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bd popeye said:
John C Stennis visited Singapore instead of Hong Kong in case anyone wanted to know.
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LOL Friday at 5:08 PM
Jura said:
... I'm rather sure the best for Singapore defense is
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Navy Region Center Singapore welcomes USS John C. Stennis CSG sailors

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Air Force Brat

Air Force Brat

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Equation said:
No means no. stop your belly aching and move along. The entire world doesn't revolved around the US Navy's request.
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You've really never heard me express myself Brother, I take the Sino Defense forum and my friendship with each of you as an honor, I hold my emotions and my feelings toward China's govt in check, I have very similar thoughts about the O'bama regime. That my friends would hold this govt, or that in such high esteem, that they reject legitimate criticism seems unwise??
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
It was going to happen eventually, as the US and PRC continue to butt heads over the Hard rise of the PRC and the US backing of her Treaty allies and those who want to keep their status que without PLA death stars parked offshore possibly getting aide. the day was going to come when the PRC made a political move to snub the US. especially after Carter's recent snub of a trip to Beijing.

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The vision for the future ground vehicle looks a lot like a dune buggy

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Joint Multi-role Demonstrators in Race to Starting Line
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, Defense News6:49 a.m. EDT April 28, 2016
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WASHINGTON — In West Palm Beach, Florida, and Amarillo, Texas, two different aircraft are coming together in a sprint to the starting line of the Army’s much anticipated flight demonstrations of future helicopter concepts in 2017.

The Army plans to design and field a future vertical lift aircraft and is expected to kick off that program of record in the 2019 time frame. The expectation is to buy a new family of helicopters through a competition and field the new aircraft at some point in the early 2030s, although the Army has talked about speeding up that fielding timeline to the late 2020s.

But first the Army plans to demonstrate Joint Multi-Role (JMR) air vehicle capability at a 2017 flight demonstration in order to help the service fully define requirements for the Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program.

A Bell Helicopter and Lockheed Martin team is mating the entire wing -- which is one big part -- onto the fuselage in Texas of its advanced tiltrotor concept the V-280 Valor, according to Vince Tobin, Bell’s vice president for advanced tiltrotor systems.

Sikorsky and Boeing have all of its Defiant coaxial helicopter parts in fabrication, some have already been delivered to the final assembly facility in Florida, Pat Donnelly, Boeing’s program director, said. Notably, the fuselage is in California being assembled and the team plans to conduct flight loads verification before shipping it to Florida.

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Bell’s Tobin said the nacelles, compartments that hold engines, fuel or other equipment, were mated to the wing in March and they “fit like a glove.”

In fact, assembly of parts has gone so smoothly due to the use of 3-D design and simulation that Tobin, a self-proclaimed superstitious man, said, “Knock on wood, I am sure there are challenges to come, but so far, from a structural perspective, it’s all good.”

Bell had similar luck when Spirit Aerosystems assembled the fuselage for the Valor last year using the 3-D design environment. “It basically came together almost perfectly, Chris Gehler, director of the company’s advanced tiltrotor programs, said in October 2015.

The 3-D tool, which was developed in the last two to three years, has the ability to "change the affordability cost curve on this thing, so your non-recurring tooling significantly reduces and front-end costs are reduced," Gehler said.

Tobin said the tooling has also not caused any issues in the assembly process so far thanks to the 3-D simulations.

What’s left for Bell is to stuff the nacelles with gear boxes and engines and to get ready for restrained ground runs “by around this time next year,” Tobin said.

“The good news is everything to date is tracking as planned,” he added, and the aircraft should be ready for its first flight in the fall of 2017.

While Defiant is assembled, the Boeing-Sikorsky team is also testing all of its flight controls and software, electrical and hydraulic systems in its JMR System Integration Lab in Stratford, Connecticut, with real flight hardware, according to Doug Shidler, Sikorsky’s program director.

Raider, Sikorsky’s smaller version of Defiant using X2 technology, which is fully assembled and flying, has a similar SIL in Connecticut. The X2 technology demonstrated in 2010 was a 6,000-pound helicopter, Raider is 11,000 pounds and Defiant will weigh 30,000 pounds.

“The Systems Integration Lab is a very important part of our program for pre-flight and post-flight verification. It helps us ensure the best, most effective technology and capabilities are being brought to bear,” Shidler said. “The assembly and testing are proceeding well.”

It’s not yet clear whether the Army will first build medium-lift helicopters to replace UH-60 Black Hawks and AH-64 Apaches or if it will choose to prioritize building a light helicopter. The Army decided to retire its OH-58 Kiowa Warrior armed scout helicopters in 2013. Apaches are filling in on the armed scout mission, but it’s not an ideal solution as the helicopters are more expensive to operate -- much like taking a Lamborghini to go grocery shopping.

Both teams building demonstrator aircraft believe their solutions are easily scalable no matter what direction the Army decides to go.

Sikorsky has proven that it can build helicopters with the same technology in different weight classes.

And Bell has even designed and flew a tiltrotor unmanned aircraft system several years ago for a now defunct Coast Guard program, according to Tobin.

“The beauty of tiltrotors is they are eminently scalable,” he said. “From a scaling perspective, it’s not really a challenge so we are ready to go” with whatever the Army decides, he added.
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Equation

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Air Force Brat said:
You've really never heard me express myself Brother, I take the Sino Defense forum and my friendship with each of you as an honor, I hold my emotions and my feelings toward China's govt in check, I have very similar thoughts about the O'bama regime. That my friends would hold this govt, or that in such high esteem, that they reject legitimate criticism seems unwise??
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My friend you can't blame Obama for everything wrong that's been happening in regards to the US foreign policies around the world. I too hold my emotion towards the US military and government in check. Now as far as what is legitimate criticism or not is all debatable and that's fine by me.
 
Equation

Equation

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TerraN_EmpirE said:
It was going to happen eventually, as the US and PRC continue to butt heads over the Hard rise of the PRC and the US backing of her Treaty allies and those who want to keep their status que without PLA death stars parked offshore possibly getting aide. the day was going to come when the PRC made a political move to snub the US. especially after Carter's recent snub of a trip to Beijing.

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Well that's the giz, the US needs to just accept a PRC rise and change a their treaties in accordance to the changing of times. American's shouldn't be wasting tax payers money and lives over some status quo when there's no danger of China going to invade her allies or anything like that.
 
TerraN_EmpirE

TerraN_EmpirE

Tyrant King
Equation, a Nation has to honor signed treaties, they can be changed yes but not with out the consent of both sides of the treaties. The PRC is making bold movies to change the SEA region and is head butting a number of US allies. The US has to react simply backing off is not a option, and giving way is not a good option either.
 
Equation

Equation

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TerraN_EmpirE said:
Equation, a Nation has to honor signed treaties, they can be changed yes but not with out the consent of both sides of the treaties. The PRC is making bold movies to change the SEA region and is head butting a number of US allies. The US has to react simply backing off is not a option, and giving way is not a good option either.
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I understand, but my point is which is more important? A) Avoiding clashes by creating a new treaties or changing the terms of the old one to coincide with both sides security needs, or B) continue with the old Cold War mentality and avoid making peace with a rising power just to save the status quo that doesn't abide with the times? I say the former is best, US allies can not force the American people to sacrifice their money and lives all just to appease their "concern" with China. People are already sick and tire of the previous devastation done both at home and abroad from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. They don't like to see their children to be used as pawns just for some geopolitical status quo when it has nothing to do with homeland security.
 
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