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Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Now, when estimating the combat radius for the JF-17, we need to keep in mind that the drag- and weight- induced fuel consumption penalties for the smaller, lighter JF-17 will be more for an equivalent payload when compared with our F-16 baseline. Our calculations...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Moderators were kind enough to make a new thread for me. Please find the JF-17 Ferry (and later Combat) Range Analysis at: https://defence.pk/threads/jf-17s-ferry-and-combat-ranges.462726/ Allah keep everyone safe

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Please consider this line edited to: (Usually rounded to 4,000 kilometers or 2,160 nautical miles) Sorry for the mistake Hifz u kum Allah

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Rolls-Royce and Snecma have historically proven to be quite capable of selling to (almost) whomever they want, and support seems to have been source-able even in times of conflict. Honeywell and Allison depend on US government approval, but the lower-tech nature...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem The F-35 (and other 21st century fighters under development) have been designed to stealthily creep up to their target, take their time, and take out as many targets in one sortie as possible. They can thus carry and use up to eight Small Diameter Bombs (or six...

From The Atlantic: The U.S.S.R. and U.S. Came Closer to Nuclear War Than We Thought A series of war games held in 1983 triggered "the moment of maximum danger of the late Cold War." Douglas Birch May 28, 2013 An ailing, 69-year-old Yuri Andropov was running the Soviet Union from his Moscow...

From War is Boring: Madmen With Nuclear Codes — An History of Unpredictable Foreign Policy Richard Nixon’s madman theory increased the risk of nuclear war — and now it has an imitator in Donald Trump by SÉBASTIEN ROBLIN Would being officially and strategically unpredictable make America safer...

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From The National Interest: This is Why Russia's T-80 Tank Is a Total Disaster S. K. Yeong August 11, 2015 The T-80 is a glaring lesson in why heavily-armored tanks can hide major weaknesses. Once considered a premium tank by the Russian military establishment, T-80s suffered savage losses to...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem 4,000 kilometers is approximately 2,160 kilometers obviously. Sorry, my brain seems to be slowing down as it gets older. Time to start using calculators now. The other numbers should be accurate: F-20 Tigershark (14,000 pounds empty) Fuel Fraction with 5,000...

Great read over at War is Boring: B-17s unload over Germany in March 1945. U.S. Air Force photo America’s Over-Hyped Strategic Bombing Experiment Bombers blasted the Hell out of Pantelleria by JAMES STEVENSON In the years after World War I, the brain trust of the U.S. Army evolved two...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Brother, I have to re-iterate that I am extremely undeserving of all your compliments but I humbly thank you for them. I am just an amateur student of the history of science and technology (and nations and mankind in general). I was only ever good at Math and a...

Ah!!! Remember the times when the Nikon F series were the only cameras considered rugged enough for the Sub-Arctic and the desert. The times of the manual Leicas and Nikons, well they are past now. Thanks for the great pics.

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Brother, what is wrong with the AK47 / Type 56 as an assault rifle. Isn't it better than a G3 in close combat? What would be the reliability/accuracy advantages of a thrice-expensive Western type for which we would need to stock up on 5.56 mm ammunition. The Type...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Thanks for the video. I was confused by the still pictures which seemed to suggest the road curving away to the right and a huge median on the highway. The video clears it up. The image was thrown up by Google for PAF C-130 on the motorway, but the road definitely...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Ironic considering all the Foreign Object Damage prevention techniques & technologies,and quick non-depot level engine maintenance (read: cannibalization) the Soviet Union has championed since World War II. Hifz u kum Allah Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Was this...

Bismillah irr Rahman ar Raheem Five more years to get their metallurgic and manufacturing processes down? I assume they have good mastery of FADEC (Full-Authority Digital Engine Control) by now? What was the main issue with the Chinese engines' perennial problems with slow spool-up times...

Bismilah ir Rahman ar Raheem "Lastly, please note that the F-16A we used as a benchmark here had a fuel fraction of (14,000 pounds fuel / 33,000 pounds takeoff weight=) 0.425 and the JF-17 has a fuel fraction of (10,000/26,500 =) 0.375. The F-16C from our afore-mentioned analysis had a fuel...

Apropos translation of the ticker in the 2nd photo: "Social Media is a way to spread lies; Don't lend your ears to it - Dr. Asif Kirmani"