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RE: Naval and Defense News - 9/24/2017 9:25:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		M3.4 near NK nuclear test site. China was suspected it is another nuclear test, but South Korean scismologists concluded its a natural cause from previous test:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/earthquake-north-korea-sparks-fears-114900142.html

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 9/25/2017 3:55:06 AM   
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fighter-pilot-killed-after-typhoon-11230971

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Geostationary observatory satellite Fengyun-4 is officially in service. Also it captured the Earth picture as a replacement for WeChat’s loading screen, previous one is from NASA:

http://3g.china.com/act/news/945/20170925/31512830.html (Simplified Chinese)

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 9/26/2017 3:21:14 PM   
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http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2112780/live-fire-show-force-troops-chinas-first-overseas?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%209.26.2017&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 9/27/2017 12:36:36 AM   
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USS Nimitz (CVN 68) completed its 100,000th aircraft launch from Catapult Two Sept. 25, marking the second time, since the ship’s commissioning in 1975, that that milestone has been achieved.

https://nimitznews.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/nimitz-completes-historic-100000th-catapult-shot/


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RE: Naval and Defense News - 9/27/2017 5:36:53 AM   
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An active pearl in the string now:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2112780/live-fire-show-force-troops-chinas-first-overseas?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%209.26.2017&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief

As expected, many journalists cold-watering Chinese foreign military deployment, not because of the marine camo:

http://www.snafu-solomon.com/2017/09/chinese-naval-infantry-on-djibouti.html
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-26/china-conducts-first-ever-live-fire-military-drill-its-first-overseas-military-base-

UPDATE: Recent news about PLA in Djibouti is planning to build a naval base as well. PLAN is still has to dock warships at commercial ports:

http://m.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2112926/china-plans-build-djibouti-facility-allow-naval

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 9/28/2017 3:00:05 PM   
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcETgSM_AAY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0clZuHO0s8 (interview)

http://www.eastpendulum.com/drone-ch-5-teste-deux-nouvelles-armes-guidees (French, specifications)

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 9/29/2017 3:25:49 AM   
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Status: offline 		Forbes has militarily reported China’s first commercial amphibious drone, because of its substantial cargo capacity:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2017/09/28/a-high-end-drone-will-help-beijing-expand-in-the-disputed-south-china-sea/#3ab8f0935247
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/tech/2017-09/26/content_32490302.htm

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 9/29/2017 3:10:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		SpaceX’s planned rocketry traveling could be the most brutal way to get passengers to the other side of the planet, with extreme speed no other vehicles IRL could achieve. This may sounds like the biggest trolling attempt to Chinese/Russian aerospace and anti-ballistic defenses, but it also make me rethink some ‘threatening’ technology can be used peacefully.

If rocket transports revolutionize into common method of long distance travel, the efficiency could be more beneficial than airliners:

https://youtu.be/zqE-ultsWt0

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 9/30/2017 4:20:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		"Recent commercial satellite imagery from September 1 and 21, indicates that North Korea continues to work on its second submersible ballistic missile test stand barge at the Nampo Navy Shipyard on the country’s west coast."

http://www.38north.org/2017/09/nampo092817/

And this is pretty wild ...

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/seabreacher-watercraft-jet-ski-submarine

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/1/2017 4:17:26 PM   
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Status: offline 		There is something identical to the underwater ‘fighter’, is the tiny size with some small weapons. The WWII-era Italian SDV has that structure, and many other derivatives tend to arm it with 2 small torps, or becomes a transport for SCUBA-ops. However, smaller means short-legged, and it’s not as fast as a nuclear submarine for chasing. Some powerful jet propulsion could be useful to improve the design.

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Meanwhile, an alleged clear photo of J-20 with 2 WS-10 engines conducted maiden flight was emerged right at China’s 68th anniversary day:



https://mobile.twitter.com/HenriKenhmann/status/914486691779497986

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/2/2017 1:54:30 PM   
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Wonder how much it will improve rearward RCS.

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/3/2017 12:34:04 PM   
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Reaper shot down. Video footage.

Interesting read:
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinas-secret-military-plan-invade-taiwan-2020/

"Any attempt by the Chinese military to take the island will be difficult and costly, the book says. The island has rough, mountainous terrain that has created a wind tunnel effect in the strait that produces very difficult weather for carrying troop and weapons transports, both air and sea."

Never heard of the wind tunnel effect. Something designers might want to consider.



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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/3/2017 4:31:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		I read Chinese, and I searched “風洞效應” on Google, none were about PLA invasion but the acuted damage from typhoon. Basically, Taiwan is quite mountainous and if either north or south tailwind sweeping at the island, the coming wind will act like a powerful fan blowing alongside a wall. The closer to the wall/mountain, the stronger of the wind.

But as described, only typhoon-level of strong wind could do that. I doubt PLA will take typhoon as a signal of assault.

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/3/2017 8:17:06 PM   
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https://theaviationist.com/2017/10/03/russian-il-76-candid-modified-to-support-special-operations-conducts-flight-test-over-the-black-sea/

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/4/2017 7:09:06 PM   
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https://uk.news.yahoo.com/china-calls-closer-military-ties-190350920.html

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/7/2017 3:13:22 AM   
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Status: offline 		Even the post-911 conspiracies lingers, readers are more worried about the tech leak by selling THAAD to Saudi Arabia, even though Russia and China are already developing their own BMDs:

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/us-sell-15-bn-thaad-195444896.html

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/7/2017 11:42:06 AM   
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https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/05/saudi-king-visits-russia-as-billion-dollar-deals-on-the-table.html

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/7/2017 2:27:24 PM   
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https://bmpd.livejournal.com/2881302.html

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/7/2017 3:03:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		Wow, THAAD and S-400... are aliens going to invade them? I mean, there's yet to assume nuke is the imminent danger to Saudi, neither Iran nor Israel have that mood for it.

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/8/2017 6:49:56 PM   
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Status: offline 		Speaking of ‘imminent threat’, nothing but ballistic missiles can draw as much attention as nukes do. Recently CCTV has allegedly reported the massive, 30 meter diameter of P-band fixed radar to be stationed and developed on Shandong. It is yet to determine whether P-band is the alternative meaning of UHF, or the short of “Previous Bandwidth”, or K-band.

UPDATE: CCTV does also mentions this P-band version of PAVE PAW is designed for ABM, as Henri suggested:

https://photo.sina.cn/album_8_38692_56982.htm (Simplified Chinese)
http://www.eastpendulum.com/antimissile-1er-radar-dalerte-avancee-operationnel (French, with several pictures)
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/china-ballistic-missiles-and-nuclear-arms-thread.t5881/page-234#post-476565 (Translated)

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/9/2017 4:14:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		This news is very likely a bluff, but what if Royal Navy must declare war to NK, and send Queen Elizabeth to immediate service, what kind of aircrafts and loadouts will be used, aside from a full fleet of F-35B that aren’t available yet?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/britain-apos-prepares-war-north-031737023.html

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/9/2017 8:53:56 AM   
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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/10/2017 12:39:50 PM   
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Irresponsible? Ceremonial? Probably both if it ever happens.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/10/09/russia-remains-the-greatest-near-term-threat-to-the-us-intel-official-says/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%2010.10.2017&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief

The USN might have another POV.


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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/10/2017 3:05:32 PM   
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Wow, THAAD and S-400... are aliens going to invade them? I mean, there's yet to assume nuke is the imminent danger to Saudi, neither Iran nor Israel have that mood for it.

Yemeni Houthis love to send some lovely presents to the Saudis.

"Yemeni forces fire Qaher-2 ballistic missile at Saudi Arabia’s Jizan region"
https://twitter.com/BREAKING_PTV/status/917534805306339329

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/10/2017 5:34:06 PM   
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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/10/2017 6:18:32 PM   
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Anyone got some info on the Qaher-2? I assume it's locally made?


According to some sources Qaher family missiles are local modifications of SA-2 missiles. Like Tondar-69 system.
https://youtu.be/VwgTGElOHdY

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/10/2017 6:20:10 PM   
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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/11/2017 10:36:39 AM   
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Status: offline 		Non-military. Bombardier was charged for CS-series sales dump by Boeing in May 2017 has a twist behind them: it was China’s involvement to Canadian aerospace industries.

Many comments feared of Boeing may eat Bombardier to curb narrow-body aircraft competitons. But after this article comes out, their opinions turned in full-opposite as they glad to see Boeing stands up to COMAC with protectionism:

http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/opinion-why-boeing-s-charge-bombardier-dumping-doesn-t-add (Sales dump charge)
http://aviationweek.com/commercial-aviation/opinion-why-boeing-vs-bombardier-really-about-china (Chinese involvement)

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/11/2017 1:09:09 PM   
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I read that about the Qaher-1. I guess the -2M might be an improved version?

If claimed here https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/yemen-unveiled-qaher-m2-ballistic-missile.486112/ is truth, new version has extended range and warhead weight.

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RE: Naval and Defense News - 10/12/2017 3:10:47 AM   
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/10/donald-trump-tweet-suggests-that-fcc-should-take-nbc-off-the-air/
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-11/trump-once-asked-pentagon-tenfold-increase-uss-nuclear-arsenal

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