Source: Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Ltd. The ASPRO-A (Trophy) active protection system rapidly detects and tracks any anti-tank threat, classifies it, estimates the optimal intercept point in space and finally neutralizes it away from the platform using a countermeasure. … [Read more...]
Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) Program: The Nano Hummingbird
Source: DARPA httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8ZbtZqH6Io The Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) program is developing an extremely small, ultra lightweight air vehicle system (less than 15 centimeters and less than 20 grams) with the potential to perform indoor and outdoor military missions. NAV is exploring novel, flapping wing and other configurations to provide warfighters with unprecedented capability during urban operations. … [Read more...]
Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC)
Textron Marine & Land’s Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) is the cornerstone of the U.S. amphibious modernization program and a revolutionary means for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to land at more than 80 percent of the world’s shorelines. … [Read more...]
Empire Challenge 2011
Source: American Forces Press Service, By Donna Miles WASHINGTON, May 27, 2011 – A handheld device that would give new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to warfighters and an airframe equipped with “plug and play” sensors are among new technologies being tested during U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Empire Challenge 2011 demonstration. The demonstration kicked off May 23 and continues through June 3, bringing together more than 2,000 participants worldwide in a live, joint and coalition ISR interoperability demonstration, John Kittle, Empire Challenge project manager, … [Read more...]
MQ-8B Fire Scout
Northrop Grumman's Transformational Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Source: Northrup Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Fire Scout vertical unmanned aircraft system (VUAS) will provide unprecedented situational awareness and precision targeting support for the Services of the future. The Fire Scout VUAS, based on the Schweizer Model 333 manned helicopter, can autonomously take off and land on any aviation-capable warship and at unprepared landing zones in proximity to the forward edge of the battle area. The Fire Scout vertical takeoff and landing … [Read more...]
Operation Neptune Spear: Bin Laden’s Demise
As you have surely heard, Osama bin Laden was terminated on May 1st. The operation that killed him was known as Operation Neptune Spear, and the elite Navy SEAL team responsible for this absolute success was the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DevGru, a.k.a. SEAL Team Six). DevGru was ferried into Pakistan by the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operation Aviation Regiment in a group of helicopters that appear to have included advanced BlackHawk variants and Chinooks. Once they reached the compound where OBL was living, the SEAL team was met with 12-18 foot walls and armed resistance. That … [Read more...]
XM-25 Individual Airburst Weapon System
The Army is planning on sending its much-anticipated high-tech, highly secret XM-25 Individual Airburst Weapon System (IAWS) to the warzone in the next few months. The IAWS provides the soldier with a 300% to 500% increase in hit probability to defeat point, area, and defilade targets out to 500 meters. The XM-25 is a smart airburst grenade launcher capable of neutralizing targets behind walls or windows. The gunner aims the weapon's Target Acquisition/Fire Control (TA/FC) system (developed by L-3 Communications Brashear) at the wall or window behind where the enemy is hiding. The fire … [Read more...]
57-mm Mk 110 Mod 0 Naval Gun System
The 57-mm Mk 110 Naval Gun system from BAE Systems is a multi-mission capable medium-caliber shipboard weapon that has been selected for the U.S. Coast Guard's National Security Cutter and the Offshore Patrol Cutter and is also baselined by the U.S. Navy for its Littoral Combat Ship Flight 0 and the Close-in Gun System for the DDG 1000 destroyer. The Mk 110 Naval Gun system delivers high rates of fire with extreme accuracy against surface, airborne and shore-based threats with proven effective 6-mode programmable 57-mm Mk 295 ammunition. Sailors are able to respond quickly and effectively to … [Read more...]
The Dillon M134D Gatling Gun
The Dillon M134D Gatling Gun is the finest small caliber, defense suppression weapon available. It is a six barreled, electrically driven machine gun chambered in 7.62mm NATO and fires at a fixed rate of 3,000 shots per minute. Gatling Guns typically feed from a 3,000 or 4,400 round magazine. They are capable of long periods of continuous fire without threat or damage to the weapon making them an excellent choice for defensive suppression.httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqDCCTCYTNI&feature=channel Dillon Guns are reliable. The M134D has system life in excess of one million rounds and … [Read more...]
GBU-43 “Mother Of All Bombs”
The GBU-43/B is large, powerful and accurately delivered. high explosive. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb [MOAB] weapon is a 21,000 lbs total weight GPS-guided munition with fins and inertial gyro for pitch and roll control. It is probable that this munition was initially nick-named the "Mother Of All Bombs" with the retronymic expansion of MOAB following later. MOAB is a guided bomb which delivers the 18,700 lb BLU-120/B warhead bomb with KMU-593/B GPS/INS. The MOAB is the largest-ever satellite-guided, air-delivered weapon in history [not the largest ever, but the largest … [Read more...]