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The August 6, 2009 issue of CongressDaily has a story titled "Air Force urged to consider Navy F-18s" by Megan Scully. I don't know how influential this publication is for lawmakers and opinion leaders in Washington DC. This article has been discussed on other defense and aviation forums. NOTE...

Light-Attack Plane Could Save USAF Millions of Dollars Per Year Inside the Air Force, Aug. 21, 2009 -- The Air Force could save hundreds of millions of dollars each year in fuel and operation costs alone if it replaced one-and-a-half of its deployed fighter squadrons with smaller, light-attack...

From Wiki: The Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle (MMEV) was a dual-purpose short range surface-to-air and anti-tank platform intended for use by the Canadian Forces. It was based on Air Defense Anti-Tank System (ADATS) technology, and integrated onto an 8×8 wheeled LAV III. The MMEV project was...

Link: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/project-america.htm Interesting idea. Started off as cruise ships, and morphed into naval command ships.

From February 2004, BMT Defence Systems unveiled the concept of the SSGT (Ship Submersible Gas Turbine): http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-28700.html BMT white paper on the SSGT: http://www.bmtdsl.co.uk/BMT/bmt_media/bmt_media/33/2007-09-26Concept-SSGTDataSheet.pdf

It is interesting to know, that it will take probably only months and we will have a new COMMERCIAL spaceship. California based company Space-X (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation) received under NASA COTS (Commercial Orbital Transportation Services) multimillion contract to develop a...

Anyone has insight on MQ-X (next generation UAV) requirements ...

Does anyone have additional information or concept art for the Air-Dominance Cruiser, CG(X)? It sounds like it will be a replacement of the Ticonderoga-class (CG-47) and use technology developed from the Zumwalt-class project. http://peoships.crane.navy.mil/CGX/default.htm

Is the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) dead after Lockheed-Martin's USS Freedom (LCS-1) and General Dynamics/Austal USS Independence (LCS-2). The last I heard the US Navy was going to re-open bidding. Has the Navy decided to not resurrect this program or has it just not gotten around to sending its...

FAST program seeks to mature hypersonic air vehicles and space launch technologies AFRL Air Vehicles News and Accomplishments, January 2008 AFRL is teaming up with a number of aerospace industry contractors to begin ground experiments as part of the Future-responsive Access to Space...

In 2006 Nick Cook published an article in Janes, etc. describing a Lockheed project called Penetrating High Altitude Endurance (PHAE). This was described as a HALE UAV much like Polecat, Tier 3, Tier 3-, etc. etc. etc. Source: http://www.janes.com/defence/news/idr/idr060321_1_n.shtml Here's...

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/

Transporting Marines to a combat zone. The idea is simple. Implementing would be a whole other story. Personally I think that bird better have a lot of good shielding. And lets hope insurgents with Stingers aren't hanging around. Because it's going to be a bad day from everbody onboard. But I...

Hi everyone. I couldn't find anywhere outlines, sideviews of Nasa+Darpa+USAF's X-37 (with dimensions). Only 3D artistic renderics and "old" 2003-2004 pictures. Could anybody help? AG

Looks like the UK could be getting a dual mode Brimstone ASM http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2008/06/23/224861/mbdas-brimstone-missile-to-enter-raf-combat-duty-with-new.html We might actually field a new weapon capability before the USA!!! :eek: ;D

Thales Air Defence - the company that was formerly Shorts - is about to announce a new missile programme. Known as the Lightweight Multi-Role Missile, it is apparently intended to take the company beyond its traditional field of light SAM systems. Details will be officially released on 2 June.

take a look http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/unmanned-tiltro.html

Found these on www.sinodefenceforum.com http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/military-aviation-air-force/j-xx-fighter-aircraft-47-43.html Attributed to a friend of ours - anything you can tell us Deino? Cheers, Woody

Hi, Varialift is a unique heavy lift transport Airship,its carrying capacity is from one ton to 1000 tonnes. http://www.varialift.com/

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... OK six years ago right here, I had opportunity to work with some {real} Hollywood types who were helping the Army with future ideas and development of training simulations. Well they were looking for interesting ideas for future Army things and I...