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Scusa l'ignoranza, ma non ne so nulla.

Gli conveniva Guantanamo. Marines soccorrono un talebano ferito, anzi, catturano.

Aggiornamento: terzo giorno. In quella che è chiaramente un'operazione di conquista della fiducia dei civili, accompagnata da un accurato supporto mediatico, la strategia è di usare le operazioni speciali per tagliare la testa ai talebani, mentre il grosso dell'esercito si occupa dei guerriglieri che occasionalmente si trincerano usando i civili come scudo, e di consolidare il terreno conquistato, bonificato da mine, combattenti, depositi di armi, soprattutto fornendo assistenza alla popolazione.

Bisogna dire che laggiù nessuno gli dice niente, è praticamente un monarca assoluto, più che avere palle, non ha opposizione.

C'è l'ammissione del Governo americano di aver condotto l'operazione. Project Azorian

Da F-16.net si viene a sapere che l'abitacolo si è riempito di fumo e vapori poco dopo il decollo. Notare la foto d'archivio del velivolo che è precipitato.

Aggiornamento dell'operazione Mushtarak.

Comandante Richard Wade se non ricordo male.

Ben fatto. Ammazza il tè coi biscottini... si vede che pensava che con tutta quella preparazione, l'operazione sarebbe partita da sola.

Se riesci a ritrovarcelo sei un mito.

Leggendo che: "Mercoledi scorso il portavoce James Appathurai aveva spiegato tra l'altro che è indispensabile impedire "che Helmand diventi un paradiso per gli insorti". Secondo il portavoce, la guida dell'operazione è stata lasciata all'Afghanistan per dimostrare "la volontà del governo aghano di assumere nelle proprie mani la responsabilità della propria sicurezza". Messa a punto in particolare da Usa e Gran Bretagna" non potevo scrivere diversamente, però IMO sono USA e UK a mandare avanti la baracca. Penso che di facciata o di facto, si voglia dare il segnale che i locali si stiano responsabilizzando, e questa era senz'altro l'occasione giusta.

Partita l'Operazione Moshtarak (insieme in lingua dari) per riconquistare il controllo nella provincia di Helmand nel sud dell'Afghanistan, nell'ambito del rinforzo deciso da Obama, è una vasta operazione che coinvolge circa 15.000 uomini sotto il comando dell'esercito afgano, che deve dimostrare la sua volontà di riprendere la sicurezza del paese in piena responsabilità. ANSA, Paola Casoli Blog, Euronews, Video su Youtube

Così inizia l'articolo di TWSJ dalla provincia afgana di Pashmul PASHMUL, Afghanistan— When the first Taliban shots at the U.S. Army patrol cracked from behind the tree line, an Afghan villager who had just been talking to the soldiers crumpled into the mud. An Army medic rushed to help the man, apparently a civilian caught in the crossfire. But hours later, at the American base where the victim was taken for treatment, troops found in his pocket the polished dog tag of an American soldier killed three weeks earlier. As fighting intensifies here in southern Afghanistan, the central tenet of the U.S. counterinsurgency strategy—to protect Afghan civilians—faces a fundamental test: how to separate these civilians from the insurgents in places where much of the population backs the Taliban cause. Continua....

14 deg/sec con una corner speed di 300kts per il Tomcat. So, what is a fighter pilot to do? The answer is corner velocity. Every aircraft has an airspeed that if the pilot starts his turn at or near this speed it will complete the turn in the fastest possible time and with the shortest radius. For the F-16 the corner velocity is around 440 knots, which gives it a turn rate of 19 degrees/second. The F-18's corner velocity is around 380 knots also at 19 degrees/second turn rate. The F-14's corner velocity is 300 knots, and gives it a turn rate of 14 degrees/second, 5 degrees lower than either the F-18 or F-16 giving the two an advantage over the F-14. " http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=70110&page=4

Dato che attualmente è un sistema integrato solo in Russia, temo che rimarrà una domanda senza risposta. Ma.. se vogliamo lanciarci in fantasia, chi lo sa se i jammer del F-35 sono migliori delle ECM dell'S-400/500? Bisogna provare...

Per ora, parlando si super cruise, velocità supersoniche ecc... la testimonianza più diretta che ti posso trovare arriva dal pilota collaudatore di LM segue da The aviation forum --- http://www.livescience.com/technolog...hter-jets.html Major General Charles Davis, USAF, the Program Executive Officer of the JSF program, explained that critics of the F-35 simply do not understand the fundamental requirements and technologies behind the aircraft, nor have these critics been briefed about the true capabilities of the new warplane. The F-35 is "not designed for an air-show in Paris," Davis said referring to the thrust vectoring Russian Su-35 aircraft which regularly performs spectacular routines at air-shows around the world. Davis said that while the F-35 was not designed as a pure air superiority machine, the program has a requirement to defeat any threat aircraft today- or any projected threat aircraft in the future. The JSF accomplishes this feat by relying on its incredible suite of sensors, its stealthy airframe, and a surprising level of agility. The F-35 is not only equipped with the APG-81 active electronically scanned array radar (AESA), which according to Lockheed Martin F-35 Chief Test Pilot Jon Beesley, is the most advanced fighter radar system in the world, but also a host of other sensors. The radar can track an enormous numbers of targets in the air at phenomenal ranges while simultaneously operating air to ground modes, Beesley said. Complementing the radar, the F-35's airframe is also lined with antennas that gather vast amounts of electronic information from the jets surroundings. The system allows the fighter to target and identify the electronic emissions of hostile radars in the air or on the ground with startling precision, Beesley said. The data gathered from these sensors allows the aircraft to track, identify and attack the sources of these signals without giving away the F-35s' position. Furthermore, the F-35 has two separate types of infrared sensors that allow the jet to track targets passively. The Distributed Aperture System (DAS) is a system of cameras that feeds an infrared image of the planes' surrounding to the pilots' helmet, Beesley explained. The computer fuses the images from the six cameras and merges the images into a single seamless picture that allows the pilot to see 360 degrees around the aircraft, including through the cockpit floor and indeed the pilots' own body. The DAS also acts as a missile warning system (MWS) that alerts the pilot to incoming missiles. The second infrared sensor, called the electro-optical targeting system (EOTS), allows the aircraft to target, track, and identify object in the air or on the ground at long ranges and high resolutions, Beesley said. In a pure stealth air to air configuration, the F-35 currently carries four AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles internally in its weapons bays, Davis said. While this configuration gives the jet a significant punch, Davis said studies have been undertaken that would increase the stealth air to air war load to six to possibly as many as eight air to air missiles which would be carried internally. The jet can also carry air to air missiles externally should the need arise and stealth is no longer a concern, Davis said. In terms of aerodynamic performance, the F-35 is an excellent machine, Beesley said. Having previously been only the second man ever to have flown the F-22 Raptor, Beesley became the first pilot ever to fly the F-35 in late 2006. As such, Beesley is intimately familiar with both programs. According to Beesley, the four current test pilots for F-35 have been most impressed by the aircraft's thrust and acceleration. In the subsonic flight regime, the F-35 very nearly matches the performance of its' larger, more powerful cousin, the F-22 Raptor, Beesley explained. The "subsonic acceleration is about as good as a clean Block 50 F-16 or a Raptor- which is about as good as you can get." Beesley said. What Beesley expects will surprise future F-35 pilots is the jets' superb low speed handling characteristics and post-stall manoeuvrability. While the F-22 with its thrust vectored controls performs better at the slow speeds and high angle of attack (AOA) flight regime, the F-35 will be able match most of the same high AOA manoeuvres as the Raptor, although it will not be able to do so as quickly as the more powerful jet in some cases. Turning at the higher Gs and higher speed portions of the flight envelope, the F-35 will "almost exactly match a clean Block 50 F-16 and comes very close to the Raptor", Beesley said. While supersonically the F-35 is limited to a seemingly unimpressive Mach 1.6 in level flight, Davis explains that the JSF is optimized for exceptional subsonic to supersonic acceleration. Transonic acceleration is much more relevant to a fighter pilot than the absolute max speed of the jet, Davis said. Davis, who was previously the program manager for the F-15 Eagle, explains that while the Eagle is a Mach 2 class fighter, it has rarely exceed the threshold of Mach 1.2 to Mach 1.3 during it's entire 30 year life span. Additionally, the time the aircraft has spent in the supersonic flight regime can be measured in minutes rather than hours- most of the supersonic flights were in fact during specialized flights such as Functional Check Flights (FCF). "I don't see how that gets you an advantage" Davis said, referring to the Mach 2+ capability. Beesley said that in terms of supersonic flight that the F-35 is still more than competitive with existing designs. Comparisons to the F-22 Raptor are unfair as "supersonically, the Raptor is in a class by itself. It lives there," Beesley explained. "In many ways the Raptor is the first true supersonic fighter," Beesley added, referring to that aircrafts' much publicized and unique supersonic cruise capability. The most challenging mission for the JSF is where the F-35s will have to penetrate deep into a dense integrated air defense system reinforced by enemy fighters and strike a target with no support, Davis said. This is the most difficult mission for the F-35, but it is also one that is near suicidal for current aircraft such as the F-16. Modern Russian built surface to air missile systems such as the SA-20 are deadly to conventional aircraft, Davis explained. A package of four, six, or even eight F-35s would have to divide up the responsibilities for the suppression of enemy air defenses, mapping out the target, clearing the skies, and striking the target, Davis said. The larger number of aircraft is necessary since the F-35 "doesn't have the kinematics of the F-22", Davis explained, "we're a slightly fatter, slower aircraft, so it takes a few more planes to get the job done." http://www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi...modele=release "The F-35 transitioned from subsonic to supersonic just as our engineers and our computer modeling had predicted," said Jon Beesley, Lockheed Martin's chief F-35 test pilot. "I continue to be impressed with the aircraft's power and strong acceleration, and I'm pleased that its precise handling qualities are retained in supersonic flight, even with a payload of 5,400 pounds (2,450 kilograms) in the weapons bays." Beesley said it was also a significant achievement for a test aircraft to fly supersonic for the first time with the weight of a full internal load of weapons. The milestone was achieved on the 69th flight of F-35 aircraft AA-1. Beesley climbed to 30,000 feet (9,144 meters) and accelerated to Mach 1.05, or about 680 miles per hour, over a rural area in north Texas. The F-35 accomplished four transitions through the sound barrier, spending a total of eight minutes in supersonic flight. The flight was preceded by a high-subsonic mission earlier in the day. Future testing will gradually expand the flight envelope out to the aircraft's top speed of Mach 1.6, which the F-35 is designed to achieve with a full internal load of weapons. ---

L'addestramento al volo a bassa quota ci va, sono d'accordo con te, ma per quegli assetti che lo prevedono. Ergo, nella discussione sul Tornado, saper volare a pelo degli alberi è utile, ma non più come lo era prima. Anche il Tornado viene impegnato a quote medie ormai, per via dei pod da illuminazione e le armi stand-off è giusto che sia così. Ma non ha senso per gli stealth. Per loro è molto più importante saper gestire il campo di battaglia da una quota in cui tutto è ottimizzato, dai sistemi d'arma alle prestazioni di volo.

Perchè?

No no, un momento facciamo chiarezza. Tu mi parlavi di alti livelli d'ispirazione ecc... e anche del caso io ti ho solo preso un esempio attuale di come la giustizia si muove, in Italia. E poi se vogliamo andiamo anche a vedere perchè e percome. A me, questa sentenza lascia l'amaro in bocca, come il caso OJ Simpson se vogliamo, l'hai detto tu sopra, eppure non c'entra con Abu Omar. Se non sono stati loro a portare le protesi rovinate in Italia, chi è stato, la befana?

Su questo siamo d'accordo allora, ed anche sul resto della frase. (Sono sicuro intendessi dire:"creditori")

Attualmente il personale di volo del prototipo del PAK FA si limita a Sergey Bogdan, pilota collaudatore. Penso abbia ben altro in mente per il momento.

Io sono consapevole che israeliani e palestinesi si debbano fare una bella revisione di coscienze tutti insieme, ma tu stai dicendo che il problema sono solo Israele e gli Stati Uniti d'America. Non mi sembra corretto. Non ti pare? Poi alla faccia del portare l'acqua al proprio mulino... dovrebbero farsi una bella palata di cavoli loro, altro chè...

Poi guarda anche questo perfavore. Se non sono stati il primario e il suo braccio destro, chi sono i responsabili di quello che viene impiantato al posto del cuore dei pazienti? Mia nonna?

Madmike, magari quelle organizzazioni terroristiche che si danno da fare per far saltare in aria gli israeliani, si dedicassero a rompere le scatole ai loro finanziatori occulti per avere una terra dove vivere, allora magari gli israeliani la smetterebbero di pensare ai palestinesi come ad una minaccia alla sicurezza, e magari di magari, gli darebbero anche una mano ad andare a disturbare siriani e irariani.

Magari che lo Stato d'Israele è riconosciuto a livello internazionale? Risoluzione dell'Assemblea Generale 181. Ma non sembra che sia sbagliato andare a delegittimare Israele?