cold war ii

(Last post extract was from July 2013) It seems that SEA 1180 was later reactivated in 2015, with a contract awarded to Luerssen Australia and Civmec Limited in 2018, but things are apparently not going well at all...

Starting thread at the end... https://www.twz.com/air/final-kc-10-extender-tanker-sent-into-retirement

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/09/philippines-will-need-more-vessels-military-chief/

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/09/25/dutch-navy-to-buy-armed-sidekick-ships-for-its-air-defense-frigates/ This really feels like a mini arsenal ship concept, wouldn't be surprised if they try to get this ship to be completely unmanned ( they are already mostly there with a...

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1024203.pdf

The Fattah-1 hypersonic missile was again showed during the military ceremony in Iran two days ago. IRNA photo from a military exhibition in Iran from last year: Technical details are still only in the sphere of suppositions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fattah-1_(missile)

https://www.sohu.com/a/810778952_211762 The mission went wrong at the last minute，The next test will be in November

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-hbzN-yJ1E https://www.draken.aero/

Most odd attack happened today in Lebanon. There are reports on exploding beepers throughout Lebanon allegedly targeting Hezbollah members. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/09/japan-coast-guard-will-build-the-biggest-patrol-vessel-in-its-history/ Well a coast gard cutter arms race wasn't on my bingo card but here we are. To put this in perspective the current largest coast gard vessel is the Zhaotou-class patrol cutter at...

https://www.911memorial.org/connect/commemoration/23rd-anniversary-commemoration View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPQ7EeNO2M0 https://apnews.com/article/sept-11-anniversary-ceremony-children-reading-names-ed7dcd42524dca1c5098b6b3364aca91...

RTX has come forward and voluntarily admitted 750 violations of ITAR pertaining to leaks of military information between August 2017 and September 2023. This includes the VC-25 (Air Force One), F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II and the B-2 Spirit stealth, B-1B Lancer and the F/A-18, F-15 and F-16...

The company Lumen Orbit want to put Data servers, to use the abundant solar energy, cooling, and the ability to freely scale up in space. launch of Prototype hardware is set for may 2025 launch of first micro data center in 2026 once Starship goes into commercial service they build the 5GW Data...

Ok, WTF? is all I can say about this brain fart of an idea! Is Australian Defence really so desperate for enticing recruits for it's headlong war against China to come up with such a pathetic metaphoric carrot, and is Thales so desperate for sales of their product? Seriously, the last thing the...

https://www.spacewar.com/reports/Air_Force_Awards_33_2_Million_to_Outpost_for_Development_of_Scalable_Earth_Return_Vehicle_999.html

Some interesting news regarding systems similar to JLENS (and other options) https://breakingdefense.com/2024/07/army-taking-wide-open-approach-to-high-altitude-platforms-smdc-chief/ https://www.twz.com/air/polands-plan-to-deploy-early-warning-radar-blimps-moves-forward 7 years after the...

Seems like we could use a more general thread for these military focused constellations. To start off, how many satellites do you think would be need for a "full" constellation. For example the us is looking to build up a hypersonic tracking constellation and that has a minimum size of 1258...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/08/china-launches-its-most-sophisticated-submarine-to-date/

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/08/hd-hhi-submarines-in-the-polands-orka-program/ This HDS-2300 is apparently a joint marketing effort with Babcock. Oddly enough, Babcock provides the weapons handling system. Not sure if that means it’s a British system? Specs: 2,300 tons...

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/nasas_asteroid_spotter_turned_off/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/neowise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-field_Infrared_Survey_Explorer Incidentally, there is a comet named in honor of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_NEOWISE