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US Military News, Reports, Data, etc.
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You're welcome. What I posted is a summary that barely do even the information collected on this forum any justice.
US navy have difficulties to crew his most valuable ship... they loss more than 500 sailors of the crew for the Ford carrier and are below the minimum required. We will see if they can replenish it in the long term or just run with reduced staff.
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The US Missile Defense Agency and Boeing have tested the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense missile defense system. A GMD missile successfully intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile in space. During the test, the upgraded GBI interceptor released an exoatmospheric kinetic device while the rocket's second boost stage was operating in a three-stage flight. Now, with the help of the third stage, you can adjust the operation of the interceptor, which makes it possible to hit a target that could not be immediately intercepted. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense is a missile defense system of the United States of America designed to intercept intercontinental ballistic missiles outside the earth's atmosphere. The system was put into operation in 2005. According to the latest data, 44 anti-missile installations are deployed in the United States.
Improved version of the RQ-28a is going to be produced for the US Army starting in 2025.
INteresting, they follow the groove. We will see small uav saturation soon enough, I could even imagine barrage balloon with nets to block them like in ww1... everybody are probably working hard to design counter to these pests.
Looks like the US is going to increase production of at least one arm of its counter drone programs over the next five years.
I don't get it. Why use F15EX instead of F35?
Ok so it's faster (Mach 2.2), longer range, and can carry some better missiles...but then I guess their plan is that these clearly non stealthy interceptors are totally going to intercept the stealthy J20 inside of the 1IC...huh??!
I know I'm missing something here because I'm not as well-versed on air stuff as I should be.
But other than being drastically cheaper to buy, cheaper to fly, cheaper overall...what real benefit does it offer over F35?? Especially, this close to China.
You could say the same thing about J16. The stealth and non-stealth aircraft work together in a networked system of systems to leverage the particular advantages of each and mitigate each other's disadvantages.
True, but then what's their strategy here?
What's the combination of systems and support that they intend to use that is apparently going to make the strengths of the F15EX so superior that any weaknesses it has will be so nullified or at least mitigated to the point that it even outshines 5th gen aircraft in the same role?