early 2020s

  1. J

    Replacement of Challenger 2 with Leopard 2

    I've seen a number of threads on Youtube that is suggesting that the British Army is considering replacing it Challenger 2's with Leopard 2's instead of undertaking the CLEP. I've got to admit the videos are not brilliant; one of the makers Huff Hack is awful - the read of the stats of various...
  2. Flyaway

    Made In Space

    Video regarding their forthcoming Archinaut One satellite due for launch in 2023. View: https://youtu.be/ir_SLjykvRE
  3. Flyaway

    NASA Chief Plans To Step Aside Under Biden

    This seems a bit of shame as he hardly seems to have been in the job five minutes. https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/space/nasa-chief-plans-step-aside-under-biden
  4. Deino

    H-6N & Air-launched Anti-ship ballistic missile (ALBM/AShBM)

    Rumoured since some time but confirmed only know View: https://twitter.com/RupprechtDeino/status/1317346711682093056 View: https://twitter.com/OedoSoldier/status/1317316788594438144
  5. E

    Balloon rides to the edge of space.

    Maybe... https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/firm-offer-balloon-rides-alaska-edge-space-71531073?cid=clicksource_4380645_2_heads_hero_live_headlines_hed
  6. Flyaway

    Neptune Odyssey: Neptune-Triton orbiter mission

    Details of this proposed mission on the links below: Attached is a presentation detailing the mission from: https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/exoplanets2020/presentations/Rymer.pdf
  7. sferrin

    New mini-torpedo for USN?

    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33606/northrop-grumman-reveals-new-mini-torpedo-aimed-at-arming-and-defending-navy-submarines
  8. Sundog

    U.S. Navy T-45 Replacement Program

    The U.S. Navy's new T-45 replacement program must be putting a premium on costs savings. I say that considering it won't be able to shoot cats and traps. According to the article they'll just be performing touch and goes on the carrier. I would be shocked if it wasn't the T-7 that gets chosen...
  9. J

    Boeing FARA

    Alone among the FARA contenders, Boeing have yet to fully reveal details of their submission, apparently designed by the company's 'Phantom Works'. They did release a teaser video - some screenshots of which are shown at https://facebook.com/aerospaceanalysis/
  10. P

    The US Air Force isn’t buying light attack planes

    Sorry, Sierra Nevada Corp. and Textron: The US Air Force isn’t buying light attack planes https://www.defensenews.com/smr/federal-budget/2020/02/10/sorry-sierra-nevada-corp-and-textron-the-us-air-force-isnt-buying-light-attack-planes/ I'm sorry, but yet another scitsophenic episode by the...
  11. GTX

    Australian Army Land 400 Ph3 Competition.

    This is the Australian Army approximately $10-15 billion project to replace the ageing M113 APCs, with an Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) and APC. Up until yesterday, there were 4 contenders: Rheinmetall's Lynx KF41 BAE Systems CV90 MkIV IFV Hanwha Defense Systems AS21 Redback General...
  12. A

    Taiwan 5th-gen fighter studies

    https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/03/07/19/taiwan-developing-5th-gen-fighter-jets-amid-chinas-military-buildup Comment/speculations: seems to be a contingency plan in case of failure to asquire the f-35b. Apparently, project is active for some time already. Taiwan has some actual experience in...
  13. TinWing

    TAM GE-31, Tblisi's non-Russian Sukhoi Su-25? Which potential Western engine?

    https://www.facebook.com/Scramblemagazine/posts/the-tbilisi-aviation-plant-tbilaviamisheni-tam-in-georgia-is-working-to-create-a/2096653470361176/ "Scramble Magazine February 14, 2018 · The Tbilisi Aviation Plant (Tbilaviamisheni - TAM) in Georgia is working to create a modernized version of...
  14. Moose

    Bradley Replacement - XM30 MICV

    The Next Generation Combat Vehicle program has begun to firm up its desires for the Bradley replacement, which it has now dubbed the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle. Similarly to MPF, the Army is accelerating this program massively and now wishes to begin fielding it in 2026 rather than in...
  15. R

    Australia announces the outcome of it's Frigate competition

    ABC News: "Hunter class frigates will be built by BAE in Australia — but what can the warships do and why do we need them?" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-29/hunter-frigate-build-bae-what-you-need-to-know/9923912
  16. JFC Fuller

    UK MoD Project LANCA - RAF 'Loyal Wingman'

    Issued back in February it announced an industry day for LANCA (though it didn't use that name) which should have occurred on the 13th March: https://www.defenceonline.co.uk/2018/02/27/gb-high-wycombe-lanca/
  17. bring_it_on

    USMC Next Generation Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV)

    Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle (ARV) Advanced Technology Development Future Naval Capability (FNC) Program Science and Technology Brief to Industry https://www.scribd.com/document/369430054/ONR-Armored-Reconnaissance-Vehicle
  18. S

    Chinese scientists make quantum leap in computing

    Xinhua, May 3, 2017 Adjust font size: Chinese scientists have built world's first quantum computing machine that goes beyond the early classical -- or conventional -- computers, paving the way to the ultimate realization of quantum computing beating classical computers. Scientists announced...
  19. Flyaway

    Due to concerns about engine, Juno to remain in elongated Jupiter orbit

    The Leros engine has commonalities with other engines that have called issues including MUOS 5 I believe. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/due-to-concerns-about-engine-juno-to-remain-in-elongated-jupiter-orbit/
  20. Flyaway

    Amazon teams up with the UK to make drone delivery a reality

    http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2188074
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