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Seems like an ok trade-off. Less LCS, but quicker development of an upgraded Burke Class: SM-6 is the best fleet defense missile around, so getting more is never a bad thing: The VPM is a much needed step too: A mini boomer:partay:? ... But, has any movement happened on up-gunning the...

In a war between Brits and Vikings, always pick the Viking. Average Brit:cuckoo:: Average Icelandic Viking:ashamed::

Are we sure? The US uses the V-22, part of HMX-1, as a VIP transport: Maybe not in India's case in particular, but it's viable as a VIP transport

That it was a version of the M16, but not that it's becoming the main service rifle of the US military, so the M16 entry is still wrong. The wording, which seems to come from an Army-Technology article, is dated to 29 May, 2014. A lot has happened in a year and a half.

The list seems a tad dated, since the US is transitioning to the M4 as its service rifle, seeing as how the M16's greater range doesn't really matter with the round it's using. Isn't Turkey also transitioning to the MPT-76? I'm interested to see what you can come up with for Norway, Sweden and...

Read Aky's claim again, @Azeri440 post again and look at the map again. Why does a missile striking Syria, launched from the Mediterranean, cross Iraqi or Iranian airspace? Aky wrote: Recently they showed their Kalibre Missile tech fired from the Mediterranean sea into Syria (over Iran and...

But to get to Iraq and Iran from the Mediterranean you need to cross over Syria, thus @Azeri440 's point of contention with Aky's claim that Russian missiles fired from the Med would cross over Iraq and Iran on route to Syria. I assume Aky meant the Caspian, but this error does discredit his...

No problem. The Seawolf's are hunter-killer submarines, except for USS Jimmy Carter which is used for "special missions" - this includes cable splicing, special operations insertion and intelligence operations: USS Jimmy Carter is 100 feet longer than the other two Seawolfs: Yuri Dolgorukyi...

It's a Seawolf class submarine. It has a two digit hull number and a curve leading onto the tower: More specifically it's USS Seawolf (SSN-21). Here's the original pic: LA's don't have the curve and have a three digit hull number either starting with 6xx or 7xx: And a higher...

CY-1 is similar to the US RUM-139 VL-ASROC. It uses a rocket motor to propel a homing torpedo into the water at high-speeds and at long ranges. Cool, but nothing spectacular. RUM-139 contains a MK 46 light-weight torpedo: This is an old RUR-5 ASROC launched from a MK 112 "Matchbox" from a...

Lijar vs. France? 100 years running and still no casualties: In 1883, the citizens of Lijar, a small village in southern Spain were infuriated when they heard reports that, while visiting Paris, the Spanish king, Alfonso XII had been insulted and even attacked in the streets by Parisian mobs...

Life in Scandinavia:

Compensating for something? That's an awfully big missile - hard to hide. Make sure to wave when USA-245 is in the area, I'm sure it'll be happy to see you too: Which brings us to historical lesson number two: outpost far from one's own lands are difficult to resupply if besieged. The US has...

:lol: Rafale Typhoon What can I say, I'm a girl who likes nice butts:partay: Showing off mainly, or in Russia's case to drum up sales. France it seems is seeing how the SCALP works in real-world conditions. There's really no non-financial reason to use such types of stand-off munitions...

Scandinavia, apart from a lot of bridges and their support infrastructure (above water foundations), doesn't really have a lot of artificial islands. We really don't need them due to a glut of natural ones. Sweden's got Universitetsholmen, which is home to the University of Malmo: Why all...

Can Norway get in on this action too? Brattøra: Even glorious Norway can into artificial islands.

Waffle's rule:

Right, no NATO equivalent to a long-ranged land attack missile. I wonder why no NATO nation ever though of that concept before? Welcome to the 1980s Russia... oh wait, you never left:partay:.

:o: I didn't know p*rn was allowed here!?! Wow, she's got a nice butt:smitten:! Zumwalt's MT30s are good looking though: Why didn't the US go domestic?

I know you're referencing Japan, but I could have seen the US as an answer too. Di Lido Island: Brickell Key: And the much more modest Endicott Island: Like Japan, the US has dozens of artificial islands. What's a few more in the SCS:partay:?