Dassault Aviation Advances Rafale F5 Standard for French Armed Forces with 2035 Target. CEO Éric Trappier confirmed that France is not bringing in foreign co-development partners for the program. He also emphasized that international export offerings for the F5 standard will not be considered until the platform matures.
Mk 54 lightweight torpedo with Air Launch Accessory (ALA) Glide Kit as part of High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Weapon Capability (HAAWC), allowing P-8s to release torpedoes from as high as 30,000ft and glide for 7-10 minutes before entering the water.
"I've told the team to treat Red Flag Alaska 26-3 as their last chance. This is our last chance to get folks the training they need that will bring them home in combat."
From one of Pacific Air Forces' top forward-based squadrons... a rare admission of uncertainty and worry. ⬇️
Sincere apologies to the authorities for recently posting something which is deemed sensitive. I was not aware of it's sensitive nature as I took those images from open source Google Earth which is accessible to everyone. Moreover those images were from last year's December.
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So my understanding deemed that screenshot harmless enough to be posted.
I accept my mistake and I am deleting those posts as correctional measure.
I sincerely hope my apology is accepted and I am ready to answer anymore queries regarding the problematic post.
@Son_of_Wind_108 Building Multipurpose vessels is our doctrine. We have a lot of area to cover and few true blue water vessels. So currently making any decently sized vessel multipurpose makes sense. We simply can't afford to make our own Burkes in numbers.
Intresting inexpensive design. It isn't designed to fight in standalone situations, it's for increasing SAM magazine depth of a task force. Paired with other more capable vessels like Type-52DL/55 it's SAMs can be guided by them(CEC). So no need to add surveillance radar.
@Toxic__10_ Nilgiris are great but with 6700 Ton displacement they should ideally have 48 LRSAMs + 16 VLSRSAMs but RBUs and BrahMos bhi toh dalni hai na...