The South China Sea's Gathering Storm
Calling BS on the lost sub. Unless it a polluted atmosphere like chlorine or flurine as an example. No way that 6 hours with no oxygen production would kill over half the crew between chemical oxygen generators and CO2 scrubbers. 6 hours would be total non event
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Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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AW&ST:
https://aviationweek.com/defense-spa...nter-hellscape
Invade Taiwan? Encounter A ‘Hellscape’
A new operational concept within the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command proposes to use a horde of drones to turn the Taiwan Strait into a “hellscape” if China attempts to invade Taiwan.
To realize that vision, the Defense Department has created several new efforts to solve the industrial, bureaucratic and command-and-control issues posed by unleashing thousands of drones simultaneously into the air, water and land around the roughly 100-nm channel between mainland China and Taiwan.
The multiple projects, including the Pentagon’s recently announced Replicator and DARPA’s Rapid Experimental Missionized Autonomy (REMA) programs, seek to enhance and accelerate the programs of record already underway by each of the armed services to field tens of thousands of drones—including uncrewed air vehicles (UAV), uncrewed surface vessels (USV) and uncrewed ground vehicles—in the next several years…..
https://aviationweek.com/defense-spa...nter-hellscape
Invade Taiwan? Encounter A ‘Hellscape’
A new operational concept within the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command proposes to use a horde of drones to turn the Taiwan Strait into a “hellscape” if China attempts to invade Taiwan.
To realize that vision, the Defense Department has created several new efforts to solve the industrial, bureaucratic and command-and-control issues posed by unleashing thousands of drones simultaneously into the air, water and land around the roughly 100-nm channel between mainland China and Taiwan.
The multiple projects, including the Pentagon’s recently announced Replicator and DARPA’s Rapid Experimental Missionized Autonomy (REMA) programs, seek to enhance and accelerate the programs of record already underway by each of the armed services to field tens of thousands of drones—including uncrewed air vehicles (UAV), uncrewed surface vessels (USV) and uncrewed ground vehicles—in the next several years…..
ORAC, thanks for the article/summary.
As to the various spokesmen: Why is this being discussed in open sources?
Do they believe that this will act as a deterrent, big talk?
As to the various spokesmen: Why is this being discussed in open sources?
Do they believe that this will act as a deterrent, big talk?
Follow-up Mail article suggesting that all hands were lost, and that Chinese subs of this type may not have back-up CO2 scrubbers.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...elated-replace
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...elated-replace
Reported by Bloomberg news service. At least they didn't run into the plane as happened with an American P-3 (about 20 years ago). I guess that Chinese airmanship is improving. Their attitude isn't, no surprise.
Chinese interfering with a UN mission. Nice.
A Canadian general criticized the Chinese air force over an incident off the coast of the Asian nation that apparently saw a fighter jet cut off a patrol plane and drop flares in its path. The episode on Monday was reported by Global News, which had journalists on the Canadian surveillance aircraft. Chinese fighters also flew within 5 meters (5.5 yards) of the plane, it added.
They became very aggressive and to a degree we would deem it unsafe and unprofessional,” Major-General Iain Huddleston told the Canadian news outlet. Canada didn’t want to have “anything untoward happen that would result in loss of life,” he said.
Beijing filed a diplomatic complaint with Ottawa over the incident in the South China Sea, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said Tuesday at a regular press briefing in Beijing, adding that in recent years Canadian planes have conducted reconnaissance “against China.”
“Canadian airships have made trouble at the doorstep of China,” she said. “Canada should respect facts and stop spreading false information.”
China’s Defense Ministry didn’t immediately respond to a faxed request for comment. The incident highlights China’s frustration over Western military flights near its shores, though they are carried out in international airspace. In May, the Pentagon said a Chinese fighter jet that swerved in front of a US reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea behaved in an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver.”
Last year, Chinese fighters reportedly buzzed Canadian planes in the region and released small pieces of aluminum in front of Australian aircraft. China claims all of the South China Sea as its territory, and such midair confrontations have the potential to escalate. In 2001, a US Navy surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter. The jet crashed and its pilot was never found, while the Navy’s EP-3 landed on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, provoking a ten-day standoff after which the 24 American crew members were finally released.
Canada said the 13-member crew of the plane involved in the incident Monday was part of a UN mission aimed at enforcing sanctions against North Korea to encourage the nation to end its nuclear weapons program. The missions, which include Japan, France and the US, are aimed at spotting “evasion activities, in particular ship-to-ship transfers of fuel and other commodities,” according to Ottawa.
They became very aggressive and to a degree we would deem it unsafe and unprofessional,” Major-General Iain Huddleston told the Canadian news outlet. Canada didn’t want to have “anything untoward happen that would result in loss of life,” he said.
Beijing filed a diplomatic complaint with Ottawa over the incident in the South China Sea, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said Tuesday at a regular press briefing in Beijing, adding that in recent years Canadian planes have conducted reconnaissance “against China.”
“Canadian airships have made trouble at the doorstep of China,” she said. “Canada should respect facts and stop spreading false information.”
China’s Defense Ministry didn’t immediately respond to a faxed request for comment. The incident highlights China’s frustration over Western military flights near its shores, though they are carried out in international airspace. In May, the Pentagon said a Chinese fighter jet that swerved in front of a US reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea behaved in an “unnecessarily aggressive maneuver.”
Last year, Chinese fighters reportedly buzzed Canadian planes in the region and released small pieces of aluminum in front of Australian aircraft. China claims all of the South China Sea as its territory, and such midair confrontations have the potential to escalate. In 2001, a US Navy surveillance plane collided with a Chinese fighter. The jet crashed and its pilot was never found, while the Navy’s EP-3 landed on the southern Chinese island of Hainan, provoking a ten-day standoff after which the 24 American crew members were finally released.
Canada said the 13-member crew of the plane involved in the incident Monday was part of a UN mission aimed at enforcing sanctions against North Korea to encourage the nation to end its nuclear weapons program. The missions, which include Japan, France and the US, are aimed at spotting “evasion activities, in particular ship-to-ship transfers of fuel and other commodities,” according to Ottawa.
well since the Chinese don't obey the UN on N Korean sanctions I'm not surprised
The Japanese rail gun project. Progress.
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The wiring doesn't look very robust - nor spray proof.......................
The wiring doesn't look very robust - nor spray proof.......................
Production model will likely have a shroud or sleeve (composites, with various seals and O-Rings) over the wires and wire harnesses.
If they don't, the corrosive environment of being at sea will finish that thing in a hurry.
even being within a mile or so of the sea can do in buildings and equipment - but as you say its a prototype. just as long as they remember...............
From essanews:
These appear to have increased in frequency since about 2021.
The U.S. Department of Defense has released a series of declassified photos and videos featuring dangerous aerial encounters between American and Chinese pilots.
s the Pentagon points out, they depict instances of coercion and risky operational behavior undertaken by the People's Liberation Army of China against American aircraft.
Materials published on Tuesday, October 17, present 15 recent cases of dangerous encounters in the air with Chinese fighter aircraft.
The Pentagon emphasizes that actions were taken against American machines that were "legally operating in international airspace in the areas of the East Sea and South China Sea"... reckless maneuvers, close approaches at high speeds in the air, and the launching of objects and missiles, such as flares.
s the Pentagon points out, they depict instances of coercion and risky operational behavior undertaken by the People's Liberation Army of China against American aircraft.
Materials published on Tuesday, October 17, present 15 recent cases of dangerous encounters in the air with Chinese fighter aircraft.
The Pentagon emphasizes that actions were taken against American machines that were "legally operating in international airspace in the areas of the East Sea and South China Sea"... reckless maneuvers, close approaches at high speeds in the air, and the launching of objects and missiles, such as flares.
As in the air, or more so, the Chinese repeatedly use their large armed 'coastguard' ships for blocking, challenging and aggression towards ships of Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan, as if they owned the whole place.
!", as if they owned the whole place."
That is the nub of the problem - they believe they do................
That is the nub of the problem - they believe they do................
More 5 eyes. the sit down Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqdGceOF8fk
FBI Director Wray and 'Five Eyes' counterparts discuss threats in first joint appearance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqdGceOF8fk
Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
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”I fear that a serious crisis is unfolding at Second Thomas Shoal.
China appears determined to prevent resupply efforts by the Philippines, as they did most dangerously in 2014. Read a short summary of that case here:
https://amti.csis.org/counter-co-2nd-thomas-shoal/
Risky days ahead. Buckle up.”
China appears determined to prevent resupply efforts by the Philippines, as they did most dangerously in 2014. Read a short summary of that case here:
https://amti.csis.org/counter-co-2nd-thomas-shoal/
Risky days ahead. Buckle up.”