EMP the whole CBG, moron!
OK... so you want to start WWIII by EMPing a Russian carrier group... you want the US or UK or France to commit collective suicide, for the purpose of taking out... possibly only temporarily, a Russian carrier group... and you call me a moron?
BTW S-500 would easily be able to shoot down an SLBM, so you had better launch a few of them.
Their helos do it now. Unmanned helos can be based on them.
But you claim tiltrotors are more efficient than helos... manned or unmanned, so surely a medium to large fixed wing UAV will be much better by a wide margin.
They can take off to above the weather in 0 visibility & land up to 500+ miles away in 1/2 the time in 0 visibility, guided from the ground &/ by their radar/IR sensors.
If they have radar/IR sensors why do they need to operate above the weather, and what is the rush to take the supplies 500 miles away?
And why would tiltrotors have radar and IR sensors and helos and normal fixed wing aircraft not?
The tiltrotor aircraft you mentioned cost $72 million dollars... adding radar and IR sensors on top of that and no one will buy it no matter how fast or long ranged it is. A $2 million dollar composite An-2 upgrade makes rather more sense... and guess what... most of the time... they simply don't fly in bad weather. Waiting a day extra for food or parts or supplies is no big deal.
Items they drop may be destroyed by trees, rocks, or buried in the snow.
Accidents happen, but then a sudden wind gust blows a tiltrotor into the side of a mountain and it bursts into flames... or some cans on the bottom of the pallet that was parachuted down got crushed... or dented...
If the community can't clear an area for an aircraft to land then it must be a very small community so the amount of material and the regularity of deliveries wont be that big.
Folks that will search for them may be attacked by wolves, bears, boars, moose, lynxes, tigers, & leopards.
And places where these dangerous animals live... most of the locals carry guns and know how to use them... an extra bit of meat for the fridge and some skin to tan and sell to the tourists...
To save lives in medical emergencies or aid in SAR, they r slow & not enough!
People out in the middle of nowhere die from medical emergencies all the time... people in the middle of cities are found dead all the time because there was no help available in time.... sending thousands of tiltrotors to the Russian far east and arctic is not going to make much difference at all.
not much more compared to helos!
Cheaper and already in use... two factors for helos and against tiltrotors.
It's easier to fly a plane than a helo.
Simpler. It takes longer to get a helo pilots licence. It wont be easier to get a tiltrotor aircraft pilot licence.... they wont even have such a licence at the moment anyway.
So, most tiltrotor pilots will be former helo pilots, until they become so popular that new pilots will be trained to fly them from the start. In the US, every helo pilot learns to fly fixed wing first & licensed for both. I don't think it's any different in Russia or anywhere else.
But nothing is going to happen while there are not tiltrotor aircraft to fly.
Bogs & cliffs can be around for miles in a remote village full of big trees. Ur NZ is a paradise compared to Siberia where the ancestors of Mongolians & Native Americans came from!
Aw, come on.... if they have a village there they can clear a few trees to make room for an airstrip... that was probably where they got the wood to build the village in the first place... They could use medium sized UAVs to fly low and drop supplies via parachute every week or two, but most such villages will be largely self sufficient anyway.
SAR & medevac missions.
They already have An-2s and Mi-8s... what difference would these imaginary tiltrotors make?
Larger settlements will have doctors... you wont be taking them more than 1,000km or so in any direction...
Fires occur far away from bodies of water & teams must be inserted to localize/fight them.
Why?
Just evacuate any nearby people and let it burn... it will burn out eventually. Fire is natures way of telling you it is time to start again.
It will take a long time to cover that huge area.
Do you actually think there are people every 3-4km all over Siberia that might have a heart attack at any moment and need to be flown directly to a large hospital in Moscow?
People tend to live near resources, like rail lines, within flight range of air fields, in small towns or cities that have mines or factories or oil fields or gas fields... places that need a decent supply of resources so they generally have reasonable air fields or are near ports or rivers or where a rail line passes by.
A town built in the middle of a forest on the edge of a cliff surrounded by peat bog is not the normal town... who built it there and why?
If there is gold in the ground then they need to get the people in there and the gold out... that alone will pay for a very nice runway or rail line to the nearest port or major air port.
if it is a nature choice and they are all nudists then what the fuck do they need a tiltrotor for... who is going to pay for it... stuff isn't sent for free you know... what are they producing that will pay the fuel to fly in there and back?
Fur and meat is more use domestically for clothes and to survive... there is no way anyone will risk a 2 million dollar aircraft and pay thousands of dollars in fuel to go and get some reindeer meat and some skins worth a few dollars.
People don't leave these villages so they can go to Moscow or St Petersberg to do a bit of shopping.... they tend to be natives and tend to not have a lot of roubles to waste on that sort of thing.
The tilt-rotors habe their advantages & a niche; they can be modernized & upgraded just like those Mi-8/17/38 & any other aircraft.
They might have some advantages... a top model race car might be faster than an MTLB but are you suggesting they use Italian sports cars in the Russian far east and arctic because they are faster and might save lives in an emergency... and cost 1,000 times more than the rugged and reliable stuff they are using now?
I am telling you for the minor advantages a tilt rotor aircraft might offer in some situations, most of the people will not trust them... and rightly so, because they don't have any experience and are not proven reliable yet. Getting where they were going faster would be nice, but getting there at all is the most important thing... paying more per ticket to pay for the new very expensive new toy is something else...
It is not a market where concord would prosper either...
Every settlement there doesn't & won't have recently built airfield!
Settlements that require external resources and something that needs to be taken out of there will probably have quite decent airfields... most others will have open fields where all the big rocks have been removed so An-2s or Helos can land.
Don't make these assumptions! I only showed that dirt strips may be dangerous to land on even in good weather & in the best of conditions.
They live in a part of the country where temperatures get below minus 60 degrees C for long periods I don't think they are the sort that would prefer to walk rather than fly.
Their time will come, & sooner than u expect.
So you say. Still waiting for flying cars too...
They may have a coup/all out civil war leading to Russian intervention & regime change; after that, they'll have to cooperate to survive.
They had the coup and the civil war is going on now... or are the shells and bombs filled with fluffy bunnies?
Those ships r small & can't break very thick ice.
But they still call them ice breakers?
There was a video on Youtube about Russian ice breakers and they were shown escorting ships through the route but on one place they stopped because a Russian military force was coming through and they got priority... I don't see why that would change in the future...
Most civilian authorities do as they are told by their own military.
Trump resorted to arm twisting to get his border wall financed w/o success
What does trump have to do with anything... the democrats would block his attempts to invite the second coming of Jesus Christ to the US, just to spite Trump...
the USN is going to retire a CVN 20 years earlier.
But they are not getting rid of their other dozen CVNs are they?
U must improve lives on land before being able to build those white elephants to move on water!
There is no point buying a new lounge suite for your house before you put locks on your doors and windows.
What you call white elephants will ensure Russias independent international trade future... without them they will be dictated to by the west... do you think the west will be nice?
And be like those NATO ships coming in & out of the Black/Baltic Sea that don't scare Russia at all.
You can't compare NATO ships getting nice and close to Russia and making themselves easy targets for shore based anti ship missiles, with Russian political and economic relations with the countries of the pacific that the Aussies and us Kiwis and Americans think of as our backyard, and our neighbours, who are largely dependent economically and politically to us.
We wont tolerate that... it is not acceptable for countries we give peanuts to and keep telling to do better in terms of good governance and people relations and voting the same way we vote at the UN to have their own views or opinions on things, let alone tell us what to do or think...
And lets be honest... it is mostly the western world that created climate change, and it is clearly Chinese experience at island building that will be the most value to them... what they will continue to get from us is plastic bottles and plastic bags washing up on their beautiful beaches for the next 500 years...
Adm. K is more useful north of the line than conducting gunboat diplomacy & acting as a training aid to foreign navies & AFs.
Why?
They have a few old sailing ships they use for training that they sail around the world... great experience for the young men on board.... I believe the name of one is Nakidka or something. The K could sail all round the place.... it is not nuclear powered and they could easily not load any nuclear warheads on board and sail around as a nuclear weapon free vessel for goodwill visits around the place...
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