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Britain’s New Aircraft Carrier is Less Than Six Months Away From Sea Trials

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HM Naval Base Portsmouth is being readied for the arrival of the biggest warships ever constructed in the UK, the Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers. The 65,000 tonne ships, which are over three times the size of the Invincible Class aircraft carriers, are expected to arrive in their home port of Portsmouth in 2017. Before then, the North Corner of the Naval Base – an area of 70,000 square metres - is undergoing major infrastructure work to become a Queen Elizabeth Centre of Specialisation, ready to provide everything the Royal Navy ships and their staff need whilst they are in their … [Read more...]

If it Floats it Fights – U.S. Navy Wants to Put Missiles on Everything

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The U.S. Navy is putting more power behind its offensive punch with a strategy called “distributed lethality.” “Potential adversaries, particularly in the Pacific region, have invested in weapons designed to keep naval and U.S. Air Force assets from operating freely,” said Tom Copeman, a retired three-star admiral who commanded the Navy’s surface ships and is now a Raytheon vice president. “Distributed lethality will help us reverse that.” The Navy defines distributed lethality as the capability to strike from any ship and from any place in the world. Offensive weapons on U.S. ships … [Read more...]

Picatinny Arsenal Working on First Ever Digital Multi-Purpose Hand Grenade

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Engineers at Picatinny Arsenal are working on the first new lethal hand grenade in more than 40 years, which is designed to give greater flexibility to the warfighter. The multi-purpose hand grenade design will provide both fragmentation and blast overpressure more effectively and safely than its legacy counterparts. Once fielded, Soldiers will be able to select and use a hand grenade with different effects simply by flipping a switch. Over the past five years, Picatinny engineers have been collaborating with Infantry School representatives, hand grenade cadre, as well as active duty … [Read more...]

Ukrainian Firm Develops Handheld Automatic Grenade Launcher

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Kiev-based company Precision Systems has developed a new, handheld version of the Russian-made KBP AGS-17 30 mm automatic grenade launcher, which was displayed for the first time at Ukraine's AviaSvit/Arms and Security show, held in Kiev from 11 to 14 October. Speaking to IHS Jane's at the show, company officials said this handheld variant, designated the RGSh30, was developed "in order to create a grenade launcher that could respond to the needs of Ukrainian units and special forces operating in the Donbas". They added that this smaller and more portable derivative of the Russian model has … [Read more...]

New Tech is Changing Undersea Warfare – A Battle Beneath the Waves

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Miles off the California coast and deep under the ocean’s surface, the chase is on. The prey: a submarine from a rogue nation caught raising its periscope earlier in the day. The pursuer: a U.S. Navy battle group armed with futuristic undersea technology. With a bang and a burst of bubbles, a swarm of American undersea drones rockets out from an armored locker on the sea floor. They dart through the depths, following a digital trail pieced together from scraps of sensor data from a Triton unmanned plane, warships and a robotic Sea Hunter trimaran skimming the surface. One of the drones … [Read more...]

This State of the Art Combat Helmet is a Gamechanger

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Combines mission data and multispectral vision into one view; 24/7 hands-free seamless transition from dark to light environments ADELAIDE, Australia - Rockwell Collins introduced its combat helmet-mounted Integrated Digital Vision System (IDVS) for warfighters—an advanced display system that combines real-time mission data with multispectral vision sensors into one view for greater situational awareness. The announcement was made at Land Forces 2016 in Adelaide, Australia. The IDVS is the first hands-free helmet-mounted display system that fuses incoming data from various sources, such as … [Read more...]

U.S. Army Essentially Getting a Flying Grenade with Eyes

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WASHINGTON at Association of the United States Army Annual Meeting and Exposition, Oct. 3, 2016 – AeroVironment, Inc., a global leader in unmanned aircraft systems for both military and commercial applications, announced the United States Army Close Combat Weapons Systems Project Office has awarded the company a contract for Block 10C Switchblade™ Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile Systems (LMAMS) and support services valued at $22,776,812 through a Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statement.Delivery is anticipated within 12 months. Video: Wanna get a cool 360 degree tour of how the technology … [Read more...]

Auto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pilot—Declassified USAF Footage

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This newly declassified video footage from the head-up-display of a U.S. Air Force Arizona Air National Guard F-16 records the dramatic moment when its unconscious pilot is saved from certain death by the aircraft’s Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System. Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS) was developed by NASA, the Air Force, and Lockheed Martin. Auto-GCAS entered service in September 2014 and is already credited with saving at least two F-16s and their crews. … [Read more...]

United Aircraft Corporation Publishes Video of Russia’s 5th Generation Fighter Cannon Tests

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The Sukhoi PAK FA T-50 is a multi-role stealth fighter aircraft being developed by Sukhoi of Russia and is expected to cost around $50 million per aircraft. The PAK FA boasts a number of unique features as compared with previous-generation fighters, and combines the functions of a strike aircraft and a fighter. This fifth-generation airplane, currently undergoing flight trials, is equipped with an entirely new set of deeply-integrated avionics featuring a high level of controlled automation and intelligent crew support. This considerably reduces the pilot’s workload and allows the pilot to … [Read more...]