air defence

https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_and_tech/after_10_years_of_development_russian_microwave_weapon_goes_straight_to_museum_instead_of_war_front-15220.html https://t.me/btvt2019/21259 I've never heard of this before. Are there known to be similar predecessor or successor designs?

We’ll start with this story. Big step up. https://www.newsweek.com/japan-military-shootdown-authorization-china-drone-airspace-intrusion-2095346

June 26 1972 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology is dedicated to ASD and its work.

Yet another new round of turf battles is commencing, it would seem. EDIT: Or perhaps I should have said full-fledged turf wars.

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/1lkv0jd/chinese_pj26_76mm_spaag_vehicle_prototype_on_a/ https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/pj26.htm

IAI's Barak achieved several milestones this week: 1. First operational intercept via the Barak Magen naval air defense system. The Barak Magen is a Barak system integrated into the Magen class Sa'ar 6 ship's systems. Now the IAF released a statement that an IAF-operated Barak system, notice...

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I will try to be brief. Over on the Sino Defense Forum in the Air Force thread, someone made the statement that China now operates the world's largest force of heavy fighters. The PLAAF and PLANAF combined apparently operate a fleet of about 1,263 J-11/15/16/20 and SU-27/30 and 33. The...

On October 7th 2023 and the following days, Israel was attacked on 7 fronts. In contrast with wars in the past 20 years, the threat included not only rockets but also drones, routinely launched from Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Iran. Most of these were evidently fairly easy to detect, track...

I have been reconsidering about the potential of Avro Arrow and its related Canadian made weapon systems After looking at its early cold war era background history for multiple times, I have come to this conclusion below: To be honest, it was really difficult to find an effective combat role...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/faa-replaces-leadership-in-d-c-area-air-traffic-control-after-fight/ar-AA1CxZLR https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-arel-faa-air-traffic-chief-retires-faa-replacing-dca-managers/ Looks pretty messy............... Regards,

There's an interesting referendence in the May 1982 International Defense Review, p626: "British Aerospace, which was the prime contractor for the now cancelled NATO 6S vertically launched missile ..." The context is the first public showing of vertical launch Seawolf and the suggestion that...

Ever since the first Zeppelin raids in World War 1 the vulnerability of the civilian population of the UK to attack from the air has been a major factor in shaping our armed forces. The tile "Air Defence of Great Britain" comes from the organisation set up to meet the only air threat imagined in...

CONTENTS GUNS Ikaria MG FF (20-mm) Mauser MG 151 Series (15/20-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 103 (30-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig MK 108 (30-mm) Mauser MG 81 (7.92-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig MG 131 (13-mm) Mauser MG/MK 213 C Rheinmetall-Borsig BK 3.7 (37-mm) Rheinmetall-Borsig BK 5 (50-mm) Mauser...

D-30F11 aka Izdeliye 70

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADP010844.pdf Note that the mention of 'battleships' in the paper is likely a reference to the Arsenal Ship concept which was in vogue at the time. Incidentally, this paper was part of a larger NATO sponsored report called the Concepts de systemes pour la...

In the late-war period a battery of the ill-fated 5cm FlaK 41 was directed by a remote controlled system, overcoming it`s manual traverse problems and testing what would be the Gerät 58 5,5cm control system. Does anyone know about this development?

Maybe it was the kind of beverage I had but was thinking of this way of covering large swathes of country with decent SAM coverage. What about fitting transport planes with batteries of surface to air missiles and radars ? Mostly directed upward like a regular SAM site but can move from place to...

The U.S. Army was assigned in 2023 to lead the acquisition and execution plan for the Guam architecture, mention of Patriot, THAAD, SM-3, IFPC and the MRC/Typhon launcher for SM-6 & Tomahawk. Defense News August 20 "The Pentagon is shipping new pieces to Guam’s air-defense puzzle" interview...

I know we already discussed that in this topic, https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/mirages-i-iii-5-prototypes-projects.36283/ But I want to split this subject in another thread,the tenders of that contest are, - Nord N-1540,N.1541,N.2540,N.3540,N.3541 & N.5010 Harpon - SNCASE SE.5020 &...