Naval and Defense News

[Dysta]

IAF is godsend, an air strike blasted Pantsir to shreds with solid evidence:

https://www.twitter.com/ShaiBenari/stat ... 3604585472

[Agiel]

Looked as if the crew was on a smoke break, with at least two missiles still in their tubes. And the placement of the vehicle at the end of a runway is a... novel AAW tactic, to say the very least.

[kevinkins]

More info on the IDF strike and on the Delilah cruise missile which may have been used in the video:

https://theaviationist.com/2018/05/10/t ... -in-syria/

[natehp]

ORIGINAL: Agiel

Looked as if the crew was on a smoke break, with at least two missiles still in their tubes. And the placement of the vehicle at the end of a runway is a... novel AAW tactic, to say the very least.

Yeah, you see someone running back towards the vehicle right before the strike. When you compare things, how much is training and how much is equipment?

[xavierv]

U.S. Navy Over-The-Horizon Weapon System Selection Expected for June

The U.S. Navy is expected to announce the winner of its Over-The-Horizon Weapon System (OTH WS) competition by the end of June. The information comes from Norwegian business newspaper Finansavisen, quoting Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy. Kennedy was visiting the Kongsberg headquarters in Norway on Monday.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... -june.html

HII Started Fabrication of the First Flight III Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer Jack H. Lucas

Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division officially started fabrication of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyer Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125). The start of fabrication signifies the first 100 tons of steel have been cut.
...
DDG 125 will be the first “Flight III” ship in the Arleigh Burke- class of destroyers. Flight III will incorporate a new Advanced Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) that will replace the existing SPY-1 radar installed on the previous DDG 51 ships.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... lucas.html

U.S. Navy Completes Lightweight Torpedo Defense Mission Module Testing

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mission Modules (MM) program announced the successful completion of two days of at-sea testing of the AN/SLQ-61 Lightweight Tow (LWT) Torpedo Defense Mission Module (TDMM), May 2.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... sting.html

First ARCIMS Unmanned Minesweeping System Handed Over to Royal Navy

An autonomous minesweeper system that can safely clear sea lanes of mines has been handed over to the Royal Navy. Following a period of successful trials the demonstrator system could go on to be used by the Royal Navy in the future to defeat the threat of modern digital mines.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... -navy.html

Russia launches Third Project 22800 Corvette Shkval - 1st one with Pantsir-M

The second serial-produced (third overall) Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette Shkval has been launched at the Pella Shipyard in the Leningrad Region in northwest Russia.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... sir-m.html

Russia's Baltic Shipyard Started Dock Trials of 33,000 tons Icebreaker Arktika

Workers of the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg in northwest Russia have completed the fitting-out of the Project 22220 versatile nuclear-powered icebreaker Arktika and started its dock trials, the shipyard’s press office said.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... ktika.html

Russian aircraft carrier to be armed with Pantsyr-M CIWS

The overhaul of the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier of project 11435 will begin in May and the vessel will be armed with new upgraded air defense, including seaborne Pantsyr-M missile guns, Russian Navy Deputy Commander-in-Chief Viktor Bursuk said.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... -ciws.html

Frigate Admiral Gorshkov arrives in northwest Russia to continue state trials
https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... rials.html

First Project 22800 Karakurt-class Corvette Uragan to Start Trials in mid-May
https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... d-may.html

Russia’s LST Landing Ship Ivan Gren Completes Acceptance Sea Trials
https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... rials.html

[Dysta]

Jane's announced 250-page report about Chinese advanced weapons in USCC website:

https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/file ... ystems.pdf

[kevinkins]

Interesting (and specific) list of Maritime Rights of Allies and “Definitive” U.S. Actions to protect those rights about half-way down the article:

https://warontherocks.com/2018/05/re-or ... challenge/

The section - No Risk no Reward - sort of sums up the tactical situation as well.

Kevin

[xavierv]

Video: China's First Home-Built Aircraft Carrier Started Sea Trials

China's first home-built aircraft carrier, known as the Type 002, set out from a dock of Dalian Shipyard, northeast China's Liaoning Province, for sea trials this morning (May 13, 2018). When commissioned, the yet to be named aircraft carrier will be the second one in the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN's) fleet.

https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.p ... rials.html

[kevinkins]

China take possession of a regimental set of S-400s:

http://www.businessinsider.com/china-ha ... rd%20Brief

"Depending on which missiles China's S-400s are equipped with, batteries in Fujian could reportedly cover all of Taiwan, while batteries placed in northern Shandong province could reach the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, over which Japan and China dispute control."

Make a difference: "What Might Be the Impact of Six New Icebreakers in the Arctic? USCG Wants Your Feedback."

http://www.knom.org/wp/blog/2018/05/11/ ... rd%20Brief

This just in:

https://www.38north.org/2018/05/punggye ... 45ffba056c

"Satellite imagery from May 7 provided the first definitive evidence that dismantlement of the test site was already well underway.[3] Several key operational support buildings, located just outside the North, West and South Portals, have been razed since our last analysis. Some of the rails for the mining carts, which had led from the tunnels to their respective spoil piles, have apparently been removed. Additionally, some carts seem to have been tipped over and/or disassembled, and several small sheds/outbuildings around the site had been removed."

[Dysta]

This news is like an ICBM flew straight into White House's window -- Trump wants to pull back ZTE ban amid trade war, because he 'cares' for Chinese workers:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/201 ... nese-jobs/

EDIT: The usual Trump-supporters in ZH have even bigger outcry. ZH editor goes super salty and about this pullout, and further draw confusions amongst themselves whom is the biggest threat in the world (except Trump and USA in their perspective):

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05- ... rescue-zte

[Hongjian]

Sounds like a Great Bargain.
China will pull back its tariffs on US pork and wine.

[Dysta]

ORIGINAL: Hongjian

Sounds like a Great Bargain.
China will pull back its tariffs on US pork and wine.

This guy has answered in regard to the general reactions:

"It's always fun to see the diehard Trump supporters justify this complete about-face from Trump's earlier position. It destroys the Iran sanctions argument, it directly contradicts his argument about Chinese jobs and goes against the whole MAGA thing (by propping up Chinese corporations). It's opposite day, and the people tying themselves in knots justifying this are once again highlighting their lack of integrity." - Gary Patterson

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Also, the second Chinese carrier also installed FQF-6000 on each sides, but why there is not even one person or report had stated they can launch anti-torpedo rockets? TheDrive's article about it has drawn lots of comments about how to sink it with torpedoes, and nobody saying it's a 'sitting duck' who would love some torps for lunch:

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/20 ... e-h-w-bush

And according to Henri's report, the new carrier also installed many anti-diver dispensers too:

[kevinkins]

The ultimate rhetorical question:

https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia ... rd%20Brief

[Dysta]

Pro-gun and anti-gun topics are capable to capsized the president and candidates' credibilities. But what about pro-drone and anti-drone?

Major amount of comments whom downvoted are accused by empathizing Russian and Chinese drones developments to equalize US military superiority, but so are the people whom saying US is already so powerful that even without drones can be challenged. An irony however, is the major amounts of liberal supporters suggest to develop other measures to counter drones because of the civil abuses rather than military threats:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/05 ... e-program/

[IainMcNeil]

ORIGINAL: Hongjian

If negotiators want to insult China, they better save their breathe. An expected disagreement seals the fate of trade war's encroachment:

https://mobile.twitter.com/HenriKenhman ... 9102244864

I think demands like that are not aimed at trade war, but real war.



If the demands included that every Chinese should pay the US 1000 dollars a year and that China should stop STEM education at their universities, it wouldnt look out of place. Might also add the demand that China should import million tons of Opium per year from US-owned poppy fields in Afghanistan for good measure...

Demands like these arent "negotiating". Demands like these are typically followed by an ultimatum and threat of all-out war.

Looks like "Made in China 2025" really is the bane to the Western world. Understandable, since the entire West is threatened to loose their lifelihoods and markets once China can churn out comparable high technology at cheaper prices due to state support enabled by China's political and economic system. China would truly be a Japan+USSR on steroids, unstoppable by US enforced Plaza Accords (because unlike Japan, China isnt occupied by US troops), unable to be brought down by the lack of it's own ecoomic growth and lack of consumer goods (because unlike the USSR, China's economy isnt just growing, but the individual chinese purchasing power is also growing)... The sum of all western fears.

Guys this is politics and this is not permitted on the forum. There are plenty of places to discuss this, but here is not one of them.

[kevinkins]

Thanks for reminding us so kindly. Our enthusiasm for defense news will at times cross over into geopolitics (trade and shipping lanes) and then wander into straight politics were a player's non-defense related philosophies take over.

Kevin

[Dysta]

I would like to cite more military hardware news from Chinese news sites, but given by their increasingly absurd tones and not everybody can understand Chinese, I have difficulty to find these sources in English either.

And some of my non-military news are serving as tangents, which I must say it does induce some political and philosophical perspectives in it. I find it not all players would buy what they said, let alone making a scenario about it.

I will slow down and looking for translational solutions instead of quick-posting, I must admit here and apologize.

[kevinkins]

Symbolic bridge linking Crimea with Russia over the Kerch Strait opened by Vladimir Putin:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/crimea-bri ... 018-05-15/

Nice target for JASSM-ER.

[AlGrant]

I knew they had problems but didn't realise the Argentine navy/airforce was in such a bad condition

"After a significant period of decline, Argentina has ceased to be a capable military force."
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/argentina-has-now-ceased-to-be-a-capable-military-power/

[Dysta]

Sudanese Air Force has received 5 FTC-2000 trainers, originally called JL-9 used by PLAAF:

http://www.janes.com/article/80108/suda ... ets-arrive
http://www.aviationanalysis.net/2018/05 ... ghter.html