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WaveRider test vehicle meets B-52 by Derek Kaufman 88th Air Base Wing Public Affairs 8/4/2009 - WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFNS) -- Airmen successfully mated the X-51A WaveRider flight test vehicle to a B-52 Stratofortress July 17 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. The fit check...

Hi, Tucked away in Boeing's rotorcraft presentation at Paris was a small image of something called FASTR - Folding Advanced Stopped Tilt Rotor - a study by Bell Boeing for DARPA and the US Navy...

I've seen some rather impressive images of potential future US submarines including such designs as Renegade, Renegade 2 and Merrimack, evidently designed to make extensive use of UUV's and other advanced technology. U nfortunately, I haven't been able to find much more than images of them...

Hi, http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread199681/pg1

The Ripsaw Unmanned Ground Vehicle. Military prototype and privately funded DARPA challenger. Super fast (0–50 in 3.5 secs), manoeuvrable, tough. Emergency services, military escort, bomb disposal. Built by the Howe Brothers. $200,000.00 each. http://www.howeandhowe.com/

The Northrop XST; http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1992/1992%20-%200362.pdf

This is from Seapower and Space, pg 241, by Norman Friedman. Does anyone have more information on this missile? According to the lexicon hosted on FAS.org it was originally known as Ballistic Intercept Missile.

Another one for the "project cancelled" bin - the Mach 4 aircraft Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites was designing for Space Launch under DARPA's RASCAL (Responsive Access, Small Cargo, Affordable Launch) programme. The aircraft was called the MIPCC Powered Vehicle (MPV) because the four F100...

The first X-47B is in final assembly. For info and art, go here: http://www.northropgrumman.com/unmanned/

"Piasecki also had some interesting ideas on rotorcraft unmanned air vehicles for the US Army's Future Combat Systems, including a modern version of its AirGeep, but they were cancelled last year." Yes, the UCAR program was cancelled (UCAR = US Cancelled Another Rotorcraft ), but I think...

I don't know if you guys saw this article. I don't have a Janes account, but I can't help thinking of the sub fighters from the TV show SeaQuest when I read it. ;)

Found this one on the web, you all might find it to be some interesting reading: http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/reading_room/883.pdf Basically it's a 1983 report covering studies of a new manned spacecraft.

DARPA Opts To End Boeing-Led X-50A Dragonfly UAV Effort By Jefferson Morris/Aerospace Daily & Defense Report 09/11/2006 09:35:13 AM The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has opted to end the X-50A Dragonfly unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program, which was attempting to pioneer a...

The Ohio SSGNs are pretty much taking up this role (minus the SAMs)

I have found that murky image in one of zillion AFRL ppt presentations, that serves for me a source of very interesting stuff for several years that proves to be real metall later...like knowledge of what the hell X-41 or X-42 would be three or four years ago. "Aeronautics at AFRL" Provided...

Images from SubPirates.Com forum depicts latest iteration of Cormorant MPUAV (Multi-purpose Unmanned Aeriel Vehicle). Casting model photo (c) Marc aka fxmodels CATIA models (c) Matt aka Thor