2010s

Joe Baugher's website mentions a batch of four PZL M-38 Bryza aircraft that are used by the US Special Ops Command. Does anyone have any info about these, even possibly pictures? Here is what the M-38 looks like in Polish guise...

Indonesia launches fast missile-carrier by Staff Writers Jakarta (UPI) Apr 29, 2011 Indonesia has launched the indigenously built fast missile-carrying ship the KCR Clurit amid hopes that other Indonesian-made vessels will help the country's defense industry. "With it, Indonesia has started...

SecNav Posits Drone Ships Fueled by Sediment At a breakfast meeting with DC-based defense reporters today, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus (now clearly not in contention to be SecDef) sketched a future force of unmanned ships pulling power from the sea floor. Office of Naval Research just did...

From Defensetech.org: A New Breed of Guided Missile Sub May Be Emerging In case you haven’t seen this, submarine maker Electric Boat is pitching the idea of building a stretched Virginia class attack sub capable of carrying up to 194 Tomahawk cruise missiles. Basically, a 90-foot plug would be...

https://actuv.darpa.mil/ From the site : DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare game goes live April 04, 2011 Can you best an enemy submarine commander so he can’t escape into the ocean depths? If you think you can, you are invited to put yourself into the virtual driver’s seat of one of several...

SpaceX Announces Launch Date for the World's Most Powerful Rocket Falcon Heavy will lift more than twice as much as any other launch vehicle WASHINGTON – Today, Elon Musk, CEO and chief rocket designer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) unveiled the dramatic final specifications and...

British Trident Subs to Field Enhanced U.S.-Made Warheads Monday, April 4, 2011 The United Kingdom's nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines are to receive an enhanced version of a U.S.-manufactured nuclear warhead, the Federation of American Scientists said on Friday (see GSN, Feb. 7)...

Boeing's 747-8 Intercontinental making its first flight today (3/20/2011). This is Boeing's largest ever airliner. This image is of a high-speed taxi test on 3/18/2011. I'll post flight photos when they are available. -SP

From www.army.mil PICATINNY ARSENAL, N.J. -- During a firefight, the last thing a machine gunner wants to do is stop fighting to change barrels, but that's how it has always been done with standard, single steel-barrel machine guns. The reason for the barrel change is that at high temperatures...

SecDef Gates and the MC Commandant (some say under orders) recommended in budget hearings last month that the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) program be cancelled in favor of a cheaper alternative. That may not be the end of the story as General Dynamics is lobbying hard that it would...

The recent post on Bauhaus Luftfahrt led me to this brief description of a VTOL aircraft using Voith-Schneider propellers and the attached image on their web site. This was all news to me, so I was also pleased to find this great interactive demo of how a Voith-Schneider propeller actually...

From theworacle via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbbc00jnbQ

Cutaway drawing of DCNS Barracuda-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. The first submarine will be named Suffren, and will be followed by the Duguay-Trouin, Dupetit-Thouars, Duquesne, Tourville and De Grasse, the build order of these five following submarines being subject to change. Source...

Leaks reported on SDSR were accurate. Harrier and current carriers to be retired, in 2011 for Harrier. 1 CVF to get cats and traps and F-35C from 2020. Other CVF to be mothballed. Nimrod MRA.4 cancelled, new 'low cost frigates' to join escort force numbering 19. Reduced Tornado fleet retained...

for those who not know Discovery channel series "Battle machine Bros." Howe & Howe Technologies, Inc. build prototypes for U.S. Military like the worlds smallest armored all terrain vehicle the PAV-1 "Badger" http://www.howeandhowetechnologies.com/pav1.php...

Model of Singapore Technologies Marine Tiger Shark Future Frigate From Jane's Model of Singapore Technologies Marine Blue Shark Future Corvette Sources: http://sgforums.com/users/244249/posts?page=2...

Drawing of EADS Innovation Works and Astrium Space Transportation zero emission hypersonic transport. Source: Warwick, Graham. "Transpacific in Two Hours, With No Emissions" Leading Edge 5/28/2010...

From Space Daily - Space War Aerojet Demonstrates NextGen Solid Ramjet Fuel by Staff Writers Sacramento CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2010 Aerojet has announced that it has successfully tested an advanced solid ramjet fuel in an engine ground test. The fuel is being developed to provide long-range...

Two artist's impressions of the Royal Navy's proposed future aircraft carrier (CVF) from 1999. These both show examples designed to operate STOVL aircraft. Source: http://navy-matters.beedall.com/cvf2.htm

Latest stories are that the entire RAF Tornado fleet may be retired. The £7.5bn 'saved' may help pay for a Trident replacement. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298871/RAF-Tornado-fleet-faces-axe-bid-save-7bn.html This is still speculative (the 'leak' was hardly an agreed policy...