G'day gents
Can anyone please confirm the following -
'January, 11, 2011: The U.S Army has finally, after over a decade of development, and no orders, cancelled its SLAMRAAM anti aircraft missile system'
If so, this would have to emphasised the inability of the U.S military to be able to run...
2011
air defence
air defense artillery branch
air-to-surface missile
early 2010s
obama administration
post-cold war
spad
u.s. army
united states army
waronterror
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I don't know where this really belongs (if at all) anyway, out of interest, Air Britain have (?) released a new book on RAF unmanned aircraft / target drones / recon drones called "Sitting Ducks and Peeping Toms" - I do NOT know if any projected models are included :-...
aerial gunnery target
aerial torpedo
british army
cold war
drone
early 21st century
electronic warfare
fleet air arm
interwar period
late 20th century
photo-recce
post-cold war
royal air force
royal navy
tactical reconnaissance
target drone
unmanned aerial vehicle
waronterror
world war i
world war ii
Because of a little disagreement over in Naval Projects, I did a bit more digging on this program and found some interesting facts that I thought merited a new topic (here for the moment, rather than Military, since the prototypes don't seem to have been built yet).
The Combatant Craft, Heavy...
Juliet Marine Systems, Inc.; issued August 10, 2011
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. --- Juliet Marine Systems, Inc. (JMS) announced today that the US Navy/USPTO have removed Secrecy Orders previously applied to GHOST. For the first time, Juliet Marine is able to release photographs of GHOST, the first...
2010s
2020s
cold war ii
general dynamics
juliet marine systems
late 2000s
optionally manned
super-cavitating
united states
united states navy
waronterror
Joe Baugher's website mentions a batch of four PZL M-38 Bryza aircraft that are used by the US Special Ops Command. Does anyone have any info about these, even possibly pictures?
Here is what the M-38 looks like in Polish guise...
air mobility command
airborne command post
albm
boeing
cold war
electronic warfare
mcdonnell douglas
military airlift command
north atlantic treaty organisation
post-cold war
strategic air command
transport aircraft
united states air force
waronterror
1990s
2000s
bae systems
early 2010s
early 21st century
late 20th century
maritime patrol aircraft
ministry of defence
nimrod 2000
nimrod mra.4
post-cold war
replacement maritime patrol aircraft
royal air force
staff requirement (air) 420
united kingdom
waronterror
I remember reading somewhere the story about too much operators for the MQ-9 or MQ-1 and that they are stearing at the monitors, if in front of the aircraft parked in the hangar walk at least a ground technician. I used the search engine without any success. Does anybody remember it and can...
1990s
2000s
defense advanced research projects agency
early 21st century
late 20th century
navair
naval air systems command
naval surface warfare center carderock division
nswc carderock division
office of naval research
post-cold war
seaplane
waronterror
wig
wing in ground
Artist's impressions from Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), now QinetiQ, of a possible Future Surface Combatant (FSC) frigate dating to 1998.
EDIT: Cutaway drawing of Future Surface Combatant removed because of larger image later in this topic.
Sources...
anti-submarine warfare
area air defence
defence evaluation and research agency
early 2000s
early 21st century
frigate
frigates
late 1990s
late 20th century
post-cold war
royal navy
united kingdom
waronterror
North American Rockwell OV-10D NOS (Night Observation Surveillance) Bronco
Source:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?65214-OV-10-Bronco-commercial-catalog-%28issue-1964%29/page2
air observation post
battlefield reconnaisance
coin aircraft
cold war
forward air control
light armed reconnaissance aircraft
north american aviation
observation aircaft
philippine air force
post-cold war
royal thai air force
special operations
tactical reconnaissance
transport aircraft
united states
united states air force
united states marine corps
united states navy
vietnam warwaronterror
20th century
21st century
cold war
cold war ii
post-cold war
united states
united states army
united states marine corps
united states navy
waronterror
Story from NTM-A (Nato Training Mission - Afghanistan)
Kabul, Afghanistan, May 15, 2010--U.S. Air Force Major Caleb Nimmo is the first American Mi-35 HIND attack helicopter pilot to fly in combat. He is deployed to Afghanistan advising the Afghan National Army Air Corps’ rotary wing squadron...
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