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Stealthflanker said:

in reverse tho, how far the Kilo can detect and identify the British carrier and for how long she trailed the British carrier group before being found.

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The Kilo doesn't really have the endurance to trail a surface warship for long like most other conventional subs so it would have to preposition and wait in a spot it expects the carrier group to pass, but the propeller screws of a surface vessel are going to cavitate and give away its acoustic presence if they're going at any speed faster than a turtle. The sub's passive sonar will generally pick up the presence of active sonar from the escorts and helos from outside effective detection range barring a lucky sonobuoy drop, much like a 5th gen stealth fighter will detect radar emissions via its ESM before they get detected.

Stealthflanker said:

in reverse tho, how far the Kilo can detect and identify the British carrier and for how long she trailed the British carrier group before being found.

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How does conventional sub even trail a carrier group? Conventional subs travel at 6 to 8 knots with best acoustic stealth. Carrier groups cruise at at least 20+ knots.

This whole scenario is either made up, or entirely bogus.

Besides, why would PLAN even need to use a conventional sub on a British joke of a fleet? There are land based anti-ship ballistic missile and long range anti-ship missiles, long range air-launch hypersonic and supersonic missiles carried by bombers, long range subsonic steal missiles carried by J16 and JH7A2. Surface combatant like 055 carrying hundreds of YJ-18.

Anyone who has been on this forum long enough and is NOT intentionally irrational (refuse-to-be-informed) will see how bogus this whole thing is. British tabloid level of a farce.

luosifen said:

The Kilo doesn't really have the endurance to trail a surface warship for long like most other conventional subs so it would have to preposition and wait in a spot it expects the carrier group to pass, but the propeller screws of a surface vessel are going to cavitate and give away its acoustic presence if they're going at any speed faster than a turtle. The sub's passive sonar will generally pick up the presence of active sonar from the escorts and helos from outside effective detection range barring a lucky sonobuoy drop, much like a 5th gen stealth fighter will detect radar emissions via its ESM before they get detected.

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Kilo lacks both the endurance and speed to trail a carrier group. The Anglo-sax LOVES to do these idiot-cracy level of propaganda, it suits their highly specialized population very well. The population in the US and UK are highly specialized in their own field of work, these people are extremely professional in their own work and life, but they have inadequate knowledge bases when it comes to political science, geostrategy and military technology. They use their own "common sense" on military matters that anyone with a bit of knowledge of military-technology would find absolutely mind-boggling, but because most people are too busy with their own lives, they don't have the time and effort to put these thing under scrutiny.

This is just as stupid as the balloon farce.

The new British Strix UAV with vertical takeoff. The Australian division of the British defense company BAE Systems together with the company Innova evo showed the concept of a military UAV with vertical takeoff. The Strix drone is folded and transported in a container, the weight of the drone is about 650 kilograms. The UAV is capable of operating both in autonomous mode and in remote control mode from the M113 APC, the MQ-28 jet drone, from a ground station or from a helicopter. The drone has a flight range of over 800 km, a combat load of 160 kg, the UAV is armed with various air-to-ground missiles, among them the AGM-114 Hellfire, Brimstone and AGM-179. It is planned that the drone made its first flight at the end of 2023, and in 2026 the UAV will enter service.

The hugely embarrassing debacle is now the subject of a Ministry of Defence inquiry. Investigators want to establish who knew what, and when, and who failed to highlight the risks.

The probe is also understood to have uncovered evidence that HMS Prince of Wales was rushed into service, seemingly to serve a political agenda.

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Authoritarianism wrecks ships .

First three Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma helicopters issued to RAF in bid to replace the Bell CH-146 Griffon helicopters for an emergency response roles. Advantages the RAF claim the Puma has over the Griffon is the ability to do day and night operations/training, carry more passengers but requires a larger crew and more specialist engineers to the Griffons civilian based engineers. Currently the Puma is only replacing Griffons in their Cyprus RAF base with the Griffons expected to remain till at least 2025 but the MOD is looking into prolonging their use even further past this deadline to potentially 2027-2028.

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First three Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma helicopters issued to RAF in bid to replace the Bell CH-146 Griffon helicopters for an emergency response roles. Advantages the RAF claim the Puma has over the Griffon is the ability to do day and night operations/training, carry more passengers but requires a larger crew and more specialist engineers to the Griffons civilian based engineers. Currently the Puma is only replacing Griffons in their Cyprus RAF base with the Griffons expected to remain till at least 2025 but the MOD is looking into prolonging their use even further past this deadline to potentially 2027-2028.

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They are not even near in size and footprint, it's quite a replacement. They will be old SA330 ???

They are out of production in the eighties ? UK Puma are supposed to be getting out of services in 2025.

Atomicfrog said:

They are not even near in size and footprint, it's quite a replacement. They will be old SA330 ???

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They appear to be for non-combat roles but more for natural disaster and emergency rescue operations, it was said they'd be getting their own specialist engineers for the Puma.

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They appear to be for non-combat roles but more for natural disaster and emergency rescue operations, it was said they'd be getting their own specialist engineers for the Puma.

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Maybe they will extend their life ? Right now the airframes have two years left, they will not change it for long.