B52

Il ne faut jamais dire jamais. Soit la Turquie post Erdogan revient a de meilleurs sentiments vis à vis de l'Occident, soit il faudra bien acter la chose et en tirer toutes les conclusions. L'ennemi de certains de mes amis ne peut pas être mon ami.

Ankara met la pression sur la base d’Incirlik, qui abrite des armes nucléaires de l’Otan et des forces américaines http://www.opex360.com/2021/04/28/ankara-met-la-pression-sur-la-base-dincirlik-qui-abrite-des-armes-nucleaires-de-lotan-et-des-forces-americaines/ Sortir la Turquie de l'OTAN. Chiche.

Les allemands invitent toute l'Europe ! au SCAF, au MGS.... ET NOUS? ON A NOTRE MOT A DIRE ?

Symbole épouvantable. Après ça ils ne s'étonneront pas d'avoir des attentats Kamikazes.

Une nouvelle bonne nouvelle pour le surdoué d'Airbus. https://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/en-vendant-25-avions-a321neo-airbus-continue-de-seduire-delta-air-lines-face-a-boeing.N1085479#xtor=EPR-169

La gueule de ces frégates. Je kiffe !

L'Alsace a bien du arrêter d'appeler un de ses vins du "Tokay" !

Il y en avait un il me semble : le secret bancaire. Non? Mais ca fait un moment que je n'en entend plus parler. Donc je ne vois aucun nuage qui nécessiterait un geste d'apaisement des Suisses vis à vis de l'oncle Sam. Ca pourrait ne pas avoir à se jouer sur la politique transatlantique.

L'EF répondait à une autre fiche programme. Une fois le pacte de Varsovie tombé, il s'est montré moins adapté au nouvel environnement. Il reste un adversaire dangereux pour tout opposant dans son domaine de prédilection l'air air. 4 Meteor, 4 ASRAAM ou Iris T... c'est pas que de la gnognotte.

Le F35 a réussi sa principale mission : continuer a saper l'industrie aéro européenne déjà bien entamée par le F16. Le reste c'était du bonus...

parce que 100% diesel, si tu veux pouvoir aller vite, tu en arrives à faire un porte diesel.

Il y a une diaspora turque significative aux states? je ne le pense pas.

alors pourquoi continue t on encore à mettre des diesel sur les navires de combat? A part les ricains et leurs satellites, qui n'équipe ses frégates ou destroyers que de TaG ?

Oui. Mais beaucoup moins sur la conso de carburant. On ne peut pas tout avoir....

Des pronostics ?

la précision n'est peut être pas suffisante?

C'est aussi ce que je pense. Les Allemands semblent vouloir un bunker sur chenilles (y a déjà : le Challenger 2 ! ). Les Français ont plus une tradition du combat plus dynamique, donc des engins plus mobiles et moins lourds (donc à priori moins protégés aussi).

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40142/air-force-general-says-current-generation-f-35as-not-worth-including-in-high-end-wargames Today's F-35As Not Worth Including In High-End War Games According To Air Force General senior U.S. Air Force officer has said that there is no value in including the service's current fleet of F-35A Joint Strike Fighters in tabletop wargames simulating future high-end conflicts, such as one covering an American military response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. That same individual also called into question how relevant any of the service's existing examples of these fighter jets would be for conducting combat operations near or over the territory of a near-peer adversary, including China. This all comes at a time when the F-35 program, as a whole, is facing a new surge of scrutiny, including from members of Congress. Air Force Lieutenant General Clint Hinote, the service's Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategy, Integration, and Requirements, made his remarks regarding the F-35A in an interview that Defense News published today focusing on a wargame last year that simulated an attempted Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Defense News described the outcome of that wargame as a "pyrrhic" victory for the U.S. military and one that was only achieved by the employment of capabilities that are not yet actually in service. Those capabilities include F-35As equipped with the full suite of upgrades enabled by the still-in-development Block 4 software package. Block 4 F-35As are set to feature enhanced radar and electronic warfare capabilities, as well as the ability to carry new weapons. This particular wargame also featured notional stealth combat aircraft developed through the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, a multi-faceted project that you can read about in more detail here, as well as non-stealthy F-15EX fighters able to carry long-range hypersonic weapons, cargo aircraft reconfigured as flying arsenal planes, and a swarm of low-cost drones providing a distributed sensor network across a broad area of the battlespace, among other things. The entire Defense News piece on this wargame is worth reading in full, especially given growing concerns within the U.S. military, as well as among experts and observers, that a Chinese military intervention against Taiwan may be increasingly inevitable in the near term. The outcome of the scenario, which Yahoo News previously reported also involved a Chinese biological weapon attack against American forces across the Indo-Pacific region, is also notable in contrast to a similar 2018 tabletop simulation. “After the 2018 war game I distinctly remember one of our gurus of war gaming standing in front of the Air Force secretary and chief of staff, and telling them that we should never play this war game scenario [of a Chinese attack on Taiwan] again, because we know what is going to happen," Lieutenant General Hinote had told Yahoo News earlier this year. "The definitive answer if the U.S. military doesn’t change course is that we’re going to lose fast. In that case, an American president would likely be presented with almost a fait accompli." At the same time, Hinote's comments about the F-35A are notable in their own right. “We wouldn’t even play the current version of the F-35," Hinote told Defense News. “It wouldn’t be worth it," he continued. "Every fighter that rolls off the line today is a fighter that we wouldn’t even bother putting into these scenarios." Hinote further explained that survivability was only one factor in his assessment, though he did not name any particular existing or emerging threats that would limit the combat utility of current generation F-35As. China is notably developing and fielding an increasing number of advanced manned and unmanned aircraft, including growing numbers of J-20 stealth fighters, along with new weapons to go with them, as well as new ground-based air and missile defenses and associated sensors. Russia, another potential high-end adversary, is doing the same, albeit to a more limited degree. The Lieutenant General also cited the F-35As limited range in the context of an Indo-Pacific scenario as an issue, something we here at The War Zone have highlighted in the past. There have been discussions over the years about developing drop tanks or conformal fuel tanks that could work with all three F-35 variants to help extend their ranges. The Air Force, in particular, is exploring various future aerial refueling concepts that might help provide more survivable ways to extend the reach of American combat aircraft, especially stealthy types, in future conflicts, as well. Regardless of the specifics, the Lieutenant General's comments are the latest in a string of what can be characterized, at best, as mixed-messaging from the Air Force about its plans for the F-35A going forward, as well as its view of the program, as a whole. The projected costs to operate and maintain F-35s of all variants across the U.S. military throughout their planned life cycles, which have only grown in recent years, are the core of these discussions. At present, the Air Force still publicly plans to buy 1,763 F-35As, in total, primarily to replace its F-16 Viper fighter jets. ... As of 2019, the Pentagon said the estimated price tag for sustaining F-35A, B, and C operations across the Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy was $1.196 trillion through 2070. This figure had been relayed to Congress in part to inform them that this figure had increased by $22 billion specifically due to growing costs associated with the Block 4 upgrades that Lieutenant General Hinote has now said are absolutely essential to ensuring the relevance of the Joint Strike Fighter in future high-end conflicts. As of February, the average cost-per-flight-hour to operate any of the three F-35 variants is $36,000, according to Lockheed Martin. The company says its goal remains to get that figure down to $25,000, which would put it closer to the cost-per-flight-hour of operating an F-16C/D. The unit costs to purchase new Joint Strike Fighters had been declining in recent years, as well, but those price figures look set to plateau, or even rise again, as new capabilities are added to future jets. In January, Will Roper, in an interview with Aviation Week that was published after he had left his post as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, had said "I think it’s [the F-35A] a long way from being an affordable fighter that we can buy in bulk." He also suggested that the Air Force's planned purchases could be scaled back in favor of a revised mixture of capabilities that might include new, lower-end manned combat jets, such as advanced F-16 Viper variants, and greater numbers of lower-cost "loyal wingman" type unmanned aircraft. ... "What does the F-35 give us? And is there a way to cut our losses? Is there a way to not keep spending that much money for such a low capability because, as you know, the sustainment costs are brutal," he continued. "What I’m going to try to do is figure out how we can get a mix of fighter-attack aircraft that’s the most cost-effective. And I am telling you right now a big part of that is finding something that doesn’t make us have to rely on the F-35 for the next 35 years." ... A number of older F-35As will never be brought up to the Block 4 standard, either, relegating those jets to training and other non-combat duties. In addition, the F-35 program is still working to resolve a laundry list of deficiencies across all three Joint Strike Fighter Variants, 10 of which are Category 1 issues, the most severe type. These are things that could impact the operational effectiveness of the jets, or worse. This is the same number of Category 1 problems DOT&E said were still open by the close of the 2020 Fiscal Year. DOT&E said there were another 861 unresolved, but less severe deficiencies. Just this month, the F-35 Joint Program Office declined to elaborate on the exact nature of the 10 Category 1 deficiencies, six of which are classified, according to Defense News' Valerie Insinna.

Il va ou Hoke ? Chez Boeing?

Finalement je me demande s'il ne faut pas faire un parallèle en terme de réussite opérationnelle entre le F35B et le Yak-38. 200 M2000-5 polyvalents (donc avec les capacité air sol des versions exports) auraient bien valu 300 F16 je pense. Et des F16, il y en a des bons et des moins bons.

tiens tiens tiens.... Un autre B52 ? b52.... Je revendique l'antériorité

J'ai lu des articles sur le sujet, lors des combats en Ukraine. Apparemment ce type de mortier lourd a fait très mal. Il est quand même monté sur un chassis chenillé, donc il doit pouvoir se déplacer assez facilement. Portée 20km maxi. Je crois que contre l'Ukraine ce sont des munitions thermobariques qui ont fait le plus de dégats. Et inspire une sacro sainte peur dans les rangs.

Ce systéme semble avoir démontré beaucoup de potentiel : http://www.opex360.com/2021/04/09/des-mortiers-automoteurs-russes-2s4-tulpan-de-240-mm-ont-ete-reperes-en-direction-de-la-frontiere-ukrainienne/ Les forces occidentales ne se sont jamais intéressé à des mortiers "lourds" de 155 ou 175mm ? a chargement par la culasse. Les effets par rapport à ceux d'un canon de 155 seraient différents.

Une info interessante : Une fois réparé, le sous-marin nucléaire d’attaque Perle sera plus long d’un mètre et plus lourd de 68 tonnes http://www.opex360.com/2021/04/10/une-fois-repare-le-sous-marin-nucleaire-dattaque-perle-sera-plus-long-dun-metre-et-plus-lourd-de-68-tonnes/

C'est certain. Ici Paris, Closer, Point de vue, Gala, Voici..... Personne ne les achète, mais il s'en vend plein.