Missed this one.
Romanian court suspends €46m penalty claim against Otokar
https://turdef.com/article/romanian-court-suspends-46m-penalty-claim-against-otokar
I'm not posting the photo as it's gnarly but there's possible human remains on one of the C-130 wrecks. Increases possibility that aircraft was hit on the ground and that was the reason they had to ditch at least one of them.
Those are carbon fiber propellers, they don't bend on collision, they break. They clearly lost form due to high heat from the fire; which actually supports the claim that they were hit on the ground. We have 2 MC-130s and at least 2 MH-6s sitting right next to each other as wrecks. They were...
Numbers, training and firepower. This is not even in contention. French cannot even do a major airlift without American assistance. Brits don't even try.
You could say don't start a war over a mountainous country in the first place, but it is what it is.
Numbers we have are 2 MC-130s, 2-4...
French have shown in the past that they don't have the capability in Africa during Barkhane and Serval other than the most simples CSAR ops and Brits simply don't have the capability.
Closest I think would be the Entebbe Raid and they had a fully functioning airport and the earlier failed Eagle Claw, also in Iran. Funny thing; CV-22 was entirely sold and later developed as a tailor built platform to combine the best sides of a cargo aircraft and a helicopter and it would be...
If half of what's been written since last night is true then this is the greatest SOF raid of this century; god damn. Iranians are clueless. They brought in MH-6 Little Birds stuffed inside C-130s to use as fire support.
All our systems already come with EO. Systems like 358 are cheap and somewhat mobile but there lies the issue. They are only good for drones and potshots against enemies of which you know their locations so you can ambush them. It's not a winning strategy; it's a hailmary. If you are down to...
It's nothing new, it's what they worked on for years in Iraq, Yemen, by giving them to PKK in Syria and now in Iran. There's a reason why they are only successful on bringing down Reapers; they use EO based SAMs like the 358.
I fully buy helicopters being hit with gunfire; unsure about A-10; they mention it was crashed into sea. Americans are refueling their CSAR birds over Iranian airspace with KC-130s. I don't see how can we view this as an "uptick" on Iranian GBAD activity. If anything, it's the other way around.
Again, Iraq was able to down up to 70 aircraft during the 91 war. Syrians and Egyptians downed hundreds of Israeli aircraft in the last centuries wars. It's just Iran that is abysmal.
It isn't. I think he's just playing on the audience and the "hypersonic" buzzword. Majority of laymen don't know what an HGV or terminal course correction is, they only think that the weapon is so fast that it cannot be intercepted.
All MRBMs (+1000km range) reach hypersonic speeds by their...
