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The US Navy (USN) on 11 May marked the retirement of the Sikorsky SH-60B Sea Hawk anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, California.
The SH-60B fleet is ending 30 years of service, with more than 3.6 million flight hours completed in support of operations and training during that time, the navy said in a statement.
The SH-60B first deployed with a Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 43 detachment aboard guided-missile frigate USS Crommelin (FFG 37) in 1985, according to the navy. The last active-duty detachment returned from a seven-month deployment aboard guided-missile frigate USS Gary (FFG 51) on 17 April
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/us-military-news-thread.t1547/page-402#post-340800
They were used by the HSL-49 now HSM-49 on MH-60R, 11 helos, front line sqn of MH-60S have 8 helos.
Remains one sqn on SH-60B, HSL-60 USN Reserve unit based to Mayport.
The SH-60B fleet is ending 30 years of service, with more than 3.6 million flight hours completed in support of operations and training during that time, the navy said in a statement.
The SH-60B first deployed with a Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 43 detachment aboard guided-missile frigate USS Crommelin (FFG 37) in 1985, according to the navy. The last active-duty detachment returned from a seven-month deployment aboard guided-missile frigate USS Gary (FFG 51) on 17 April
https://www.sinodefenceforum.com/us-military-news-thread.t1547/page-402#post-340800
They were used by the HSL-49 now HSM-49 on MH-60R, 11 helos, front line sqn of MH-60S have 8 helos.
Remains one sqn on SH-60B, HSL-60 USN Reserve unit based to Mayport.
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TerraN_EmpirE
Tyrant King
By on May 08, 2015 at 2:59 PM
Polaris DAGOR
On Monday, truck makers will submit data to the Army on potential candidates for the . ULCV has to be big enough to carry nine fully equipped infantrymen, small enough to sling-load under a helicopter, and tough enough to parachute out the back of a or C-17.
UCLV is the first of what’s intended as a trio of vehicles for the 82nd Airborne’s Global Response Force and, eventually, other light infantry units. (By contrast, the much better armored will be used Army-wide). The unarmored, nine-man ULCV will be followed by a lightly armored six-man and a well-armed light tank called the system.
DAGOR sling-loaded under a CH-47 Chinook.
The objective is to provide a dash of mobility, long-range scouting and fire support to units that mostly move on foot. An Airborne unit with ULCVs could airdrop into a remote location far from enemy forces, mount up, and race cross-country to seize an airfield for reinforcements to fly into. This kind of capability is crucial to the Army’s quest to become more, deployable and after 13 years of static counterinsurgency.
One of the leading contenders for the ULCV is Polaris, which last year . DAGOR can already carry a full nine-man squad. It already meets the weight and mobility requirements for ULCV, and it’s already been sling-loaded under helicopters and parachuted out of airplanes in official government tests, so Polaris plans to offer it for ULCV as-is.
Being such a known quantity is highly attractive to a on a tight schedule. But Polaris is hardly the only competitor with a track record. General Dynamics will probably offer its , which won SOCOM’s Ground Mobility Vehicle (GMV) 1.1 competition. The is also in US military use, as is Boeing’s beautifully named , in service with undisclosed special operators. has sold its Vyper vehicles to the military, although not the exact model it’s offering for ULCV. In fact, of the six vehicles demonstrated last summer at Fort Bragg, home of the Airborne, the odd one out is aerospace giant Lockheed Martin’s High Versatility Tactical Vehicle, which derives from the British Army’s .
So what sets Polaris apart? “We came from the off-road business as opposed to the defense contractor business,” said Rich Haddad, general manager for Polaris Defense. Counting everything from to , he said, Polaris has sold over one million off-road vehicles over the last five years. That’s a scale unheard of in the defense business.
The commercial marketplace also operates at a radically different pace than does Pentagon acquisition. “We change models every year,” said Haddad. “Imagine the headache you’d have with that in a program of record; you’d just be buried by the change orders.” But the commercial experience does help speed up the military side, he said: DAGOR went from “a piece of paper with a concept [to] for vehicles being tested at the NTC [] in nine months.”
Because of Polaris’s commercial experience, Haddad boasted, “we’ve been through this process more times than you can imagine, and we’ve had more successes and failures than all of our competitors combined.”
You actually posted the news here first but the discussion caught on mostly in the Strategic Defense China SCS thread.
thunderchief
Senior Member
Not a very smart move . USN could of course navigate around those islands . It will be a show of strength, but in the end those ships would need to go, and Chinese would remain . Unfortunately, a bitter taste that US is again poking in Chinese backyard would remain - and a definite case for closer cooperation with Russia .
Interesting, I was under the impression that F-22 was equipped with AIM-9X for the last few years... strange that they're only integrating it now given how many legacy fighters have it, and given how much F-22 could have benefitted from a HOBS SRAAM for the last few years. Oh well, better late than never.
Jura The idiot
General
No for B-2 for nuclear bombs B-61 the more small exist also B-83 much more powerful. For 2020 new B-61 Mod 12 less powerful but much more accurate with new guided tail kit also more small for be fitted in F-35 internal weapons bay.
B-2 Block 10, 20, 30 now. Initially Block 10 only nuclear capable after modified for use GPS bombs, conventionnal armament, get a special radar initially done for detect Soviet mobile targets mainly SS-24/25, PESA soon AESA radar.
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Jura The idiot
General
I read the AMDR news
Raytheon Successfully Completes Critical Design Review for AMDR
which makes me wonder if
Raytheon Successfully Completes Critical Design Review for AMDR
and there's this video in
which makes me wonder if
- a smaller number than nine of Radar Modular Assemblies could be used? (of course the new Burkes will use a higher number than nine, as the video suggests, but I was thinking about smaller ships)
- COUNTER BATTERY SEARCH & TRACK mean artillery shells can be followed? (I think I've read this option was dropped on the Zumwalts but I could be wrong ... am I?)
