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17 Oct, 6 tweets, 4 min read
@downix @RupprechtDeino There are three issues with air certifying a SM-6.

1. Cold soak issues
2. Structural carry modifications
3. Vibration hardening from carrier launch & flight carriage.

Raytheon has recent experience w/cold soak.
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@downix @RupprechtDeino Structural carry modifications to the missile frame would be where the cost in the SM-6 upgrade would live.

However, compared to the new AIM-260 rocket ramjet design. An air-launched SM-6 would be longer ranged & have a much bigger installed base to work from upon introduction.
@downix @RupprechtDeino Vibration hardening from carrier launch & air carriage is another one of those "not easy" issues.

The AIM-120's carriage on F-16 wing tip hard points in the 1990's & 2000's in the various no-fly zones killed a generation of Slammer war shot dead, dead, dead.
@downix @RupprechtDeino But, as the AIM-120 is a Raytheon product, engineers there are very experienced with the necessary structural hardening for lateral as opposed to nose-tail impacts.

Running a air-launched SM-6 as a back up program for the AIM-260 would be very smart.

Getting 200km out of a...
@downix @RupprechtDeino ...F-16 wing tip sized rocket-ramjet missile is a more difficult engineering task than air certifying an SM-6.
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18 Oct
1/There has been a great deal on hypersonic weapons recently on Twitter.

This thread is my take on them & why Russia, China and the USA are going there. Image
2/I agree and disagree with one of the better recent twitter threads on hypersonic weapons.

Hypersonic weapons are yet another overhyped weapon system liked the F-35, Zumwalt DDG and Ford class carrier.

3/That does not mean deploying them would not aid the national security interests of China, Russia & the USA.

I have touched on Chinese interests with this tweet.

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@LarrySchweikart @GoroOuter If Sir Henry Phelps Brown & Sheila Hopkins did not address the massive shift in industrialization by electrification covering 1920 - 1965 they have a methodological problem.

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It also made factories built post 1920 both easier to relocate and harder to destroy.
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It is also why strategic bombing of German factories did not degrade production like pre-war air power theorists expected.

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17 Oct
This naval boarding exercise is the 'gust front' of optionally crewed drone swarm boarding actions.

While the jet suit in that exercise was not the best. There are others which may be far better for the human.

This Bastille Day demonstration made clear you can fly on a drone-like platform with and assault rifle.

And if you are thinking a Marvel comic Green Goblin's goblin glider, you would not be wrong.

But there is no reason that the Bastille Day Flyboard couldn't be remotely operated after delivering it's armed crewman.
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@downix @RupprechtDeino Needs must when the devil drives. The SM-6 needs the delta vee a SM-3's 21 inch diameter booster can provide to get on a reciprocal trajectory for an HGV.

Granted, you are going to need ablative coating for the upper atmosphere as opposed to exoatmosphere flight.

Also granted
@downix @RupprechtDeino ... you are going to have issues with ionization for the radar at high supersonic speed requiring a back up sensor.

And likely the SM-6 stage atop the SM-3 booster will need a AMRAAM type multiple pulse solid rocket motor modification for the HGV intercept profile.
@downix @RupprechtDeino Raytheon's corporate engineering culture is capable of these sorts of modifications rapidly because they have had a stable and long experienced engineering team for the Standard missile that almost no other defense contractor in the world can match.
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@CBI_PTO_History Justin,

Pastel was a really big plan like Operation Downfall was.

It had a lot of objectives - strategic, operational and tactical.

The strategic level was not going to succeed because the Japanese were focused on US amphibious operational pattern.

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@CBI_PTO_History Pastel's operational & tactical deception plans were a different kettle of fish.

There was every reason to think the airborne feints would work.

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@CBI_PTO_History The amount of airborne dummies being sent for Operation Olympic was in the thousands.

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1/This is a tweet thread on the drone campaign inside the on-going Azeri-Armenian War.

Most have focused on the drone strike videos, myself included, but it is the C4ISR system behind it that makes it the Spanish Civil War of the 21st Century.

C4ISR is this thread's subject
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This is Armenia's 2nd drone war.

See Armenian troop reaction here -

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