As you have surely heard, Osama bin Laden was terminated on May 1st. The operation that killed him was known as Operation Neptune Spear, and the elite Navy SEAL team responsible for this absolute success was the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DevGru, a.k.a. SEAL Team Six). DevGru was ferried into Pakistan by the U.S. […]
XM1100 Scorpion: Intelligent Munitions System (IMS)
Textron Defense Systems’ Scorpion is ideally suited for a full spectrum of operations — including major contingency and stability operations — in open, rolling and urban environments. Scorpion enables the war fighter to rapidly secure a small unit perimeter or deny mounted avenues of approach. It attacks all types of vehicles from concealed, off-route locations […]
Free Electron Laser (FEL) program: U.S. Counters China’s DF-21D
By Rob Anastasio, ONR Corporate Strategic Communications ARLINGTON, Va.-Scientists at Los Alamos National Lab, N.M., have achieved a remarkable breakthrough with the Office of Naval Research’s Free Electron Laser (FEL) program, demonstrating an injector capable of producing the electrons needed to generate megawatt-class laser beams for the Navy’s next-generation weapon system. The Dec. 20 milestone, which […]
Air Force Unleashes ‘Gorgon Stare’
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Secretive X-37B Space Plane Disappears
US military’s top secret X-37B shuttle ‘disappears’ for two weeks, changes orbit. By Peter Farquhar, Technology Editor | August 25, 2010 AMATEUR astronomers are enjoying a cat-and-mouse game with the US military in keeping track of its secret space plane, the X-37B. The X-37B was launched in April amid much publicity, but scant detail about […]
New Raytheon Laser Weapon System Knocks Drone Out of the Sky
At the Farnborough air show a new laser weapons system was announced that can knock drones out of the sky. The Raytheon Laser Weapons System easily dispatched four drones in tests off the coast of California. The implications are enormous, as drones are an ever increasing part of world militaries. It would be interesting to […]
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