https://actuv.darpa.mil/
From the site :
DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare game goes live
April 04, 2011
Can you best an enemy submarine commander so he can’t escape into the ocean depths? If you think you can, you are invited to put yourself into the virtual driver’s seat of one of several...
SpaceX Announces Launch Date for the World's Most Powerful Rocket
Falcon Heavy will lift more than twice as much as any other launch vehicle
WASHINGTON – Today, Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) unveiled the dramatic final specifications and...
British Trident Subs to Field Enhanced U.S.-Made Warheads
Monday, April 4, 2011
The United Kingdom's nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines are to receive an enhanced version of a U.S.-manufactured nuclear warhead, the Federation of American Scientists said on Friday (see GSN, Feb. 7)...
Boeing's 747-8 Intercontinental making its first flight today (3/20/2011). This is Boeing's largest ever airliner. This image is of a high-speed taxi test on 3/18/2011. I'll post flight photos when they are available. -SP
From www.army.mil
PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- During a firefight, the last thing a machine gunner wants to do is stop fighting to change barrels, but that's how it has always been done with standard, single steel-barrel machine guns. The reason for the barrel change is that at high temperatures...
Massive rocket base to be built
The world's largest design, production and testing base for rockets is being built in Tianjin, Liang Xiaohong, deputy head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, said Thursday. The first phase of the rocket industrial base in Tianjin's Binhai New Area...
2010s
2020s
china academy of launch vehicle technology
china national space administration
cold war ii
moon
people's liberation army
people's republic of china
rockets
http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=5642659&c=AIR&s=MID
I pray this turns out to be a hoax. As while China is likely to not use their ASBM, Iran surely will if they possess this type of missile.
SecDef Gates and the MC Commandant (some say under orders) recommended in budget hearings last month that the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) program be cancelled in favor of a cheaper alternative. That may not be the end of the story as General Dynamics is lobbying hard that it would...
The recent post on Bauhaus Luftfahrt led me to this brief description of a VTOL aircraft using Voith-Schneider propellers and the attached image on their web site.
This was all news to me, so I was also pleased to find this great interactive demo of how a Voith-Schneider propeller actually...
Cutaway drawing of DCNS Barracuda-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. The first submarine will be named Suffren, and will be followed by the Duguay-Trouin, Dupetit-Thouars, Duquesne, Tourville and De Grasse, the build order of these five following submarines being subject to change.
Source...
Leaks reported on SDSR were accurate. Harrier and current carriers to be retired, in 2011 for Harrier. 1 CVF to get cats and traps and F-35C from 2020. Other CVF to be mothballed. Nimrod MRA.4 cancelled, new 'low cost frigates' to join escort force numbering 19. Reduced Tornado fleet retained...
for those who not know Discovery channel series "Battle machine Bros."
Howe & Howe Technologies, Inc. build prototypes for U.S. Military
like the worlds smallest armored all terrain vehicle the PAV-1 "Badger"
http://www.howeandhowetechnologies.com/pav1.php...
Model of Singapore Technologies Marine Tiger Shark Future Frigate
From Jane's
Model of Singapore Technologies Marine Blue Shark Future Corvette
Sources:
http://sgforums.com/users/244249/posts?page=2...
Drawing of EADS Innovation Works and Astrium Space Transportation zero emission hypersonic transport.
Source:
Warwick, Graham. "Transpacific in Two Hours, With No Emissions" Leading Edge 5/28/2010...
From Space Daily - Space War
Aerojet Demonstrates NextGen Solid Ramjet Fuel
by Staff Writers
Sacramento CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2010
Aerojet has announced that it has successfully tested an advanced solid ramjet fuel in an engine ground test. The fuel is being developed to provide long-range...
Two artist's impressions of the Royal Navy's proposed future aircraft carrier (CVF) from 1999. These both show examples designed to operate STOVL aircraft.
Source: http://navy-matters.beedall.com/cvf2.htm
Latest stories are that the entire RAF Tornado fleet may be retired. The £7.5bn 'saved' may help pay for a Trident replacement.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298871/RAF-Tornado-fleet-faces-axe-bid-save-7bn.html
This is still speculative (the 'leak' was hardly an agreed policy...
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