example, drop from >14,000 feet to the carrier deck in less than 5 seconds.

That is truly excellent. Thanks for sharing.

Russian bombers to be armed with new Kh-50 theatre-level cruise missile (Jane's)

If I can get one, I will try and pass it along.

Yes, current version. In fact, every version I have tried.

What version?

Great.

If I see it again, I will try and get a savegame for the Matrix forum. I am surprised that no one else has noticed it, because it has happened to me more than once, and I haven't played the game much. I wonder if the SAM 'instant altitude change' issue (e.g. instantly diving from very high altitudes to hit a terrain following target) is related.

It may have been - or the fact that I could not get mine clearing to work at all in the Brass Drum scenario - but I honestly don't remember which. Has no one reported an issue with radar LOS and intervening terrain?

Thanks to the scenario author tdavis for sharing his work. It is encouraged! I haven't opened the scenario but I take it that it is LARGE?

Buy a couple copies and keep at least one for posterity.

It does seem like a bug, because I know that on other occasions, SA-5 SAMs launched at me have (properly) gone stupid after I dropped below the radar LOS. Which was great, both functionally (and as a player). I once raised an issue with mine clearing (mentioned earlier in the thread) on the Matrix Games forum, but it was largely ignored, so I haven't bothered since.

Formations and formation keeping is a critical foundation of HCE. It is one of the reasons I tackled the subject matter in Tactics 101. I am fine with this approach. That said, one alternative would be to have the outermost portions of multiple rings conform to the role/purpose of the innermost rings. For example: A unit assigned both a sector in the ASW ring and a sector in Picket #1 would perform as though it were in an ASW ring. A unit assigned both a sector in the AAW ring and the ASW wing would perform as though it were in an AAW ring. And so on.