The United States Air Force’s new revolutionary wide-area airborne surveillance system named “Gorgon Stare,” designed and developed by Sierra Nevada Corp., and the USAF’s 645th Aeronautical Systems Group was deployed to Afghanistan this winter. This revolutionary system, which operates day and night, allows its users to overcome the “soda straw” view that the current conventional […]
XM-25 Individual Airburst Weapon System
The Army is planning on sending its much-anticipated high-tech, highly secret XM-25 Individual Airburst Weapon System (IAWS) to the warzone in the next few months. The IAWS provides the soldier with a 300% to 500% increase in hit probability to defeat point, area, and defilade targets out to 500 meters. The XM-25 is a smart […]
57-mm Mk 110 Mod 0 Naval Gun System
The 57-mm Mk 110 Naval Gun system from BAE Systems is a multi-mission capable medium-caliber shipboard weapon that has been selected for the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter and the Offshore Patrol Cutter and is also baselined by the U.S. Navy for its Littoral Combat Ship Flight 0 and the Close-in Gun System for […]
The Dillon M134D Gatling Gun
The Dillon M134D Gatling Gun is the finest small caliber, defense suppression weapon available. It is a six barreled, electrically driven machine gun chambered in 7.62mm NATO and fires at a fixed rate of 3,000 shots per minute. Gatling Guns typically feed from a 3,000 or 4,400 round magazine. They are capable of long periods […]
GBU-43 “Mother Of All Bombs”
The GBU-43/B is large, powerful and accurately delivered. high explosive. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb [MOAB] weapon is a 21,000 lbs total weight GPS-guided munition with fins and inertial gyro for pitch and roll control. It is probable that this munition was initially nick-named the “Mother Of All Bombs” with the retronymic expansion […]
Top 10 Disaster Currencies
In a world threatened by EMP attacks, dirty bombs, the threat of social unrest, hyperinflation, or even severe weather, it always pays to be prepared. In times of disaster, paper money can become worthless. Below I have outlined the top 10 Disaster Currencies, a group of valuable, portable, tradable money replacements you could use to […]
High-Tech “SFW” Bomb Destroys Tank Column In Debut
By Senior Airman Ryan Hansen Air Armament Center Public Affairs As the smoke begins to clear on Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Department of Defense continues to collect data on how well the U.S. military, and its arsenal of weapons, performed during combat operations. One weapon the DoD does not have to research is the CBU-105, […]
Husky vs. I.E.D’s
The below is from CSI – Critical Solutions International To date the U.S. Army has acquired in excess of 250 Vehicle Mounted Mine Detection (VMMD) Systems (in excess of 500 vehicles) and is in the process of purchasing additional systems to support Coalition Forces Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now the USMC and the Canadian […]
Taliban Snipers Beware
Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has linked its Boomerang acoustic sensor and network-ready Long Range Advanced Scout Surveillance System to provide an enhanced counter sniper solution for the warfighter. “Connecting Boomerang and netted LRAS3 is a plug-and-play operation that results in a powerful counter sniper capability,” said Glynn Raymer, vice president, Raytheon Network Centric Systems Combat […]
‘Victory’ in Iraq
You and I know that there really isn’t anything to celebrate come Tuesday night when President Obama is expected to claim “victory” in Iraq during his primetime oval office address. A couple of questions come to mind: Will he even mention President Bush? And will he discuss the overwhelming strain on our men and woman serving our country for […]