2010s

Video of United States Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) concept by Vigor Industrial featuring an Ulstein X-bow. http://youtu.be/gdxQjfQpuoM Artist's impression of USCG Offshore Patrol Cutter by Vigor Industrial. Source: http://vigorindustrial.com/services/offshore-patrol-cutters-more

[IMAGE CREDIT: MoD (Japan)/TRDI] The new name seems to have been adopted sometime later on in 2011, as can be seen in this TRDI pamphlet (page 8 [pdf pg 9]).

First view of it. PS: Possibly not Armata afterall according to bmpd's blog: http://bmpd.livejournal.com/302442.html#cutid1 We will see.

MBDA mini cruise missile, 100km range, F-35B loadout 8x internally. http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/pictures-mbda-sharpens-spear-missile-design-for-f-35-integration-373453/

Via HP&CA, a new MOD concept for the Royal Navy: Detailed specs Joint Concept Note 1/12 This concept is probably DOA. Someone should have told the MOD that Transformation and the like is dead and buried. 'Systems not platforms' is what brought about such disasters as the LCS.

Govt may send PAC-3s to Okinawa / SDF readying for launch of DPRK rocket The Yomiuri Shimbun The government is considering a plan to deploy Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) missiles in Okinawa Prefecture for the possible interception of a rocket that North Korea will launch next month...

:o I'll let the gizmag article (via Slashdot) speak for itself: http://www.gizmag.com/startram-maglev-to-leo/21700/

From Wired.com: Navy’s Newest Robot Is a Mechanized Firefighter By Katie Drummond March 8, 2012 | 12:56 pm | Categories: robots Meet SAFFiR: Embedded sensors allow the 'bot to see through smoke, and sophisticated upper-body agility let the 'bot throw fire-squelching grenades. Illo: Naval...

Congress passed the FAA bill. http://www.mobile-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=82075 "The FAA is also required under the bill to provide military, commercial and privately-owned drones with expanded access to U.S. airspace currently reserved for manned aircraft by Sept. 30, 2015. That...

Debt-riddled Japan relaxes decades-old arms exports ban Source: http://news.yahoo.com/debt-riddled-japan-relaxes-decades-old-arms-exports-090832091.html TOKYO (Reuters) - Debt-riddled Japan Tuesday relaxed its self-imposed decades-old ban on military equipment exports in a move that will open...

Not 100% sure but with a MAD-boom, a weapons-bay and a large serach radar ... I would say that's the long rumoured Y-8GX-6 ASW. Deino

The Shenyang 601 Institute has been working for some years now on what might be a competition for Chengdu's J-20. Here's a handful of pics( sorry, can't remember the site, I think it was a Pakistani defence forum) of a model strongly resembling the blurred windtunnel model from Huitong's site...

Hello, I heard that HDW recently presented a Type 216 submarine design with vertical launcher tubes and a greater displacement than 212/214s. Is there anyone with more details?

EADS has a design for a Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation (Zehst) rocketplane. Of course there's an animation too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e33aPdoUxc I really don't get what EADS think they'll achieve publicising such designs that no one (not even the EU) will ever fund ...

Rethinking Heavy Lift May 6, 2011 By Bill Sweetman Washington Under a little-publicized program sponsored by the Pentagon, a small Southern California company is working on a design that is radical even by the quirky standards of buoyancy-aided aircraft: a rigid-hulled aircraft that...

Joe Baugher's website mentions a batch of four PZL M-38 Bryza aircraft that are used by the US Special Ops Command. Does anyone have any info about these, even possibly pictures? Here is what the M-38 looks like in Polish guise...

Keeping in line with his habit of putting out a new aircraft every year or so, Burt Rutan registered two new types in 2010 and 2011. First one is the Scaled Composites LLC Model 355 (N355SX, c/n 001), a fixed wing twin-boom single pusher type certified on 24 Nov 2009 and manufactured in 2010...

Indonesia launches fast missile-carrier by Staff Writers Jakarta (UPI) Apr 29, 2011 Indonesia has launched the indigenously built fast missile-carrying ship the KCR Clurit amid hopes that other Indonesian-made vessels will help the country's defense industry. "With it, Indonesia has started...

SecNav Posits Drone Ships Fueled by Sediment At a breakfast meeting with DC-based defense reporters today, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus (now clearly not in contention to be SecDef) sketched a future force of unmanned ships pulling power from the sea floor. Office of Naval Research just did...

From Defensetech.org: A New Breed of Guided Missile Sub May Be Emerging In case you haven’t seen this, submarine maker Electric Boat is pitching the idea of building a stretched Virginia class attack sub capable of carrying up to 194 Tomahawk cruise missiles. Basically, a 90-foot plug would be...