Everything posted by CV32
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Making Sense of the Japanese Submarine Option
Making Sense of the Japanese Submarine Option (The Diplomat)
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The crisis in Ukraine
Images Show the Buk that Downed Flight MH17, Inside Russia, Controlled by Russian Troops (Bellingcat)
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This Day in Military History
9 September 1855 During the Crimean War, the siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian troops finally abandon the city after a year of holding the allies (English, French and Ottomans) at bay.
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Chinese Carrier's Purported Air Wing Deemed Plausible but Limited
Chinese Carrier's Purported Air Wing Deemed Plausible but Limited Details from the article:
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Cameron: UK Will Operate 2 Aircraft Carriers
Certainly its true that many such decisions are only as good as long the governments that make them are still in power.
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US Navy axes Griffin in favor of Longbow Hellfire
I haven't seen any mention of a booster addition, just a software change to permit the missile tip over, so yeah, my initial feeling would be reduced range. So, the Hellfire approach for LCS potentially brings more firepower, but it isn't terribly useful until the threat is at virtually point blank range.
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This Day in Military History
8 September 1965 Under Operation Dwarka, seven surface combatants of the Pakistan Navy launch a raid against the Indian town of Dwarka, intending to destroy a radar site there and to try and draw out major units of the Indian Navy so that they might be ambushed by the ex US Navy Tench class submarine PNS Ghazi. The operation failed in both respects.
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France floats out first Russian Mistral
Stavridis: Russian Mistrals Could Work Well As NATO Rapid Reaction Force Asset (USNI News) Suspecting that Putin will ultimately "win" in the Ukraine, this would be a bit of a thumb in the eye.
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Cameron: UK Will Operate 2 Aircraft Carriers
Cameron: UK Will Operate 2 Aircraft Carriers (DefenseNews)
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Requests for the HCDB (Official DB of HCE) and HCDB2
I'm back to working on the DB, and a new version should be available before the end of the month. As much as I would love to add new platforms to the Ship/MLU annex, including new versions with the latest sensor and weapon fits, we unfortunately have that same problem of rapidly diminishing space.
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This Day in Military History
5 September 1972 The Palestinian terror group Black September carries out an attack against Israeli athletes attending the Olympic Games in Munich.
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This Day in Military History
4 September 1923 First flight of the USS Shenandoah (ZR-1), the first of four US Navy airships, takes place at Lakehurst, NJ.
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Iron Dome intercepts first rocket from Gaza
Iron Dome Blunts 90% Of Enemy Rockets (Aviation Week) versus The evidence that shows Iron Dome is not working (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
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France floats out first Russian Mistral
Conscience? France: 'Conditions' Not in Place to Deliver Ship to Russia
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This Day in Military History
3 September 2004 The Beslan school crisis ends after three days when Russian special forces assault the building and attack the Islamic separatist militants. 334 of the approximately 1,100 hostages are killed in the resulting mayhem.
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File - GIUK - New Russia Part One: The Invasion of Poland
About the same as before. Boxing the battle group into Gdansk Bay - with Blue submarines closing in - really ensures its doom, imho. I would put the group into open water further north. This would have the effect of forcing the Blue subs to maneuver, instead of simply closing for the kill, and expand the front that Blue has to deal with. It would also put the group potentially under the air cover of fighters coming down from northern airfields.
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Requests for the HCDB (Official DB of HCE) and HCDB2
The last update of the HCDB added a bunch of Ukrainian units. Fortuitous?? In any event, you can expect new scenarios and a new DB soon.
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File - GIUK - New Russia Part One: The Invasion of Poland
Another small suggestion - your Russian tube artillery is given as 155mm, but in reality it is 152mm. I played through again to completion. The Russian air defences were harder to crack, but I had more Tornado IDS/ECR at my disposal so it played roughly the same time as last time. Took me longer to run strike sorties, and to achieve victory. Polish ground forces were chewed up.
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This Day in Military History
2 September 1945 Virtually six years to the day after it began in Europe, World War II ends in the Pacific with the signing of the Instrument of Surrender of Japan aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
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China expands runway, harbour at Woody Island
China expands runway, harbour at Woody Island (Jane's)
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This Day in Military History
29 August 1949 Izdeliye 501 (Device 501) or RDS-1, also called 'pervaya molniya' ('first lightning'), and known in the United States by its codename Joe-1, is detonated at Semipalantinsk in the Soviet Union's first successful test of an atomic bomb. The blast yields 22 kilotons, and ushers the USSR into the atomic age nearly 5 years earlier than expected in the West.
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This Day in Military History
28 August 1914 The Battle of Heligoland Bight, the first major naval battle of WWI, takes place off the coast of Germany in the southeastern North Sea. A large force from the British Grand Fleet ambushed a smaller force from the German High Seas Fleet, sinking three German light cruisers and a destroyer.
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HarpGamer's Book List
Review: The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, by Serhii Plokhy (Foreign Affairs)
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This Day in Military History
27 August 1939 The world's first jet powered aircraft, the Heinkel He 178, takes to the air in its first flight, mere days before the Nazi invasion of Poland.
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File - GIUK - New Russia Part One: The Invasion of Poland
In the SE cycle through Blue installations with your Backspace key and you will find two instances of the installation. Likewise, in the GE, clicking on the same icon twice will yield two instances.
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