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They may, but both sides were incredibly paranoid, seeing spies everywhere. In 1988 or so, a Spanish journo was invited to an arms show in Tehran and the only photos he was able to take, covertly, were of a Phantom engine, a captured Cascavel and a jeep on the street. In an arms show. So they may have taken some local journos to the battlefield with no photos allowed.

Very interesting map.

Now, this paragraph is interesting: "The 250 kg parachute-braked (Explosivos) Alaveses-type bombs (BRP 250), were tested in April only to find out they did not explode in the water. A direct hit —with properly armed fuses—on the ship’s structure would be needed to cause damage. As an alternative, the British MK-17 bomb, originally intended for the BMK-62 Canberra, was adopted in some weapon systems. This bomb weighed 1000 pounds (454 kg) and showed poor results in very low-altitude droppings due to the fuse arming time. In addition, it only allowed a single bomb per aircraft, reducing the probability of success compared to a multiple dropping. This would be confirmed during operations: in many cases, due to very low droppings, the bombs pierced the ship structure, and as the fuses failed to activate, they did not explode. Furthermore, to prevent the shock wave from the explosion of a smooth-tailed bomb from affecting the launching aircraft, it was necessary to count on delays not available in the fuses that would enable a safe escape. On the other hand, to attack ships from low altitudes, the Argentine Navy counted on 250 kilogram American MK-82 Snakeye, mechanical delay-action bombs, but even with these bombs, the minimum dropping altitude had to be around 50/60 meters. The fact is that there was no fuse available in any arsenal around the world that would allow attacks on warships from altitudes lower than 50/60 meters above sea level. It was clear that this mode of attack had never been considered due to the low survival probability."

No clue, I think this is being produced currently, but Argentina is in a bit of a mess, well, as usual Edit: Ok, it seems they are uploading a chapter per month, here, chapter 0 to 5: https://www.argentina.gob.ar/sites/default/files/2023/10/the-argentine-air-force-during-malvinas-war_ch0-5_0.pdf

The idea of foreigners with cameras being allowed to roam around the battlefield in Saddam's Iraq is bizarre in the extreme. The reports make it clear that the tanks were examined only after they were recovered and the Iraqis were happy to feed them BS ("a single company of T-72s" when they had 155 delivered for starters)

The wave piercing catamaran bow?

That's Hsiung-Feng 2 anti-ship missile, there are no known photos of the HF-2E cruise missile, which shares the same name only for deception purposes.

"We"? Airbases are very, very difficult to put out of action, even if hit. 7 missiles is a negligible force.

This. Pretty much doing something without doing something irreparable, as the Iranian regime does not want to pay the dues of their meddling in other countries' affaires.

Is it available anywhere?

Dubno 1941: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brody_(1941) 4.250 tanks

The kill chain should be a bit faster today, but not enough to make a difference unless there's a direct link between the reconnaissance asset and the shooter. A submarine launching UAVs is going to give itself away, a ASBM unit linked to a UAV could work, but only if the carrier allows itself to be detected by the UAV and be tracked (which could happen through incompetence or bad luck), but the overall problem hasn't changed since Midway, just the means, and they are subject to the same limitations as in 1942 regarding targeting.

But not necessarily aimed at it, plus it's a narrow, so it's quite easy to find a ship there. There was speculation that information was provided by an Iranian ship that was loitering around doing... not much. There were also plenty of fishing boats and dhows that could do that. None of that should be available in the open ocean if people are on their toes.

Yemen you mean? Quite close, and they are targeting through AIS, which warships typically don't use.

But it needs to detect the carrier or be provided with a position accurate enough to shoot those missiles. If an hour goes from initial detection to firing the weapons the carrier would have moved 20 kilometers on average and it could have gone in any direction, so those missiles are going to miss.

A carrier without crew at sea is a ghost ship, which is also kind of scary.

To be directed, the SSNs need to be close to the surface and there, they can be detected. Also assumes instant transmission of intelligence from the satellite to the shooter. As learned in the Falklands war, this isn't possible and all this coming and going around was unproductive.

Possibly too many jammers, seems to have been decentralised to a large measure with individual vehicle jammers and less area jammers. High end systems seem to have been pulled back due to losses. But all this is watching the battlefield through a straw so it's anybody's guess.

1) All that stuff is carried on the carrier and it's just standard logistic stuff. No different from the Harrier and everyone has been flying Harriers without any specific support ship. If something is so broken it cannot be fixed in the carrier, a supply ship won't have the spares or the capability to fix it. There could be a case for sharing overhead costs for the F-35B between European users like it was done with Tornado, but the size of the fleet is tiny (and I wish our navy would make up its mind on the Harrier replacement once and for all), but that doesn't mean that in a crisis each country needs to hold its own. 2) As the French well know, 1 carrier means that when you need a carrier you have none, so a 2 ship fleet is an absolute minimum, another question is that the rotation needs to be set up to always have one available, but the problem of size always rears its ugly head, 75% of the size and cost give you less than 50% of the capability - this is what hurts the UK carrier force (and the French), not the excellence of the air platform.

What is what makes the F-35 so special that it needs a specialized UNREP ship? Truth is, nothing. The only thing that makes the RN a global player are its SSNs. Carrier air power brought to play by the RN is negligible in terms of projecting power, so the only scenarios where the RN can make a difference are in the Third World (interventions off Africa and the Falklands and such). The UK had to chose years ago between carriers and submarines and went for submarines (correctly IMO) and cannot pay for a real carrier capability close to what the US or China have,

What is a "Pole"? If Roman can redefine non-Russians as Russians at will, who are you to determine who is a "Pole" and who isn't?

There, FIFY.

Including East Germany, at least.

Fortunately, the thousands of bodies that died are being thrown out of planes over the Black Sea so Westeners don't realize the level of losses suffered in their societies as they are being replaced by immigrants...

There are several blog entries there that look at the SAM networks of Eastern Europe and their development over time.