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Israeli Defence Force officer cadets from the Geffen Battalion at Training Base 1 during a field training exercise - storming straight into thorny bushes and dense vegetation, preparing them for the anything they may encounter in the next conflict – January 2012
Soldiers from the Israeli Army Nahal Brigade during a large scale training exercise on the Golan, November 2010
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
FORTUNE GLOBAL FORUM
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
2015 FORTUNE GLOBAL FORUM
San Francisco, CA, USA
9:00-9:45 am
NAVIGATING GLOBAL VOLATILITY
Panelists:
Ian Bremmer, President and Founder, Eurasia Group
Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Advisor, Allianz SE
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Former Minister of Defence and Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, Germany
Moderator:
Nina Easton, Fortune
Photograph by Stuart Isett/Fortune Global Forum
Original visit photos from 2013 – www.flickr.com/photos/139375961@N08/shares/9QptB12vKi
– Coastal Defence/chain Home Low Station M136 –
The site of a Coastal Defence/Chain Home Low (CD/CHL) Radar Station at Pakefield. It was built by the British Army to monitor shipping and aircraft during World War II. CD/CHL sites opened from 1941 and comprised either a Nissen hut or brick/concrete operations block with an aerial gantry mounted on the roof and a separate standby set house for the reserve power.
Staff were billeted where possible, but some stations had a small layout of domestic hutting situated within one mile of the site. The station closed by December 1942 and by 1978 the site was used for quarrying. Aerial photography from 1978 shows that the site was a quarry and its associated buildings. It is unclear if any of these buildings were originally part of the radar stations.
Chain Home Low (CHL) was the name of a British early warning radar system operated by the RAF during World War II. The name refers to CHL's ability to detect aircraft flying at altitudes below the capabilities of the original Chain Home (CH) radars, where most CHL radars were co-located. CHL could reliably detect aircraft flying as low as 500 feet. The official name was AMES Type 2, referring to the Air Ministry Experimental Station at Bawdsey Manor where it was developed, but this name was almost never used in practice.
The system had originally been developed by the British Army's research group, also based at Bawdsey, as a system for detecting enemy shipping in the English Channel. It was built using the electronics being developed for the aircraft interception radar systems, which worked on the 1.5 m band. This high frequency (200 MHz), for the era, allowed it to use smaller antennas that could be swung back and forth to look for returns, in contrast to the enormous fixed antennas of the 6.7 m wavelength (45 MHz) Chain Home system.
When the war began, the Luftwaffe began mine-laying missions where the bomber aircraft would fly almost all of their mission at low altitude. Chain Home could only see targets above 1.5 degrees over the horizon, so these aircraft only became visible at short range. Robert Watson Watt seized several dozen of the Coastal Defense (CD) systems that were in final construction and installed them at CH stations and key locations along the seashore to fill this critical gap in the coverage.
CHL remained an important part of the Chain network for the rest of the war, and was retained in the post-war era until it was replaced during the ROTOR upgrades by the AMES Type 80. The electronics, notably the high-power transmitter, was also re-used in a number of other systems, including the AMES Type 7.
CHL traces its origins to early experiments with aircraft interception radar systems in 1936. These were developed as a short-range radar that would be used to close the gap between Chain Home's (CH) approximate 5 miles accuracy and the visual range of a night fighter pilot at about 1,000 yards. Developed by a team at Bawdsey Manor led by ''Taffy'' Bowen, the new radar had to operate at much shorter wavelengths in order to limit the antenna sizes to something that could be practically fit on an aeroplane. After considerable experimentation, the team settled on a set working at 4ft 11in wavelength, about 193 MHz in the VHF band.
In early experiments with the new set, the team found that detection of other aircraft was problematic due to their target's relatively small size, but especially due to reflections off the ground. The latter caused a very strong signal that appeared to be at a range equal to the aircraft's current altitude, and everything beyond that was invisible in the resulting clutter. This meant that a typical night bombing run by German aircraft at 15,000 feet altitude would only become visible at that range, far less than the desired minimum of 5 miles (26,000 ft).
These same experiments demonstrated an unexpected side-effect. As the aircraft flew around over Bawdsey, which is located on the coast of the English Channel, the team found strong constant returns that they later realised were the cranes at the Harwich docks, miles away. Other smaller returns were quickly identified as boats in the Channel. These were being detected at ranges far beyond the maximum range against aircraft, in spite of the antennas not being designed for this role.
The potential of this discovery was not lost, and Robert Watson-Watt asked the team to demonstrate the concept in a real-world setting. A series of military exercises in the Channel in September 1937 provided a perfect test. On 3rd September the team's test aircraft, Avro Anson K6260, detected several Royal Navy ships in the Channel, and the next day repeated this performance in spite of almost completely overcast skies. Albert Percival Rowe of the Tizard Committee later commented that ''This, had they known, was the writing on the wall for the German Submarine Service''.
Information sourced from –
www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?ui...
Colonel Harrington (USA) and Lady Richards at the Kensington Palace dinner
Photo credit:
Michael Phillip Quintana
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Israeli Soldiers from a number of Different Infantry Brigades training with the TOW Anti-Tank Missile System – 3rd October 2011
Irish Army Sniper teams practicing marksmanship skills in the Glen of lmaal.
Photos: Cpl Johhny Tuft
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Second roll of film through the new to me Bronica S2A with Nikkor 75mm f/2.8
Shot just after sunrise at Sidmouth July 2023.
Portra 400, shot at 200
f/1 1 Second
Developed in Cinestill C41
Scanned using Sony A7RV/Minolta 100 Macro
Converted in Negative Lab Pro
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See, discover and experience how defence science and technology is leveraged as a force multiplier to deliver cutting-edge capabilities to the Singapore Armed Forces at the Defence TechX 2008!
Held at the Annexe, Science Centre Singapore, the exhibition will be open on:
- 07 Nov 08, from 1 pm to 6 pm
- 08 to 11 Nov 08, from 10 am to 6 pm
Admission is FREE!
About the Event
Themed 'At the Cutting Edge', the exhibition will showcase the science and technology that transforms the Third Generation SAF's ability to sense, decide and act. Visitors will delve into the exciting world of defence science and technology, and find out what gives the SAF its leading edge through four operation clusters - Networked Air Defence, Integrated Air-Land Operations, Full Spectrum Naval Operations and Urban Operations.
Exhibition highlights include:
Experience fighting as a Third Generation SAF soldier through advanced training systems
Find out how the new pixelised uniform enhances the concealment of SAF soldiers
Cyber defence demonstrations
Operate robots at the robotics showcase
Pit your skills against others in the SAF cyber games
Israeli Paratroopers during a demonstration of weapons and equipment for visiting Israeli School Children – 15th December 2011
Israeli Soldiers from the Nahal Brigade during a training exercise on the Golan Heights – May 2012
Photo: Uri Bareket
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Israeli Soldiers from a number of Different Infantry Brigades training with the TOW Anti-Tank Missile System – 3rd October 2011
Israeli Soldiers from a number of Different Infantry Brigades training with the TOW Anti-Tank Missile System – 3rd October 2011
Her Excellency, Tebelelo Mazile Seretse, Ambassador of the Republic of Botswana to the United States, Col. Bruce N. Thobane, Botswana Defence, Military and Air Attache, and Jed Taro Dornburg, international relations officer – Botswana and Malawi at U.S. Department of State all visited North Carolina under the State Partnership Program to explore different avenues that the Botswana Defence Force and their government can enhance ways of life in Botswana and combat huge issues such as poaching and first response operations.
(U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Sgt. Leticia Samuels, North Carolina National Guard Public Affairs/Released)
The beauty of Photoshop. A photograph of a V1 Rocket taken at the Eden War Museum in Yorkshire. A Spitfire taken at the Scottish air show at East Fortune. And a sky taken above my house. Put together to showwhat was reality. A Spitfire about to engage a doodle bug and shoot it down before it could kill.
The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1 "Vengeance Weapon 1")âalso known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug,[3][b] and in Germany as Kirschkern (cherrystone) or Maikäfer (maybug) was an early cruise missile and the only production aircraft to use a pulsejet for power.The V-1 was the first of the so-called "Vengeance weapons" series (V-weapons or Vergeltungswaffen) designed for the terror bombing of London. It was developed at Peenemünde Army Research Center in 1939 by the Nazi German Luftwaffe at the beginning of the Second World War, and during initial development was known by the codename "Cherry Stone". Because of its limited range, the thousands of V-1 missiles launched into England were fired from launch facilities along the French (Pas-de-Calais) and Dutch coasts. The first V-1 was launched at London on 13 June 1944,[6] one week after (and prompted by) the successful Allied landings in Europe. At peak, more than one hundred V-1s a day were fired at south-east England, 9,521 in total, decreasing in number as sites were overrun until October 1944, when the last V-1 site in range of Britain was overrun by Allied forces. After this, the V-1s were directed at the port of Antwerp and other targets in Belgium, with 2,448 V-1s being launched. The attacks stopped only a month before the war in Europe ended, when the last launch site in the Low Countries was overrun on 29 March 1945. The British operated an arrangement of air defences, including anti-aircraft guns and fighter aircraft, to intercept the bombs before they reached their targets as part of Operation Crossbow, while the launch sites and underground V-1 storage depots were targets of strategic bombing.
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Yahalom Unit Exercise
Special unit of the Corps of Engineers, Yahalom, held a demonstration exercise at the urban warfare facility – 4th March 2012
Yahalom unit is the most elite unit of the Engineering Corps and one of the IDF's elite units. This is the professional body that provides a solution for operational purposes in sabotage, bomb disposal, dealing with the threat of tunnels and the like.
Photos: Ftian Ibrahim - IDF Spokesman Unit
A large collection of concrete Anti-Tank Blocks, have been collected between TG 5072 1731 and TG 5074 1729. The blocks have been moved and placed in lines to help provide sea defences for the Lifeboat Station at Hemsby. There is a continuous problem around the Norfolk Coast caused by coastal erosion.
Here are some photos showing the anti-tank blocks almost buried at one point, and now placed as sea defences.
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The Anti-tank Block can often be found in a range of dimensions, but blocks built with sides measuring 3 feet 6 inch and 5 feet are most commonly found. Orders issued on 9th June 1940 that recommended blocks with sides up to 3 feet were deployed to counter tanks weighing up to 9 tons and 5 feet blocks used where heavier tanks, possibly up to 70 tons, could be embarked from landing craft, beaches specifically. Where possible, scrap metal was to be used to reinforce these cubes. A foundation depth of 2 feet was recommended by the War Office (1940). You will often find anti-tank blocks constructed on a ''raft'' foundation, with multiple blocks cast into the same foundation. Anti-tank blocks can be found either cast face to face or corner to corner, often in depth with two lines of off-set blocks being quite common. Anti-tank blocks will often be constructed on a raft foundation, ensuring the blocks are less susceptible to shifting sand and ensure integrity of the obstacle.
Anti-tank blocks were the only obstacles specifically recommended by the War Department until August 1940. Following the testing of anti-tank obstacles, orders were issued on 19th August 1940, outlining that blocks of 3 feet 6 inch or more were to be discontinued in favour of smaller cubes deployed in greater depth. The intention being to belly any tank that attempted to cross the obstacle.
Information sourced from:
ukswwh.wordpress.com/2021/08/10/anti-tank-blocks/
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/dob/ai_full_r....
Israeli Paratroopers from the 101 Battalion of the Parachute Brigade during a training exercise on the Golan Heights – 2012
Photo: Uri Bareket
Israeli Soldiers from the NAHAL Brigade during a large scale Field Training Exercise – May/June 2012
Defence Forces Triathlon took place in Lilliput Adventure Center in Mullingar on the banks of Lough Enell
Israeli Paratroopers during a demonstration of weapons and equipment for visiting Israeli School Children – 15th December 2011