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math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#51476: Jun 6th 2017 at 4:00:18 PM

[up] Someone really needs to make a good World War 2 naval battle simulator.

At least in that one you won't have people regurtitating myths about German armor.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
DrunkenNordmann from Exile Since: May, 2015
#51477: Jun 6th 2017 at 9:50:48 PM

[up] Instead you get people gushing over the Bismarck. [lol]

edited 6th Jun '17 9:52:15 PM by DrunkenNordmann

We learn from history that we do not learn from history
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#51478: Jun 6th 2017 at 11:34:26 PM

Mitsubishi Heavy unveils first F-35 stealth fighter assembled in Japan

TOYOYAMA, AICHI PREF. – The first F-35A stealth fighter assembled in Japan was unveiled Monday at a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries factory in Toyoyama, Aichi Prefecture.

The Air Self-Defense Force plans to deploy the cutting-edge fighter this fiscal 2017 year, which ends next March 31, at the Misawa Air Base in Aomori Prefecture.

The jet features high stealth capabilities and mobility, and is expected to collaborate in surveillance activities with F-35 aircraft operated by U.S. forces.

The F-35 was jointly developed by nine countries, including the United States, Britain and Australia. Lockheed Martin is the main manufacturer.

Japanese companies did not participate in the development, but they have been involved in assembly and other manufacturing processes.

The ASDF plans to buy 42 of the jets. Four will be supplied as finished products under the U.S. government’s Foreign Military Sales program.

Kenji Wakamiya, a senior vice defense minister, said it is important “to acquire F-35 fighters with advanced capabilities” amid increasingly tough security conditions — a move that will strengthen technology in the domestic defense industry.

Mitsubishi Heavy will assemble the remaining 38 planes with components imported from the United States.

The first Japan-assembled unit will be used for flight training for ASDF pilots that will be conducted in the United States.

The F-35A, which has a wingspan of 11 meters and is 16 meters in length, is equipped with advanced sensor equipment that is believed to have missile detection and tracking capabilities.

IHI Corp. produces engine parts for the jets that will be supplied to the ASDF, while Mitsubishi Electric handles production of radar components. Countries that plan to introduce the F-35 have adopted a system to share parts, including those made in Japan.

In 2013, Japan excluded domestically manufactured F-35 parts from its arms export ban, saying that Japanese companies’ participation in the production is indispensable for maintaining fighter jet operation and maintenance bases in the country.

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TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#51479: Jun 7th 2017 at 12:14:20 AM

Another one? The F-35 is starting to look more like the F-16: assembled in many countries.

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#51480: Jun 7th 2017 at 4:30:30 AM

BBC has broke that a Burmese military plane carrying over 100 has lost contact and vanished.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#51481: Jun 7th 2017 at 10:56:11 AM

Pentagon: China ups military capabilities, plans base in Pakistan

MELBOURNE, Australia — China is continuing the rapid development of its military and power-projection capabilities, with Pakistan being touted as the likely location of its second overseas base, according to the Pentagon’s newly released report on trends and developments on China’s military.

This would follow the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, or PLA, setting up its first overseas base at Djibouti on the Horn of Africa, construction of which started in February 2016 and is expected to be completed in 2018. China previously said the base is meant “to help the navy and army further participate in United Nations peacekeeping operations, carry out escort missions in the waters near Somalia and the Gulf of Aden, and provide humanitarian assistance.”

Overseas bases will “better position the PLA to expand its participation in non-combatant evacuation operations, search-and-rescue, humanitarian assistance/disaster relief (HA/DR), and SLOC security," the report added. Although it also warned that China’s ability to build overseas bases “may be constrained by the willingness of countries to support a PLA presence in one of their ports.”

The report also noted that “China’s leaders remain focused on developing the capabilities to deter or defeat adversary power projection and counter third-party intervention,” with the PLA’s modernization program becoming more focused on missions including power projection beyond China’s periphery.

edited 7th Jun '17 10:56:21 AM by TerminusEst

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FluffyMcChicken My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare from where the floating lights gleam Since: Jun, 2014 Relationship Status: In another castle
My Hair Provides Affordable Healthcare
#51482: Jun 7th 2017 at 11:13:19 AM

[up] I'm morbidly fascinated about how the PLA's COIN operations would fare against experienced and veteran insurgents such as the likes of the Taliban and al-Qaeda, in mountainous terrain no less.

In other news, one of the military history magazines that I subscribe to released a free article regarding Rommel and his changing reputation over time.

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#51483: Jun 7th 2017 at 11:14:47 AM

The Chinese have COIN experience in Tibet and other regions in their nation so they are not exactly going in blind. However Pakistan is not their home turf.

Who watches the watchmen?
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#51484: Jun 7th 2017 at 11:34:43 AM

Typical COIN in the case of China follows a pretty predictable pattern: invade and beat the conventional elements of the enemy -> turn the region into a surveillance state -> separate the people from the insurgents i.e. make supporting them a bad idea -> eliminate isolated pockets of insurgents and individual agents. With Tibet and Xinjiang there's also massive cultural repression, social engineering, forcible displacement and settling of Han Chinese.

This would be hard without a solid connection to the homeland.

edited 7th Jun '17 11:35:37 AM by TerminusEst

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#51485: Jun 7th 2017 at 1:54:56 PM

Canada is increasing its defense spending by 70% over the next 10 years. Some of it is new spending, other parts have been planned for years.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-sajjan-garneau-defence-policy-1.4149473

Also, no mention of that Super Hornet purchase, sucks for Boeing. And our defense/foreign policy is splitting from Washington to a degree that we haven't seen since the end of WW 2.

Interesting times, etc etc

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Ominae Since: Jul, 2010
#51486: Jun 8th 2017 at 5:15:03 AM

The Chinese are accused the DOD of spreading so-called biases in their reports regarding over the bases.


http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a26804/wooden-armor-tank-rockets/?src=socialflowTW

The Philippine Army's doing this against RPG-2 and various recoiless rifles used by the Maute Group.

TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#51487: Jun 9th 2017 at 10:05:53 PM

Ready for an epic day at the range.

Who watches the watchmen?
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
Balmung Since: Oct, 2011
#51489: Jun 10th 2017 at 12:04:20 AM

File that under "things that should never have to be news".

Seriously, the fact that the commitment of the United States to its allies has been in question for this long is yet another sign of how worthless the current administration is.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#51490: Jun 10th 2017 at 12:13:32 AM

Probably a half-assed attempt to trick the EU into thinking they won't need to build their own army after all.

Disgusted, but not surprised
math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#51491: Jun 10th 2017 at 1:30:57 AM

Yeah, that ship has sailed.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#51492: Jun 10th 2017 at 7:00:17 PM

I wonder if one NATO member pulling out because of fear of Trump not committing to their defense, would cause a domino effect on the rest?

New Survey coming this weekend!
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#51493: Jun 10th 2017 at 7:41:07 PM

Unsure. The only people who are at risk are the baltic states. They joined because they're scared of being Russian client states.

If they leave NATO there's nowhere else to go. Russia is the only other global power in town.

Oh really when?
TairaMai rollin' on dubs from El Paso Tx Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: Mu
rollin' on dubs
#51494: Jun 10th 2017 at 8:56:53 PM

NATO has survived Greece and Turkey shooting at each other over Cyprus, France "leaving", the end of the Cold War and all the Russian bluster.

I tried to walk like an Egyptian and now I need to see a Cairo practor....
math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#51495: Jun 11th 2017 at 2:55:26 AM

[up] France 'left' a decade into the Cold War, not near the end.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#51496: Jun 11th 2017 at 3:14:18 AM

[up]

You'll notice the comma after "leaving".

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math792d Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#51497: Jun 11th 2017 at 4:58:20 AM

Apparently not. Woop de doo, I'm blind.

Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.
Krieger22 Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018 from Malaysia Since: Mar, 2014 Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
Causing freakouts over sourcing since 2018
#51498: Jun 11th 2017 at 8:38:58 AM

This guy's got the moves alright.

I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot
AFP Since: Mar, 2010
#51499: Jun 11th 2017 at 10:48:05 AM

I'm just picturing a Taliban sniper sighting him in, and not being able to bring himself to pull the trigger because of the dancing.

pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#51500: Jun 11th 2017 at 3:16:28 PM

I picture the opposite: "Allah forbids dancing! Die, infidel!"

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