Cool Stuff - Military Tech in Action
Military Tech in Action
One Big Gun
June 23: Fire Controlman 2nd Class Caleb Johnson, from Paragould, Ark., performs maintenance on the Close-In Weapons System aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) before a gun firing exercise. Sterett is underway off the coast of Southern California conducting weapons testing in preparation for an upcoming deployment.
Eye in the Sky
June 14: Northrop Grumman is developing a new hybrid airship, larger than a football field, that should soar in just 18 months. It's mission: to provide an unblinking, persistent eye for more than three weeks at a time to aid U.S. Army troops in Afghanistan. The price tag of the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV): a half-billion dollars.
USS Freedom
The navy's new high-tech, "littoral" combat ship USS Freedom conducts joint counter-illicit trafficking operations with the guided-missile frigate USS McInerney (FFG 8) in the U.S. 4th Fleet area of responsibility. The ship is the Navy's stealth newest craft, the 'USS Freedom'. This Littoral Combat ship is one of two designs being considered by the Navy, with the task of getting closer to shore, even faster, as the military fights the War on Terror and the War on Drugs.
Target Practice (Painting the target)
May 21: Soldiers fire .50-caliber machine gun rounds at the base of a training target to indicate to nearby helicopters where to fire their rockets during partnered aerial-ground integration training between U.S. and Iraqi forces on Al Asad Air Base, Iraq. The Soldiers are assigned to the 558th Military Police Company.
WaveRider
May 26: An X-51A Waverider successfully launched from a B-52 Stratofortress. The Rocketdyne-built air breathing scramjet engine accelerated the vehicle to Mach 6. It was the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight to date.
Showing Off MANPADS
April 14: Pfc. Trevor Gaston, a soldier with the 2nd Battalion, 263rd Air Defense Artillery, demonstrates an FIM-92 Stinger MANPADS (Man-Portable Air-Defense System) at Bolling Air Force Base.
Much more cool stuff here:
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