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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...

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Just trying to keep them straight. So we have (pulled from a couple different articles recently posted): 1. AGM-183A - Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW). "The ARRW, like many of the emerging threats, is an air-launched, rocket-boosted unpowered hypersonic glider. To be developed under...

Found this early US MICV variant drawing on google images from an original print sold on EBay.

An excerpt: Note: Given the date and lack of dismounts among other things, I suspect that this was the early incarnation of the MIAG proposal. EDIT: Ack, blundered on the title! I put down MIVC-70 instead of MICV-70 and only noticed it now!

Well, this was an early Western hard kill APS of the most obvious kind. A remotely controlled (twin) machinegun turret on top of the tank turret roof with its own sensor, shooting at incoming missiles. A kind of Vulcan Phalanx CIWS for tanks. I understand that a millimetric radar would cost a...

Vought JTACMS (Joint Tactical Missile System) with F-16 model found on eBay. Source: http://www.ebay.com/itm/LARGE-F-16-JTACMS-Topping-Precise-Experimental-Version-Factory-Desk-Model-/182058153075?hash=item2a6382f473:g:E-UAAOSwx-9Wvs4h

Recently, on the website Bring a Trailer a listing appeared for a military project based on a Seagrave chassis with center driving position. I did some digging and found out it was produced by a Blackwater-ARES joint venture. The Grizzly APC1 was built by Blackwater Armored Vehicle and...

I wonder if anyone with a first or second edition copy of Janes Weapons Systems (1969 or 70) could help me track down an image showing a Marder like mock up of a US MICV design for the 1967 MICV competition. I photocopied it some years back from a Library copy (now no longer available) and...

Sorry agent's, but does anyone have any knowledge of any side by side comparison photos of the General Motors XM1 and Chrysler XM1 MBT designs together? Also would anyone be able to direct me to footage of General Motors XM1 film footage, during its trials? Thank's in advance! Regards Pioneer

Hello, I searched the forum and haven't found a thread about this topic, and it appears no one has discussed it in any other threads either, so here it is. Anyway, a while ago I was perusing Andreas Parsch's website and I found mention of the apparently obscure Douglas Arbalist in the missile...

G’day gents I’ve stumbled across this web site http://doktorkurgan.livejournal.com/36798.html?thread=61630 which depicts a prototype (in 1977) SPAAG, which from what I can make out (via translation), combines a 25mm cannon, with the chassis of the XM-701 MICV! It appears it’s a response to the...

Stinger MANPADS are being modified to avert obsolescence and add some new capabilities such as the proximity fuze but the end of it's use and service is foreseeable. I´ve read about the "Future Stinger Capability Working Group". What covers behind this group? Are there any new planned systems...

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a231789.pdf US Army Soviet Army Studies Office, September 1990.

http://breakingdefense.com/2015/07/armys-electronic-warfare-cupboard-is-bare-no-jammer-until-2023/ Looks like it's pretty much Dead On Arrival.

I found both of these in the VAHF archives. There are no markings on the photos, nor supporting documentation. Any ideas on the who or what would be appreciated.

ERINT-1 ERINT (Extended Range Interceptor) was a part of the Strategic Defense Initiative’s Theater Missile Defense Program. The US Army contracted for a prototype missile and launch control system to defend against cruise missiles, aircraft, ballistic and tactical missiles. The capability was...

While looking for HIMARS prototype pictures such as this one I was puzzled to find this : Was it a competitor? By the way, was LM MFC the only company initially contracted to develop a prototype?

I found these pictures in the Vought Aircraft Historical Foundation archives and had to go online to research PATA to find out what the heck it was. PATA Plenum Air Tread Amphibian It basically has a plenum that provides air to tracks that are a series of low pressure air cells and an airflow...