Posted on 02/22/2022 4:29:29 AM PST by servo1969
Ping.
I highly doubt that there would be anything game changing available from those facilities in time. Word has it that most of those capabilities were massively defunded around 2008-2010 (gee, I wonder why) and that the well is basically dry.
A lot of that kind of stuff got canned when the Australians discovered that you actually *can* see a stealth craft entering your territory on radar. Not well enough to get a missile lock, but well enough to vector fighters or UAVs to go say hi.
The F-16’s had a ton of upgrades and there’s been yet another round of them... which we didn’t buy.
Among other things, like the “got rid of all the amphibs” thing too, yes. The 2018 story I linked to show what the idea was, the 2022 story was the latest news.
I was always slightly amazed that the “cann bird” B-52 that we had for our wing flew again after so much stuff was cann’d out of it. But they did!
Diversity DIVERSITY! has the same ring as Festival FESTIVAL!!!
In 1975, when I was at Lackland AFB in Basic Training I sat in bleachers at an afternoon baseball game with a large group of Iranian students. I was amazed to hear that almost everyone of them were relatives of the Shah of Iran. They even seemed to have their own impromptu social hierarchy from the closest relative on down. They seemed like a great group of guys though, male and female.
At the outbreak of WWII we had General George C. Marshall. Now we have Gen. Mark Milley. The difference between those two men in that office is stunning.
One or two 155mm or 5-inch.
When my brother was in the AF he told me that the only thing that didn’t suck was the vacuum cleaners.
Yup, but they’re autoloaders with deep magazines. In Europe there’s a trend to a new 3 inch standard with super-high performance rounds on destroyers and frigates - they can actually put more metal or HE on target per minute than the 5 inchers.
I didn’t think of the auto-loader angle. That would change the standard of living on the beach.
Yup, it does. The manually loaded M777 155mm/6.1” ‘lightweight’ towed howitzer has an average rate of fire of 2 rounds per minute with a ‘sprint’ burst rate of 7 rounds per minute with a very fresh crew.
The Mk45 127mm/5” 54 caliber Mod 4 gun on late-mark Burke class destroyers has a *sustained* 16-20 rounds per minute rate of fire, and it can continue that rate of fire until the ship runs out of ammo or the barrel overheats.
The new Constellation-class foreign-designed frigates the Navy is going to be building has as its base option a 57mm gun, but it’s not exactly weak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors_57_mm_Naval_Automatic_Gun_L/70
They are looking to see if it can fit a 3” or 5” class gun.
Even though your dad flew this BUFF, it ain’t your father’s Air Force no more.
5.56mm
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