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ORIGINAL: x2oop

And another Pantsir destroyed in Syria by Turkish drone. I'm really suprised how badly Pantsirs perform against those drones, especially if one considers that Turkey is probably using drones armed with MAM-L which has only 8km range.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uxuLQLHH8s&feature=emb_title

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ORIGINAL: kevinkins

Thanks for posting that. A lot of players are following the developing situation in Syria and more specifically the Pantsir. No one seems to know how to use that weapon system and it appears to be a death trap to be anywhere near it. If the reports and vids are accurate ... who knows at this point.

Kevin

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ORIGINAL: Filitch
To thoughts. As we know Pantsir ammunition are 12 missiles and 1400 30-mm shells. Based on experience Pantsir already downed not only UAV, even 122-mm rocket projectiles (see Lybia, Syria). So, ANKA and Bayrakat TB2 are not hard target for Pantsir.

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ORIGINAL: Sharana
Says ZvezdaTV?

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ORIGINAL: KLAB

In the same vein ref tactics and logisitics of course your Patriots have to be in-situ and pointing in the right direction to avoid being circumvented by a known opposition cruise missile threat. It doesn't mean Patriot is not effective in context. Nor is it a wunderwaffen.

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ORIGINAL: FilitchSo once again - why SAM is single?

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One possibility for the Marines could be adapting its M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers in some way to fire MST missiles. However, the two weapons that HIMARS is presently capable of firing, 227mm artillery rockets and Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) quasi-ballistic missiles, are both substantially shorter than Tomahawk.

Separately in his testimony before Congress, Commandant Berger said that the Marines planned to integrate a ground-launched version of the smaller, shorter-range Naval Strike Missile (NSM) anti-ship cruise missile onto a derivative of HIMARS called the Remotely Operated Ground Unit Expeditionary-Fires (ROGUE-F). The present concept for ROGUE-F consists of a HIMARS launcher mounted on an unmanned chassis derived from the 4x4 Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV) tactical truck.

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ORIGINAL: Hongjian

A new large-diameter lightweight silicon carbide mirror for a spy satellie is being made. Rumors have it that it will be similiar to the GAOFEN-4, as in being a Geo Stationary Satellite, but instead of a resolution of 50m, it will have an incredible 2.5m. If deployed over the West Pacific, it could potentially monitor the entire ocean 24/7 .

http://m.news.cctv.com/2020/02/23/ARTIJyUTHM97vEV0sUpjGci4200223.shtml

[image]http://p1.img.cctvpic.com/cportal/cnews-yz/img/2020/02/23/67f8d8b3738649ac969c38c8bc577f77_16x9.jpg[/image]

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ORIGINAL: gosnold

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ORIGINAL: Hongjian

A new large-diameter lightweight silicon carbide mirror for a spy satellie is being made. Rumors have it that it will be similiar to the GAOFEN-4, as in being a Geo Stationary Satellite, but instead of a resolution of 50m, it will have an incredible 2.5m. If deployed over the West Pacific, it could potentially monitor the entire ocean 24/7 .

http://m.news.cctv.com/2020/02/23/ARTIJyUTHM97vEV0sUpjGci4200223.shtml

[image]http://p1.img.cctvpic.com/cportal/cnews-yz/img/2020/02/23/67f8d8b3738649ac969c38c8bc577f77_16x9.jpg[/image]

This mirror is not large enough for 2.5m resolution from GEO, for that you would need a 8m diameter, which would have to be deployable since it is larger than chinese rocket fairings. I would eyeball this mirror between 2m and 3, which still would give an unprecedented resolution of 10 to 7 meter from GEO.

For more on imaging from GEO, you can have a look at this

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On Marshal Shaposhnikov in 2016-plan 2020: added 2x8 3S14 UKSK vertical launchers 3K14 (Kalibr-NK guided missile complex (3M54T anti-ship missiles, 3K22 Zirkon guided missile complex (3M22 anti-ship missiles), 3M14T ship-surface missiles), 3K55-20385 Onyx guided missile complex (P-160 anti-ship missiles (3М55)), RPK 9K (91RT anti-submarine missiles) – 16 missiles) – 3R14N fire control system - instead of 1x1 100 mm AK-100, 2x4 KT-184 launhers 3K24 Uran guided missile complex (8 3M24 anti-ship missiles) instead of 2x4 launchers URPK-6 Vodopad-NK missile complex, MR-145 Lev-218-100 fire control system replaced by MR-123-02/3 Bagira, MR-760 Fregat-MA air/surface radar replaced by MR-710 Fregat-M, added 5P-30N2 Fregat-N2 air/surface search radar, added TK-25-2 complex, added R-779-28 communication complex

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The heaviest cuts, Benson said, come to aviation and heavy ground units.
“By the year 2030, the Marine Corps will see complete divestments of Law Enforcement Battalions, Tank Battalions and associated Military Occupational Specialties (MOS), and all Bridging Companies. Additionally, the Corps will reduce the number of infantry battalions from 24 to 21; artillery cannon batteries from 21 to 5; amphibious vehicle companies from 6 to 4; and reduce tilt rotor, attack, and heavy lift squadrons,” he said.