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DARPA Taps Sikorsky to Add Autonomy to U.S. Army-Owned Black Hawk Helicopter...

Vertical Flight Society just published excellent video narrated by Cherles Seibel himself about Seibel helicopters. Described are: - Seibel S-1 (design study on tiltrotor) - Seibel S-2 (design study on coaxial helicopter) - Seibel S-3 (single-seat helicopter with CG control mechanism...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78d649vzlqo https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cqlvd41pnk7o https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/21/parachute-drop-near-arnhem-marks-80-years-since-operation-market-garden...

The American actor James Earl Jones has passed away at the age of 93.:( Sources: View: https://x.com/MarkHamill/status/1833246565168803985?t=LueMXnGSz9YOgdYQm5MREw&s=19 View: https://x.com/NavalInstitute/status/1833252640303812795?t=JDH7l0xIMSO8egcIt5_x_g&s=19

Some interesting news regarding systems similar to JLENS (and other options) https://breakingdefense.com/2024/07/army-taking-wide-open-approach-to-high-altitude-platforms-smdc-chief/ https://www.twz.com/air/polands-plan-to-deploy-early-warning-radar-blimps-moves-forward 7 years after the...

Didn't see anything else here about this already. View: https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/1dtur18/lockheed_loopwheel_testbed_compared_to_a_vehicle/ https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19780016310/downloads/19780016310.pdf

T34 Heavy Tank Developed in 1945 as a modernization of the T30 heavy tank. The vehicle was equipped with the 120 mm T53 gun and the new Continental AV-1790 engine. Because of the decline in heavy tank development after the end of World War II, the T34 never entered service. The prototypes were...

I am currently writing a book on the Short Skyvan. I wonder if anyone has information (description, drawings etc) on Shorts project P.D.50 described as a "Skyvan VTOL test-bed", and P.D.62 listed in the Putnam as "Skyvan with B.L.C" but elsewhere as "Skyvan Feeder Liner". Both seem quite...

San Diego Air and Space Museum archives on Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=49487266%40N07&view_all=1&text=AH-56A

https://www.defensenews.com/digital-show-dailies/aaaa/2024/04/26/army-officials-question-plan-for-future-attack-reconnaissance/

Should we start a RCV thread? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD6YhuU0id0 View: https://youtu.be/aDK5c2GmGM4 Looks like RTS unit so much.

Good day everyone. I have a question, is there any unbuilt or other MLRS projects of the US Military beside M270 and HIMARS?

ORIGINAL CAPTION: An Alliant RQ-6A Outrider at the United States Army Aviation Museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliant_RQ-6_Outrider

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/10/lightning-in-a-bottle-inside-the-origin-of-the-armys-future-robotic-fleet/ ORIGINAL CAPTION: The Project Origin vehicle, a surrogate for Army Robotic Combat Vehicles, is seen at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in September 2021...

https://fromtheswedisharchives.wordpress.com/2018/10/16/the-american-s-tank/ https://fromtheswedisharchives.wordpress.com/2018/10/23/us-tank-concepts-no-1-1-b-1968/ https://fromtheswedisharchives.wordpress.com/2018/10/28/us-tank-concepts-no-2/ (For third concept, see first link)...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Bs-0a_0Os

The genesis of the Long Range Cannon project was the M777 Extended Range (ER) Howitzer project, a 2014 prototyping initiative to significantly extend the range of the currently fielded M777A2 variant. That effort involved the incorporation of a longer cannon tube for extended-range firing; a...

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I recently visited the United States Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker, AL, and I came across the McDonnell Douglas Mark II Batwing. I haven't been able to find any information on this aircraft other than what was on the Museum's sign, and the only evidence of its existence on the internet is...

Designed in 1942 by the American Ordnance Company, an old-established gun-making concern of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the M3 half-track carrier, known as the 40mm Gun Motor Carriage T68 (GMC T68) and featured unusual gun layout. The guns were placed, one above the other, a configuration with an...