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Boost-Glide Vehicles DARPA and NASA have been in­volved in the NASP program since its inception. Now the Air Force is pursuing a joint program with DAR­PA to develop hypersonic boost-glide vehicles and build a prototype. These would be quite different from the runway-takeoff aircraft/...

Several years ago, US navy lauched an unmaned sea-plane project, called Seagull. Do you remember it and do you have more information?

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...

DARPA to develop microscale navigational gyro for guided munitions and hand-held devices Posted by John Keller ARLINGTON, Va., 29 April 2010. Navigation and guidance experts at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking industry to develop a...

Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) Program Manager: Mr. Rob McHenry In response to emerging threats, DARPA is building on the technology advances developed under the Hypersonics Flight (HyFly) program to develop and demonstrate standoff anti-ship strike technologies to reverse the...

WaveRider test vehicle meets B-52 by Derek Kaufman 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs 8/4/2009 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) -- Airmen successfully mated the X-51A WaveRider flight test vehicle to a B-52 Stratofortress July 17 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The fit check...

I've seen some rather impressive images of potential future US submarines including such designs as Renegade, Renegade 2 and Merrimack, evidently designed to make extensive use of UUV's and other advanced technology. U nfortunately, I haven't been able to find much more than images of them...

Hi, http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread199681/pg1

The Ripsaw Unmanned Ground Vehicle. Military prototype and privately funded DARPA challenger. Super fast (0–50 in 3.5 secs), manoeuvrable, tough. Emergency services, military escort, bomb disposal. Built by the Howe Brothers. $200,000.00 each. http://www.howeandhowe.com/

The Northrop XST; http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1992/1992%20-%200362.pdf

This is from Seapower and Space, pg 241, by Norman Friedman. Does anyone have more information on this missile? According to the lexicon hosted on FAS.org it was originally known as Ballistic Intercept Missile.

The first X-47B is in final assembly. For info and art, go here: http://www.northropgrumman.com/unmanned/

DARPA Opts To End Boeing-Led X-50A Dragonfly UAV Effort By Jefferson Morris/Aerospace Daily & Defense Report 09/11/2006 09:35:13 AM The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has opted to end the X-50A Dragonfly unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program, which was attempting to pioneer a...

I have found that murky image in one of zillion AFRL ppt presentations, that serves for me a source of very interesting stuff for several years that proves to be real metall later...like knowledge of what the hell X-41 or X-42 would be three or four years ago. "Aeronautics at AFRL" Provided...

Images from SubPirates.Com forum depicts latest iteration of Cormorant MPUAV (Multi-purpose Unmanned Aeriel Vehicle). Casting model photo (c) Marc aka fxmodels CATIA models (c) Matt aka Thor