The original image of the Mako looked a lot like the EADS Barracuda. I wonder if they ran into patent problems.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UUq3bU0Etc
fredymac said:The original image of the Mako looked a lot like the EADS Barracuda. I wonder if they ran into patent problems.
THE PENTAGON – The Marine Corps has refined its vision for a large sea-based unmanned aerial system (UAS) after honing in on capability gaps the Marines most urgently need to fill.
Since creating a program of record for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) UAS Expeditionary (MUX) in the summer of 2016, the service has learned much about what it really needs, what industry can provide, and how to keep the program’s cost from becoming unmanageable, Col. James Frey, the director of the Marine Corps’ Aviation Expeditionary Enablers branch, told USNI News in an April 18 interview.
MUX is meant to be a Group 5 UAS capability that launches from an amphibious ship or other ship and can land either on a flight deck or in an expeditionary airfield. This large system would supplement the Marines’ Group 3 RQ-21 Blackjack and the ongoing fielding of small quadcopters at the lowest levels of the infantry – dubbed “quads for squads.”
Though the MUX was originally given a lofty set re
fredymac said:From Lockheed twitter and Army Quad A summit. I'm assuming this is in front of the Lockheed display area.
https://twitter.com/LockheedMartin/status/989602520854138880
The Army is partnering with Uber to create safer, more lethal unmanned aerial vehicle missions.
The new effort between the Army Research Laboratory and the rideshare company, announced on Tuesday, aims to create silent rotor technology.
The goal is to reduce the noise caused by traditional UAV rotors.
“When UAVs are doing an [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] mission, they’re out there collecting or observing to collect intelligence or to do surveillance,” Jaret Riddick, director of ARL’s Vehicle Technology Directorate, told Army Times after the announcement.
That mission is hampered, however, when the adversary can hear the UAV coming, Riddick said.
“They know a certain noise in the distance means a certain type of operation is underway,” he said. “When you can do that with the advantage of not being detected … it changes how you execute a mission.”
Executive Summary
Unmanned and autonomous systems will create fundamental shifts in the way that the Department of Navy (DON) conducts naval operations. Integration of unmanned and autonomous capabilities offers many advantages such as reducing personnel and manpower, risk to personnel, and operating costs, as well as offering greater persistence and range, improved speed and accuracy of data processing, and supporting a faster decision cycle. Unmanned and autonomous technologies will become a powerful and ubiquitous force multiplier in an integrated human-machine team. The combination will provide capabilities that far exceed the effectiveness of platforms or humans alone. Employment of manned/unmanned teams and technologies will transform modem warfare, increasing asymmetric operations, leveraging the technologies to the DON’s advantage, and give the warfighter the edge to win the fight.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – The Marine Corps and Navy are preparing for a high-end fight that will require ships to be distributed across the ocean rather than clustered around an aircraft carrier, and the Marines’ future Group 5 unmanned aerial system will give them the airborne early warning capability to break free from the carrier and its E-2D Advanced Hawkeye early warning aircraft.
With the F-35B Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter now fielded, an Upgunned Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) – a typical Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) embarked on a three-ship Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), plus a couple cruisers or destroyers – is a formidable naval unit: it carries a Marine landing force, a fifth-generation stealthy fighter capability, a high-end radar paired with the Aegis Combat System, and the networking to tie them all together. The only thing missing is an airborne early warning system like the Navy’s E-2D to identify and cue surface and air threats.
hesham said:What is this ?.
fredymac said:Anti drone drone. I guess it's cheaper than shooting a missile. It uses an electronically scanned Ku band radar to find/intercept enemy drones. They must have figured out how to build them cheap.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VJ7ZMqO3xs&feature=youtu.be
Another video showing different uses for this UAV.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOh2bG2uCPU
One Marine could soon dispatch more than a dozen drones to jam enemy communications and take out targets -- all from a single handheld tablet.
The Marine Corps Warfighting Lab has successfully tested the ability to have a single Marine operate six drones in the air simultaneously. The goal is to get that up to 15 and to see the small unmanned systems stay in the air for hours at a time.
"What we're looking at is ... minimal operator burden so [a Marine's] face isn't down in a tablet," said Capt. Matt Cornachio, a fires project officer with the Warfighting Lab's science and technology division. "It's sort of having the machines do the work for you, so you give them intent and they operate."
Whatever happened to this technology?
What an abysmal set of skeet targets, an embarrassment to US manufacturing prowess.One UAV is called Arcturus the same name as Hank Scorpio’s plan to take over the east coast
Army chooses five brigades to test Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System | InsideDefense.com
The Army will begin testing prototypes of the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System with five brigade combat teams next April.insidedefense.com
Anduril “The Flame of the West” company
Palmer Lucky starting to follow this guy