From 2009 to December 2017 all the 127 remaining Taiwanese F-CK-1A/B Ching Kuo are upgraded to F-CK-1C/D Hsiang Sheng.

Between many changes:

- Intercept loadout changed from 4xTC-1 Sky Sword I (short range IR guided AAM) and 2xTC-2 Sky Sword II (medium range active radar homing AAM), to 2xTC-1 Sky Sword I (short range IR guided AAM) and 4xTC-2 Sky Sword II (medium range active radar homing AAM).

- 771 Kg more fuel, in Conformal Fuel Tanks.

- Adds TC-2A land-attack ARM.

- Improved avionics and ECM.

 

Sources:

http://www.janes.com/article/76989/rocaf-doubles-capacity-of-f-ck-1-fighter-to-carry-tien-chien-ii-aams

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-CK-1%E7%B6%93%E5%9C%8B%E8%99%9F%E6%88%B0%E9%AC%A5%E6%A9%9F

About Taiwanese missiles:

 

TC-1 Sky Sword:

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E5%8A%8D%E4%B8%80%E5%9E%8B%E9%A3%9B%E5%BD%88

Basic TC-1, IOC 1993: range=5.1/0.1?, speed=Mach 3.5/2008 knots.

Capabilities between AIM-9P4 and AIM-9L, PH/PK=55?

Some 300 built.

 

TC-2 Sky Sword:

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A9%E5%8A%8D%E4%BA%8C%E5%9E%8B%E9%A3%9B%E5%BD%88

 

Basic TC-2, IOC 1999: range=32,5/2?, speed=Mach 4/2295 knots.

PH/PK=55? (Less than 1996 AIM-120C)

Some 210 built.

 

Advanced TC-2C, IOC 2018?: range=54/1?, speed=Mach 6/3442 knots.

PH/PK=70? (less than 2018 Meteor).

 

It's also an ARM land-attack variant, called TC-2A, IOC 2015?, 22 Kg warhead, 54 nm range, Mach 4 speed?

I see Turkish base Ankara-Akinci is duplicated in the HCDB2 (51757 Red and 52259 Blue). Thanks.

The two new Chinese specialized fighter-size jammer aircrafts:

 

J-16D/JD-16: land-based, AESA radar, no IRST, ESM (wingtips), no gun, IOC perhaps 2019.

http://chinese-military-aviation.blogspot.com.es/p/attack-aircraft.html

 

J-15D/J-17/JD-15: carrier-based, AESA radar, no IRST, ESM (wingtips), no gun, canards, IOC perhaps 2020.

http://chinese-military-aviation.blogspot.com.es/p/fighters-ii.html

Add/modify some loadout with R-77-1 (#16426) to Su-30SM (#11671) (not in Su-30M2, #10465).

 

 

Other aircrafts employing R-77-1 to add are at least the Syrian MiG-29SM from 2012.

 

(Sources late in the day, I hope)

HMS Ocean commissioned 29 June 2018 as Brazilian "Atlantico" (Phalanx deleted, and four 30 mm DS30M Mk 2 added):

http://www.janes.com/article/81405/brazil-commissions-helicopter-carrier

On 12/8/2016 at 12:17 PM, broncepulido said:

In short, only four Burkes to be equipped or equipped with forward Phalanx and aft Sea RAM, SM-3 Block Ia/b BMD and probably no ESSM at this moment:

DDG 64 USS Carney, Sea RAM installed FY2016.
DDG 71 USS Ross, Sea RAM to be installed FY 2017.
DDG 75 USS Donald Cook, Sea RAM to be installed FY 2017.
DDG 78 USS Porter, Sea RAM installed FY2016, probably in November 2015, fired in February 2016.

 

On the use of SM-3 by Donald Cook, all four are updated to use them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Donald_Cook#Upgrade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carney#Upgrade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Porter_(DDG-78)#Upgrade

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ross_(DDG-71)#Upgrade

Some news the last months on this issue.

USS Roosevelt DDG-80 (Arleigh Burke Flight IIA) has replaced in Rota USS Carney DDG-64 (Flight I), and as the other BMD destroyers  there deployed, has replaced her aft Phalanx mount with a SeaRAM missile mount (at least from March 2020), but not mentioned this time in any news report. But you can see here clearly the SeaRAM mount, Apparently is the first Flight IIA with a SeaRAM mount:

https://news.usni.org/2020/03/23/uss-roosevelt-leaves-for-homeport-shift-to-spain

https://www.navy.mil/view_imagex.asp?id=316851&t=1

Later in the day I saw this details about the affected ships:

Graeme Rymill  Graeme Rymill • 4 months ago

Another three DDGs have or are scheduled to have SeaRAM installed besides the original Rota four. From the FY20 budget papers:

“ Installations include the Rota DDG SeaRAM installs on DDGs 51,64,71,75,78,79,80 and 84”

From here, in the comments:

https://news.usni.org/2020/03/23/uss-roosevelt-leaves-for-homeport-shift-to-spain

And also 5"/62 Mk45 Mod 4 replacing the previous 5"/54 gun (see the flat panels new turret).

 

 

Edited July 20, 20206 yr by broncepulido
More details later in the day, and text errors.

Indian Mirage 2000I 15 (#8500) has not any speed values introduced.

Venezuelan ship PG Constitucion #194 has max speed=12, should be 31 knots.

I think this could be of interest, QE speed apparently 32 knots:

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/hms-queen-elizabeth-exceeds-stated-maximum-speed-trials/

Casually I found this proof of clear use by USS Bunker Hill CG-55 of Standard SM-2MR Block III in 1988, and not 1990? as commonly stated. See  the 1988 PDF:

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/archives/command-operations-reports/ships/l/leyte-gulf-cg-55-i.html

 

Just another grain of salt!

Also, probably a plethora of data on this site, but also probably a lot of work!

 

Curiously only now see the Indian Navy Auxiliary Aditya is duplicated as AO (2373 entry) and as AOR (2995 entry), but by the text description is the very same ship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Aditya_(A59)

An incredible open tool for weapons and military platforms, radars and any type of military hardware:

https://armstrade.sipri.org/armstrade/page/trade_register.php

Algeria historically relevant port ID5189 Mers-el-Kebir has the erroneous  coordinates North 35º 45" East: 3º 15", should be North 35º 43' 43" West: 0º 42' 25", if not appears in middle of the Sahara desert! (verified and changed in the DB, appears now correctly in the map).

As historical sidenote for flavour sake:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Mers-el-Kébir

 

Working on an upcoming scenario, I see the "advanced" weapon entry 16448 AGM-158C LRASM (IOC B-1B 6/2018, FA-18E/F 11/2019), if equipped with (Historically accurate, apparently) guidance flags "IR/laser guidance" and also "Antiradar", doesn't work if the target is disabled and not radiating! i.e., the  IR/laser doesn't work as subsidiary and it's not "targeting". I did change my personal test DB to "only" IR/laser, and works as usual.