Of course, I am sure that old Soviet Porn probably featured THIS woman:
Posted on 10/29/2015 11:59:58 AM PDT by tcrlaf
Two Russian warplanes flew within one mile of the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, forcing the U.S. Navy to launch four fighter jets in response Tuesday, a Navy spokesman told Fox News.
The USS Reagan was sailing in international waters east of the Korean peninsula, Stars and Stripes reports. It adds that the U.S. is currently engaged in joint military exercises with South Korea.
The Russian "Bear Bombers" approached the aircraft carrier at an elevation of 500 feet Tuesday morning, according to Navy spokesman Commander William Marks. He said U.S. F/A-18 Super Hornets escorted the Russian planes as they transited out of the area.
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Of course, I am sure that old Soviet Porn probably featured THIS woman:
I figured the technology in radar was incredible by now and they would know hundredx of miles away if something is coming. I must be way off.
It’s a good thing Fredo Dogeater is flexible
Given current National Command Authority and how the military’s been ‘reorganized’ - I wouldn’t be surprised if the planes *weren’t* in the air well in advance.
To replace Phalanx’s anti-RHIB capability on surface combatants and amphibs (but not the CVNs yet) we’ve been putting those stabilized, EO targeted (Mk.38 Mod 2) 25mm Bushmaster mounts onto the ships.
They should have splashed one of them.
Radar actually hasn’t gotten all that much better in the last 25 years, it’s just gotten miniaturized. The last big advance in it was AESA - Active Electronically Scanned Array. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_electronically_scanned_array
Essentially, with some exceptions made for exotic configurations, radar is still line of sight which is the big limitation for surface combatants. The only way to extend your radar range with a mobile unit at this point is to stick a big radar system on a plane, which is what the AWACS and JSTARS systems are. Then, yes, you can see things hundreds of miles away.
Over The Horizon radar is possible but they’re non-mobile while in use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar
The ones that got the axe with the sequestration? Those Typhoon Weapon Systems?
They don’t fly with external ordinance hanging and they don’t approach with their bomb doors open. Either one will likely get them shot down if they’re on an intercept course with the Carrier. I’ve heard that when intercepted in certain situations they open their bomb doors to show nothing is inside. I don’t know.
I’ve used to have pictures from F14 Tarps flights with closeups of Russian intercepts, with and without bomb doors open and one with a Russian airman flipping off the good old USA from a windows in the Vertical tail section.
A U.S carrier can get two intercepts up in 5 minutes and an additional two in 15 minutes or somebodies head rolls.
The symbolism is not lost—after all Ronald Reagan was the architect of the fall of the Soviet Union.
This is blown all out of proportion. The Tu-95 “bear” is a 60-year-old, 450 knot turboprop as big as a 767. I have no doubt it was spotted by the E-2D on patrol at least 150 miles from the CBG. That they came within a mile at 500 AGL was just a stunt. Had they had their targeting radar on they would have been splashed long before that. After all, the open ocean is what the US Navy seeks to protect.
I love learning on this board. 47 isnt too old to learn new things. :) i actually typed a list of what i remembered. Thanks.
This must have been extremely recently because the Navy was making a big deal over how the RAM launchers made Phalanx ‘unneeded’ when the Reagan launched.
i guess that’s possible too. Disgusting thought.
Actually, in the late 70's the "convention" was we got three photo passes ("rigs" - never did find out what that meant).
We'd do a starboard rig, a port rig and an overhead rig on their ships (this was in a P-3).
The one time things got out of hand was a camera malfunction on the overhead run on a Krivak frigate (IIRC). We headed in for a fourth run and got a red flare shot across our nose for our trouble. Broke off and left him alone. This was Cold War era and rules were rules...
The B-52 is a bomber that’s about as old. Nobody in their right mind thinks it’s not a threat when it’s flying around in an area either.
This is Obama’s new politically correct Navy. He’s already known to have issued orders to not have AWACS up at all times for ‘sensitive’ waters.
The latest Russian missiles don’t require the launcher to even *have* radar aboard - they actually will go looking for the carrier themselves or can be targeted after launch (optical/IR/radar) via datalinks back to the launching craft.
IF this report is true and Russian bombers got within a mile of our carrier, then the Navy should consider $shit-canning the captain. They don’t have to be within 20 miles to drop missiles that would put that carrier on the seabed. You DON’T EVER let any aircraft other than known friendlies get that close. WTF, was the captain playing solitaire on his i-Phone?
No, I’m thinking of the ones that are already out there. Not the Mod 0s, which are manually aimed but the EO/Remote Mod 2s.
They were most prominantly seen on the last batch of Perrys in service, where they were on a platform above the hole for the deactivated single-arm missile launcher.
I wonder if our young pilots will start having contests for the best weekly snapshot of Russian crewmembers flipping them off or mooning them like their fathers and grandfathers used to do.
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