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Fact or Fiction: Next-Generation Air Dominance Aircraft “Flies”
COMMENTMethinks the US Air Force is unprofessionally cheerleading and stretching definitions of having “flown” a Next-Generation Air Dominance aircraft, until proven otherwise. The USAF has then...
View ArticleSoryu and New Japanese Submarine Class Table
Anonymous kindly provided many details on September 23 to 29, 2020, regarding diesel generators (diesels) and Lithium-ion Batteries (LIBs) for Japan's newest submarines. I have noted these changes in...
View ArticleUS Distracted Over Trump's Illness - Other Nations Take Advantage?
When there is this kind of crisis some countries feel they can take advantage of US "peacemaking". Usually the US Lame-duck presidential period presents opportunities, but a very ill US President even...
View ArticleTrump Exposes His Staff in Drive-By
Trump's joyride on, October 4th, to wave to supporters outside Walter Reed Hospital, shocked health experts and other sensible people. Trump reasons, that as he is The Boss, normal quarantine measures,...
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Electrical Propulsion Costs: Soryu Mk IIs & New "3,000t" Class
Following “Soryu and New Japanese Submarine Class Table” of September 30, 2020 Anonymous, on October 4, 2020, advised [with some word changes by Pete for improved English]:The price of new SLH LIBs for...
View ArticleNew Supersonic FIGHTER Tech for 6th Gen NGAD Aircraft
In answer to Benjamin's Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Aircraft, specifically Fighter question of October 4, 2020.I'd say, as the US is still at the beginning of the process of operationally...
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Australia's APDR Reports on naval Exercise SINGAROO
Australia’s Asia-Pacific Defence Reporter (APDR)released an interesting article, on September 29, 2020, about a less known bilateral activity, see...
View ArticleHow can small ASW vessels find a Submarine?
This short 6 minute, September 2020, "sub brief" Youtube at https://youtu.be/LWM259XA19I and below:concerns the 1,000 ton Grisha-class ASW corvettes built by the Soviet Union, 1970-1990, and then by...
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Singapore-Australia Exercise Activities
Shawn C. made some very interesting comments on October 8, 2020 [with further comments added by Pete in [...] brackets] :The [Republic of Singapore Navy] RSN had a video [lasting 2 minutes called "Look...
View ArticleChina's Invasion of Taiwan Drill Video - Oct 10/11, 2020
VIDEOThis is the 2 minute, 30 second Chinese video (carried by China's CCTV and also Global Times) here https://youtu.be/DPp_Guk3GEc "Joint multidimensional landing drill conducted in sea areas of East...
View ArticleLEU More Acceptable for South Korean Nuclear Submarines
Nuclear propulsion gives ballistic missile submarines significant strategic and tactical advantages. So, facing a nuclear armed North Korea, South Korea is displaying the signs of seeking such a...
View ArticleJapan names new "Taigei" (Big Whale) Submarine Class
The Japan Times reports on October 14, 2020, in MHI's Kobe shipyard, Japan launched and named the first of a new class of submarine. Following my September 29, 2020 prediction that "the New Class would...
View ArticleSoviet ASW Helicopter Tactics
"Jive" of Sub Brief gives a briefing on Soviet ASW Helicopter Tactics in the Youtube here https://youtu.be/eBxXIwJCjv4 and above.The helicopters illustrated are Kamov Ka-25 Hormones especially...
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Inside Japan's New Taigei Submarine in English, Security?
Torpedo Counter Measure (TCM) System Command Non-Hull...
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Number of Batteries in Japan's new Taigei submarine.
More than the 640 likely LIB battery modules on Taigei and the Soryu Mk IIs (Oryu and Toryu) is possible, although evidence on this is not definite. Maybe 3 x 240 = 720 in bottom decks is possible....
View ArticleIndonesia rejectse US request to host P-8 ASW & EW planes at Natuna
Reuters reports, October 20, 2020: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-usa-exclusive/exclusive-indonesia-rejected-u-s-request-to-host-spy-planes-officials-idUSKBN2750KX
View ArticleJapan maintains Plutonium stockpile: Useful for Nuclear Weapons
PETE COMMENTIt appears Japan has maintained a large Plutonium stockpile because Plutonium, being the most common, modern, nuclear explosive, gives Japan a future option of a nuclear weapons...
View ArticleNaval Group to repair French ‘Perle’ SSN damaged by fire
By chopping Perle in half! See https://www.defensenews.com/smr/euronaval/2020/10/22/naval-group-will-repair-french-perle-nuclear-sub-damaged-by-fire/
View Article"Jive's" Sub Brief: India's INS Arihant class SSBN Project
"Jive" (an ex-USN electronic warfare (sonar) specialist submariner through to the 2000s) here https://youtu.be/stoYRQKhKtQ and below provides a briefing on India's nuclear submarine Arihant...
View ArticleComparing China's and the US's Combat Power
I think Australia’s ABCNews video title “How China is flexing its military muscle under the rule of Chinese President Xi Jinping” is off the mark.Also ABC’s comparison of China and US power shows...
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