Agiel's all things military

[obyknven]

Best army in the world. Someday they will  liberate entire world.

http://youtu.be/JLaVV-im8Ws

[obyknven]

Murikan military forces have some pain.

http://usdefensewatch.com/2015/11/the-kool-aid-kings-and-queens-of-the-pentagon/

 

 

It seems nearly every day that the Pentagon is talking to the American people in double, triple and quadruple speak. The truth is a fugitive, on the run from numerous admirals, generals and cabinet members who distort reality and who are sucking down enough Kool Aid to fill Chesapeake Bay.

According to the Pentagon, the air war against ISIS is successful, combat in Iraq is non-combat, women can make it through Navy SEAL training and 50 Special Forces soldiers can retake Syria.

Who’s running the Pentagon now, Charlie Sheen?
 

Sad story.

[Gfted1]

The U.S. Military Is Finally Testing Shotgun-Based 'Force Field' Technology.

[Gorth]

The U.S. Military Is Finally Testing Shotgun-Based 'Force Field' Technology.

I've always thought relying on "armour" (passive defenses) was inferiour to active defenses. A lesson that battleships learnt the hard way.

[Agiel]

France's DCNS Clinches SEA1000 Future Submarine Program Contract for Royal Australian Navy

 

Shortfin Barracuda Block 1A. Image: DCNS

 

Australia's Prime Minister today announced that the next generation of submarines for Australia will be constructed at the Adelaide shipyard, securing thousands of jobs and ensuring the project will play a key part in the transition of our economy. DCNS of France has been selected as the preferred international partner for the design of the 12 Future Submarines, subject to further discussions on commercial matters.

 

The Future Submarine project is the largest and most complex defence acquisition Australia has ever undertaken. It will be a vital part of [Australia's] Defence capability well into the middle of this century.

 

This $50 billion investment will directly sustain around 1,100 Australian jobs and a further 1,700 Australian jobs through the supply chain.

 

Today’s announcement follows the comprehensive Competitive Evaluation Process (CEP) involving DCNS, TKMS of Germany and the Government of Japan. Each bidder submitted very high quality proposals and the Australian Government takes this opportunity to thank both TKMS and the Government of Japan for their ongoing commitment to Australia and their participation in the process.

 

The process was overseen by an independent Expert Advisory Panel, chaired by former Secretary of the United States Navy, Professor Donald Winter. It was peer reviewed by Vice Admiral Paul Sullivan USN (retired) and Rear Admiral Thomas Eccles USN (retired).

 

This decision was driven by DCNS’s ability to best meet all of Australia's unique capability requirements. These included superior sensor performance and stealth characteristics, as well as range and endurance similar to the Collins Class submarine. The Government’s considerations also included cost, schedule, program execution, through-life support and Australian industry involvement.

 

Subject to discussions on commercial matters, the design of the Future Submarine with DCNS will begin this year.

 

 

DCNS was competing with the Shortfin Barracuda design against TKMS' Type 216 and Japan's Soryu class designs. Based on the French Navy Barracuda SSN currently in final stage of construction, the Shortfin Barracuda is 3 meters shorter (94 meters) and 200 tons lighter (4,500 tons).

 

The two submarines share the same hull but DCNS further improved some aspects of the Shortfin Barracuda Block 1A hull shape in order to maintain the impressive speed and maneuverability qualities expected with the next SSN of the French Navy. Both are fitted with X-shape rudders which provides better handling to the submarine while surfaced and underwater. The "pump jet" allows for higher speed before the onset of cavitation and lower acoustic signature.

 

Last year, the French Navy Barracuda Program Manager told Navy Recognition: "The Barracuda is a major capability investment for the Defense reflecting France's will to maintain its naval power status for the next fifty years. This new submarine will contribute to the deterrence strategy and to the use of conventional means in power projection or intelligence-gathering contexts. Therefore, it will act both as a power projection tool and as a warship". "The Barracuda received many technology transfers from the SSBN and some further developments that should give it a very high discretion, no comparison to the Rubis class. The stealth objectives of the new SSN are very close to those of the current SSBNs [ed. note: Le Triomphant class]."

Edited April 27, 2016 by Agiel

[Zoraptor]

Can't be worse than their last lot of subs. Collins class were utter trash and made the not great ANZAC frigates look fantastic in comparison.

 

Not that we should criticise, most of our navy has been tied up in harbour since January.

[Darkpriest]

this article and vid give some food for thought... i think that within 50-80 years China will be the global military leader. Looking how quickly they have advanced in the last 30 years it is not too far fetched.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scramble-fighter-pilots-chinese-air-144821642.html

[Rostere]

 

Probably not the most popular thing to say, but the US needs to upgrade their nuclear weapons programme badly...

[Agiel]

The Air Force is supposed to submit proposals for a Minuteman III replacement soon, but frankly if they're smart they'll drop silo-based ICBMs (after all, everyone knows where they are) and go all-in with the B-21 and LRSO (there's indications that they might be contemplating just that; there's whispers of doubling the current order of 100 B-21s). With bombers, leaders have the luxury of recalling them if the situation calls for it, they can still deliver weapons the most accurately of all the legs of the triad (try putting 50 kilotons on a dime with any other weapon), are basically the only way to hunt down mobile ICBMs like the SS-25 Sickle, have the best cost-to-yield ratio, and can still serve in the conventional role to boot. In the missile game, besides simultaneous launch capability (not that useful, in my opinion) there's absolutely nothing the old Minuteman's can do that the Trident IIs on the Ohio SSBNs can't do better (they're probably slightly more accurate than Minuteman III, making the old argument that SLBMs can't be used against counterforce targets like hardened command bunkers, missile silos, and airfields moot). Consider how half of US warheads are on subs, more than 25% are allocated for bombers, and the remainder on land-based ICBMs and the retirement of the ICBM leg isn't going to be too huge of a loss for those who believe in minimum deterrence.

Edited May 3, 2016 by Agiel

[obyknven]

Moderate terrorists (al-Qaeda) start offensive in Aleppo. Firstly they send suicide bomber + tanks/infantry in second wave.

http://youtu.be/noiW5lQHI1M

 

Russian outpost in Palmyra

http://youtu.be/wiQM_-JL9as

[obyknven]

Murika stronk!

[obyknven]

East Ukrainian rebels celebrate WW2 victory. Military parades in...

 

Donetsk People Republic

http://youtu.be/TvcFBOCOoeI

 

and Lugansk People Republic

http://youtu.be/8B_6BH5PWfU

[obyknven]

_{And military parade in Third Rome as usual.}

http://youtu.be/X1qHrYil9l4

[BruceVC]

_{And military parade in Third Rome as usual.}

http://youtu.be/X1qHrYil9l4

Hi Oby "waves " 

 

Where you been?

[Meshugger]

"Satan 2" to be introduced: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russias_New_ICBM_Sarmat_can_penetrate_defense_shield_wipe_out_Texas_999.html

 

Nevermind the the dubious link, is it even technologically possible or financially feasible for this to exist outside of propaganda? I am no expert in ballistics or aeroneutical engineering to refute or understand this completely.

[obyknven]

"Satan 2" to be introduced: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russias_New_ICBM_Sarmat_can_penetrate_defense_shield_wipe_out_Texas_999.html

 

Nevermind the the dubious link, is it even technologically possible or financially feasible for this to exist outside of propaganda? I am no expert in ballistics or aeroneutical engineering to refute or understand this completely.

 

"Satan 2" to be introduced: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russias_New_ICBM_Sarmat_can_penetrate_defense_shield_wipe_out_Texas_999.html

 

Nevermind the the dubious link, is it even technologically possible or financially feasible for this to exist outside of propaganda? I am no expert in ballistics or aeroneutical engineering to refute or understand this completely.

Psst. Russia can sterilize entire panet from any presence of life,  and your link above is not about such secret weapon.  "Satan 2" is just ordinary Russian nukes and all information about  this weapon in your sorce looks correct. Yep, Murika/Nato have so backward  technologies.

[Meshugger]

 

"Satan 2" to be introduced: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russias_New_ICBM_Sarmat_can_penetrate_defense_shield_wipe_out_Texas_999.html

 

Nevermind the the dubious link, is it even technologically possible or financially feasible for this to exist outside of propaganda? I am no expert in ballistics or aeroneutical engineering to refute or understand this completely.

 

"Satan 2" to be introduced: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russias_New_ICBM_Sarmat_can_penetrate_defense_shield_wipe_out_Texas_999.html

 

Nevermind the the dubious link, is it even technologically possible or financially feasible for this to exist outside of propaganda? I am no expert in ballistics or aeroneutical engineering to refute or understand this completely.

Psst. Russia can sterilize entire panet from any presence of life,  and your link above is not about such secret weapon.  "Satan 2" is just ordinary Russian nukes and all information about  this weapon in your sorce looks correct. Yep, Murika/Nato have so backward  technologies.

 

 

Don't worry, i know that our love is inpenetrable to any missile and it will conquer all in the end.

 

Joking aside, i didn't claim that it was a secret weapon. Rather I am interested in the part of multiple warheads having the capability for the following:

 

 

Sarmat warheads will have an array of advanced antimissile countermeasures meant to penetrate the US ABM shield.

 

How?

Edited May 11, 2016 by Meshugger

[obyknven]

 

Sarmat warheads will have an array of advanced antimissile countermeasures meant to penetrate the US ABM shield.

 

How?

 

Soviet Technology from 80s.  Traitor Gorbachev cancel these projects, but Russians continue these researches anyway. Actually these warheads are not warheads, Russian military forces used term combat manevruable blocks - it's some sort of drones, stealthy and deadly.

http://youtu.be/Ow7NAFdWo3E

 

http://youtu.be/-tTqLc3g3fY

 

And this is so old technology (we watch such tracks on sky in times when USSR still alive) - do imagine how retarded Murika really is

[Agiel]

"Satan 2" to be introduced: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russias_New_ICBM_Sarmat_can_penetrate_defense_shield_wipe_out_Texas_999.html

 

Nevermind the the dubious link, is it even technologically possible or financially feasible for this to exist outside of propaganda? I am no expert in ballistics or aeroneutical engineering to refute or understand this completely.

 

A singe weapon to wipe out Texas would have to be in the gigaton range. Theoretically it's possible to fission-fusion-fission... ad infinitum to get to that yield, but then you run into the problem of trying to get that physics package into a militarily deployable size. For instance, if we assumed a weapon that matched the weight-to-yield efficiency of the most efficient weapon ever developed  the B41, which had a weight to yield ratio of 5kt per kg, then to get to a gigaton would require a weapon that weighed 200 metric tons, obviously impossible to mount on an ICBM.

 

I'm also not entirely sure it makes a ton of strategic sense to for Russia to try and replace the SS-18 Satan (Russia has effectively lost the ability to sustain that program since the rocket was developed in... you guessed it, Ukraine) with an entirely new system rather than replace that capability with existing prolific and mature weapons like SS-25 (Bulava? Different story). Sarmat would ostensibly only be replacing 46 missiles, at which point it simply doesn't make sense in regards to economies of scale. But hey, who am I to try and stop Putin to lose his new Cold War the same way the USSR lost the last one.

Edited May 12, 2016 by Agiel

[Raithe]

And for those big spenders out there...

 

Buy your own aircraft carrier

 

 

 

If you've been dying to get a bumper sticker that says "My other car is an aircraft carrier," then now's the time to open the checkbook. The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence just happens to have a recently retired carrier for sale.

 

Illustrious was third of the Invincible class of helicopter carriers. At 686 feet long and 22,000 tons fully loaded, the Invincibles had full-length flight decks and a ski ramp to launch Sea Harrier jump jets. Built to escort convoys across the Atlantic in a World War III scenario, the ships could carry up to a dozen Sea Harriers and ten helicopters. 

 

Illustrious served the Royal Navy for 32 years but was retired in 2014, a victim of budget cuts. Currently moored in Portsmouth Harbor, she's been emptied out in anticipation of the sale. The ship currently displaces 17,000 tons and still has her massive twin 15-foot-diameter bronze propellers, as well as her six Rolls Royce Olympus marine gas turbine engines. The hull is described as being in "good" condition (though we all know what "good" really means on the used vehicle market).

 

The carrier's flat top has been demilitarized, so don't count on getting her three Goalkeeper gatling guns or her pair of 20-millimeter cannons. Or any aircraft, for that matter—the U.S. Marines bought all the Harriers for spare parts and the helicopters will find new homes on HMS Queen Elizabeth, a new carrier set to enter service in 2017. 

 

 

One curious note: the Ministry of Defense intends to remove "material coatings" from the upper hull and superstructure before transferring ownership, and it warns this action will make the ship pretty darn ugly. Whatever those coatings do, the MoD doesn't want them passing into strange hands. Could it be something like an anti-radar coating, in order to reduce the ship's radar signature?

 

The Ministry of Defense handout says the ship is "for recycling only", meaning the buyer is expected to scrap it. Wink-wink. Obviously, HMS Illustrious is just begging to be turned into the world's largest private yacht. Think of it as a super-sized version of this oil-rig hauler turned into a "luxurious toy for the ultra-rich."

 

Alternately, if you're feeling patriotic and your country has never before had an aircraft carrier, you could buy it with the stated intention of turning it into a casino. That's what the Hong Kong-based Chung Lot Travel Agency did in 1998 with the junked Soviet carrier Riga, only to have it mysteriously become the Chinese Navy's first aircraft carrier, Liaoning. 

Interested parties must file with Her Majesty's Government by May 23, with a viewing scheduled in June. You're going to need a bank guarantee of $2.8 million to convince the government you're a serious player. If you win, you'll never have to convince anyone you're a player ever again.

 

Edited May 11, 2016 by Raithe

[Meshugger]

 

"Satan 2" to be introduced: http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russias_New_ICBM_Sarmat_can_penetrate_defense_shield_wipe_out_Texas_999.html

 

Nevermind the the dubious link, is it even technologically possible or financially feasible for this to exist outside of propaganda? I am no expert in ballistics or aeroneutical engineering to refute or understand this completely.

 

A singe weapon to wipe out Texas would have to be in the gigaton range. Theoretically it's possible to fission-fusion-fission... ad infinitum to get to that yield, but then you run into the problem of trying to get that physics package into a militarily deployable size. For instance, if we assumed a weapon that matched the weight-to-yield efficiency of the most efficient weapon ever developed  the B41, which had a weight to yield ratio of 5kt per kg, then to get to a gigaton would require a weapon that weighed 200 metric tons, obviously impossible to mount on an ICBM.

 

I'm also not entirely sure it makes a ton of strategic sense to for Russia to try and replace the SS-18 Satan (Russia has effectively lost the ability to sustain that program since the rocket was developed in... you guessed it, Ukraine) with an entirely new system rather than replace that capability with existing prolific and mature weapons like SS-25 (Bulava? Different story). Sarmat would ostensibly only be replacing 46 missiles, at which point it simply doesn't make sense in regards to economies of scale. But hey, who am I to try and stop Putin to lose his new Cold War the same way the USSR lost the last one.

 

 

Thanks!

[obyknven]

 

Russia has effectively lost the ability to sustain that program since the rocket was developed in... you guessed it, Ukraine

 

Lol, that missile developed in USSR, Ukrainian rednecks can't into space science. 

[obyknven]

Deus Volt!

 

http://youtu.be/ixltimlD9UM

[Gfted1]

US missile defense site opens in Romania; Russia cries foul.

 

[Raithe]

For that pop culture aspect of an aware military...

 

Army confirms that Captain America would be eligible for 66 years worth of back pay

 

 

 

Here’s the funny thing about Captain America–he was technically never relieved of duty post-World War II. So if he went into the ice still a Captain, and woke up in 2011, as Captain America: The First Avenger suggested… would he qualify for back pay?

According to the Army, he sure would.

 

The point was brought up by a Reddit user who did some math after a funny conversation with his girlfriend:

Also, there is an biannual increase of pay for service with a pay cap at 22 years with no increase of specialized pay or living allowance. Now provided that they kept him at the 1945 pay scale, for the 22 years after that, he would have received a total of $81,684 plus the previous $5,952 giving him a grand total of $87,636.

Now, provided that they kept the pay scale constant for the 66 years after, and they thawed him out in 2011 and immediately returned him to active duty with current Commission (which they did), adjusted for inflation, the government owes him the back pay amount of $3,154,619.52.

 

Whoa. With so many fans fascinated by the possibility, Army spokesman Wayne Hall sent an email explaining that the theory was mostly correct:

“If Capt. Steve Rogers (aka Captain America) were not a fictional character and the circumstances surrounding his disappearance and recovery actually real, he may actually be entitled to receive back pay. However, a wide variety of variables would have to be taken into consideration to actually calculate the true amount of back pay to which he would be entitled to receive.”

 

He went on to clarify that the original poster had actually miscalculated the original amount that Cap would have made in a year; he had stated that the O-3 pay grade in 1945 for someone with two years or less experience was $313.50 a quarter–but it was actually $313.50 a month. So the back pay calculated was low, by the original estimation.

Point being… Steve Rogers should be a millionaire now. Sort of.