Frumentum:

I was being facetious
Seriously though, Botswana has armed them with 2 FN MINIMI 5.6 mm Mk3 LMGs, fired from a button in the cockpit. Talks are underway to integrate 2 X 7-tube FZ rocket launchers.

I won't want to be at the wrong end of a 23 mm

Frumentum:

And you disparage the Bat Hawk?

that's stretching your luck too far.
the thing looks like it was made with bamboo and nylon.

lionel4power:

who else remembers the Minicoin aka "biafran babies" that devastated the Nigerian Air Force mig-17s. who else?

I'm I the only one who reads history here??
(pun intended )

http://www.africanmilitaryblog.com/2016/11/reincarnation-how-biafran-baby-returns.html


if a similar aircraft was used with great effect against Nigeria, I wonder why it won't work against boko haram how sophisticated are they?

Well,I am not sure I know the crux of the matter anymore but yes,I do love me a turboprop

Odunayaw:


Well,I am not sure I know the crux of the matter anymore but yes,I do love me a turboprop

remember when I said if the US doesn't want to sell the tucano, then we go to the Turks, if they refuse we go to the south africans.

if they all refuse then we get an acrobatic aircraft and outfits it with rocket and gun pods.

lionel4power:

I won't want to be at the wrong end of a 23 mm

Poor doctrine and no aircraft will survive the wrong end of a 23mm.

BTW, I think the Bat Hawk can only be used in extremely permissible environments, like belligerent herders with AKs.

lionel4power:


remember when I said if the US doesn't want to sell the tucano, then we go to the Turks, if they refuse we go to the south africans.

if they all refuse then we get an acrobatic aircraft and outfits it with rocket and gun pods.

I recall now
Something can be done to the Mushak(I refused to learn the spelling) then.


meanwhile, did you watch the unveiling of the tsaigumi? Did you see the nafsa eagle aircraft/demonstrator? What is thine opinion

lionel4power:


remember when I said if the US doesn't want to sell the tucano, then we go to the Turks, if they refuse we go to the south africans.

if they all refuse then we get an acrobatic aircraft and outfits it with rocket and gun pods.

Again, you chaps could have joined the 2 launch customers for the Paramount Mwari
Guided and unguided rockets, ATGMs, Gun pods, ISR sensors etc at a cheaper operating cost/hour than a helicopter and longer loiter time.

Odunayaw:
I recall now
Something can be done to the Mushak(I refused to learn the spelling) then.


meanwhile, did you watch the unveiling of the tsaigumi? Did you see the nafsa eagle aircraft/demonstrator? What is thine opinion

It's a commendable effort. I know it's a prototype and MORE work would still be done.

i hear Comp Air Aviation was selected from three U.S.-based aviation companies to develop the platform,

Frumentum:


Again, you chaps could have joined the 2 launch customers for the Paramount Mwari
Guided and unguided rockets, ATGMs, Gun pods, ISR sensors etc at a cheaper operating cost/hour than a helicopter and longer loiter time.

we missed that chance...

at least on the Mwari aspect. I still think it's better than the non existent super tucano.

Frumentum:

Poor doctrine and no aircraft will survive the wrong end of a 23mm.

BTW, I think the Bat Hawk can only be used in extremely permissible environments, like belligerent herders with AKs.

reminds me of my childhood favourite aviation quote.

"ON A WING AND A PRAYER"


forgotten who said that.

lionel4power:
we missed that chance...

at least on the Mwari aspect. I still think it's better than the non existent super tucano.

Actually, we know the one launch customer is in the Middle East. The 2nd, not so sure.
The model proudly sits on the desk of your CAS Abubakar, so who knows...

Actually, considering all production slots have been taken up by the 2 launch customers for the next 2 years, highly likely the addition to the Mid East customer is Central Asian - the other region where Paramount has derived strong revenue.
In any case, they'd have made a loud song and dance about an African launch customer.

very optimistic about DART-450 with performance close to EMB-312 but priced at only US$ 3.1 million. The manufacturing plant is already set in wuhu, China.

General characteristics
Crew: Two
Length: 10.75 m (35 ft 3 in)
Wingspan: 11.74 m (38 ft 6 in)
Height: 3.38 m (11 ft 1 in)
Empty weight: 1,330 kg (2,932 lb)
Max takeoff weight: 2,300 kg (5,071 lb)
Fuel capacity: 850 l (190 imp gal; 220 US gal) usable
Powerplant: 1 × Ivchenko-Progress Motor Sich AI-450S turboprop, 369 kW (495hp)
Propellers: 5-bladed MT Propeller

Performance
Maximum speed: 463 km/h; 288 mph (250 kn)
Cruise speed: 426 km/h; 265 mph (230 kn)
Stall speed: 111 km/h; 69 mph (60kn)
Endurance: 8 hr 10 min
Service ceiling: 7,010 m (23,000 ft) absolute
g limits: +7/-4G
Rate of climb: 15.2 m/s (2,990 ft/min)
Take-off run: 600 m (2,000 ft)
Landing run: 400 m (1,300 ft)
fuel burn: 90 litres/hour
operating cost: $500/hour
payload:870 kg


China is negotiating with Ukraine Ivchenko-Progress about license built it's engine Motor Sich AI-450S

Russia is developing a new high-speed combat helicopter prototype capably of speed of over 400 km per hour.

Frumentum:

Actually, we know the one launch customer is in the Middle East. The 2nd, not so sure.
The model proudly sits on the desk of your CAS Abubakar, so who knows...

Actually, considering all production slots have been taken up by the 2 launch customers for the next 2 years, highly likely the addition to the Mid East customer is Central Asian - the other region where Paramount has derived strong revenue.
In any case, they'd have made a loud song and dance about an African launch customer.

Why do you think Africans don't want to buy the Mwari? or many of SA products for that matter?

A test of SpotMini's ability to adjust to disturbances as it opens and walks through a door. A person (not shown) drives the robot up to the door, points the hand at the door handle, then gives the 'GO' command, both at the beginning of the video and again at 42 seconds. The robot proceeds autonomously from these points on, without help from a person. A camera in the hand finds the door handle, cameras on the body determine if the door is open or closed and navigate through the doorway. Software provides locomotion, balance and adjusts behavior when progress gets off track. The ability to tolerate and respond automatically to disturbances like these improves successful operation of the robot.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFuA50H9uek

scaled model of drdo Stand Off Anti-Tank Missile/ S.A.N.T Missile (also known as MLPGM/ Missile Launched Precision Guided Munition). It was tested recently from a helicopter.

It uses a MMW Seeker.

The name Missile Launched PGM (MLPGM) is given because multiple nos of it can be fitted inside a mother ballistic missile as payload and released during pre terminal stages, then the multiple MLPGM will independently seek, acquire, persue and home on the targets.

It is a good idea becz it will allow u to hit multiple armoured vehicles with a single delivery missile via fire and forget approach.

Ballistic missiles like prithvi 2 & 3 and other upcoming ballistic missiles will carry multiple of these Missile Launched Precision Guided Munition and give the capability to take out multiple targets like SAM systems and their related support systems, missile TELs and their related support systems, armoured concentration etc

Pic 3 One of the Prithvi warheads BCES (blast cum earth shock) which contains 32 penetrators that penetrate the ground , structures etc and then explode for damage . Its effect is that of a area saturation warhead.

Pic 4 Prithvi ballistic missile BCES warhead in action
But the penetrators are unguided and depend on the carrier missile for accuracy.

Here Missile Launched PGMs will use their own MMW seekers to seek out targets after being dispensed over the general area of interest at ranges of > 300km ( depends on the carrier mother missile range )

The concept is shown in the 2nd pic near CDEEP

DRDO 155/52 mm ATAGS howitzers in high altitude trials in Sikkim, Jan 2018. Bharat Forge’s G-2 prototype (L), Tata Power SED’s G-1 (R).

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ships

In IAF LCA is the first and only aircraft till date to have the capability of hot refuelling.

Hot Refuelling is a single point pressure refuelling of the aircraft with the engine in operation. It is a process by which a fighter aircraft is refuelled (in between sorties) while its engine is in operation, thereby cutting down the refuelling time by half and turn-around time significantly. This capability is highly desired in combat situation which basically puts aside the need for the pilot to park the aircraft, power down and exit the cockpit for refuelling to begin.

lionel4power:

Why do you think Africans don't want to buy the Mwari? or many of SA products for that matter?

Who says African countries don't want to buy Mwari? It's a new platform and all the production slots (24 aircraft/year) have been taken up by the 2 launch customers, for the next 2 years.
Other than SA, which other African country has ever committed to buying anything abroad based on prototypes? Even we falter, as when we stupidly turned down AIP for our subs cos we didn't want to be guinea pigs.

The SA defence industry generates adequate sales from African countries, from EW platforms and APCs in Egypt, to tents in Mozambique. WE could of course, do with more.
The question you should be asking is, "Why does SA struggle to sell high-end stuff in Africa?"

And the answer is because our defence companies cannot afford the generous finance packages that China, Russia, USA, France, Israel and recently Turkey, can put together. All our high-end stuff in Africa goes to countries like Algeria and Egypt that can finance deals on their own.

PIC 2 is for nemesis4u

Akash medium-range mobile air defense missile system elements

1. MLV (Missile Launcher Vehicle)
2. FCC (Fire Control Centre)
3. MGR (Missile Guidance Radar)
4. TPSV (TLR Power Supply Vehicle)

South Korea scrambled more than 10 fighters just to monitor one PLANAF Y-9JB
China dispatched a single Y-9JB electronic warfare aircraft into Korea Strait on Feb. 27 and Yonhap reported that more than 10 fighters were scrambled by South Korea to monitor the four-hours flight by the Chinese.

Saab GlobalEye on operational mission

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcL9DgEe5lQ

russia special forces

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1AHOzn0EE4

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI-pPR5tlIE

russia special ops in syria short documentary

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsRNC-lLpvk

Prospina anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) in top-attack mode was tested earlier today. Prospina is the latest iteration of the Nag ATGM and sports an indigenous MWIR seeker.

2nd pic is interesting , not sure but it seems that the explosion captured in the pic is due to the precursor charge , while the main charge has yet to be initiated.

The warhead used is a tandem warhead, so I maybe right.

Russia officially donated two An-26 transport aircraft to Nicaragua on Feb. 23. The Russian Navy commander for naval aviation, Maj. Gen. Igor Kozhin handed over the aircraft to Commander in Chief of the Army of Nicaragua, Gen. Julio César Avilés Castillo, at the ceremony.

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InGSsZGJTgk

nemesis4u:
Prospina anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) in top-attack mode was tested earlier today. Prospina is the latest iteration of the Nag ATGM and sports an indigenous MWIR seeker.

2nd pic is interesting , not sure but it seems that the explosion captured in the pic is due to the precursor charge , while the main charge has yet to be initiated.

The warhead used is a tandem warhead, so I maybe right.

i think you meant imaging infrared seeker(IIR) not infrared seeker (IR)

newafricaken254:
i think you meant imaging infrared seeker(IIR) not infrared seeker (IR)

Ur correct theoretically

but it is kind of understood that ATGM seekers r IIR not IR based.

Introducing Patria Nemo Container - a heavy mortar system with high mobility

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLns_5xadtA

newafricaken254:
South Korea scrambled more than 10 fighters just to monitor one PLANAF Y-9JB
China dispatched a single Y-9JB electronic warfare aircraft into Korea Strait on Feb. 27 and Yonhap reported that more than 10 fighters were scrambled by South Korea to monitor the four-hours flight by the Chinese.

this pic is taken by japanese self defense force