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Billion-dollar US nuclear sub comes off worst in Strait of Hormuz collision with ‘fishing boat’ (via)

 

The USS Jacksonville, a large nuclear submarine, has broken its periscope after colliding with a vessel which escaped unscathed. This is the latest collision to involve a US vessel in the busy and tense oil chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz.
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France backing Malian counter-offensive against Islamist militants, launching airstrikes on militants' positions:

 

http://www.france24.com/en/20130111-france-hollande-prepared-intervene-mali-islamists-un-military-au

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21004040

 

RAF provide two C-17's for transport of french equipment.

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Boeing 787 Dreamliner grounded.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/jal-says-dreamliner-leaks-fuel-during-tests-132103757--finance.html

 

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Airlines Co (JAL) said on Sunday that a Boeing Co 787 Dreamliner jet undergoing checks in Tokyo following a fuel leak at Boston airport last week had leaked fuel during tests earlier in the day.

 

An open valve on the aircraft caused fuel to leak from a nozzle on the left wing used to remove fuel, a company spokeswoman said. The jet is out of service after spilling about 40 gallons of fuel onto the airport taxiway in Boston due to a separate valve-related problem.

In Boston, a different valve on the plane opened, causing fuel to flow from the centre tank to the left main tank. When that tank filled up, it overflowed into a surge tank and out through a vent.

 

The causes of both the incidents are unknown, the JAL spokeswoman added.

 

There is no timetable for the plane to return to service.

 

On Friday, the U.S. government ordered a wide-ranging review of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, citing concern over a fire and other problems, but insisted the passenger jet was still safe to fly.

 

JAL and local rival All Nippon Airways Co fly 24 of the 49 Dreamliners delivered to end-December.

 

(Reporting by James Topham; Editing by Jeremy Laurence and Catherine Evans)

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This is really surprising. They must either have QA problems with the batteries or this is a major software problem. You don't under any circumstances want a thermal runaway of a lithium ion battery as this is practically unstoppable unless you submerge the battery in oil.

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http://blogs.defensenews.com/intercepts/2013/01/mighty-zumwalt-is-coming-together/

 

One of the most striking warships ever built is coming together in the little coastal town of Bath, Maine. The major components of the 610-foot-long ZUMWALT (DDG 1000) — a “destroyer” in name only — have been assembled this winter at the General Dynamics shipyard of Bath Iron Works, and the ship’s stark, tumblehome hull and superstructure is now together. These views were taken on Jan. 15, 2013, shortly after the deckhouse – built at Huntington Ingalls in Gulfport, Miss. — was lowered onto the hull.

 

The ZUMWALT will displace more than 15,600 tons full load, bigger than most World War II heavy cruisers. Eighty feet wide with a draft of more than 27 feet, the ship’s turbine generators will produce 78 megawatts of power, one of the largest electrical loads ever put to sea. The ship’s integrated power system will allow much of that power to be directed as needed, perhaps to future laser or directed energy weapons.

 

Construction of the ZUMWALT officially began in February 2009, and the ship is to be launched into the Kennebec River this summer. Delivery is to take place later in 2014, but it will likely be another two or three years before the ship and its host of new-technology systems is ready for service.

 

Two more ships of the class, the MICHAEL MONSOOR (DDG 1001) and LYNDON B. JOHNSON (DDG 1002), also are under construction at Bath. No more ships of this class are currently planned.

 

Two 155mm Advanced Gun System (AGS) weapons are installed on the ZUMWALT's foredeck. One is under the green shed, the other directly in front of it. The guns are flanked by a peripheral vertical launch missile system. The ship's radars and other sensors are embedded into the superstructure.

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Steel portions of the ship are painted in red primer. The light grey deckhouse and aircraft hangar aft of it are made of composite materials. The ship's stern has yet to be attached to the hull, and is visible in the shipyard at far left.

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This angle affords a better view of the composite hangar and deckhouse. Later this year, the ZUMWALT will be rolled off Bath's Land Level Transfer Facility into the floating drydock at right. When ready for launch, the drydock will then be moved by tugs out into the Kennebec River and sunk into a hole in the river bottom, and the ZUMWALT will float off, to be returned pierside for fitting out.

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Excalibur shot for first time in Afghanistan.

 

 

Wow that is pretty cool, JDAM that is a artillery shell.

"The art of simulation design is about understanding limited fidelity...

 

...compromises must be made. Designers have to consider cost vs. fidelity and processor time vs. fidelity. Additional trade-offs must be made between graphics, AI, flight models, number of units and more...

 

...never ask the pilot what he wants to learn because he too will end up building an airplane. Instead, ask the pilot what he needs to learn."

 

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http://news.yahoo.com/north-korea-threatens-war-south-over-u-n-084736253.html

 

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea threatened to attack rival South Korea if Seoul joined a new round of tightened U.N. sanctions, as Washington unveiled more of its own economic restrictions following Pyongyang's rocket launch last month.

 

In a third straight day of fiery rhetoric, the North directed its verbal onslaught at its neighbor on Friday, saying: "'Sanctions' mean a war and a declaration of war against us."

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Hehe, there is never a good time for stuff like that.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/07/f-22-fighter-loses-79-billion-advantage-in-dogfights-report/

 

The United States has spent nearly $80 billion to develop the most advanced stealth fighter jet in history, the F-22 Raptor, but the Air Force recently found out firsthand that while the planes own the skies at modern long-range air combat, it is “evenly matched” with cheaper, foreign jets when it comes to old-school dogfighting.

 

The F-22 made its debut at the international Red Flag Alaska training exercise this June where the planes “cleared the skies of simulated enemy forces and provided security for Australian, German, Japanese, Polish and [NATO] aircraft,” according to an after-action public report by the Air Force. The F-22 took part in the exercise while under strict flying restrictions imposed by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in light of mysterious, potentially deadly oxygen problems with the planes — problems that the Pentagon believes it has since solved.

 

READ ABC News Investigation: The F-22′s Fatal Flaws

The Air Force said the planes flew 80 missions during the event “with a very high mission success rate.” However, a new report from Combat Aircraft Monthly revealed that in a handful of missions designed to test the F-22 in a very specific situation – close-range, one-on-one combat – the jet appeared to lose its pricey advantages over a friendly rival, the Eurofighter Typhoon, flown in this case by German airmen.

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Marcos, that's old news, it's been posted on here months ago. Those jets have to get WVR first, that's the key.

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