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13 years ago @ Defense Tech - Pentagon Inks Sweethea... · 0 replies · +3 points

Good point. I would hope so.

13 years ago @ Defense Tech - Naval Artillery, PLA S... · 1 reply · +4 points

Obviously Photo shopped. Also how effective would this actually be? The fire control on those artillery pieces would have a hard time accounting for the motions on a ship. I would assume modern naval weapons are plugged into the ship with gryos / heading / speeds etc.

13 years ago @ Defense Tech - Time to Think 'Horizon... · 0 replies · -1 points

I would suspect you can't cost justifiy a system like this as compared to a standard missile. Arclight seems a better, and more realistic option for that.

13 years ago @ Defense Tech - Time to Think 'Horizon... · 0 replies · +1 points

You would use substantially less rocket fuel. Less weight and parts going into orbit, the spacecraft would be simpler in ways. Launch is far more complex but it sounds like a solid plan. Just need to advance the tech a bit more.

13 years ago @ Defense Tech - Taiwan Builds Missile ... · 4 replies · +14 points

6 Batteries? Do you even know what a battery is? Lets assume full batteries of 8 launches each. Each launcher can hold up to 4 pac-2 or 16 pac-3s. So in a pack 3 configuration 6 batteries could hold up to 768 missiles. But most likely your going to have a mix of Pac-2 / pac-3 as each has its own strengths. But at a minimum 6 batteries would have 192 availible missiles. Plus the ability to repenlish.

Taiwain already has patriot batteries from previous orders. Perhaps not a perfect shield, but its not insignificant either.

13 years ago @ Defense Tech - What Do You Call an IE... · 0 replies · +8 points

Sounds like this came from an engineering brainstorm session. Essentially trying to tackle a problem by using an unlikely approach. How can you conquer an IED threat? Armor or mobility, this is an examination of mobility, as armor is being throughly exhausted.

I highly doubt the program manager sees this become a production program, but the funding should help establish if there is any merit in the concept. With all the money being put into HEAVIER and HEAVIER vehicles exploring a complete alternative (light and mobile) seems prudent risk mitigation

13 years ago @ Defense Tech - What Do You Call an IE... · 0 replies · +3 points

http://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/tx/index.html

"The Transformer (TX) vehicle program will examine the feasibility and approaches for developing vertical take-off and landing....and can be operated by a typical soldier"

13 years ago @ DoD Buzz - Last $5B Tac Missile C... · 0 replies · +1 points

Ray and Lock are together for GMB (Ground Based Missile Defense)

Ray / Boeing are together for JAGM.

13 years ago @ Defense Tech - Iran Claims It Has Obt... · 2 replies · +2 points

Agreed, I believe Raytheon recently have been during refurbs on Saudi Hawks as they had degraded over the years. Think of computers from the seventies... How long does your current computer stay functional? Try that with 70's tech.

13 years ago @ Defense Tech - Iran Claims It Has Obt... · 0 replies · 0 points

It could actually just be four missiles that they bought under the table to try and reverse engineer. Still without the radars and tracking computers this doesn't seem much of a threat.

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