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lørdag 31. oktober 2020
Hypersonisk - Treffsikkert fra USA - AW&ST
Common Hypersonic Glide Body. Credit: Steve Trimble/AW&ST
U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy on Oct.13 said the accuracy of hypersonic missiles now in development is within half a foot of targets.
McCarthy’s remarks during a keynote speech at the Association of the U.S. Army’s virtual annual meeting appear to confirm the previously unannounced accuracy results from the Flight Experiment (FE)-2 test on March 19 of the Block 0 Common Hypersonic Glide Body (CHGB). FE-2 marked the first and only test of a hypersonic glide vehicle since the Navy’s FE-1 test in November 2017.
“Hypersonic missiles are hitting their targets with a variance of only a mere 6 in.,” McCarthy said.
That comment slightly conflicts with general accuracy data from hypersonic missile tests cited by President Trump in a commencement address at West Point in June.
Trump described “a hypersonic missile that goes 17 times faster than the fastest missile currently available in the world and can hit a target 1,000 mi. away within 14 in. from center point.”
CNN subsequently confirmed that the hypersonic missile Trump was referring to was the CHGB, which is the rocket-boosted glider for the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon and the Navy’s Intermediate Range Conventional Prompt Strike missiles. It was never clear what Trump meant by saying the missile is “17 times faster” than the fastest missile, unless perhaps he was referring only subsonic cruise missiles.
But the half-foot accuracy is impressive for a long-range weapon that is able to maneuver within the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. It also may suggest the weapon lacks a warhead capable of producing a large area of damage or destruction, so that level of accuracy is necessary.
The Army plans to field an operational prototype of the LRHW in fiscal 2023. The next flight test, scheduled next year, will integrate the CHGB on a newly designed, 34.5-in.-dia. booster stack for the first time.
Sjekk av Catalina vingebelastning - Twitter
Is that bending...or is it my imagination?
Members of 6 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force test the wing loading on one of their Consolidated Catalina flying boats. The photo was taken in 1944 at Halavo, in the Solomon Isles.
Israel får kjøpe F-22 Asharq Al-Awsat
Noen antyder at dette må godkjennes av Kongressen, men det gjelder ikke for Trump. LM production line er stengt for lenge siden, så her er det spekulasjoner om den skal åpnes for å bygge nye fly for USA og å selge noen gamle til Israel. (Red.)
Trump approves selling F-22 Raptor to Israel —
report
Newspaper says US is okaying sale
of the advanced stealth aircraft to maintain the Jewish state’s military
superiority, after announcing plans to sell F-35s to UAE
By TOI STAFFToday, 7:47 am
Illustrative: Two US Air Force F-22
Raptors fly over Syria, February 2, 2018. (Air National Guard/ Staff Sgt.
Colton Elliott via Department of Defense)
US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper told Israeli
officials during a visit to Israel this week that the
Trump administration has approved selling F-22 stealth fighters to the
Jewish state, according to a Friday report.
US President Donald Trump okayed the sale of the F-22
Raptor and precision-guided bombs to Israel, the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper reported, citing senior sources in Tel Aviv.
fredag 30. oktober 2020
Ubåt - Svenskene "senket" USS Ronald Reagan flere ganger under øvelse i Stillehavet i 2005 - Twitter video
USN hadde leid inn en da topp moderne ubåt med det formål å angripe en såkalt Task Force utenfor San Diego. En Task Force, nå Battle Group, består av et hangarskip med eskorte- og størttefartøyer. USS Ronald Reagan var en moderne atomdrevet monster av et hangarskip, og amerikanerne ble rett og slett sjokkert over svenskene og deres konvensjonelle undervannsbåt av Gotland klassen. Det spesielle med fartøyet var at det var blant de aller første ubåtene med såkalt AIP, Air Independent Propulsion. Systemet basert på Sterling prinsippet er en måte å gjøre det på. I dag er muligens hydrogenbaserte brennselceller det mest brukte systemet. Her er en video som forklarer Sterling prinsippet veldig godt. Og ikke minst, hvor sjokkerte amerikanerne ble. De leide inn Gotland for ytterligere et år. USN har ingen operative konvensjonelle ubåter per i dag.
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