"Computer animation of DARPA's Rapid Eye UAV, to be rocket-deployed anywhere in the world in 1-2 hours"
Harrier is a single engine "jump-jet" fighter-bomber designed to fly from combat areas and aircraft carriers to support ground forces.
Video Ria Novosti Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system data sheet and pictures http://www.armyrecognition.com/russia... video Ria Novosti
The S-400 Triumph, seen by the Russian army as the best anti-aircraft missile system, has been adopted by the army. The first two systems have entered combat duty at the regiment base of the Military Space Defense joint command in Elektrostal, the Moscow Region.
"How would you like to just walk onto a NATO air base where nuclear weapons are stored, walk on the runway, and even get inside the blast door of a protective aircraft shelter, all without getting caught (that is, until you walk up to the guards)"
"The Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker-D is a carrier based multi role fighter aircraft produced by Russian firm Sukhoi. The Su-33 can operate from aircraft carriers, high thrust vectoring, long range radar anti-stealth IRBIS and is capable of aerial refueling"
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This carrier is 90,000 tons.
We can only imagine what the ride is like on a 2,200 ton destroyer!
The aircraft seen in the attached video is a helo from a deployed helicopter squadron (HS-14) based at the U.S. Naval Air Facility in Atsugi, Japan.
The carrier is the USS Kitty Hawk, based in Yokosuka, Japan. The 'Hawk' was underway for CQ (Air wing Carrier Qualifications) in the Sea of Japan during the week of March 22, 2008.
The chopper seen on the ship's bow, tied down at helo Spot 2, is a Sikorsky SH-60F from HS-14. The pilot had just landed on deck, and his helo was tied down on Spot 2 because the seas were too rough to move it to a safer place. Fortunately, it only suffered some minor damage (blade crutch support socket) and a lot of salt water intrusion from the sea.
While viewing the video and estimating the size of the waves, keep in mind that the carrier's flight deck is approximately 60 feet above the ship's normal water line.
From YouTube:
"Aurora Flight Sciences video of the first flight of its Excalibur experimental vertical takeoff and landing unmanned aircraft. The 13ft-long UAV is powered by a tilting jet engine and three battery-powered lift fans. The aircraft made its first hover flight, lasting just under 2min, at Aberdeen proving Gorund in maryland on June 24. Excalibur is a proof-of-principle testbed for a 400kt VTOL unmanned combat aircraft. (This is a slightly different version of the video previously uploaded - my apologies.) For more info on Excalibur, visit www.aviationweek.com"
Video on the F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Strike Fighter.
Courtesy of Military Channel
A documentary taken from the Military Discovery Channel about the MV-22 Osprey. This aircraft replaced the CH-46 helicopters and flies both like a plane and land like a helicopter. Used by the Marines in Iraq.
Lets discuss military tactics:
The U.S, Russia, China have very large populations and U.S was economically more powerful. Lets talk about outlining some of the best military wars in the country. What made the nation's best army strong in most wars?
Was it
- better tactics, better training or higher quality soldiers (and what it means to be that), better army discipline, better command structure and better weaponary, aircraft etc
What do you think, and how does one nation compare to another?
New exoskeleton dubbed the HULC (Hydraulic Powered Anthropopmorhic Exoskeleton) has been developed through a partnership between Lockheed Martin, the giant aircraft maker company and Berkeley Bionics, a leader in exoskeleton technologies.
This provides soldiers with the ability to carry loads up to 200 lbs for extended periods of time and over all terrains. It is battery powered and currently only marketed to the military.
<a href="http://www.lockheedmartin.com/products/hulc/" target="blank">Read Press Release Here</a>
<a href="http://www.lockheedmartin.com/how/" target="blank">Lockheed Martin</a>
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Everything yellow is an aircraft...
It displays a 24 hour record of all of the large aircraft flights in the world, condensed down to about two minutes. From space it looks like a bee hive of activity. You can tell it was summer time in the northern hemisphere by the sun's footprint on the planet. (Lots of sun in Alaska.)
The traffic is predominantly from the US to Europe and when daylight comes, then the traffic switches and it is predominantly from Europe to the US .
PALMDALE, Calif. — The Navy’s plan for its future carrier air wing took a leap into autonomous flight on Tuesday with the unveiling here of a stealthy, bat wing-like unmanned jet.
Dubbed Air Vehicle 1, the X-47B aircraft is the first of what will be two demonstration aircraft built by Northrop Grumman Corp. It was designed to test the idea of an autonomous airplane that would launch and recover on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers and conduct strike and other missions — without the hands-on controls of an onboard pilot.
The X-47B unmanned jet, the first to launch and recover aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, would strike targets and do aerial reconnaissance, surveillance and time-sensitive targeting -- all without a pilot aboard. Officials unveiled the single-jet, cockpit-less aircraft, one of two known as Unmanned Combat Air Systems-Demonstration, or UCAS-D, during a Tuesday ceremony at Northrop
Hundreds of workers joined military and company officials in a hangar at Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale site for the official “unveiling” ceremony, where guests got a close-up look at an aircraft — the Unmanned Combat Air System-Demonstration, or UCAS-D — that only two months ago wasn’t yet assembled.
The X-47B’s bat wing shape takes a page from the Air Force’s B-2 stealth bomber, which Northrop Grumman designed and built, then in secret, at this desert location north of Los Angeles.
“This will be the airplane we’ll be flying next year,” Scott Winship, UCAS program manager and Northrop Grumman vice president, told reporters before the ceremony.
Engineers will put the aircraft through a series of proof tests here and at nearby Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., and will conduct its first flight before the aircraft heads east to Patuxent River, Md., in November 2009 for a year of additional testing and the official “roll out” ceremony. “We’ve still got a long way to go,” said Gene Fraser, deputy vice president for Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Systems-Western Region.
That includes the important shipboard trials, which will test the aircraft in the harsher, less forgiving and busy environment of a carrier in the open ocean. Program officials plan to conduct sea trials and the first flight aboard an aircraft carrier in November 2011, an event set to mark the 100th anniversary of naval aviation. The aircraft carrier Truman will likely get the nod as the first to host and operate the aircraft at sea, said Capt. Martin Deppe, the Navy’s UCAS program manager.
Winship said the advent of the aircraft “signals a sea change in military aviation.”
The carrier-based aircraft will provide commanders with an airplane that can be launched farther at sea, and without a pilot, the aircraft can fly distant missions and loiter over a target or combat zone much longer than what a human pilot and aircrew can safely do.
“This airplane is flying alone,” Deppe noted.
Officials said the X-47B was designed for autonomous aerial refueling by both naval tankers, which use the probe and drogue system, and Air Force tankers, which refuel with a boom and receptacle.
Northrop Grumman, which last year won the Navy’s $635.8 million contract to build the two X-47B aircraft, leads an industry team building the single-engine aircraft, which is designed with landing gear and an arresting hook for carrier catapults and launches and foldable wings for easier stowage.
The jet’s twin weapons bays will hold a pair of 2,000-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions, or guided bombs, for strike missions,
But it also will be outfitted with various systems and sensors that would expand its capabilities to include time-sensitive targeting and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
Navy officials hope to ultimately outfit and deploy the first unmanned combat squadron by 2025, when the unmanned airplanes would operate from carrier flight decks alongside the Joint Strike Fighter jets.
PHOTO COURTESY NORTHROP GRUMMAN
What the Russian Takeoff Check List says::
1. Accelerate to Vr(rotation speed)
2. Raise nose of aircraft slightly
3. Wait until Rate of Climb Indicator goes positive
4. Wait for 3 more seconds, just to be sure
5. Then, and ONLY THEN, retract the landing gear
It's a long walk back to the ready-room!
At 2 in the morning, on August 2, 1990, Saddam Hussein's Army launched a surprise attack into Kuwait. The attack was led by four Iraqi Republican Guard Divisions and Iraqi Special Forces. A wave of Russian made helicopter gunships and several squadrons of fighter aircraft and close support aircraft helped pave the way for the Iraqi ground forces.
The Kuwaiti Army was unprepared and taken by surprise. A short air battle ensued between Kuwaiti and Iraqi forces, but the Iraqis soon dominated the air and ground.
Iraqi tanks attacked soon attacked Dasman Palace, the Kuwaiti royal residence. The Emir of Kuwait, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah fled into the Saudi desert, but his private guard and his younger half brother, Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, stayed behind to defend their home. Sheikh Al-Sabah was shot and killed and his body was placed in front of an Iraqi tank and run over. By early afternoon on August 2, 1990, Iraqi troops controlled most of Kuwait City centre. Heavy fighting continued into the evening at Shuwaikh, the main Kuwaiti Army barracks north of Kuwait City, but the battle for Iraq was largely over with the Iraqis the victors. Iraqi forces also landed on Bubiyan and Warba islands. Early reports suggested that between 100 and 200 people were killed during the invasion,
Kuwaitis were stunned by the invasion. Some attempted to escape to Saudi Arabia but with Iraqi tanks controlling the roads, most were forced to remain in Kuwait.
The brutal occupation of Kuwait by the Iraqi Army had just begun. 1,082 Kuwaiti civilians were murdered by Saddam's Army during the occupation. Having served in Kuwait, I know the Kuwaitis who lived through the terrible occupation will never forget.
It would not be until February 27, 1991 that Coalition forces would reenter Kuwait City and liberate the city while the U.S. 1st Armored Division fought battle of Medina Ridge and destroyed much of the Iraqi Republican Guard in Iraq.
A C-17 Globemaster III aircraft deployed from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J., taxies after landing on Joint Base Balad, Iraq, Oct. 31, 2008, following a recent rainfall. U.S. Airmen from the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron are pumping floodwaters left behind by the storm out of living areas and are building retention ponds to minimize mosquito outbreaks caused by the stagnant water. DoD photo by Airman 1st Class Jason Epley, U.S. Air Force/Released)
A U.S. Air Force KC-10 Extender aircraft from the 908th Expeditionary Aerial Refueling Squadron refuels a Belgian F-16A Fighting Falcon aircraft over Afghanistan Nov. 12, 2008. (DoD photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon, U.S. Air Force/Released)
U.S. Sailors man the rails as the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) arrives in its homeport of Everett, Wash., Oct. 12, 2008, following a seven-month deployment to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class N. Brett Norton/Released)
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Michael Holley, an F-15E Eagle aircraft crew chief assigned to the 4th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron out of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., inspects his aircraft's cockpit after a two-hour sortie during exercise Red Flag on Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Oct. 24, 2008. Red Flag is a multinational exercise providing a realistic environment to practice combat scenarios. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr./Released)