2010s

  1. BAROBA

    USN/DARPA ACTUV program

    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...
  2. Johnbr

    SpaceX Falcon Heavy

    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...
  3. bobbymike

    British Trident Subs to Field Enhanced U.S.-Made Warheads

    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)...
  4. Steve Pace

    Boeing 747-8 Freighter, 747-8 Intercontinental

    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
  5. bobbymike

    Cobalt Gun Barrels that fire "forever"

    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...
  6. bobbymike

    China's Massive Rocket Base Nears Completion

    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...
  7. D

    Iranian ASBM?

    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.
  8. cluttonfred

    Alternatives to USMC Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV)?

    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...
  9. cluttonfred

    Aircraft applications of Voith-Schneider propeller?

    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...
  10. Triton

    UK MoD Future Protected Vehicle

    From theworacle via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbbc00jnbQ
  11. Triton

    DCNS Barracuda class attack submarine

    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...
  12. Mike Pryce

    UK Harrier retirement & sale to US Marine Corps

    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...
  13. Triton

    DCNS Gowind

    DCNS Gowind sales brochure from Euronaval 2008. Source: http://s11.invisionfree.com/shipbucket/ar/t717.htm
  14. Michel Van

    Howe & Howe Technologies, Inc.

    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...
  15. Triton

    Singapore Technologies Marine Tiger Shark/Blue Shark

    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...
  16. Triton

    EADS Hypersonic Transport

    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...
  17. bobbymike

    Throttleable Solid Propellant Ramjet

    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...
  18. Triton

    Queen Elizabeth Class (CVF) development

    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
  19. Mike Pryce

    Future RAF/RN fleet

    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...
  20. Matej

    Moog FTS « Talon » and « Mini-Talon » missiles

    Found during the Farnborough on the AT-802U. Can somebody identify it?
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