Military Thread: Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron

[Malcador 7,171]

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/nov/19/australian-special-forces-involved-in-of-39-afghan-civilians-war-crimes-report-alleges

Australian SAS giving the SEALs competition for out of control SF.

[Zoraptor 3,459]

Scott Morrison gave Lukashenko a run for his money on press suppression before hand. Always the best way to deal with war crimes, raid the offices of those reporting on them and nick all their documents, just a shame from their POV that the documentary was already broadcast.

(There were also accusations that the NZ SAS committed war crimes, and the journalist who exposed them had previously been raided by the police for 'receiving hacked documents', when he published a book embarrassing to our then PM John Key. Those accusations were a lot less overtly war crimey than the Australian ones though, and the inquiry we eventually got when the government changed to one less angry at Nicky Hager could not determine that any war crimes happened, or that they weren't done by the US instead. It did establish that the Ministry of Defence and politicians lied consistently though)

[Gfted1 5,873]

Watch This F-35 Drop a B61 Nuclear Bomb in 'Historic' First.

[Gfted1 5,873]

These 3 companies will build prototypes for the Air Force’s Skyborg drone.

[Darkpriest 729]

https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2464776/afrl-demonstrates-first-ever-collaborative-weapon-technologies/

 

Anyone else can put some more in layman's words, whats the actual impact of such a weapon? 

[Gfted1 5,873]

SDB's (small diameter bombs) have a smaller warhead so they produce less collateral damage, and many more can be carried per aircraft.

[kanisatha 496]

5 hours ago, Darkpriest said:

https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2464776/afrl-demonstrates-first-ever-collaborative-weapon-technologies/

 

Anyone else can put some more in layman's words, whats the actual impact of such a weapon? 

Sometimes you want multiple targets to be hit exactly at the same time, or hit in a particular sequence.

But my understanding from other reports I've read is it isn't working as well as they need it to work, at least at this stage of development.

Btw, a version of the SDB has no warhead, and its destructive power is entirely kinetic.

[Gfted1 5,873]

6 minutes ago, kanisatha said:

Btw, a version of the SDB has no warhead, and its destructive power is entirely kinetic.

Needs ginsu blades.

[kanisatha 496]

On 1/15/2021 at 10:35 AM, Gfted1 said:

Needs ginsu blades.

Heh, guess what? There is a version that deploys blades too. Has been used against terrorist targets.

[Gfted1 5,873]

Yeah but thats a Hellfire variant R9X. The GBU-39 has a much longer range (with its glide wings) and is silent (no propulsion).

[kanisatha 496]

23 hours ago, Gfted1 said:

Yeah but thats a Hellfire variant R9X. The GBU-39 has a much longer range (with its glide wings) and is silent (no propulsion).

Oh right, yeah that's a Hellfire variant. Would be interesting to add it to the GBU-39.

[kanisatha 496]

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a35205969/navy-new-constellation-class-frigates/

These ships look really good. Bigger and more heavily armed than destroyers in most navies. And love how they're being named, moving away from the stupid and silly naming conventions of late.

[Zoraptor 3,459]

After the Zumwalts anything would be an improvement, including the original Constellation.

Got to say, reduced rcs warships are without exception really, really, ugly. Not exactly a massive practical consideration, of course...