标题: US Drops Airborne Laser, Opts for Some Other Laser Projects [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-21-2011 11:02 标题: US Drops Airborne Laser, Opts for Some Other Laser Projects Amy Butler, Lights Out For The Airborne Laser. Aviation Week, Dec 21, 2011. http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/g ... %20Airborne%20Laser
("MDA Director Army Lt Gen. Patrick O’Reilly is now focused on a new generation of laser systems with 'much denser capability or greater power lasers in smaller packages and operating at much higher altitudes * * * We basically have a horse race going on between several different technologies [and] all of them are very promising' * * * Details of this project were not provided by MDA")
(2) William Lowther, Taiwan Still a Top Buyer of US Arms. BIG SPENDER: Despite Taiwan’s unsuccessful efforts to buy F-16C/D planes, the only countries that bought more US arms last year were Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Pakistan. Taipei Times, Dec 22, 2011 (available now) http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/ ... 11/12/22/2003521358
("Last year — the most recent year for which figures are -available — Taiwan accepted delivery of US$660 million in arms from the US. * * * Taiwan was also fourth in terms of worldwide US arms -deliveries for the total period of 2007 through last year, when it received US$3 billion in arms, and for the period of 2003 through 2006, when it received US$4.1 billion")
"Subs underwater are running blind, as most depend on passive sensors most of the time. You have to turn on your active sensor (broadcasting sonar, which makes a noise that reveals your position to anyone listening).
"Two years ago, for example, a Chinese sub collided with a sonar array being towed behind a US destroyer.
My comment: Regarding quotation 2. That occurred near the Philippines, when the Chinese sub got too close when observing a joint naval drill of US and ASEAN allies.
(4) A Three Part Invention. Strategy Page, Dec 21, 2011 http://strategypage.com/htmw/htmurph/articles/20111221.aspx
("On December 8th Iran displayed what appeared to be an American RQ-170 jet powered UAV, which they claimed had landed intact in Iran two weeks earlier. Iran claimed they had hijacked the control signals for the RQ-170 and landed it themselves. * * * Then many Americans familiar with the RQ-170 carefully studied the pictures of the "captured" RQ-170 and immediately suspected something was off. For one thing, the RQ-170 shown was the right size and shape, but the wrong color")