It exists to destroy fortresses and hardened defensive positions
Here s What You Need To Remember: The 2S4 has no equivalent in Western militaries. This is because its main task destroying immobile, fortified strongpoints with its powerful shells is typically performed by airstrikes using precision-guided munitions such as JDAMs.
Self-propelled heavy mortar carriers are ubiquitous in modern mechanized armies. Mounted on light armored carriers and placed at the disposal of battalion commanders, such vehicles can deliver heavy and fast-responding indirect bombardments with 120-millimeter shells. When compared to self-propelled howitzers of similar caliber, mortars are lighter and require a smaller logistical train, but have significantly shorter range.
How had a dated Serbian missile system shot down a sophisticated (though no longer state-of-the-art) stealth fighter?
Here s What You Need To Remember: The takeaway, ultimately, is that stealth aircraft are not truly ‘invisible’ to detection, and that sufficiently cunning adversary may find ways to ambush or corner them. However, while Col. Dani’s leadership did exemplify many best practices of air defense warfare, his ambush of Vega-31 does not offer a ‘cookie-cutter’ solution to combating stealth aircraft, particularly as both low-observable airplanes and the SAM systems and fighters hunting them improve in capability.
At 8 p.m. on March 27, 1999, a bizarre-looking black painted airplane cut through the night sky over Serbia. This particular F-117 Nighthawk a subsonic attack plane that was the world’s first operational stealth aircraft flew by the call sign of Vega-31 and was named “Something Wicked.” Moments earlier, it had released its two Paveway laser-guided
Poor design, poor maintenance, or just plain bad luck made sure that these ships did not last.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Not all carriers are made equal and some of them got worse over time.
Aircraft carriers are, with the possible exception of submarines, the most complicated naval vessels afloat. Not only do carriers have the traditional concerns of warships to deal with, they must also safely manage a fleet of aircraft which are often complicated in their own right. Despite these complications, carriers are among the most useful and lethal of warships. Even now, 100 years after the first purpose-built carrier HMS
Iran s Recreated M-16 Was A Massive Failure
The Iranian defense industry is known for making some eye-catching claims and prototypes. But this is not one of them.
Here s What You Need To Remember: In 2008 Syrian Army weapons trials, eight out of ten rifles submitted to trials malfunctioned. Following that, interest in the rifle from other countries vanished, and the program was said to have been canceled in 2012. However, a photo of an Iranian soldier with the rifle surfaced in 2014, though no further information is available.
The Iranian defense industry is known for making some eye-catching claims and prototypes. The KH-2002 “Khaybar” is one of those, a futuristic-looking bullpup that caught the eye of many foreign watchers. But by most accounts, the rifle is terrible in almost every metric. Given that it’s based on the American M16, which is known to be very reliable with the correct ammo and maintenance, how did the Iranian industry screw it up?
Flashpoint Campaigns: Red Storm focuses on the practice of command.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Like a real commander, the player can only place his troops in the most advantageous position and hope for the best.
Forget politics. Forget history. Who knows why the Soviets invaded West Germany in 1989? Perhaps it was a bad grain harvest in the Ukraine. Perhaps they feared the U.S. would strike first.
Or, maybe the Soviets simply decided like many an empire or perhaps even a certain North American republic that the only way to demonstrate they were not a declining superpower was by going to war.