Thursday, October 20, 2016

Chinese Anti-Ship Missiles and Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles | C-701, C-708AKG, C-802

Chinese Anti-Ship Missiles and Anti-Ship Cruise Missiles | A look at the history of Chinese AShM's from the early solid fuel C-801 to the cruise C-802 is to come. Stay tuned for a detailed look at every missile in the People's Liberation Army Navy inventory: C-101, C-602, C-701, C-701, C-704KD Radar, TV, InfraRed, C-706, C-801 and finally the C-802 TRI-60-2 powered ASCM.

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

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X-37B in space for over 500 day's! | OTV-4 USAF | space control missions

The US Air Force’s unmanned X-37B space plane has now spent morethan 500 days orbiting the Earth! The USAF has provided no explanation or clues to its mission which is most certaintly based around military surveillance, electronic intelligence and satellite observation and inspection.

The 29-foot unmanned space-plane which appears similar to a miniature space shuttle is is part of the Air Force’sorbital program. Launched May 20, 2015, it is the program’s fourthflight (hence its other name, OTV-4 for Orbital Test Vehicle-4). Thefirst OTV took flight in 2010 and spent 224 days in orbit; two othersbrought the total number of OTV days in orbit before 2015 to 1,367,according to the Air Force.

The full purpose or intent of the program?

The Air Force has built the X-37B to control the space environment. An X-37 can satisfy two subsets of Space Control of Offensive Counter Space (OCS) and Defensive Counter Space (DCS) missions with OCS beign the ability to disrupt enemy satellite systems.

The X-37 can rendezvous with enemy satellites and jam the electronic cross-link or downlinks thereby temporarily disrupting the enemy's capability to retrieve information from her satellites.

The X-37 can employ kinetic kill vehicles to destroy enemy satellites in the form of micro-satellites
placed in proximity of enemy satellites to carry out future OCS missions. Or perhaps the X-37 is simply performing ELINT/SIGNIT missions.

The Air Force will only say in its program fact sheet that theinitiative is to “demonstrate technologies for a reliable,reusable, unmanned space test platform for the US Air Force.

“The idea of being able to launch an unmanned research platformthat can stay up there for months on end provides you with all kindsof capability, both military and civilian,” said Chris Hellman, apolicy analyst with the National Priorities Project, an Americanbudget watchdog group, to the Christian Science Monitor in 2010.

Theidea of American eyes being able to hover at low orbits over any partof the planet has security experts and arms control advocatesconcerned, the story noted.

NASA has revealed that on this particular mission, it is carryinga materials experiment as well as facilitating a solar sail demo bythe Planetary Society and giving nine CubeSat nanosatellites a lift,according to the Daily Mail.

Technology tested by the X-37B to date....

Space.com reports that Aerojet Rocketdyne claims that it tested anew thruster onboard the plane, and that the Air Force is alsotesting a new propulsion system. NASA began the X-37B program in1999, then transferred it to Defense Advanced Research ProjectsAgency (DARPA) in 2004 to test an Approach and Landing Test Vehicle.The Air Force took over after 2006.

Monday, October 17, 2016

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C-801 AShM has NOT been fired by Houthi Rebels | Yemeni Type 021 boats use C-101 missiles | C-701 Shore-to-Ship missiles

A recent post @ warisboring.com, erroneous media reports and lazy reporting has given undue credit to the Chinese C-801 AShM as being the weapon used during recent anti-ship attacks off Yemen.

Reports of the C-801 missile being used to target American ships aswell as the HSV-2 Swift are false.

Type 021 boats that were delivered to the Yemeni navy by China came armed with the 'for export'

C-101 / FL-2 supersonic anti-ship missile. The C-101 can be launched from improvised shore batteries

The coastal defense version of the C-101 / FL-2 has a distributed fire control system, where power, radar, and operator consoles are located separately from the shore based missile battery to reduce damage from possible enemy attacks. (The USS Nitze's tomahawk strikes hit their targets, yet the missiles were back in operation the following day suggesting that this distributed system allowed components to survive. The undamaged components could then be combined to establish a complete firing unit once more....)

The C-101 if taken off of Type 021 boats (War is boring suggested the possibility that C-801 missiles were taken off the boats and trucked away - the Type 021 boats are NOT armed with C-801 missiles) would make a suitable shore launched weapon. Its range is 45 km's, and uses active radar homing guidance.

The C-701 which has been exported from Iran to Houthi Yemen rebels is “intended for target ships whose weight is 180 tons or less." This fits the bill for the HSV-2 which is of a light displacement.

The C-701 like the C-101 uses active radar guidance giving it fire-and-forget operation which would greatly enable a successful attack considering the lack of military training of Houthi rebels.

The C-701 is designed and installed on either small patrol boats (think Type 021) or on a shore launcher where 4 missiles are stacked with two atop two, elevated out to 15 degrees. Its maximum range is 25 km's; Some of the recent attacks saw missiles crash into the sea while the targets were at ranges of 23 and 27 km’s respectively, making this weapon a likely candidate in the recent attacks.

I see no basis for the C-801 being the weapon used during the attacks on the USS Mason, HSV-2 Ex-Swift, USS Ponce and USS Nitze.

With the C-801 never having been installed on or used by Type 021 boats as suggested by Warisboring.com I see no basis in the claims made by erroneous media reports and warisboring that the C-801 was used during the recent attacks in the Red Sea.

Kris Richey

www.cyberevoblog.blogspot.com

Thursday, October 13, 2016

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USS Mason fires SM-2 and ESSM's against Yemeni AShM'sunches TLAM's after HSV-2 attack

The U.S. military launched TomahawkLand Attack CruiseMissiles (TLAM's)against three Yemenimissile batteries which launched a successful attack on the Ex-HSV-2 Swiftandlater a secondunsuccessful attack against theUSSMasonand USS Ponce.

As the USS Mason sailed 22km'soffshoretwo supersonic C701T AShM's were detected inbound while flyingat wavetop height; In a show of professional mastery of her ships weapons and capabilities the Captain ordered the firing of2Standard Missile 2 or SM-2interceptors and a singleRIM-162Enhanced Sea Sparrow Missileor ESSM.

TheESSMfollowed theSM-2 missiles to the target, with the firstYemeni C701T being interceptedby a SM-2 while the second inbound supersonic C701T wasknocked down by the RIM162 ESSM.

The key take-away here is thatreal-worldnon-scripted attacksby Chinese built supersonic AShM'scan be defended against and that the often discussed 'what-if's'regarding the actual combat capability of a Aegis class warshipin shooting down enemy supersonic AShM's hasbeen answered. The SM-2and ESSM are now proven Anti-Ship Missile Defense weapons---and that is fact.

The Yemeni missile batteries and supporting surveillance and fire control radars were destroyed by the USS Nitze's TLAM's during what the U.S.Navy is calling"limited self-defense strikes."

The U.S.S. Nitze, which sailed to Yemen after the HSV-2 Swift attack with the USS Mason and the USS Ponce launched cruise missiles against radar and missile batteries at Ras Isa and Khoka, Yemen.

"These radars were active during previous attacks and attempted attacks on ships in the Red Sea," a DoD officials said, adding the targeted radar sites were in remote areas where the risk of civilian casualties was low.

USS Mason firing a quad packed ESSM from her forward VLS.

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The battle at Hamburger Hill | Dong Ap Bia, Ashua Valley | May 10th, 1969

A historical summary of the battle at Dong Ap Bia also known as 'Hamburger Hill.'

Army (NVA) and Viet Cong (VC) forces were believed to be grouping in the Ashau Valley; The 101st Airborne Division, the 3rd Marine Division and an ARVN Division were sent on a large operation to block enemy escape routes, sever all supply lines and surround and the entire Ashau Valley, before attacking NVA/VC that had entered the area. It became one of the worst battles of attrition and death in what was becoming an increasingly unpopular war...

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Military aviation and aerospace avionics, full 539 pages; Weapons, sensors, navigation, combat systems of modern military aircraft including the Typhoon and F-35 JSF is presented in both an interesting and detailed format..

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