Watch the Future Carrier USS Kennedy Get Its Island. This Is The Tank North Korea Fears It Might Someday Have to Fight. The South Korean army has peculiar needs. For one, just across the Demilitarized Zone, North Korea possesses one of the largest tank armies in the world. In this cauldron of densely packed military forces, both sides share a peninsula that is also very mountainous. During the Korean War, many battles were fought in places such as the Punchbowl, Pork Chop Hill, Old Baldy, Bloody Ridge and Heartbreak Ridge, just to name a few. Any weapon built specifically to exploit the peninsula’s terrain would have an edge.
So, when South Korea produced its first domestically designed tank, Seoul took the mountainous terrain into full account. South Korea started to think about modern main battle tanks in the late ’70s when North Korea began fielding T-62s with 115-millimeter guns — outmatching Seoul’s M-48 Pattons and their 90-millimeter guns. Thus, the United States gave South Korea permission to domestically assemble a modified Abrams tank termed the K1. The result was the K2 Black Panther. Did a Russian-Built Stealth Sub 'Sink' a U.S. Nuclear Attack Submarine Two Years Ago? Nonetheless, it’s not a huge surprise that a Russian-built Kilo would be able to defeat a Los Angeles-class attack boat. The Los Angeles-class is a dated design that is slowly being replaced by the newer and exponentially quieter Virginia-class submarine. However, it must be noted that we do not know the rules of engagement or parameters that the sides had agreed to.
Furthermore, it must be noted there is the possibility of exaggeration. But the basic facts are that the Kilo is an extremely quiet and very capable submarine owing to its diesel-electric propulsion system. Is it possible that one of New Delhi’s Russian-built Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarines managed to “sink” a nuclear-powered U.S. The Indian submarine INS Sindhudhvaj (S56) allegedly “killed” USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) during an exercise called Malabar that is held annually between India, Japan and the United States.
While diesel-electric boats are generally quieter than nuclear submarines, the U.S. FOIA Sourcing: The Development of KINGFISHER and the Origins of Electromagnetic Surveillance. The May 25, 1953, GRABLE test, one of the last tests completed for Operation Upshot-Knothole In 1947, the National Bureau of Standards was developing the KINGFISHER weapons series. Initially conceptualized by the Department of the Navy, these were radar-controlled, subsonic, self-housing, airborne-guided missiles designed to combat floating targets that became a major research and development project after World War II. In 1954, the Bureau was studying the electromagnetic measurements conducted by the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory during Operation Upshot-Knothole, a series of eleven nuclear test shots conducted in 1953 at the Nevada Test Site. The objective of the Bureau’s research was to obtain information for the development of an automatic, continuously-operating electromagnetic surveillance system capable of detecting pulses from atomic weapons detonated in “suspect areas,” which, if successful, would provide the earliest and most accurate detonation times.
Like this: CHAMP missile test flight knocks out electronic devices with a burst of energy. Artist's impression of the CHAMP missile Image Gallery (7 images) This week, science fiction became science fact as a Boeing CHAMP missile knocked out a building full of electronics in the Utah desert at Hill Air Force Base. There was no explosion and no flying shrapnel. There was only the sound of the missile’s engine as it flew overhead and the sputtering of sophisticated computers crashing as they were hit by a beam of high-energy microwaves. View all CHAMP, which stand for Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project, is a cruise missile that replaces an explosive weapon with a sort of “death ray” for electronics.
The difference is that where an EMP weapon uses a nuclear warhead or an explosive shot through a wire coil to generate a pulse over an area, the Boeing CHAMP missile aims a precise beam of high-energy microwaves at a target, or multiple targets, as it flies over. The military advantages of such a weapon are obvious. Source: Boeing About the Author. OKC-3S bayonet. The OKC-3S is a bayonet developed by the United States Marine Corps to replace the M7 bayonet as its service bayonet for the M16 family of rifles.
This multi-purpose bayonet provides greater durability than the M7 and also functions as a fighting knife. History[edit] The OKC-3S is part of a series of weapon improvements begun in 2001 by Commandant of the Marine Corps James L. Jones to expand and toughen hand-to-hand combat training for Marines, including training in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program and knife fighting. After the decision to use the Multi-Purpose Bayonet was made in December 2002, 33 different knives were evaluated. The OKC-3S was chosen as it performed best, or next to best, in nearly all testing categories.
Production and distribution began in 2003. Design[edit] Marines at bayonet practice See also[edit] References[edit] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Marine Corps. Boeing JDAM-ER munition completes first round of tests. Boeing has completed the first round of tests of the latest variant of its precision bomb kit, the Joint Direct Attack Munition-Extended Range (JDAM-ER). Developed in partnership with the Australian government, the winged bomb kit finished its first wind tunnel tests in the United States and is one step closer to production and entering service with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
If you watch old newsreels of Second World War bombing raids, they usually include planes dropping bombs by the bushel. The irony is that most of the time all those explosives aren’t being dropped to destroy everything in sight, but in hopes of hitting anything at all. That’s because the bombs in those grainy black and white films were “dumb” bombs that fell wherever gravity and the wind carried them. No matter how good the bombsight used to put them on target, hitting it was largely a matter of luck.
Boeing’s JDAM-Extended Range (JDAM-ER) is the latest variant. Source: Boeing. A Steal at $10 Billion - By Jeffrey Lewis. The Bomb. You know exactly what I mean, right? Funny thing is, most of them aren't "bombs" at all. Of the 5,000 or so nuclear weapons in the U.S. stockpile as of 2010, probably less than a third are "bombs" in the sense of things one might drop from an airplane. The United States has just two "bomb" designs in the arsenal: the B83 and B61. There is now a furious debate about whether the United States needs to modernize the B61, which dates to Lyndon B.
In the current budgetary environment, costing more than your weight in gold is not a happy place. Since the early 1960s, the United States has produced 11 variants of the B61 (formally called "mods" for "modifications"), plus two missile warheads based on the same design. Consolidating four modifications into a streamlined bomb is a pretty ambitious work plan. Then, NNSA decided to make even more changes. Why did the NNSA propose so many changes? All this brings us back to the question of whether the B61 is worth it. Wikicommons. Star Trek-Style Force-Field Armor Being Developed by British Military. The new type of armour will use pulses of electrical energy to repel rockets, shrapnel and other ammunition that might damage a vehicle.Researchers at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), which is the research and development arm of the Ministry of Defence, claim it is possible to incorporate material known as supercapacitors into armour of a vehicle to turn it into a kind of giant battery.When a threat from incoming fire is detected by the vehicle, the energy stored in the supercapacitor can be rapidly dumped onto the metal plating on the outside of the vehicle, producing a strong electromagnetic field.Scientists behind the project claim this would produce a momentary “force field” capable of repelling the incoming rounds and projectiles.Although it would last for only a fraction of a second, if timed correctly it could prevent rocket propelled grenades, which detonate on impact, from reaching their target.
Pyros Small Tactical Munition hits bulls-eye in field testing. Raytheon's new Pyros small tactical munition has passed an end-to-end live test with flying colors. The Pyros was dropped from a Cobra unmanned air vehicle (UAV) to demonstrate the glide bomb's semi-active laser and GPS guidance modes, its height-of-burst sensor for standoff detonation above a target, its electronic safe and arm device, and the new five pound NammoTalley multi-effects warhead. View all The conditions of the test were intended to closely approximate those which typically occur during current "contingency operations" (read special-ops).
The scenario was that insurgents were in the process of planting an improvised explosive device. The Pyros was guided to dead center of the target, and then detonated at a preset height over the target to permanently terminate the threat. Pyros small tactical munition being mounted on the drop rail of a Cobra UAV A Cobra UAV stands ready to deliver the Pyros Small Tactical Munition mounted on its drop rail Source: Raytheon Missile Systems. Military leaders urgently push for new counterterrorism software. A U.S. military command has sent an urgent request to the Pentagon to fund counterterrorism intelligence computer software for special operations troops globally, including the Palantir analytical system. Palantir is at the center of two investigations in Washington. Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican, has accused the Army of making it difficult for conventional soldiers in Afghanistan to buy Palantir off the shelf because the Pentagon is protecting its own system.
The Aug. 17 request memo comes from U.S. The memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times, talks of plans to purchase an application named Lighthouse. Commanders in Afghanistan have raved about Palantir’s ability to point them at enemy combatants who build and bury homemade bombs, the biggest killer of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “Palantir supports distributed data ingestion, manipulation and storage, useful for the analysis of Lighthouse data,” says the memo, signed by Konrad J. Mr. U.S. Military Sends A Few More Of Those Things Over To Afghanistan To Replace Dead Ones. WASHINGTON—In the wake of the news that 2,000 of its things have now died in Afghanistan, U.S. military officials announced Monday that it will be sending some additional things to replace the dead ones. “A bunch of those things are dead or don’t work anymore, so we need to send over a bunch more,” said U.S.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, adding that while the military sent a bunch of new things in 2010, a good amount of them either died or were broken. “We’ve got tons of things just sitting around in Texas and Florida, so we’re going to send some of those.” “We actually have a whole load of some used, pretty-beat-up-things that were sent back from Afghanistan a few months ago, so we’ll probably ship them over, too” Panetta continued. “They’re not in perfect condition or anything, but in a pinch they’ll do the trick.” Since 2001, the U.S. has sent more than 90,000 things to Afghanistan, with over one thousand of them destroyed in the last 27 months alone. Nightmarish Weapon Of The Future: DARPA’s Robot Worm.