Olof Larsson

Why? The BMP-1 is horrible as is. I could somethat understand modernizing existing ones by forinstance removing the gun ports and swapping out the turret for 30mm RWS or a one-man turret with a 30mm (with the TC in the turret and the gunner in the existing TC-seat). Or rebuilding them into something else, like anti drone SPAAG. But this makes no sence.

And weapons like the CPS are best deployed from the ground, from subs or possibly from the air. Thats why the surface launched Polaris (Long Beach, Giuseppe Garibaldi & the Andrea Doria class) got canned. Conventional surface launched cruise missiles makes more sence, especially for quickly swatting a few goat herders when you don't have carriers or ground based aircrafts near by, or when those missiles have to overfly a third country*, but more stealth aircrafts and with the ban on GLCM lifted they make less sence then during the 1990's och early GWOT. (*) Like when Clinton launched Tomahawks aginst claimed AQ targets in Sudan (overflying Eritrea) and Afghanistan (overflying Pakistan).

So of the slipway in less than 125 days then (HMS Dreadnought took 125 days). Or just more Trump hyperbole and overcompensation.

So the first ship in the water in the 2040's then.

Yes, what happend to: "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law."

The Buk missiles are 50-60% bigger then ESSM in all dimensions. It seem like the H/AKJ-16 have a cell size very close to the Mk41, with a length, somewhere between the Self Defence and Tactical version of the Mk41. Their VLS systems for their more modern destroyers, uses bigger cells.

As I understand it, he had been a police in Syria. That said tube-fed shotguns tends to have kind of weird MMI if you are used to AK's and handguns. Or wierd if you are used to another tube-fed shotgun.

I must disagree. With a conventional box-mag, a quick-change barrel and a conventional main-spring, the Lewis could have evolved into the best mag-fed LMG of the second world war. And then it obviously evolved into the FG 42 and M60. The Madsen on the other hand was a dead end. Yes, it could be improved quite a bit, but after the 1910's it could never become "the best" LMG, no matter how much it was polished. With a good belt feed, it might have evolved onto a good coaxial machine gun though, with noticeably short receiver intrusion and with barrel change straight through the receiver.

I've seen pictures of F-15E with JASSM on the centre line pylon, rear CFT and inner wing pylons. So at least 5 JASSM's. F-15E with 5xJASSM

I would be extremely surprised if the Swedish frigates would get 76mm or 35mm guns, when we are already heavily invested in (and design and produce) the 57mm and 40mm guns. If we assume that the choice will eighter be a version of the Type 31 or the FDI, then 1x57mm and 2x40mm seems most likely.

A slower and less armed Ropucha. And the Ropuchas have suffered greatly, for being under armed vs. USV's and AShM's. If only the US Navy had a large number of affordable frigates to protect landing crafts (and the fleet train, merchant marine and so on). Not that it matters much, without a solid mine clearence capability.

I liked the MT-LB when I was in the army. Now it's armament was as useless as the one on the BMP-1, but it was good at getting soldiers from point A to point B. This does that, but without a medivial drive-train, without ergonomics like the third circle of Dantes hell, without making as much noise for a single vehicle as a entire Leopard company and without making more smoke on start-up, then a steam locomotive.

I could see UAV's being used to protect the supply lines. Lighter drones to scout ahead for scattered mines and drones lying in ambush, and fighter drones to hunt down enemy drones in the air. Especially the winged reece drones. But still supplying the maneuver units at the front will be harder. UAV attacks on the supply-lines, might do more to reduce the volume of mechinized forces (or the weight of tanks and MICV's) then direct UAV attacks on those mechinized forces. As for cuening, I wonder if accustic sensors to be used to get the RWS to look in the right direction. And I'm still waiting for at VTOL-UAV that is just large enough to carry a wounded soldier from the "front" to a safer rear area. That and supplying forward troops with ammo, water, food, batteries, drones and so on. Something like a miniature Chinook, that can carry a stretcher. There are allready agriculural drones close to that weight class, for spraying and fertilizer.

And glacial reload time compared to a autocannon. And obviously getting 16 barrels to converge, with asymmetric heat build-up, with different amounts of rounds in each barell, different barrel-whip for different barrels and for different projectiles out of the same barrel and so on. Then there is the issue of more mass, further from rotation axis, slowing down target transisions. The Metal Storm tech could be useful for some low precision applications, like ejecting chaff, flare and smoke, and for ejecting submunitions. But that is about it.

Longer term I think the effects of FPV style drones will be far greater for rear area units, then for front line mechinized units. Because those drones might as well be deployed from LACM's, UCAV's in various sizes and with various ranges and manned combat aircrafts. Protecting every tank and MICV with APS, CIWS (kinetic and/or directed energy), microwave weapons, fighter drones and so on is one thing, but protecting the entire logistics train, all transformator stations, all railroads, all airfields, all harbours and so on, is a entirely different matter.