Military News
Pics of the Day: On a Boat!
Friday, May 18th, 2012
So remember how Chief of Naval Operations Adm. jonathan Greenert announced in March that he was sending four Avenger-class minesweepers (technically they’re called mine countermeasures ships) to the Persian Gulf, just to “be sure … that we are ready” in case Iran tried anything weird aimed at cutting off a massive quantity of the world’s [...]
Picatinny engineer pursues improved hand grenade
Friday, May 18th, 2012
As far as the design of the basic hand grenade goes, essentially it has been frozen in time. The first pull-pin design with a lever and delayed fuze dates back to May 1915 and is often referred to as the grandfather to the current variation. “The basic technology is almost 100 years old,” said Richard [...]
DR Congo army shells mutineers
Friday, May 18th, 2012
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s military on Thursday shelled positions it believed were held by mutineers who have been fighting the army in the country’s east, a military source said. The army fired heavy artillery from tanks into the hills of Mbuzi and Tchanzu in Nord-Kivu province and received no return fire, the source said. [...]
India to test launch Akash anti-aircraft missile this week
Friday, May 18th, 2012
The Indian Army is planning to test launch the indigenously developed medium-range, surface-to-air anti-aircraft missile, Akash from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur, Orissa on 20 May 2012.
ECBC and SAIC join forces to develop tactical garbage refinery for US Army
Friday, May 18th, 2012
The US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center (ECBC) has signed a cooperative research and development agreement with SAIC to develop the tactical garbage to energy refinery (TGER) 2.0 system for the US Army.
Akash Surface-to-Air Missile System
Friday, May 18th, 2012
The Akash (sky) is an all-weather medium-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) system developed in India. It provides multidirectional and multitarget area defence.
Northrop conducts target location module demonstration
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated the capabilities of its newly developed target location module (TLM) during testing, in support of the US Army’s stockpile reliability test (SRT) programme at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, US.
China’s Second Stealth Fighter Flies
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
China’s second J-20 stealth fighter has officially taken to the skies, making China the third nation after the United States and Russia to operate multiple stealth aircraft (to be fair, only the U.S. has an operational fleet of stealth jets, China and Russia have only two prototypes apiece).
China’s Second Stealth Fighter Flies
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
China’s second J-20 stealth fighter has officially taken to the skies, making China the third nation after the United States and Russia to operate multiple stealth aircraft (to be fair, only the U.S. has an operational fleet of stealth jets, China and Russia have only two prototypes apiece).
Systematic Brings Real C2 to Training and Simulation
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
Systematic is supporting Cranfield University’s Simulation and Synthetic Environment Laboratory (SSEL) at The Defence Academy of the UK at Shrivenham where an interactive ISTAR demonstrator rig is being developed for the Defence Capability Centre (DC…