http://www.eisc.com.cn/subject/ShowClass.asp?ClassID=9

Jane's Electronic Warfare

If you navigate the link, you get other things. I leave it to you to explore the rest. B)

This Section has been created for forumers who wish to share with us interesting link that doesnt require a discussion or arguement :D

http://www.fas.org/main/content.jsp?formAc...7&contentId=311

Excellent article on space based weapons, especially the annexes. The annexes on laser based anti satellite weapons, modeling of orbital debris, GPS lost and high altitude nuclear explosions are among the most detailed I have seen.

What's with this duplication? Isn't there an entire sub-forum dedicated for such purposes, perhaps this should be unpinned and merge with the relevant threads.



Just a friendly suggestion for the moderators. :ph43r:

'friendly' copies of JDW pdf

http://www.51liuyang.com/class/classfile.aspx?classID=4112

B)

Warning: The PDF files are barely readable. Download the first file and read it first to know what I mean. :)

Yeah, some of the RAR files don't work well. But a couple do.

I also got large collection of the chinese magazine Modern Warships from BT and eDonkey sources.

BTW, anyone consider buying the latest edition of Friedman's World Naval Weapon System (5th edition). Seriously weighing the idea, once my bonus is in.

http://www.nps.navy.mil/tsse/files/news.htm

Some JDW articles.

Search around the site, and you can find the conceptual inspiration for the LCS, the Sea Lance.

Ex Soviet Submarine Base in Balaklava is open for tours! Check out the pictures on the site!.

Soviet Underground Submarine Base Tour

The decor sure makes one feel right at home... hur.

http://www.zorya.com.ua/Eng/AboutEnterpris...eferenceEng.htm

Guess it is related to .......

http://militarynuts.com/index.php?showtopic=344&st=30
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/854/acv1bl4.jpg

The Reserve policies of Nations

http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army....iles/PUB786.pdf
The Reserve policies of Nations : A Comparative Analysis
Authored by Dr. Richard Weitz.

Throughout the world, military reserves are changing. National governments are transforming the relationships between their active and reserve components, the allocation of roles and responsibilities among reserve forces, and the way they train, equip, and employ reservists. Nations no longer consider their reservists as primarily a strategic asset for mobilization during major wars. This increased reliance on reserve components presents national defense planners with many challenges. Recruiting and retaining reservists has become more difficult as many individuals have concluded they cannot meet the increased demands of reserve service. Reservists are increasingly deployed on foreign missions at a time when expectations regarding their contributions to the management of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and other domestic emergencies are growing. Defense planners must also continue to refine the optimal distribution of skills and assets between regular and reserve forces. Finally, national governments must find the resources to sustain the increased use of reservists without bankrupting their defense budgets or undermining essential employer support for the concept of part-time soldiers with full-time civilian jobs. The author analyzes the innovative responses countries have adopted to manage these challenges

From : Intellibriefs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPJI7tqG5Dw

VP-40 squadron video, and a SLAM-ER live shot against, I think, one of the decommed Ticos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DataBxDY4s

Valient Shield 07 Harpoon live shoot from USS Fitzgerald.

Lets pin up this one as well? No discussion, just whatever mil videos you guys find on the net that you think is cool.

Defense Watch: SAF FIBUA Capability

Israeli Air Force vs Syrian Air Force, 1982
F-16, F-15s vs Mig 21, Mig 23s.

Has some really good HUD shots demonstrating intercept regimes of the 2 western aircraft. Seems like the F-16s would be more willing to get close and tangle at lower alt and lower speed interceptions, while the F-15s took the high-alt and high speed interceptions.

Video's a bit old looking but still a good watch.

Israeli Air Force, 1982

Heard of the Israeli F-15 that landed on one wing? Hear the interview from the pilot himself!

One wing F-15

Towards the end, notice 2 nozzles of the aircraft. I've an inclination to believe the pilot made the maximum trim adjustment to his ailerons while idling the left engine and maxing thrust for the right to reduce the roll rate.

The Legendary MiG-25 at the edge of space.

MiG-25 at REALLY high Altitude

Awesome!

Small Wars Journal

Small wars, big ideas
Web site offers a forum to debate strategy and doctrine
BY CHRISTOPHER GRIFFIN

As summer ended and Washington prepared for Gen. David Petraeus’ Iraq progress report, two pieces of conventional wisdom settled over the capital. First, the surge of troops and innovative tactics under Petraeus created a bubble of relative security in Baghdad, and had largely pacified western al-Anbar province. Second, the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki had failed to take advantage of that bubble to meet such congressionally mandated “benchmarks” for political progress as adopting a new hydrocarbons law or constitutional reform. The key question was how Petraeus would defend a military strategy that seemed to have achieved its immediate objectives but was being squandered by its intended beneficiaries.

On Aug. 29, a blog posting by Australian Army Col. Dave Kilcullen laid out a clear argument that the surge had produced success on the ground that overtook the congressional benchmarks. In his contribution to the Small Wars Journal (http://www .smallwarsjournal.com) titled “Anatomy of a Tribal Revolt,” Kilcullen detailed how tribal sheiks were working with American soldiers to break the power of al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI). Kilcullen explained that the Iraqis and AQI had a history of tension over such issues as long-term political goals and the control of a range of criminal smuggling and legitimate economic enterprises. The dike broke when foreign-born AQI leaders demanded the right to marry tribal chieftains’ daughters, raising fights in which “kinship trumps religion,” and a tribal-AQI conflict that spread through Anbar and Diyalah provinces, as well as the outskirts of Baghdad.
Though Kilcullen did not frame his essay around the benchmarks debate, he captures the importance of the tribal revolt: “[B]ecause it occurred in ways that were neither expected nor accounted for in our “benchmarks” … the significance of this development has been overlooked to some extent.” He points out that the revolt has inspired other actors to band-wagon against AQI, as tribal, provincial government and even national political leaders saw the opportunity to break ties with radicals and pursue cooperation with coalition forces. If Kilcullen’s analysis survives the test of time, it means that there is an emerging, grass-roots force to end the civil war in Iraq and move toward a state of relative normalcy that may finally usher in political compromise.

A well-known counterinsurgency scholar and practitioner who spent most of his career in the Australian Army before being seconded to the U.S. government, Kilcullen spent the first half of 2007 as a member of Petraeus’ brain trust in Baghdad, a select group of warrior-scholars that also included Col. H.R. McMaster, Lt. Col. John Nagl and Col. Peter R. Mansoor. Demonstrating that brain power can be applied in the battlefield, Petraeus’ advisers have distinguished combat records — McMaster, for example, was in charge of the successful 2005-2006 campaign in Tal Afar — and have written acclaimed articles on the conduct of counterinsurgency.

Kilcullen, for example, reportedly caught Petraeus’ eye with a 2006 essay providing guidance on how to organize and lead company-sized units in counterinsurgency operations. Then serving as the chief strategist for the U.S. State Department’s coordinator for counterterrorism in March 2006, Kilcullen wrote a field report after a tour through Iraq on the “Twenty-Eight Articles: Fundamentals of Company-level Counterinsurgency.” Intended as a primer for young commanders, the essay laid out fundamental principles for company-level leadership: “Rank is nothing — talent is everything”; “Train the squad leaders — then trust them”; “Fight the enemy’s strategy, not his forces.” The essay first ran the e-mail circuit and then was posted to the Small War Journals blog in April 2006, where it earned national attention.
Kilcullen’s “Twenty-Eight Articles” has provided a template around which company commanders fighting in and returning from Iraq compare their efforts, successes and failures. In a landmark accomplishment for the blogosphere, the essay also formed the basis for official military doctrine when it was expanded and included as Appendix A to the 2006 edition of U.S. Army Field Manual 3-24, “Counterinsurgency.”

So, what is Kilcullen doing in the blogosphere? He’s been there for some time, contributing to the Small War Journal (SWJ) site through a series of postings on their general blog. Founded by a pair of Marines, Dave Dilegge and Bill Nagle, and named in homage to the Corps’ legendary “Small Wars Manual,” the SWJ provides a combination of blogs, discussion boards, and links to its readers. The SWJ is one of the finest resources on the Internet for the student of counterinsurgency, and has attracted leading experts to contribute to its balanced, informative blog.
The list of SWJ blog contributors reads as a who’s who of the debate on counterinsurgency theory, including Kilcullen, Nagl, Frank Hoffman, Malcom Nance, Bing West and Lt. Col. Paul Yingling. The addition of SWJ contributors in recent months is especially impressive. For example, following his controversial May 2007 Armed Forces Journal essay, “A failure in generalship,” Yingling joined the SWJ blog as a contributor to address some of the response his article had received.

The broader SWJ site amplifies the debates among its bloggers through a set of discussion boards where members of the “Small Wars Council” can join the fray with their own opinion. To take one particularly noteworthy example, Yingling’s essay inspired a thread with more than 200 postings, many of which were substantive arguments based on the merits of Yingling’s argument (a rare attribute for any blogosphere debate). The site also offers the digital SWJ Magazine, which principally publishes articles by the captains and majors who are fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and provides another excellent venue for expanding and enhancing the debate on the war.

After so many articles about how the milblogging phenomenon has threatened chains of command, engendered violations of soldiers’ civil liberties and fueled a digital propaganda war, it is refreshing to note that the blogosphere can also serve as a virtual graduate seminar for the practitioners of war. If the blogosphere provides a sustained venue for debating the strategies and doctrine of the American military, it appears that the Small Wars Journal will be a keystone to that success.

Click here to the Website “Small Wars Journal”
http://www.smallwarsjournal.com/

http://www.denaljogja.mil.id/janes/jfsfram.htm

Janes Fighting Ship 2001.

Pretty old but useful for existing ships.

An interesting and hitherto unarticulated angle...



Comparing three ethnic Chinese militaries
By ANDREI CHANG
Column: Military Might
Published: January 12, 2008


HONG KONG, China, China, Taiwan and Singapore all share the Chinese language and culture. Yet due to their different positions in the international sphere and the capabilities of their respective military industries, the three have chosen very different military strategies and weapons systems. It is interesting to compare the three approaches.

First, in terms of military strategy, China is now gradually transforming itself from the passive defense of the Cold War years to today's active defense, with balanced offensive and defensive capabilities. China's navy is also turning from coastal defense to offshore defense.

The two sides of the Taiwan Strait are now under abnormal adversarial conditions. Taiwan's strategic goal has changed from staging large-scale counterattacks on mainland China to engaging in a decisive battle away from Taiwan Island and establishing balanced offensive and defensive capabilities.

Singapore's approach is proactive defense, typical of a small country. Since Singapore is much better off than other countries in the region, and it has a sensitive historical relationship with Malaysia, Singapore's national defense policy has followed the dual-track principle of diplomacy and deterrence.

While building up formidable military strengths to dissuade potential enemies from reckless action, Singapore also tries to reinforce its national defense through diplomatic ties, hoping it will receive support from the outside world should the regional situation deteriorate. Singapore learned from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait that wealth does not equal peace.

The military strategies and doctrines of Singapore and Taiwan are becoming increasingly close. Both are attempting to establish effective deterrence against potential adversaries through building up their military machines. Both also rely on the diplomatic or even military involvement of world powers should they face a protracted conflict.

By procuring large batches of arms and establishing special military ties with the United States, both Singapore and Taiwan hope to guarantee their own security, expecting that the United States would come to their rescue should a major conflict arise.

Singapore's practice of purchasing AIM-120C air-to-air missiles and storing these weapon systems in the United States is clearly an attempt to establish a tangible military alliance with the United States and to integrate diplomatic deterrence with military deterrence. If a conflict broke out, Singapore would inevitably ask the United States to deliver the weapon systems stored on U.S. territory, which would make it impossible for the United States to remain neutral.

Taiwan's approach in recent years has been more or less similar. For the same purpose, Singapore may also deposit the 66 Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks it procured from Germany in Australia, as a tactic to contain the latest move of the Malaysian army to import PT91M main battle tanks from Poland.

Secondly, Singapore hopes to win additional layers of protection through its "diplomatic deterrence" strategy. Through reinforcing its ties with Australia, Canada and the joint defense cooperation among the five ASEAN countries, Singapore intends to implement the strategy of multi-layered diplomatic deterrence; that is, using different diplomatic deterrence strategies to deal with different adversaries.

In recent years, Taiwan has also sought to weaken the dominance of the United States in the dynamics of the Taiwan Strait and actively expand its military exchanges with Japan, Australia and India, with the same strategic objectives as Singapore.

Although China, Taiwan and Singapore all seek to balance their offensive and defensive capabilities, Singapore's navy and air force have the most advanced Western military technologies and the most formidable attack power in comparison with Taiwan and China. In other words, in implementing the strategy of balanced offensive and defensive deterrence, the Singaporean military forces place much greater emphasis on offensive operations than the Taiwanese and Chinese forces.

Singapore's "active defense" strategy is probably influenced by traditional British military ideology. Similar traces can be found in the military strategies of fellow former British colonies India and Pakistan. With the import of 12 plus 8 F-15ST fighters from the United States, Singapore has become the first of the three militaries to acquire joint direct attack munition bombs.

In addition, Singapore has acquired APG-63V3 active electronically scanned array radar systems ahead of Japan and Korea. The Singaporean air force is also equipped with 20 of the most powerful AN-64D attack helicopters in the region.

Due to the differences in the combat capabilities of their prospective adversaries, Taiwan and Singapore also have different deterrence strengths. The powerful offensive weapon systems mentioned above are already sufficient to give Singapore the capability to paralyze the enemy through preemptive standoff operations, which could be followed by diplomatic measures to resolve the conflict.

Singapore's latest replacements of military equipment, particularly in the navy and air force, show that the deterrence capability it aspires to is not directed solely at Malaysia. Thanks to the procurement of F-16 Block52 fighters and the KC-135R tanker, plus the fact that four E-2C aerial early warning aircraft are already in service, the Singaporean air force can now project its power over almost all of Southeast Asia.

Singapore is already armed with 70 F-16 fighters, among which 62 are F-16 Block52s. These fighters are equipped with the Israeli Python-4 and AIM120C AAM. The Taiwanese air force also dreams of acquiring the F-16 Block52. Both the Singaporean and the Taiwanese air forces are equipped with AGM-65G infrared-guided anti-ship missiles.

Singapore is favored by the West and Russia and has experienced no restrictions in the import of arms. Unlike Taiwan, Singapore has access to diversified weapons sources. The Singaporean army is equipped with Russian Igla (SA-18) ground-to-air missiles, for example.

As for military cooperation between Singapore and Taiwan, there has been constant speculation and many unconfirmed reports about this. Sources say that Singapore's batch of SA-18 missiles was actually ordered by Taiwan. Both Taiwan and Singapore are now employing the French-made La Fayette guided missile frigates (FFGs). The Singaporean variant of the La Fayette and the same model of FFG assembled indigenously are called the Delta Project, which has undergone major upgrading, but the price is said to be less than two-thirds the price Taiwan paid for its La Fayettes. Obviously the two received far different treatment in their purchase deals.

As a matter of fact, Israel has close ties with all three of the militaries under discussion. Singapore's ground forces, air force and navy use a lot of Israel-made equipment. The Singaporean navy's "Victory" class missile patrol boats are equipped with the Barak I vertical launch surface-to-air systems made by Israel Aerospace Industries/Rafael, while the F-16 Block52 fighters of the Singaporean air force are equipped with Israeli-designed electronic warfare systems.

As is widely known, both Taiwan and Singapore have acquired Gabriel I surface-to-surface missiles from Israel's IAI. In addition, Singapore has also purchased submarines from Sweden. In 1990, Singapore received the first batch of two A17 submarines, and four Sjoormen-class submarines were delivered to Singapore in 2004. The Sjoormen submarine has a standard displacement of 1,130 tons. As a result, Singapore has become the first country in Southeast Asia with genuine underwater combat capability.

Since international attitudes toward Singapore have been the most open and favorable, it has had the broadest training opportunities for its military personnel. The pilots of the Singaporean air force not only receive training in the United States, they also actively participate in joint military exercises with India, Australia and other countries, including joint naval and air force operations. The Singaporean air force has even carried out confrontational exercises in which the Su-30MKI fighter planes faced Singapore's F-16 Block52s.

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(Andrei Chang is editor-in-chief of Kanwa Defense Review Monthly, registered in Toronto Canada.)

Any one seen this?

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Fr%C...%22de+Singapour

It spins very fast and violently to the point of almost detaching from the mast itself. Is it supposed to function like this?

I guess it does, can't be destructive testing :D

Need YF or Iowa to confirm this, they be the naval experts

Herakles spin @ 60rpm.

Btw, can the mod merge this thread with the Formidable one?

Nope, not an expert here. Flattering but not true. I only know enough to know that there is so much more to know that I'll never have access to.

Tried to calculate the period, but I see the thing until almost become cock-eye. No happy. Whatever the case, it is definitely faster than its normal rotating rate of 1 sec/rev. Did anyone see the video "Face of the Force"? It's downloadable on MINDEF website if you haven't. There was a short part where it showed the Herakles operating normally at 60RPM. Definitely slower than on the google video.

i watched Face of the Force. i recall it was in the gym, while on an exercise bike - watching it really made my workout faster and easier! :lol:

in the google video the antenna seems to be turning damn fast. testing maybe?? perhaps 60RPM is not the max. faster rotation = faster scanning = better performance.

Not really. Faster scanning may mean shorter dwell time (may, because unlike other radars, this one can scan electronically in azimuth too) per target which leads to lower probablity of detection. Personally, I say we go with the figure given of 60 RPM. Maybe what we see in the google video is stress testing? Remember, the rotation rate of the radar is kept constant regardless of wind conditions by varying the current which controls torque. So the system has to be able to generate higher torque when needed.

Came across these....many references for the foot soldier




http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-21-75.pdf
(Caution...it will take a while to download but worth waiting)

http://www.operationalmedicine.org/Army/Milmed/fm21_75.pdf




hmm......" soldier - warrior " :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

http://www.leatherman.com/

http://www.victorinox.com/

http://www.gerbergear.com/index.php?flash=1

http://timawa.net/forum/index.php?PHPSESSI...41432d733265c1&

http://pdff.sytes.net/index.php?act=idx

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/11/06/ee...ourse-in-linux/

http://www1.apan-info.net/vic/Home/VICProd...49/Default.aspx

Interesting Korean site with nice SAF armour pics, local and overseas (wallaby & starlight)

http://images.google.com.sg/imgres?imgurl=...l%3Den%26sa%3DN

Reflections on Operation Blue Orchid (Sea)

A Pointer journal article on the RSN's deployment to the Gulf, and how it has influenced the OOTW doctrines of our Navy, now and it the future.

Link

There's this indie Naval simulation game effort underway which has just gone through a new update. It's called Global COnflict Blue. It is similar to Jane's fleet command and the Harpoon 3. It is more 'real' than the JFC, and far better than the Harpoon 3 in terms of game interface. Best of all, it's totally free!

Pics:
http://www.gcblue2.com/wiki/index.php?title=GCB2

Download link:
http://www.gcblue2.com/files/install_gcb2_107.exe

Would anyone care for a friendly match over a network? I have GCB 2, dangerous waters and silent hunter IV.

http://www.defensenewstv.com/

news in bite sized youtube style clips

I didn't know Disney also produced cartoons for soldiers during WW2!

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

LOL.. there's a popeye wwII versus Japs one too, but this one borders on racism.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YbopiJHnrvQ

disney, saving kitchen fats / extra oil to make glycerine and additional explosives

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q38H6Xol9t0

kinda apt for today's global financial meltdown ?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rQsOOfU59SM

Some guy just managed to clear the aft MK. 41 VLS when a missile was fired from the USS Shiloh (CG-67).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-H5-A5Uh1U&feature=related

Here's a couple more...

Sea Dart Misfired (HMS Gloucester (D96)).

ERYX ATGM Misfired.