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Watch US Navy’s largest ever ‘stealth’ destroyer put through its paces
The largest destroyer ever built for the U.S. Navy began its sea trials yesterday. Future versions of the radical design will be fitted with ‘star wars’ railguns, if tests go according to plan.
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Russia launches cruise missiles from a sub for first time against ISIS
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu confirmed the strikes had been launched on Syria in such a way, moving on from firing from warships on the Caspian Sea.
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7th Destroyer Sqn . HMS Trafalgar, Dunkirk, Jutland, Aisne or Corunna , Broadsword and Scorpion. Malta.
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Flying Tanks in US Military C17
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Flying Tanks in US Military C17
Flying Tanks in US Military C17
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A Video of Flying Tanks in US Military C17
Flying Tanks in US Military C17
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Bring out the BIG GUNS!!! Here is a look at some live-fire exercises that took place throughout the Fleet
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Bring out the BIG GUNS!!! Here is a look at some live-fire exercises that took place throughout the Fleet
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Zumwalt Sails! But Does It Matter?
The DDG-1000, aka Zumwalt, is the snazziest ship in the Navy. It’s also something of a dead end.
After years of research, development, construction, cancellations, and cuts, the first ship of a new class of high-tech destroyers is now “conducting at-sea tests and trials,” the US Navy announced today.
It’s a major milestone for a troubled program. The Navy originally intended to buy enough DDG-1000s to replace its workhorse DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class. Now it’s only buying three — and there’s serious discussion of cancelling the third. The Navy actually went so far as to reopen the production line for the Arleigh Burkes and restart that smaller, cheaper, and arguably more versatile class.![151207-N-ZZ999-505]()
The DDG-1000 was conceived in the Clinton era, when naval superiority could be assumed, as a platform to project power ashore with long-range gunfire. The DDG-51, with its built-in Aegis missile and air defense system, was built to contest the seas against the Soviet navy — making it more applicable to a rising China.
The Zumwalt does boast major innovations, however, which could end up on future classes, even if the DDG-1000 class itself stops at two or three ships. Most visually striking is its “stealth” hull. Most fiscally appealing is the use of automation to allow a much smaller crew, less than half the DDG-51’s for a ship 63 percent larger. gr8...until hit, then??? (Similar manpower-reduction principles are at work on the controversial Littoral Combat Ship, but LC$sailors may be run ragged as a result).
Most important, though, is the DDG-1000’s electric drive. It still uses gas turbines to generate the power in the first place, but it dispenses with bulky, unreliable shafts to convey that power to the propellers. What’s more, the ship’s integrated power system allows the energy to be shifted to other systems besides propulsion, rather like the USSEnterprise on Stark Trek. The ship can sail along at a brisk 20 knots and still have 58 megawatts to spare — more than six times the 9MW available on an Arleigh Burke.
What to do with all this energy? Radars and other sensors are the power-hungry systems of today. But the most exciting possibilities are weapons now in advanced testing such as lasers and rail guns, weapons which could change the balance of power between US warships and incoming missiles.
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USS Zumwalt heads down the Kennebec River and out to sea for the first time on Dec. 7, 2015.
It’s a major milestone for a troubled program. The Navy originally intended to buy enough DDG-1000s to replace its workhorse DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class. Now it’s only buying three — and there’s serious discussion of cancelling the third. The Navy actually went so far as to reopen the production line for the Arleigh Burkes and restart that smaller, cheaper, and arguably more versatile class.
The DDG-1000 was conceived in the Clinton era, when naval superiority could be assumed, as a platform to project power ashore with long-range gunfire. The DDG-51, with its built-in Aegis missile and air defense system, was built to contest the seas against the Soviet navy — making it more applicable to a rising China.
The Zumwalt does boast major innovations, however, which could end up on future classes, even if the DDG-1000 class itself stops at two or three ships. Most visually striking is its “stealth” hull. Most fiscally appealing is the use of automation to allow a much smaller crew, less than half the DDG-51’s for a ship 63 percent larger. gr8...until hit, then??? (Similar manpower-reduction principles are at work on the controversial Littoral Combat Ship, but LC$sailors may be run ragged as a result).
Most important, though, is the DDG-1000’s electric drive. It still uses gas turbines to generate the power in the first place, but it dispenses with bulky, unreliable shafts to convey that power to the propellers. What’s more, the ship’s integrated power system allows the energy to be shifted to other systems besides propulsion, rather like the USSEnterprise on Stark Trek. The ship can sail along at a brisk 20 knots and still have 58 megawatts to spare — more than six times the 9MW available on an Arleigh Burke.
What to do with all this energy? Radars and other sensors are the power-hungry systems of today. But the most exciting possibilities are weapons now in advanced testing such as lasers and rail guns, weapons which could change the balance of power between US warships and incoming missiles.
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The DDG-1000, aka Zumwalt, is the snazziest ship in the Navy. It’s also something of a dead end. After years of research, development, construction, cancellations, and cuts, the first ship of a new class of high-tech destro…
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A U.S. soldier looks at the German artillery ,Tunisia 1943
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Russian submarine hits targets in Syria -A new Russian submarine, the Rostov-on-Don, launched Kalibr cruise missiles at targets in Syria Tuesday, Russian media reported
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A new Russian submarine, the Rostov-on-Don, launched Kalibr cruise missiles at targets in Syria Tuesday, Russian media reported. Here, the next submarine in the class, Stary Oskol, is readied for launch last year at the Admiralty Shipyard in Saint Petersburg. (Photo: AFP)
WASHINGTON — Russian media reports that a Russian diesel-electric submarine operating in the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday launched Kalibr cruise missiles at targets in Syria.
Agence France-Presse, citing Russian news agencies, reported that Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday the military had launched strikes in Syria for the first time from a submarine stationed in the Mediterranean.
"We used Kalibr cruise missiles from the Rostov-on-Don submarine from the Mediterranean Sea," Shoigu told President Vladimir Putin, Russian news agencies reported.
The missiles "targeted two major terrorist positions in the territory of Raqqa," Russia Today quoted Shoigu as telling Putin. "We can say with absolute confidence that significant damage has been inflicted upon ammunition warehouses and a mine production plant, as well as the oil infrastructure."
Raqqa is the de facto Syrian Islamic State jihadist group.
The Kalibr cruise missile is an updated version of a missile that has been in Russian service since 2012, according to online sources. With a range of roughly 1,000 miles or more and small enough to be carried by submarines and small warships, the weapon is changing the calculus of the reach and effectiveness of smaller naval combatants.
The weapon was first used in the Syrian conflict on Oct. 7, when at least 26 3M-14T missiles were launched from four small Russian warships in the Caspian Sea at Syrian targets about a thousand miles away. Another strike was launched from the Caspian Sea flotilla on Nov. 20.
The latest strike is the first reported use of the 3M-14 Kalibr variant, specifically designed to be carried by submarines.
The Rostov-on-Don, commissioned early this year, is the second unit of the Project 636 Vashavyanka-class of diesel-electric submarines, an improvement on the Project 877 Kilo class. The submarine, built at the Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg, is one of six Project 636 subs built or under construction for Russia"s Black Sea Fleet.
The Rostov-on-Don is newly operational — Russian media reported in mid-October the sub had completed trials and workups with the Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea and would transfer to the Black Sea.
The first Project 636 armed with Kalibr missiles, Novorossiysk, arrived in the Baltic in September, according to the US Navy. A third submarine, Stary Oskol, is expected in 2016.
Russian submarine hits targets in Syria -A new Russian submarine, the Rostov-on-Don, launched Kalibr cruise missiles at targets in Syria Tuesday, Russian media reported
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Les Sables d'Olonne, Vendée 2015
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ISIS show off their TANKS looted from the Iraqi army
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ISIS show off their TANKS looted from the Iraqi army
The images, which include militants using handheld rocket launchers and automatic weapons, were reportedly taken during a battle at Deir Ezzor military airport in Syria.
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Afghanis Go Missing at Georgia Air Force Base – Tea Party News
(USA Today) – Officials say two male Afghan nationals being trained at an Air Force base in Georgia have gone missing. In a news release issued Tuesday night, base officials said the two students didn’t report on Monday to “their regular maintenance training” with the 81st Fighter Squadron at Moody Air Force base, located near …
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Eurocopter Super Puma 8 Ship Formation Flypast from the Swiss Air Force at Axalp
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ISIS is afraid of girls, claim feared Kurdish fighters
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ISIS is afraid of girls, claim feared Kurdish fighters
ISIS fighters are ‘afraid of girls’ because they believe being killed by a woman will prevent them from going to heaven, according to a commander in the Kurdish Women’s Protection Unit (YPJ).
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