They should pitch it in France, we are looking for anti mini UAV system

It seems to be only a system for point and High value target. Nothing easily adaptable to site situation. Also, GPS guided MiniOffensive UAV ar eonly a minimal fraction of the threat.

Is there an RFP published somewhere or is that again a Copains/Copains acquisition project?

Just to be pedantic regarding the hiatus on the topic of the Staring IRST (wich I said is not an IRST): the Darpa’s REVEAL program (extract)

Conventional optical imaging systems today largely limit themselves to the measurement of light intensity, providing two-dimensional renderings of three-dimensional scenes and ignoring significant amounts of additional information that may be carried by captured light. For example, many photons traverse complex paths punctuated by multiple bounces prior to entering the aperture of a camera or other imager—a process through which these photons pick up information about their surroundings. Beyond such directional variability, light enjoys other aspects or degrees of freedom—including variations in propagation time, polarization state and spectral content, as well as wave-related properties such as coherence, diffraction and interference—all of which provide potential mechanisms by which light can acquire and convey information. Most of this information remains untapped today.

DARPA’s Revolutionary Enhancement of Visibility by Exploiting Active Light-fields (REVEAL) program seeks to unlock information in photons that current imaging systems discard. The REVEAL program aims to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework to enable maximum information extraction from complex scenes by using all the photon pathways of captured light and leveraging light’s multiple degrees of freedom. The goal is for this framework to guide the development of new imaging hardware and software technologies. Furthermore, the program will test the bounds of the developed framework and the functionality of the new imaging technologies via a challenge problem that calls for full 3D scene reconstruction from a single viewpoint. By contrast, current light-capturing methods require multiple viewpoints for rendering a scene in 3D.

If the staring IRST is called indeed an IRST, it is certainly because it is all AND also an IRST.

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Source:
http://www.darpa.mil/

*Yes I was rather empty handed today…

So many little design details that are georgeous on this aircraft.

Really?!

If you don’t screw up the design of your triple carrier, the weight and drags hould not be too different.

What are you thinking about Mr Watson-Kovy?

Chinese weaponry spotted on artificial island, US says

U.S. surveillance detected two large artillery vehicles on one of the artificial islands that China is creating in the South China Sea, U.S. officials said Friday, heightening concerns that Beijing could use the land reclamation projects for military purposes.

The revelation came as Defense Secretary Ash Carter was in the region for an international security summit in Singapore where he is expected to demand anew that China and other nations halt all such projects.

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Defense officials described the weapons as self-propelled artillery vehicles

Source:
http://www.miamiherald.com/

we reached an altitude of 2200 feet, the very present sound of the enigines reving at full speed stopped suddenly and the plane lost a lot of speed.

I checked the flight replay on Flightradar and can only see the first drop in speed (222 – 137 knots),

The cabin went silent and luckily the sound and feeling of thrusting engines came back after about 10 seconds, this happened another two times after that during the climb but lasted only a few seconds.

Obviously nothing abnormal for MMr GetOutOfThere & NothingToSee. If it have been flight deconfliction, the plane will have banked left or right instead of loosing that much speed in the climb

137Knot nose up… And the Stalling speed right after take off is ?

Oh and.. just to point at it:

This happened another two times after that during the climb but lasted only a few seconds.

Flight Routine and SOP obviously… Ben voyons

So, Scorpion, tell us all, should we have stopped any fighter dev right after the first Spad XIII ?