And all the experts were saying it would be years before they could do anything with it when it was delivered to the Navy on September 25th. It looks like the Chinese are serious about putting it in operation as soon as they possibly can. China Lands First Jet on Its Aircraft Carrier | Military.com.
A group of aeromedical specialists saw problems with the oxygenation of pilots in the F-22 and came up with a package of fixes for it. The fix per aircraft would have been $100,000 but the costs were deemed too high and the group was disbanded in 2007. Air Force Insiders Foresaw F-22 Woes | Military.com.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force received a brutal wake-up call when 15 insurgents broke through the wire at Bastion at about 22:00 local time. Dressed in US combat fatigues and armed with automatic rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and suicide vests, they launched “a well-coordinated attack,” it says. Once on the base, the raiders attacked the Read more about Camp Bastion attack shocks ISAF, destroys 6 AV8B Harriers[…]
A group of researchers led by Professor Todd Humphreys from the University of Texas at Austin Radionavigation Laboratory recently succeeded in raising the eyebrows of the US government. With just around $1,000 in parts, Humphreys’ team took control of an unmanned aerial vehicle operated by the US Department of Homeland Security. They used the same Read more about $1000,- to hack US UAVs and control them[…]
Using lasers, they guide lightning to their targets: “For very powerful and high intensity laser pulses, the air can act like a lens, keeping the light in a small-diameter filament,” said Fischer. “We use an ultra-short-pulse laser of modest energy to make a laser beam so intense that it focuses on itself in air and Read more about Guided lighting weapons[…]
The boat is 39 feet long and can reach a top speed of 28 knots. Using a modified version of the unmanned Shadow surveillance aircraft technology that logged 700,000 hours of duty in the Middle East, the boat can be controlled remotely from 10 to 12 miles away from a command station on land, at Read more about Common Unmanned Surface Vessel for Navy[…]
Melville ten Cate of ECA, housed in Schiphol, claims to have secured EUR 283 million to finance the business plan I have been harping on about for the last 25 years: he wants to buy 24 light combat aircraft to start an Integrated Opposing Force (IOPFOR) which will be used as an agressor training service Read more about ECA secures funds for NATO aggressor aircraft purchase – they say[…]
It looks awesome! Boeing shows off new Super Hornet display – The DEW Line.
The Joint Forces Command has been established to ensure that a range of vital military capabilities, functions and organisations – such as medical services, training and education, intelligence, and cyber – are organised and managed effectively and efficiently to support success on operations. On 2 April 2012, the following organisations transferred to the Joint Forces Read more about New UK Joint Forces Command established[…]
This technique by Intelligent Textiles has been developed for military purposes, but can obviously have benefits for everyone. Using a central battery pack, wiring is woven in such a way that it can charge several items at once. “One of the problems with conventional cables is that breakages can be catastrophic. What we do here Read more about Charge devices using your clothes[…]
Because of all the problems associated with carrying firearms or other weaponry into ports, private security firms convert barges into floating armories in international waters where no one will bother them. APNewsBreak: Piracy Fighters Use Floating Armories : NPR.
The gun forms vortex rings by forcing air or some other gas at high velocity down the gun’s cylinder. The ring forms when the friction of the cylinder wall causes a thin layer of the gas to roll forward on itself like a donut. Imagine a tornado formed into a donut shape. The ring revolves Read more about Vortex Ring Gun fires gas at 90 mph[…]
The EM Railgun launcher is a long-range weapon that fires projectiles using electricity instead of chemical propellants. Magnetic fields created by high electrical currents accelerate a sliding metal conductor, or armature, between two rails to launch projectiles at 4,500 mph to 5,600 mph. via With a bang, Navy begins tests on electromagnetic railgun prototype launcher.
“The GPS navigation is the weakest point,” the Iranian engineer told the Monitor, giving the most detailed description yet published of Iran’s “electronic ambush” of the highly classified US drone. “By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot. This is where the bird loses its brain.” The “spoofing” technique that Read more about Iran used GPS spoofing to hijack US UAV and force it to land[…]
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer – CSMonitor.com.
Follow Your Heart: Darpa’s Quest to Find You by Your Heartbeat | Danger Room | Wired.com.
the U.S. can’t track or fully account for 5,900 pounds of “weapons usable” nuclear material that it once shipped overseas. Instead, U.S. officials have to rely on foreign governments’ assurances that the potentially cataclysmic stuff is safe. And when those officials occasionally visit the sites holding the nuclear material, nearly half the places “did not Read more about U.S. Can’t Track Tons of Weapons-Grade Uranium, Plutonium[…]
Developed by BAE Systems, the Adaptiv technology allows vehicles to mimic the temperature of their surroundings. It can also make a tank look like other objects, such as a cow or car, when seen through heat-sensitive ‘scopes. Researchers are looking at ways to make it work with other wavelengths of light to confer true invisibility. Read more about IR invisibility cloak for tanks[…]
The graphs in the link below show how much each aircraft type costs to operate per hour over the last 10 years. EXCLUSIVE: US Air Force combat fleet’s true operational costs revealed – The DEW Line.
The Air Force’s fleet of F-22 super-jets has been grounded for more than two months now, but service officials had no details Friday about when the F-22s may fly again or even when engineers could finish the investigation into the fighters’ onboard oxygen systems. via DoD Buzz AF: No word when F-22s could fly again. Read more about USAF F-22 Fleet grounded[…]
On May 12, the Visegrad Group (Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary) announced the formation of a “battlegroup” under the command of Poland. The battlegroup would be in place by 2016 as an independent force and would not be part of NATO command. In addition, starting in 2013, the four countries would begin military Read more about Visegrad: A New European Military Force[…]
How do you steal 15 tonnes of aircraft engines from an Israeli military base?! ‘Stolen’ F100 engine caper at Israeli base – The DEW Line.
The collections contained within the Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library are largely composed of digital versions of paper documents from the Combined Arms Research Library collections and student papers produced at the US Army Command and General Staff College. We have recently partnered with several Army educational and historical organizations whose collections appear here Read more about Combined Arms Research Library CARL Digital Library[…]
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More than 200 military pilots escaped to another country for freedom ….or gold!During the period of the Cold War more than 200 military pilots decided to make an instant change in the course of their lives by defecting with their aircraft to another country. These pages are a research effort to tell the history of Read more about MiG pilot defectors during the cold war[…]