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cptplt

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Corvette sea trial

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Is that a ROC developed turret for the 76 ?? Doesnt look like the Oto stealth product, or a US FMC version??
 
FORBIN

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Taipei, Oct. 6 (CNA) As the 2016 presidential election edges closer, Taiwan's desire to build submarines at home has gained attention, with one submarine expert suggesting that Taiwan start with small 500-ton vessels.

Wang Jyh-perng, a Navy captain and associate research fellow at the Association for Managing Defense and Strategies, said Monday that for a beginner like Taiwan, building small ships would allow it to avoid the high costs in developing and producing submarines as big as the 3,000-ton Swordfish-class diesel sub it owns now.

It would also be easier for Taiwan to acquire the technologies needed if it aimed at smaller targets, Wang said while addressing a national defense policy blue paper released by the opposition Democratic Progressive Party last week.

The party proposed that the military engage in "reverse engineering" on its Dutch-made Swordfish-class subs before moving to develop and build at least six 1,500-ton new subs, since it was almost impossible for Taiwan to buy submarines from other countries due to its political status.

Wang, who was once dispatched by the Navy to Holland to monitor the fabrication of the Swordfish-class subs in the 1980s, said it was not impossible for Taiwan to build a sub.

But it would have to integrate the skills and technologies owned by its state-owned shipbuilding company, CSBC Corp., Taiwan with machine processing techniques of the private sector, he said.

"There's no problem at all for CSBC to assemble ship shells," he said.
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Miragedriver

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I have always liked the AT-3. There was an attempt to make these into lite strike fighters/CAS aircraft with a 3.000kg payload, but only two prototypes where made. Was the reason funding or performance? Does anyone know?
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I will now get back to bottling my Malbec
 
Blitzo

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I wonder what the availability rates of those two submarines are.

Also, I've always considered torpedos as a bigger threat from submarines than "medium weight" AShMs like harpoon, YJ-8, Exocet, given they are generally harder to defend against and the tendency for heavy weight torpedos to "snap" the hull of ships.
Of course, "large" AShMs like the granit carried by Oscar class subs are a whole other matter...
 
Equation

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an accident happened during a routine training of the Thunder Tiger aerobatic team. Pilot was killed...
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It looks like the pilot's jet plane engine stalled and he either didn't have time or the g-force was too great during a barrel roll that he couldn't pull the ejection handle in time. Poor guy...RIP.:(
 
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