Britain equipped Ukrainian forces with deadly anti-tank missiles

 Britain equipped Ukrainian forces with deadly anti-tank missiles.

Before the conclusion of the news, we should know the qualities of this missile system that Ukraine got from Britain.

The Main Battle Tank and Light Anti-tank Weapon, also known as the NLAW, is a joint British and Swedish short-range fire-and-forget anti-tank missile system. Designed for use by infantry, the MBT LAW is shoulder-fired and disposable, firing once before being disposed of. It is currently in use with the military forces of the United Kingdom, Finland, Luxembourg, and Sweden, among others.

The MBT LAW was developed by Saab Bofors Dynamics and Thales Air Defence in collaboration with the British Ministry of Defence in 2002. The development is a joint venture between the UK and Sweden using technology derived from the BILL 2 (warhead and guidance), and AT4 CS (confined space capability) systems.

 The UK MoD Defence Procurement Agency will procure the systems for both the UK and Sweden, with Sweden signing a contract for the weapon in December 2005 where it will be designated the "RB (Robot) 57".

It has been estimated that the UK requirement may be for up to 20,000 systems for the British Armed Forces and each system has a shelf life of around 20 years.

 In December 2007, Finland placed an order for an undisclosed number of NLAW systems. An additional, undisclosed, number was ordered in December 2008.

It is a soft-launch system, allowing it to be used by infantry from within an enclosed space. In this system, the missile is first launched out of the launcher using a low powered ignition. After the missile travels several metres into the flight, its main rocket ignites, propelling the missile from there on to the target. 

Guidance is obtained using a predicted line of sight (PLOS).

For a moving target, the gunner maintains tracking for three seconds, training the missile's guidance electronics to compute the target's angular speed. After launch, the missile flies autonomously to the target making the necessary corrections according to the data acquired by the tracking.

It is unnecessary for the gunner to consider the range to the target. After launch, the missile's position in its trajectory always coincides with the target irrespective of range.

The portable, short-range, fire-and-forget system entered service in 2009 as the "Next Generation Light Anti-tank Weapon" (NLAW), to replace the British Army's existing LAW 80 system that had in UK's deployment reached obsolescence, as well as the Interim Lightweight Anti-tank Weapon (ILAW), AT4 CS, which was in deployment as a substitute for the period in which the MBT-LAW had yet to be deployed. Deliveries began in December 2009.

In Finnish Defence Forces the NLAW complements the existing stock of LAW and Apalis rockets and Spike and TOW missiles; LAW is primarily intended against lighter armoured vehicles, but an MBT in close range is engaged with both LAW and NLAW. LAW is stocked at the infantry platoon level, NLAW is stocked at the infantry company level.

At this level we come to know that, NLAW is a very powerful weapon to demolished any armoured threat even modern MBTs because it has the capability of top attack from standoff ranges (still something serious capability)

It is confirmed now that Britain provided at least 2000 such types of systems to Ukrainian armed forces which are able to stop Russian armoured columns with big damage.

So Russian forces can be got a big blow if Ukrainian forces go for hit and run tactics against them.

As a neutral source, we are against war and want to see dialogues between both Ukrainian and Russian authorities instead of war.

Source of information :

Wikipedia 

Blog author : Saeed Ullah Gm

The most powerful supersonic cruise missile of the Soviet Union still exists.

 The most powerful supersonic cruise missile of the Soviet Union still exists.

The P-500 Bazalt is a late Cold War-era anti-ship missile of Soviet-made. It is a very large supersonic anti-ship missile that was specifically designed to engage aircraft carriers and their escorts far over the horizon mean to counter bigger size American carrier forces.

 The P-500 arms a number of submarines and large surface combatants in Soviet armed services. In the West, it is known under the NATO reporting name " Sandbox".

 The P-1000 Vulkan is a further development of the P-500.(we will talk about it last)

The design of the P-500 is based on the earlier P-35 Progress.

 The P-500 has a cigar-shaped body with two swept wings and an air intake for the turbojet on the bottom. The warhead and guidance system are mounted in the nose.

 Solid propellant boosters provide initial velocity for the turbojet sustainer engine. 

The main differences between the P-35 and P-500 lie in the areas of propulsion and target acquisition. The P-500 flies much faster and has a longer range. Combined with the ability to be launched in a pack that coordinates target distribution its ability to penetrate the air defense pocket of carrier battle groups is vastly increased.

Since the P-500 has a range far beyond the horizon the launch platforms require target information from another platform. This can be a surface vessel, fixed-wing aircraft, or helicopter with target acquisition equipment.

 The missile itself uses inertial navigation towards the target area and radar homing in the terminal phase. The P-500 is believed to use passive radar homing at first and active radar homing before impact. A unique feature of the P-500 is the ability to exchange target information with other nearby P-500 missiles. A pack of P-500 missiles is able to distribute targets. Individual missiles can pop up to provide up-to-date target information in the final stage.

The P-1000 Vulkan is a further development of the P-500 and became operational in 1987. 

The name "Vulkan" is Russian for "volcano". The upgrades are focused on an increased range while retaining the same dimensions and launch infrastructure.

The increased range is achieved by a massive increase in fuel, while the weight of other components is reduced at the same time. The conventional high explosive fragmentation warhead is reduced from 1.000 to 500 kg and the metal body is replaced by a titanium one. The launch booster rockets use thrust vectoring in order to reduce the fuel consumption of the main engine spent on initial maneuvering.

In theory, the P-1000 has nearly double the range of the P-500. In practice, the range is increased to 700 km since much of the fuel is spent at going to sea level in an earlier stage of the flight. This reduces its vulnerability to long-range air defense significantly.

The development of laser-guided "Vulkan LK" also took place from 1987 - 1989 but was eventually canceled.

The P-500 is a serious threat to surface vessels. It has a range of 550 km and flies at Mach 2.5 at altitude and Mach 2.0 in the sea-skimming terminal phase. 

The warhead is either a 1.000 kg conventional or 350 kt nuclear warhead.

 The P-500 is difficult to intercept in the terminal phase. Its supersonic speed and low altitude leave a small engagement envelope. The main drawback of the P-500 is that it remains at a high altitude is a large portion of its flight profile. This makes it vulnerable to interception by fighter aircraft and long-range SAM systems.

 The improved P-1000 Vulkan and its successor the P-700 Granit remedy this issue.

Source of information :

Wikipedia 

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Is China a major security threat to the United States?

 Is China a major security threat to the United States?

First of all. The strategic intention of a country can be extrapolated from its policies. And whether a country's military power poses a threat to another mainly depends on its defense policy. History has repeatedly proved that if a country carries out an aggressive defense policy, regardless of the scale of its military strength, it might resort to the use of force to undermine peace and stability. A country with strong military power, but pursues a defensive policy, would not use its military edge to engage others through military means.

China pursues an independent foreign policy of peace and a national defense policy that is defensive in nature. A few years back a released Chinese Defense White Paper made the solemn commitment that China will never seek hegemony, expansion, or spheres of influence – a distinctive feature of China's national defense and a clear manifestation of China's consistent policy of unwaveringly adhering to the path of peaceful development.

As a matter of fact, China does not seek confrontation with the United States. And the Chinese military endeavors to actively and properly handle its military relationship with the United States in accordance with the principles of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win cooperation. It strives to make the military-to-military relationship a stabilizer for the bilateral relationships, and hence contribute to the China-U.S. relationship based on coordination, cooperation, and stability.

Second, capability. The Chinese Defense White Paper indicated that "great progress has been made in the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) with Chinese characteristics." But, the Chinese military "has yet to complete the task of mechanization, and is in urgent need of improving its information." China's military security is confronted by risks from technology surprise and the growing technological generation gap. Greater efforts have to be invested in military modernization to meet national security demands.

Third, facts. It is obvious that the last war that the PLA was involved in took place 40-50 years ago, which was a self-defense war against Vietnam in 1979. Since then, the Chinese military has had no more wars, which is the only exception among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council. In contrast, according to research, from its founding in 1776 until 2011, the United States had been at war during 214 out of its 235 calendar years of existence. In other words, there were only 21 calendar years in which the U.S. did not wage any wars.

One can notice that in the official U.S. documents released by the previous Trump Administration, China was defined as a "strategic competitor" rather than an enemy or an adversary. Moreover, at least several U.S. officials or officers have referred to China in congressional testimonies as merely "a strategic competitor," instead of an enemy. For example, General Mike Millay, the U.S. Army Chief of Staff nominated by Trump to take over as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the previous government, said during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on July 11 that "China is not an enemy… I would say they're a competitor." Therefore, the definition of China as an enemy of the United States by some U.S. "dragon slayers" is worrisome, but it does not represent the official position of the United States. Accordingly, the argument that China is a major security threat to the United States is questionable.

Last, but not least, viewing China as a major security threat on the part of some Americans will not affect China's peaceful development, or change China's policy of pursuing a relationship of non-conflict and non-confrontation with the United States, or will it truly resolve the problems facing the United States. But what could happen is that it may contribute to the self-fulfilling prophecy of a confrontational or adversarial relationship between China and the United States, which may drag the two countries into a terrible Thucydides trap. And if that really happens, it will be a severe disaster not only to the peoples of both countries but also to that the world.

Courtesy: CGTN Editor's Note: Lu Yin is an associate professor with the National Security College at the PLA National Defense University. She is also a Senior Colonel in the PLA.

Edited by Saeed Ullah Gm, master in English Languages from Punjab University.

Pakistan Tested Shaheen 3 Missile

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