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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (122132)9/23/2016 9:29:08 PM
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re << fredoneverything.org hillary-trump-and-war-with-russia-the-goddamdest-stupid-idea-i-have-ever-heard-and-i-have-lived-in-washington/>> and fred's feeling re the T14 Armata, by suspicion is that the next big war, if involving tanks, infantry, and traditional protocol, would be very dangerous for all on the battle field, because there are simply too many geewhizbangohwhoawee systems out there, neither good for tanks nor infantry
popularmechanics.com

China's Mini-Drone Packs a Heavyweight Punch

Soldiers could carry the CH-901 into action and launch it from the field.?
May 5, 2016



China just revealed details of its CH-901 tube-launched loitering munition, a portable killer drone that a soldier can carry and then launch from the field to track down and attack opponents. The Chinese are not the first in this area—the U.S. unveiled the Switchblade in 2011 and has used it in Afghanistan. But this is a big move for the Chinese military.

Chinese forces fly a bewildering variety of drones, from small hand-launched systems to the giant Divine Eagle, a twin-fuselage aircraft designed to detect stealth aircraft at long range. Some are copies of Western models: After shooting down U.S. Firebee drones over their territory in the 1960's, the Chinese reverse-engineered them to create the Chang Hong 1 drone in 1972. In addition, China has a vast number of civil companies in the drone business. Most celebrated is DJI, which has about a 70 percent share of the consumer drone market.



But the CH-901, shown off at the Defence Services Asia expo, is China's first tactical attack drone. It has two configurations, carrying either an explosive warhead or additional cameras and a recovery parachute. This is an approach apparently copied from Israeli drones like uVision's Hero-30. The CH-901's takeoff weight is 20 lbs, compared to less than 6 lbs. for the U.S. Switchblade.

The reason for the size is the payload, which can be more than 6 lbs. While Switchblade's sub-one-pound warhead is useful against personnel and light vehicles, the CL-901 will be able to take out a wider variety of targets. In this respect it is similar to the Polish Warmate loitering munition, which can be armed with a fragmentation charge or a shaped charge warhead capable of penetrating four inches of armor and destroying tanks and light armoured vehicles. China's drone, is almost twice the size of Warmate, though. A six-pound warhead might not be able to go through the front armor of a main battle tank like the M1 Abrams, but it could breach the thin top armor in an attack from above. Lighter vehicles like the M2 Bradley would be easy game.

The standard CH-901 configuration is a group of three drones, one launch tube and a controller, with a total weight of a hundred pounds. China calls this "man portable" (presumably the load can be split between two or more soldiers), or it can be fitted to a light vehicle like an SUV. According to the makers, the drone cruises at 40 to 75 mph with an endurance of two hours in the reconnaissance configuration or one hour as an attack drone, with a range of about ten miles. The reconnaissance version has an estimated lifespan of 20 missions.

The CH-901 is sold by China Poly Defense, which claims to be one of the country's top three defense companies. In February 2013, China Poly Technologies (of which Poly Defense is a part), was sanctioned by the US Department of State for breaching the " Iran, North Korea and Syria Nonproliferation Act." The company denies any breach occurred. The CH-designation suggests that the drone was designed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, responsible for unmanned military aircraft from the CH-1 in 2000 to the recent CH-803.



The CH-901 is said to be able to detect targets at a range of more than a mile from an altitude of 1,500 feet, but this would depend very much on the nature of the target. A sniper hiding in rocks is not so easy to spot as a convoy of trucks on a road.

While some metrics of the new drone have been revealed, on the battlefield there are other important factors to consider. One of these is the guidance system. The Switchblade operator acquires a target using the on-board camera (visible light or thermal imaging) and then locks on for the attack phase. Once locked on, it can follow even a fast-maneuvering target trying to escape. How precisely it can track a target, and how precisely it can be guided to hit a target, moving or stationary, are key factors in its effectiveness. The CH-901 was reportedly in development for several years. They may indicate an advanced and highly-developed guidance system—or just that developers ran into delays.

A drone is useless if its communications can easily be jammed. We will not know how vulnerable the CH-901 is to jamming until it comes up against an advanced opponent. Even then both sides are liable to stay quiet about what they discover.

Despite these uncertainties, the CH-901 matters. While the Chinese are hardly leaders in military aircraft (or armaments generally), they do have a major presence in the field of small electronics. This includes a formidable capacity to churn out vast quantities of sophisticated material at very low cost. This includes small drones, as DJI alone will sell more than million this year. Chinese jets like the new J-20 fighter may never be common or be widely exported, but the CH-901 might be the equivalent of the Vietnam-era Chinese rocket-propelled grenade launchers. These soon appeared in arms bazaars all over the world at bargain prices and were copied by others.



The Chinese military have already bought both versions of the CH-901. Meanwhile the U.S. continues to progress the LMAMS program for portable lethal drones. The Switchblade is one contender, but the program will not select and field a final version until 2017-18 at least. That's a long time in the fast-moving world of small drones.



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (122132)9/23/2016 9:59:40 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217752
 
would refrain from riding in a tank if in battle

scmp.com

China develops laser-guided tank missile



The armoured division of the People's Liberation Army will be equipped with next-generation laser-guided missiles, in a move to improve the long-range firepower and accuracy of its tanks.

The PLA Daily said on Wednesday a new glide bomb, that can be fired from tanks rather than from missile launchers, had been developed after years of live-fire tests on plateaus, islands and in the Gobi desert.

... "The gun-launched missile is a special bomb that combines accurate guidance technology and conventional tank gun systems to improve the hit rate of main battle tanks," Shi Yiqun, a senior engineer in an armoured unit, told the newspaper.

Military analysts said the new weapon would turn China's conventional Type-99 tank and other next-generation cannons into weapons of "massive destruction".

...

It said the new missile would not affect tanks' conventional firepower.

"The laser-guided missile will not harm the traditional smooth bore gun, but make it much more powerful and accurate," Xu Guangyu , a retired PLA major general, said.




To: Maurice Winn who wrote (122132)9/23/2016 11:08:25 PM
From: TobagoJack  Respond to of 217752
 
Re << fredoneverything.org hillary-trump-and-war-with-russia-the-goddamdest-stupid-idea-i-have-ever-heard-and-i-have-lived-in-washington/>> again, and

no, i do not believe there would be major war in the south china sea, and soon, for the rest of the pacific ocean, such be unsung benefits of levelling the playing field, anti-access / area denial, peaceful rise protocol

specifically

"The same danger exists incidentally with regard to a war with China in the South China Sea. The American Navy hasn’t fought a war in seventy years. It doesn’t know how well its armament works. The Chinese, who are not fools, have invested in weaponry specifically designed to defeat carrier battle groups. A carrier in smoking ruins would force Washington to start a wider war to save face, with unpredictable results. Can you name one American, other than the elites, who has anything to gain from war with China?"

(1) the america navy was offered an opportunity to do battle in 2013 but declined, apparently preferring to go home edition.cnn.com "A U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser took evasive action to avoid colliding with a Chinese warship in the South China Sea in what sources called a highly unusual and deliberate act by China, CNN has learned."

since that time, and after complaining much about alleged non-transparency of the china military, the playing arena is progressively less opaque

(2) The pilot project to grid-mark the ocean is underway per infrastructure build-out choreography

janes.com

note the convenient english language system :0)


"CSSC says that, among other things, its objective is to provide customers with "a package solution in terms of underwater environment monitoring and collection, real-time location, tracing of surface and underwater targets, warning of seaquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters as well as marine scientific research"."

(3) presumably once the above system is placed firstly in the south china sea, there is no particular reason why the grid-ing should not be extended as there a seaquakes and tsunamis all over the oceanscape

and once so, the precision of the two of a kind DF-21D and DF-26 anti-ship ballistic missiles would be more transparent still. please note that team china confirms that the two singular DF machines are purely defensive in nature, as they reach no further than guam, and is well away from hawaii, even as the war heads are good for thames in london.

nationalinterest.org "
Showtime: China Reveals Two 'Carrier-Killer' Missiles - "There was nothing subtle about the parade or its showcasing of Chinese military hardware."- Andrew S. Erickson"

note how the transparency is appreciated ;0)

(4) grid-ing and able to "battle ship" surface naval combatants is not enough, and must be supplemented by a variety of autonomous, loitering, swarming sentinels, at yuan on the dollar, or fen on the cents

popsci.com "
CHINESE EXHIBIT SHOWS OFF SEA DRONES"

and even underwater gliders scmp.com "At the moment, the cost of an underwater glider was about 100 million yuan (HK$116 million) on the international market, but Yu said he expected the price would drop sharply once mass production started.
With improved technology, the vessel would also be able to carry a greater variety of sensors – perhaps even weapons with the capability of damaging or destroying a military target.

“An underwater glider comes with a structure that is much less sophisticated than that of a car,” Yu said.

A small car in China can be sold for only 30,000 to 40,000 yuan. I think the glider won’t be more expensive than that if the annual production runs to hundreds of thousands,” he said."

(5) then of course, the underwater glider is best paired w/ one in near-space, that which can reach other side of the planet w/i 30 min for active defence

popularmechanics.com

"The superweapon travels at an eye-watering 7,000 miles an hour."

(6) missile torpedo makes living in submarines more dangerous still nextbigfuture.com

"China develops an anti-submarine missile-torpedo hybrid weapon"
(7) all of the above guards the fragile peace in view of whobegones who wish to pivot here and grab there, by TTP (trans pacific partnership) per obama / clinton, or by littoral combat ship

(8) mean while, the one belt one road (obor) protocol is making good progress, more on the program by and by, but now even afghanistan, that which team america tried to save by bombs is already in thehindu.com "Silk Road’ train to reach Afghanistan on Sept. 9"

... and what you referred to re russian gas going east instead to europe is part of the same OBOR programming by comrade jinping, the returning sovereign tasked to save the underpreviledged

clsa.com "A brilliant plan
One Belt, One RoadXi Jinping’s ambitious strategic initiative – an adaptation of the historical Silk Road – could sow the seeds for a new geopolitical era"



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (122132)9/23/2016 11:29:16 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217752
 
you and i have been on si for a while, and

let us hope we, together w/ si shall be around for a lot longer while

neat stuff coming our way

quantum satellite & radar

modular pebble reactor

designer genes against famine and disease

space exploration

etc etc

irrespective of whether trump or clinton, so we are fortunate



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (122132)11/14/2023 10:30:15 PM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217752
 
Following up from 2023 09 23 Message 30757295
no, i do not believe there would be major war in the south china sea, and soon, for the rest of the pacific ocean, such be unsung benefits of levelling the playing field, anti-access / area denial, peaceful rise protocol
... all working out about as expected