Against WHAT birds would the newly purchased AA be deployed against?

Where is the nearest airfield with a credible strike airforce based?

No immediate threats via air = no need for comprehensive AD umbrella.

Aussies are smart and know where to spend their money.

Buy new AD system to shoot at flying penguins is it.

Why you so hard to get it one?

It just means the gripen screen kenna duck by EW lar.

Originally posted by storywolf:

sparkles ? think that the short circuit from your brain.

 

gripen is a smaller aircraft - radar is less powerful. Even though its rcs is smaller, but with the more powerful radar - F-15 would still see it first, and shoot first using BVR missile.

 

No lar not bells and whistles. I'm not fighter pilot so i dont what to describe things that happens to the screen/radar/whatevernot due to EW.

While the F-15's RCS is relatively bigger, the gripen has to turn on his radar with all the sparkles and try to look for the F-15 while the F-15 just relies on passive feed on the AWACS for directing and targetting, who do you think will get to shoot first?

Systems before platforms.

ST > LN

Kotay > 38.

Next.

Not to be spoilt sport.  NG BG RG PG i dont think we really care. Most important is XXX-I. I for icecream.

Originally posted by Joe Black:

With all the discussion here, I am still NOT convinced that Formidable is able to handle saturated attacks by AShMs (both supersonic ones and transonic ones) without a dedicated CIWS as the last resort.  5 or more missiles targetting a single formidable, I think at least 1 may get through.

As much as I would like to believe the new guided shell fired from 76 OTO gun is a good anti-missile weapon, I still strongly believe in a wall of lead principle. Otherwise, why would the USN, RoKN and JSDF Navy continue to employ Phalanx?

I can accept that SeaRAM as a replacement of Phalanx, but at the current state of the Formidable weaponary, I just find that it is a little short and last ditch hit-to-kill measures in place.

Only thing i want to know is, under what kind of scenario, will you be able to successfully target 5 missiles on a formidable without getting yourself kicked in the face with Aster / Harpoon/ Whitehead first.

What i dont like about the multi round grenade launcher is that unless you are willing to log around 3 rounds everywhere you go, there is no difference(minus no casing to unload). Which preparation, you have the time to load in 3 rounds and that's the advantage.

I highly suspect that we have a thermobaric type weapon, It's the enhanced blast 40mm grenade. ST just renames it to avoid controversies.

Before this goes further:

the ship can turn.

F-15SGs are to replace the A-4s.

F-35s which (should be procured in 2014 or later) will be taking over the F-16s role.  F-16 will then take over the F-5s role.

76mm gun is designed to be anti missile last ditch. That's the reason it's a Super Rapid version churning out 2 rounds a second.

In other news, targetting, targetting, targetting. If you cant find the target, dont talk about how big the missile is.

EC-725, AW 101(with rolls royce engines, Ch-47F

the starburst might be outdated for as a vshorad, but it's a heck of a weapon when used against armour..

Aiyah, dont count the single eggs. Look at the numbers as a whole. How big is the unit going to be? That’s the strategic view and that’s what matters for the people higher up.
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When he said DEPTH, he meant DEPTH. The enemy's depth.

He doesnt mean deep.

It's a military term for use when you are "higher up" when you hold a command position.

 I.E. not you.

It's a statement of fact.

The enemy's depth is the "rear of the enemy." Where the generals are, where their artillery guns are, where their logistics are.

It just means that we can reach the enemy where he thinks is a "safe" place.

Cutting off the snake's head, removing the tiger's teeth and kicking a giant's leg from under him.

Edit: i'm emo today.

Aiya this is a situation where people read too many high tech magazines and arent down to earth. -Missiles- fired by fighter jets to shoot down these "fliers"?

Back to basics: Ack Ack Guns. Cheap and good. In the air, on the ground, turns meat into mush.

Originally posted by arball:

sshh...dont tell anyone*

st keeps a special underground booth...where they display all their special guandams.........

...they even come in a assortment of colors..

How many times i must say this.

Mechwarriors come out from underground. Gundams come down from the space stations. Transformers come up from under the sea.

It's not special colours it's sticker +glitter.

1) This new armour upgrade will weight under 60 tons. IOW, no problem

2) This new armour set is like lego.  When you want to use it, put it on. When you dont, take it off.

SAF doesnt own centurions. Say it with me.  SAF owns GUNDAMS and MECHWARRIORS.

Any tank with the right armour package can resist RPG/IED/ATGM  if at least once.

want to know more?

http://www.mindef.gov.sg/arc/main.asp

We dont own centurions. Period.

On the other hand, we have those lot of dust free prestine condition Gundams. So why bother with something irrelevant and ask about Gundams instead?

? Naturally you will be foolish to even ask how our Gundams and (yes! gasp!) Mechwarriors will perform if we send them to war? They will obliterate everything and anything in their path of course.

If you are talking Ultra, the 40/50 is iron sight. No ROWS for 40/50 on Ultra.

the OWSs comes with a GPMG as coaxial.

SM1 is GPMG coaxial + GPMG commander

Maybe you are a spy?  You make such dumb posts to lower our guard(and intelligence) so that we can spew out secrets and yak?

Ha. Espionage is not something that occurs on occasion. It's happening everyday, all the time ceaselessly, rain or shine from people near AND far.

You should know better when you are doing Gduty... Oh wait..i forgot.

Indeed, technology has slightly even the odds of the aggressor by allow them to have more consistent first strikes. The problem is to not fight "yesterday's war". Surely while two conflicts are similar, they are never the same.

Air superiority is a requirement but the ground battles decide the outcome of the war. Often, we learn from mistakes because someone has paid the price for our lesson. The slew of technologies being brought forth over the past few years have mostly been a result of the war in Iraq - urban warfare, US + Israel now have a huge store of knowledge to learn from the many years which they face these problems of insurgents hiding amongst civilian in build up areas.

*cough* I ramble to much.  Without much personal experience, i doubt the practicality of UAVs should the environment be that of thick vegetation (compared to desert/urban)  Everyone knows that noise travels very far in the forest which can be masked in the daily urban setting. Radios dont work as well, rain, mud hides warning lines, pits, mines and booby traps( those who build them dont even have to be in the area once these are set up);  Comparable but lower end equipment procured in larger numbers, including their own UAVs, sensors and C2/3/4i.

That's the difficulty of the problems faced to keep up the edge over would be opponents in the region. I suppose this is the battlefield which we face in the 21st century.

aiyah read already enough. i will just ...

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ST, dont overdo it... you are pasting peektures like LN does..  Icky man but good job.

Dont worry so much of our PBs, one boat down and the checkbook will open for typhoons to be installed.

The idea of terriorists werent designed as such when the PBs were used.

Pretty sure we can look forward to a fleet renewal (oh the horror!) during the next naval splurge to buy modern PBs that are more suitable for today's threats. We might even just build our own. Worst come to worst build enlarged protectors and mount a chaingun on it with all the accompanying bells and whistles.