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Kamov Ka-52 · Oct 3, 2019

Looks like Bell's design for the FARA contest is in, it looks strikingly similar the to the RAH-66 imo.

Bell unshrouds Invictus, its answer for the US Army’s future attack recon aircraft

The Bell 360 Invictus is the company's submission for the future attack reconnaissance aircraft, and it's not a tilt rotor.

www.defensenews.com

https://archive.is/8UIWf

Scandinadian Bacon · Oct 3, 2019

Kamov Ka-52 said:
Looks like Bell's design for the FARA contest is in, it looks strikingly similar the to the RAH-66 imo.

Bell unshrouds Invictus, its answer for the US Army’s future attack recon aircraft

The Bell 360 Invictus is the company's submission for the future attack reconnaissance aircraft, and it's not a tilt rotor.

www.defensenews.com

https://archive.li/8UIWf

They need to add a high-res texture pack to their Crysis install and turn down the motion blur.

Slappy McGherkin · Oct 4, 2019

YW 525 said:
An A-10C Thunderbolt II on a training mission accidentally fired a rocket near Tucson early Thursday, Sept. 5.

Davis-Monthan said the rocket, a M-156, hit an uninhabited and remote area near Mount Graham. D-M said it happened in the Jackal Military Operations Area, which is located approximately 60 miles northeast of Tucson.

The M-156 has a warhead that emits smoke and is usually used for targeting, according to several sources.

I drive through the Barry Goldwater range fairly often. It's always fun to stop and watch the A-10s making tank runs and dropping smoke bombs. Quite often, you can catch the F-16s from Luke playing chase through the mountains towards the Ajo side. While the northern part of the range is mostly scrub desert, the southern part of the range mimics the kind of terrain you'd see in Afghanistan. I've always wanted to go exploring on the range itself (it's huge), but it's a BIG DEAL if you get caught. There's still unexploded ordinance out there from WWII.

How big the range is:

Stoneheart · Oct 4, 2019

nothing on saudis ordering a bunch of weapons?

BONE_Buddy · Dec 5, 2019

Navy Awards $22B Contract to Electric Boat, Newport News Shipbuilding for 9 Block V Virginia Subs - USNI News

THE PENTAGON – The Navy signed its largest shipbuilding contract ever, awarding a $22.2-billion contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding for nine Virginia-class Block V attack submarines. The contract award comes amid a flurry of...

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THE PENTAGON – The Navy signed its largest shipbuilding contract ever, awarding a $22.2-billion contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat and Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding for nine Virginia-class Block V attack submarines.

The contract award comes amid a flurry of activity in nuclear shipbuilding, with common suppliers trying to balance the start of the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program, a two-ship buy in the Ford-class aircraft carrier program and the transition of the Virginia program from the Block IV design to Block V, which adds in acoustic superiority enhancements and 28 Tomahawk missile tubes. The Navy has long said the Columbia SSBN program is its top priority in the coming years, but the fleet desperately needs more attack submarines as well.

“Our whole philosophy going into this is, get Virginia as a stable foundation which then we can build Columbia on top of,” James Geurts, the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition, told reporters today.
“We really wanted to make sure we had, from both sides, a balanced, stable foundation; showed our commitment to the industrial base; showed our commitment to our suppliers; showed our commitment to the workforce – from that, then we can add Columbia on top.”

Though the Navy, industry and lawmakers had previously expressed interest in expanding this Block V contract beyond the previously planned 10 submarines – with talk of options for as many as 13 boats at one point – the contract covers nine boats with an option for a 10th. All would include the acoustic superiority upgrades, and all but the first boat – SSN-802, which is already under construction – would include the Virginia Payload Module that adds the 28 missile tubes. If the option for the 10th sub were exercised, the total contract value would come to more than $24 billion.

Geurts told reporters the negotiations were so lengthy – wrapping up last month, after an expected April contract award – “so we both could get into a place where we’re comfortable. So getting into a two-per-year cadence in a way that we could also execute that during Columbia. I think it was a lot of hard work on both sides to get to a place where we had shared risk, shared reward, and that’s kind of ultimately why we’ve put one of the boats as an option price, so that we could, if performance warrants as we see it, we can add a 10th boat in there; if not, we can back off a little to make sure Columbia is successful.”

Geurts said the upcoming Fiscal Year 2021 budget request would show more of the planned submarine acquisition and delivery schedule within Block V, but he said the option was written so that it could be executed in any year the Navy chooses, if the service can secure funding for the boat.

Though the fate of the 10th sub is unclear at the moment, the suppliers in the Virginia-class program will still be paid to deliver 10 ship sets of goods under the contract, to keep their workloads stable as they move towards a massive increase in work as the Columbia program comes online. The Columbia SSBN relies on many of the same suppliers – prime contractors Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding, major suppliers like Lockheed Martin and L3, and thousands of small businesses scattered across the country – as the Virginia-class SSNs, and ensuring a smooth ramp-up of workload for those suppliers is key.

Rear Adm. David Goggins, the program executive officer for submarines, told reporters during the media roundtable today that the contract includes $455 million for material for the possible 10th boat.

“From a vendor base perspective, they’re seeing 10 ships,” which allows them to stay on their planned workload ramp-up without disruption.

“Our whole idea on the supply base was, order 10 ship sets so we didn’t have to renegotiate supplier agreements. That’s what they were planning to build to with Columbia, so from the supply base, we’ve tried to really minimize the impact to them,” Geurts added.
“They’re such a vital part of our ability to deliver these submarines. It’s all about a stable foundation – so in our best interest, that was providing a stable foundation, and we’ll always have a use for that equipment on a follow-on Block VI” submarine, if the Navy doesn’t end up awarding the option for a 10th Block V boat and using the material then.

Though the contract for nine or 10 submarines takes care of industrial base concerns and balancing risk between the Virginia and Columbia submarine programs, it doesn’t directly address fleet concerns: chiefly, that the combatant commanders need more attack submarines than they have access to. The Navy is facing a decrease in submarine inventory in coming years before the numbers eventually rise again and reach the requirement – 66 attack subs – in 2048, according to inventory predictions in the FY 2020 shipbuilding plan.

Goggins said he’s pleased with the balance struck between operator needs and builders’ bandwidth.

“To me, it was the overall balance between Virginia, Columbia and the Ford programs. The considerations were the technical risk, the industrial base capability and capacity, and the fleet requirements. So this is really the right balanced approach from a fleet perspective,” the rear admiral said.

Though the contract won’t cover as many new boats as previously hoped, the Navy is making a concerted effort to get its new submarines into the hands of operators faster. Goggins said the time from start of construction to the boat being turned over to the fleet – including construction, subsequent testing and then the post-shakedown availability – has decreased by three and a half years over the life of the Virginia program. He added the ships are being built to a much higher quality and receiving much better scores during sea trials – the last boat, the future Delaware (SSN-791), scored a “pretty phenomenal” .96 in its late October trials – which means less work to be done after commissioning, and therefore a faster turnaround time before the crew can get onboard and start taking on missions.

“The crews are ready” upon ship delivery, Goggins, said, and “we’ve had a couple submarines, shortly after delivery they’ve gone on tasking as directed by the fleet commander.”

Guerts said that, in addition to the faster turnaround time, “now we’re adding lethality” through the acoustic superiority upgrades and the Virginia Payload Module, “to ensure not only are they getting the ship they need, they’re getting it with more fire power, with a more competitive comparative advantage.”

-End of Article-

While the surface fleet has had a lot of issues, and I mean a lot of issues. The Silent Service has maintained a high level of quality, and has mitigated ballooning costs.

The problem they they are going to be facing very soon is the lack of workforce. The low unemployment rate, the retiring workforce of the 1990s and earlier, and increase in size of the submarines mean that they are having workforce problems. Point being, if you need a job, get yourself to a vocational school and you will have a guaranteed one at the shipyards.

Anyway, this block buy is good news.

BONE_Buddy · Dec 29, 2019

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The Navy this month announced that its new anti-ship missile reached early operational capability with the F/A-18 fighter in August.

The Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile can deliver a 1,000-pound penetrating warhead at a range of up to 500 nautical miles and has a unique sensor and targeting system to hone in on targets in even the most contested environments.

The newest weapon in the Navy's arsenal is ready for action.

The Navy last week announced that the service's new AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) achieved early operational capability with the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet in August, a major milestone for the air-launched cruise missile.

The LRASM previously achieved EOC with the B-1B Lancer bomber back in December 2018.

Conceived by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as a replacement for the AGM-88 Harpoon anti-ship missile, the LRASM can deliver a 1,000-pound penetrating warhead at a range of up to 500 nautical miles, according to USNI News.

More importantly, the LRASM comes with a unique sensor and targeting system designed to hone in on targets in even the most contested environments, a system that includes "enhanced digital anti-jam GPS to support precision routing, guidance, and terminal homing in all weather conditions, day or night," per Jane's 360.

"LRASM is designed to detect and destroy specific targets within groups of ships by employing advanced technologies that reduce dependence on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms, network links and GPS navigation in contested environments," according to Lockheed Martin. "LRASM will play a significant role in ensuring military access to operate in open ocean/blue waters, owing to its enhanced ability to discriminate and conduct tactical engagements from extended ranges."

Thanks to this design, LRASM "can be sent to attack enemy task forces, skirting around air defense radars it detects and plotting the least-defended way forward," as Popular Mechanics explains. "Once it locates the enemy fleet, it can pick out a specific target and attack a specific part of the target—say, the location of the ship's combat information center, or the ship's gun or missile magazine."

With these capabilities, the LRASM "will play a significant role in ensuring military access to operate in the Pacific and in the littorals by providing a long range surface warfare capability," Naval Air Systems Command told Naval News, which first learned of the weapon's status.

Indeed, the LRASM's EOC declaration couldn't get here soon enough. With the US now focusing on "great power competition" with Russia and China after 18 years of land-based counterterrorism operations in the Middle East, the Navy's anti-ship capabilities have been in dire need of a refresh.

According to USNI News, the LRASM could eventually end up a fixture of the Air Force B-52 Stratofortress and the Navy P-8A Poseidon.

A US Air Force crew member moves a Long Range Anti-Ship Missile for a test flight at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, February 2015.

A Long Range Anti-Ship Missile launches from an Air Force B-1B Lancer during flight testing in August 2013

-End of Article-

Strong warhead, long enough range to stay out of anti-air nets, from all reports I have seen it has accurate guidance in most all conditions, is harder to track than other anti-ship systems short of a torpedo, and a unit cost of $3 Million dollars. Overall, a pretty damn good missile.

Wesley Willis · Dec 29, 2019

How many naval conflicts have we been involved with in the last 50 years?

Rat Speaker · Dec 29, 2019

Wesley Willis said:
How many naval conflicts have we been involved with in the last 50 years?

We as in the United States or we as in Kiwi Farms?

BONE_Buddy · Dec 29, 2019

Wesley Willis said:
How many naval conflicts have we been involved with in the last 50 years?

Wars and Conflicts of the United States Navy

Overviews of Naval History Dates in American Naval History A list of notable dates in naval history, arranged by month and day. History of the United States Navy by Michael A. Palmer. Used by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Macmillan from Encyclopedia of the...

www.history.navy.mil

Lots of little stuff, as in nothing as big as the world wars.

76LD910 · Dec 29, 2019

Wesley Willis said:
How many naval conflicts have we been involved with in the last 50 years?

The only noteworthy one is Iran.

But we keep these technologies up to date for near-peer engagements, because we can't just magic them out if thin air should the need arise.

Splendid · Dec 29, 2019

Rat Speaker said:
We as in the United States or we as in Kiwi Farms?

I hit someone with my boat once.

Mike Stoklasa · Feb 16, 2020

Hey! Check this project out:

DARPA’s Gunslinger is a missile with a gun for CAS and air-to-air engagements – Alert 5

BONE_Buddy · Feb 18, 2020

An a more in depth look here:

DARPA Wants Millions To Design An Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger Program

Budget documents describe a gun-armed "missile" that would be able to engage multiple targets, either on the ground or in the air.

www.thedrive.com

Feb 18, 2020

BONE_Buddy said:
An a more in depth look here:

DARPA Wants Millions To Design An Unmanned 'Flying Gun' Under Its New Gunslinger Program

Budget documents describe a gun-armed "missile" that would be able to engage multiple targets, either on the ground or in the air.

www.thedrive.com

Interesting. So I guess the purpose of this thing is partly to increase the number of helicopters, light boats, etc, a fighter aircraft can engage, and partly to justify not having actual close air support aircraft. But mostly to justify not having actual close air support aircraft

Mike Stoklasa · Feb 18, 2020

3119967d0c said:
Interesting. So I guess the purpose of this thing is partly to increase the number of helicopters, light boats, etc, a fighter aircraft can engage, and partly to justify not having actual close air support aircraft. But mostly to justify not having actual close air support aircraft

I expect American missiles to be having gunfights with Russian missiles before I die.

Shadfan666xxx000 · Mar 12, 2020

Looks like we have super artillery

The Army is ‘making artillery great again’

The Army plans to have a battalion's worth fielded by 2023.

www.armytimes.com

The Army is ‘making artillery great again’
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The Army completed its test of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery system (ERCA), hitting a target over 40 miles away.

YUMA PROVING GROUND, Ariz. – More than two dozen people, soldiers and military contractors, fill the ‘mission command’ room here on a Friday morning. The terrace style seating ensured everyone had a view of the five large screen TVs stitched together at the front.
Each screen showed a different view of the event in real time. An improved Paladin, self-propelled howitzer, this one is known as ‘Prototype Zero,’ because it is the first to employ all the improvements needed to more than double the range of the cannon, was about to launch a guided 155 mm projectile over 65 km in about four minutes to strike an tan sport utility vehicle alone on the Arizona desert.
High-speed cameras with the weapon capture the firing after countdown and follow the round into the air as it spins toward its target. Another digital display uses a series of radars to track the flight path while the round hurtles beyond 50,000 feet altitude.
Another 166 cars are backed up on highway 95, which had also been closed down as it skirts the test range area. Though this round is guided, and its path only parallels the highway, a misguided shot could do serious damage should it stray off course and strike a passing minivan.
On screen, the Paladin cannon roared, the muzzle flashed and the spinning 155mm projectile launched on its path.

Cameras caught it mid-flight as radars began to track its flight overhead as the tan-colored Chevrolet suburban sat on the other end of that flight path. Minutes later, a voice began a 10-second countdown to impact.
As the round landed within 1 meter of the Suburban, the room erupted in cheers, the culmination of more than 18 months of planning, tooling and tinkering bringing dreams of the Extended Range Cannon Artillery program another step closer to reality.
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Or, as the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. Joseph Martin said, “We’re making artillery great again.”
Shortly after launching the first round, the crew loaded and launched the XM1113 Rocket Assisted Projectile the same 65km distance, officials said.
The ERCA program is one of a handful of Long Range Precision Fires pieces that the Army expects to use to outgun, outrange and outmatch Russia and China and anyone else on a future battlefield. They’re also building a strategic cannon that could reach out to 1,000 km with the type of weapon that used to be carried only by ships or on rails.

Troopers from the Field Artillery Support Squadron, 3rd Cavalry Regiment, support Iraqi army operations with artillery fires from their M777A2 Howitzers. (2nd Lt. Jamie Douglas/Army)

Return of fires: How the Army is getting back to its big guns as it prepares for the near-peer fight
From guns to formations to soldiers, the Army is finding old and new ways to bring back some big firepower.
Todd South
They’re improving missile firing capabilities and volume.
But for the ground-level soldier, some of the most tangible work is likely to be found in the ERCA program. That’s because it puts between 70km and perhaps as far as 100km-range targets within reach of a brigade combat team within a message or radio call away.
While the engineers, researchers and technicians figure out how to squeeze more kilometers from a round that’s been in service for a century, others are figuring out how it will change battlefield tactics.
Currently, divisions supporting brigade combat teams have to call on rocket forces, outside units or airpower to deliver firepower at more than 60km. That limits what’s available for those brigades to move around the battlefield.
“It comes down to providing them additional range capability at the division level,” Martin said.

The plan is to have a battalion of these longer range howitzers, protected, mobile and with autoloaders that more than double the firing rate at the fingertips of division commanders to support those brigades.
And that dream isn’t far from reality.
Further testing is needed but the Army expects to have 18 prototypes to field to battalions by 2023.
Later this year, another demonstration called “Project Convergence,” also at Yuma Proving Ground, will showcase a small slice of target recognition and acquisition through sensors and artificial intelligence that then sends its data to the shooter.
That’s the ultimate goal for the combined fires and networks projects, connecting all available sensors with all shooters so that the right weapon can be used to take out a target on command.
And, Martin said, the use of AI and sensor technology will shorten the feedback for commanders to seconds rather than minutes on the battlefield.
The work to harden the Paladin, add a longer cannon and make other modifications are turning the self-propelled howitzer into a movable piece of weaponry that’s also protected.

The standard towed 155mm howitzer will continue firing its conventional-range munitions for shorter-distance missions. But the ERCA Paladin adds much needed range to the fight.
Brig. Gen. John Rafferty heads the Army’s Long Range Precision Fires Cross Functional Team, which houses the ERCA program, is simultaneously developing the Precision Strike Missile and the Strategic Long Range Cannon to go even deeper with fires.
But even the ERCA program isn’t stopping at the 70km range, Rafferty said. There are opportunities to stretch the boundary to 100km, with further testing and technologies.
In the next few months, Rafferty said, the Army will likely select the unit that will receive the 18 prototype cannons in 2023. That will help them further develop and refine the platform and how it’s used.
And those additions, longer ranges, mobile platforms and higher volume of fires, mean that the fires community, from the artillery schools to the Fires Center of Excellence, need to determine how they best fit in the future battle plan.
The Army is developing doctrine for those cannoneers, who will be a bigger part of the fight than they have been even in recent artillery deployments to the Middle East. Section chiefs and cannoneers will have to learn new procedures while commanders will develop and practice new techniques for how to use the artillery.
And once the autoloader is added in, logistics and supply are crucial.
That’s because the system will be designed to fire as many as 10 rounds per minute with a magazine of 30 rounds. meaning the magazine could be empty in a matter of minutes and in need of a reload.
While the autoloader means less strain on the individual soldier feeding rounds and likely a smaller crew on the platform, the job will still be demanding.
“When we think about automation, it’s not about making life easier for soldiers,” Rafferty said. “Life’s always going to be hard for the soldiers.
It’s just going to be a different set of challenges.
But, Rafferty said, the Army doesn’t have to look too far back into its history to see where artillery formations provided what are known as “general support” fires from 8-inch cannons to rockets used in formation during the Cold War, when the United States anticipated slugging it out with Russia over long distances in Europe.
Right now, he added that all of the general support cannon artillery for the Army is in the Army National Guard. While it isn’t a bad thing to have that asset in the Guard, it might not be best to have all of it reside there, he noted.
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BONE_Buddy · Mar 12, 2020

Yeah, the XM1299 and the long tube guns, looks very promising.

Then of course there is this beast:

Photos Surface Of The Army's Crazy 1,000 Mile Range Supergun Concept: Here's What We Know

The Army says the super-long-range cannon could help engage targets deep inside hostile territory and blow apart an opponent's defenses.

www.thedrive.com

And this:

Marines Set To Be The First To Bring Back Land-Based Tomahawk Missiles Post-INF Treaty

The Marine Corps wants to use the ground-launched cruise missiles primarily as long-range anti-ship weapons.

www.thedrive.com

thx1138 · Mar 12, 2020

Look I don't want war with anybody but I'm not going to lie, that 1000 mi. range arty piece is dead sexy and presuming it works as advertised, I hope it gets bought in large quantities. Imagine parking one of these bad boys in Poland and telling Moscow to come get some.

Also, I was thinking about this last night, how cool would it be to build a naval vessel around them and revive the battleship concept? At least for shore bombardment.

Splendid · Mar 12, 2020

thx1138 said:
Also, I was thinking about this last night, how cool would it be to build a naval vessel around them and revive the battleship concept? At least for shore bombardment.

Oh my God. That was the Marines' plan all along.

BONE_Buddy · Mar 12, 2020

thx1138 said:
Look I don't want war with anybody but I'm not going to lie, that 1000 mi. range arty piece is dead sexy and presuming it works as advertised, I hope it gets bought in large quantities. Imagine parking one of these bad boys in Poland and telling Moscow to come get some.

Also, I was thinking about this last night, how cool would it be to build a naval vessel around them and revive the battleship concept? At least for shore bombardment.

I agree.

The age of the heavily armored battleship is over unfortunately.

However, the age of shore bombardment railguns is right around the corner. I could see us tooling up a cruiser size hull with a nuclear power-plant, and a section of large caliber electro-magnetic cannons.

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