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So, the subject of the Sergeant York SPAAG came up elsewhere and I remembered something from my original research onto SPAAG design (because popular consensus on the York is 'it is everything you must avoid for a SPAAG') for a few settings I'm working on. It was on Quora and, well, the guy who...

https://www.c4isrnet.com/battlefield-tech/space/2021/07/12/with-all-three-gunsmoke-j-satellites-on-orbit-the-army-is-ready-to-test-space-based-targeting/

Hi, just find an interesting modification of the DUKW amphibian veichle: maybe it is well known, but I think it deserves a thread. During Overlord preparations, they found that Pointe du Hoc needed to be neutralized by landing forces to prevent the Germans from using the guns positioned there...

https://www.autonews.com/article/20171009/OEM/171009800/general-motors-establishing-new-military-defense-division https://www.torque.com.sg/news/general-motors-introduces-silent-utility-rover-universal-superstructure/ https://www.gmdefensellc.com/site/us/en/gm-defense/home/autonomy.html...

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2021/05/27/looking-at-high-speed-isr-jet-capability-us-army-deploys-demonstrator-to-europe/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=EBB%2005.28.21&utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Early%20Bird%20Brief

“highly classified” Long Range Effect (LRE) ? US Army has taken a few - but not all - of the wraps off a “highly classified” Long Range Effect (LRE) during #Edge21 demo at Dugway Proving Ground, which I’m attending. No pictures released sadly, but a video showed to me here shows a large, winged...

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/04/08/army-wants-replace-cold-war-era-tow-missile-new-longer-range-tank-killer.html

In early 1960, Orenda Engines, a division of Avro Canada, began to develop a gas turbine to meet a U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships specification for the development of engines for a new type of minesweeper. The Canadian company and two American companies, including Ford Motor, received development...

In other words bulletproof vests utilising what is in effect ERA. o_O http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6474213.html https://www.wired.com/2009/03/extreme-protect/ Might work with armored NBC suits and even infantry exoskeleton systems. But tactical vests?! I think I might have heard about...

The dual mode AGM-65D Maverick anti-radar guided missile Hughes Aircraft Corporation in the United States has built three unites of the Maverick anti-radar guided missile equipped with a dual mode passive radar/television target seeking head. It was designed especially to strike at radar...

So I've heard that during the mid 80s there were attempts to create a 60-ton class IFV based on the M1 Abrams some designs even mounting the 75mm Areas cannon is this true any drawings

In the spring of 2019, the Army awarded a contract to four industry partners to provide non-developmental tactical systems, also known as "off the shelf" technology. The Army will provide the tactical UAS to units so Soldiers in U.S. Army Forces Command can evaluate the system under field...

While I was doing some research on the Pietenpol homebuilts for a scratch build project, I came across a couple tracked Model T projects with caterpillar treads. mostly pics, with little else. does anyone have any more information on these, or where can I go to find out more, as this looks like...

Alone among the FARA contenders, Boeing have yet to fully reveal details of their submission, apparently designed by the company's 'Phantom Works'. They did release a teaser video - some screenshots of which are shown at https://facebook.com/aerospaceanalysis/

https://gizmodo.com/helmets-from-wwi-just-as-protective-against-overhead-bl-1841700511 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0228802

I ran across this website that I frustratingly can't find anymore it gave info on the various attempts to up gun the sherman tank and also had a little info on a radically redesigned sherman tank that moved its gear box beneath the tank allowing the turret to be set further back and reducing the...

I read in Osprey's excellent New Vanguard 153 - M551 Sheridan that, at Fort Bragg, they had a short-lived program to develop a "paratroop fighting vehicle" in the 80s - similar to the Russian/Soviet BMD series- based on a turretless Sheridan. Several prototypes were allegedly constructed, making...

https://www.flugrevue.de/angebot-fuer-den-fara-wettbewerb-der-us-army-bell-360-invictus-enthuellt/ auto translate https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.flugrevue.de%2Fangebot-fuer-den-fara-wettbewerb-der-us-army-bell-360-invictus-enthuellt%2F Looks like dad bod...

I was looking at the SDASM flickr pictures dump and found a Huey modified with retractable skids, ostensibly to afford a 360 degrees field of view to the large rectangular antenna mounted on the bottom of the cabin. I was not aware of such installation. It reminds me of the FOPEN radar...

The Next Generation Combat Vehicle program has begun to firm up its desires for the Bradley replacement, which it has now dubbed the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle. Similarly to MPF, the Army is accelerating this program massively and now wishes to begin fielding it in 2026 rather than in...