Moderadores: Lepanto, poliorcetes, Edu, Orel
Tracking the Bomb Stockpile
We received some more details about the bomb stockpile shortage that U.S. defense officials have been warning about for more than a year. Now U.S. Pacific Command is shipping Small Diameter Bombs to U.S. Central Command, which oversees the airstrike campaigns in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.
“These are not exciting kinds of weapons; these are mundane sort of weapons,” Adm. Harry Harris, the PACOM commander, told the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday. “But they’re absolutely critical to what we’re trying to do, not only…against North Korea, but also in the fights in the Middle East.”
The bombs are also being shipped to Africa, Harris said. “That’s the fight we’re in and they need them, so we send them there and they use them, which is a good thing.”
Small Diameter Bombs were originally made by Boeing. Never models that can strike moving targets in bad weather are made by Raytheon.
What else is Harris short? Raytheon AIM-9X and AIM-120D, the latest air-to-air combat missiles for fighter jets.
Orel escribió:Poli, veo lógico todo lo que comentas. Solo no estoy de acuerdo en decir "como hacen los rusos", porque opino que en entornos urbanos civiles con enemigo no claro hay que hacer el esfuerzo económico de usar guiadas y desde luego no hacer bombardeos en alfombra. Pero como digo, estoy de acuerdo en que en los demás casos y en conflictos largos hay que abaratar el coste de munición.
De todos modos, no se quiere "ahorrar usando lo que hay", porque hay miles de bombas no guiadas. Las guiadas no son más que esas con kit. Si quisieran ahorrar disponen perfectamente de no guiadas.
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Ningún avión COIN de los disponibles en el mercado fue diseñado específicamente para esa función sino que se aprovecharon plataformas que ya estaban volando como entrenadores, ademas de que un monomotor siempre será mas económico de operar que un bimotor. Se puede ver la opción monomotor como virtud o como un mal necesario (depende de quien lo mire).
Orel escribió:¡Drones monomotores armados!
Two new members of Russia's Orlan family of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were unveiled at a Russian Defence Ministry-sponsored conference on robotics on 11-12 February.
The Orlan-30 and Orlan-50 are scaled-up derivatives of the Orlan-10 already in Russian service. Both have the same external dimensions (2.43 m long and 3.8 m wingspan), and both have an operating radius of 500 km, an operating altitude of 5,000 m, and an endurance of 8 hours.
The main difference between the new UAVs is that the Orlan-30 is single-engined and the Orlan-50 is twin-engined. This allows the Orlan-50 to have a higher maximum take-off weight (50kg) and payload (15 kg) than the Orlan-30 (27 kg and 8 kg respectively). Both have a cruising speed of 90 km/h, though the 180 km/h maximum speed of the Orlan-50 is also higher than the Orlan-30's (150 km/h). Both are launched by catapult and land by parachute.
Orel escribió:Ningún avión COIN de los disponibles en el mercado fue diseñado específicamente para esa función sino que se aprovecharon plataformas que ya estaban volando como entrenadores, ademas de que un monomotor siempre será mas económico de operar que un bimotor. Se puede ver la opción monomotor como virtud o como un mal necesario (depende de quien lo mire).
Shomer, y resulta que esos aviones adaptados están bastando a los que los compran. Así que ¿para qué van a gastar unos en operar y otros en hacer bimotores?
Este tema del COIN parece místico. Se le dan mucha más utilidad o valor del que tienen y luego además resulta que las soluciones mostradamente válidas son dudosas. Jobar, aquí son todo hipótesis de foro ja,ja.
¡Drones monomotores armados!
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The Marines were much more enthusiastic about making more of the Bronco. They wanted to improve it with new sensors and heavier armament to hit the enemy at night, and issued a request to industry for such a conversion. Rockwell won the contract and modified two OV-10As to the "YOV-10D Night Observation Gunship (NOGS)" configuration, handing them over to the Marines for evaluation in 1970. The YOV-10D lacked the gun sponsons, with armament consisting instead of a three-barrel General Electric M197 20 millimeter Gatling cannon in a turret under the rear fuselage. The Bronco's cargo space came in handy for accommodating the turret systems and cannon ammunition. The nose was extended 76 centimeters (30 inches) to accommodate a turret-mounted "forward looking infrared (FLIR)" video imager. The wing pylons were replaced with new "wet" pylons that could be used to carry 379 liter (100 US gallon) external tanks. Sidewinder capability was lost.
After stateside tests, the two YOV-10Ds were sent to Vietnam for combat evaluation with the Navy Black Pony squadron. The YOV-10Ds flew over 200 sorties and proved murderously effective, in two cases crushing enemy night attacks on isolated outposts.
Axe reports that OV-10s performed outstandingly in combat, racking up 134 sorties and 120 combat missions over 82 days while having a 99 percent availability rate.
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The 190th FS A-10Cs that deployed for OIR in 2016 flew a total of 1,769 combat sorties. Ordnance expended included 227 GBU-12 500lb laser-guided bombs, 452 GBU-31 2,000lb JDAMs, 833 GBU-38 500lb JDAMs, 146 GBU-54 Laser JDAMs, 42 AGM-65 Maverick air-to-ground missiles, 20 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) laser-guided rockets, 390 70mm unguided rockets and a staggering 167,415 rounds of 30mm from the A-10’s internal GAU-8 ‘Gatling’ gun.
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