Mod. Notice Technological advances in weaponry

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Give us the StrikeMaster pls 🙏

Yes, I hope they do acquire them in sufficient numbers. The Strikemaster with the NSM is analogous to a coastal defence battery of old, HIMARS is more traditional mobile rocket artillery, albeit equipped with modern precision guide munitions.
 
HMAS Brisbane fires Australia's first Tomahawk. Back to the future, circa 1972! Still it's a long range missile, something we have never had before. The block V are networked, clever and can strike moving ships. Big jump in capability but crippled by the lack of platforms to launch them.
 

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Back to the Strix! First flight, albeit a little one. I thought it 'transformed' with the motors/wings changing orientation between VTOL and normal flight, but it doesn't look like it does. I'm confused how it changes its flight profile form one to the other.
 
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The PRC have got the Yanks in a bit of a tizz by debuting 2 tailless 6th generation fighter prototypes in 24 hours. These are pretty big birds, more akin to a fighter bomber.

 
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The Liberty Lifter is a DARPA design for a combo seaplane and 'ground effect' craft, like the magnificent soviet era Ekranoplan. While the Ekranoplan could never fly as an aircraft, it did carry, in typical Russian fashion, a swag of big missiles. You can read about the Liberty Lifter at the link below, as well as another ground effect craft, the small, electric powered Seaglider.


In appearance the Liberty Lifter really can't compare to the Ekranoplan, which looks like something straight out of anime.

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More about the two new tailless PLAAF fighters - the very large J36 from Chengdu and the smaller, but still large for a fighter, from Shenyang Aircraft Corporation. The J36 to me hits a sweet spot, a long range, supersonic, stealthy craft with large internal volume for 'stuff', a 21C version of a fighter bomber. It's about the size of an F111. Perhaps the RAAF should offer to buy some?
 

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