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Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

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Jun 12, 2018
Jura said:
now noticed
President Trump has ordered the Pentagon to cancel military exercises with South Korea — what happens next?

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Trump makes it clear: No military exercises with South Korea
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A day after Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said there were no plans to cancel
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President Donald Trump made it clear: they’re not happening.

In a bizarre “Statement from the White House” that
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, but then referred to himself in the third person, Trump said, “the President believes that his relationship with Kim Jong Un is a very good and warm one, and there is no reason at this time to be spending large amounts of money on joint U.S.-South Korea war games."

The statement seemed to be in response to initial confusion from Tuesday’s Pentagon press briefing with Mattis, who in response to a reporter’s question on the exercises, said, “we took the step to suspend several of the largest exercises as a good-faith measure coming out of the Singapore summit. We have no plans at this time to suspend any more exercises.”

Earlier this year, the Pentagon suspended
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, which involves 17,500 U.S. forces and last year included almost two weeks of exercises with their South Korean counterparts. The exercises were suspended at Trump’s request because he viewed them as too expensive and counterproductive to his denuclearization talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Those talks are diplomat-led, and on Tuesday Mattis deferred to his counterpart, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, saying that whatever Pompeo needed in order to make progress with North Korea on the denuclearization talks, “we will certainly do to reinforce his effort,” Mattis said. “But at this time, there is no discussion about further suspensions.”

The next major exercises to take place are traditionally scheduled for the spring —
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are major ground and joint air exercises that help improve South Korean and U.S. interoperability. Kim was reportedly so incensed about Max Thunder this year that he threatened to walk away from the historic summit talks with South Korea and the U.S.

The exercises are a necessary part of maintaining the readiness of U.S. forces on the Korean Peninsula.

After some media outlets reported that Mattis' remarks at the Tuesday briefing meant exercises were about to resume, he issued a clarifying statement Wednesday afternoon.

“The Department of Defense suspended three individual military exercises in order to provide space for our diplomats to negotiate the verifiable, irreversible and complete de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” he said in the Pentagon-released statement. “Our military posture has not changed since the conclusion of the Singapore summit and no decisions have been made about suspending any future exercises.”

In his Wednesday tweet, Trump said the decision to exercise military forces serving in Korea would be made by the White House, not the Pentagon.

“The President can instantly start the joint exercises again with South Korea, and Japan, if he so chooses. If he does, they will be far bigger than ever before," Trump tweeted,

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Ultra

Ultra

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Jura said:
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South Korea unveils first images of KF-X design with European missiles
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It looks like the Koreans are ready to fight the INDIANS and the FRENCH. LOL!
 
Jura The idiot

Jura The idiot

General
noticed
South Korea launches its first mid-class submarine
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South Korean first 3,000-ton submarine was launched today at Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) Okpo Shipyard.

Named Dosan Ahn Chang-ho (KSS-III), the newbuilding is the first mid-class submarine designed and built independently in Korea, the country’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said in a statement.

Dosan Ahn Chang-ho (SS-083) is a new strategic weapons system of the Republic of Korea Navy capable of responding to all threats. It is expected to further strengthen the navy’s defense capabilities, DAPA added.

Featuring a length of 83.3 meters and a width of 9.6 meters, the new diesel-electric air-independent propulsion submarine can accommodate 50 people.

The new submarine is slated for delivery between 2020 and 2021 following the evaluation process. It is expected to become operational twelve months afterward.

Dosan Ahn Chang-ho is part of the South Korean attack submarine program which includes three phases – KSS-I, KSS-II and KSS-III. The third phase envisages the construction of up to nine indigenously built KSS-III diesel-electric attack submarines.
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gelgoog

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I wouldn't bother too much about it if I was them. They still made a lot of sales to ASEAN countries and they could still sell more. The South Koreans have been more successful with weapons exports than the Japanese at least.
 
Air Force Brat

Air Force Brat

Brigadier
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Jura said:
a botched howitzer, AShM, and tank inside
T-X loss casts shadow over South Korean arms exports
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I'm a little disappointed myself, looks like Boeing "low balled" the competition hoping to make it up on service contracts/parts etc, etc... I like the South Korean design better than the Boeing, but I suppose we will have to see how Boeings "in-house" design fleshes out, the Boeing has twin tails, kind of a Boeing "trade mark".
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Air Force Brat said:
the Boeing has twin tails, kind of a Boeing "trade mark
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Not really a Boeing only feature both Raptor and lightning have twin tails as do all the Russian birds. Twin tails started with Lockheed and Northrop birds the Forked tail devils P51 And P61 from there is has appeared off and on on lots of birds by all makers. It popped back yp as a norm in the 60s with the SR71 It really took off on the 4th gens the Grumman F14, McDonald Douglas F15, Northrop F18 then the Boeing F/A18 Rino and the Russian birds Mig29 & Su27 all adopted it. Even the Textron Air land Scorpion has it. With the fifth gens it's standard. F22,F35, X32, J20, JF31, Su57 all feature twin tails as it allows the tails to be swept out or in at an angle for radars deflection the only break has been the YF23.
Boeing adopted it as "theirs" mostly because they bought out the original makers of the F15 And rights for the Super Bug but their other "fighter" the Harrier II has a single tail. And Boeings historical fighters were single tails too even there bomber lines are single tailed. It wasnt untill Northrop Grumman loosing the F14 And Lockheed Martin having designed the F16 to be a proverbial Jet engine with wings and minimalist design that Boeing gained prominence with twin tails, but even then Raptor was coming and Panther got on it's heals both Lockheed Martin Twin tails.
 
Air Force Brat

Air Force Brat

Brigadier
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TerraN_EmpirE said:
Not really a Boeing only feature both Raptor and lightning have twin tails as do all the Russian birds. Twin tails started with Lockheed and Northrop birds the Forked tail devils P51 And P61 from there is has appeared off and on on lots of birds by all makers. It popped back yp as a norm in the 60s with the SR71 It really took off on the 4th gens the Grumman F14, McDonald Douglas F15, Northrop F18 then the Boeing F/A18 Rino and the Russian birds Mig29 & Su27 all adopted it. Even the Textron Air land Scorpion has it. With the fifth gens it's standard. F22,F35, X32, J20, JF31, Su57 all feature twin tails as it allows the tails to be swept out or in at an angle for radars deflection the only break has been the YF23.
Boeing adopted it as "theirs" mostly because they bought out the original makers of the F15 And rights for the Super Bug but their other "fighter" the Harrier II has a single tail. And Boeings historical fighters were single tails too even there bomber lines are single tailed. It wasnt untill Northrop Grumman loosing the F14 And Lockheed Martin having designed the F16 to be a proverbial Jet engine with wings and minimalist design that Boeing gained prominence with twin tails, but even then Raptor was coming and Panther got on it's heals both Lockheed Martin Twin tails.
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Heh!, Heh!, Heh!, well I stand corrected, and actually the YF-23 does have twin tails as the aft control surfaces are ruddervators as Beechcraft called them, set at a fairly vertical angle.... twin tails were used to increase lateral stability and by virtue of each surface being much smaller, to ultimately reduce radar signature..

I was more specifically talking about TX and the influence of the F-15 and Hornet, Super Hornet, LOL oh well??

but I would ad that the F-16 was initially designed and built by General Dynamics....
 
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