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From Wired.com: Navy’s Newest Robot Is a Mechanized Firefighter By Katie Drummond March 8, 2012 | 12:56 pm | Categories: robots Meet SAFFiR: Embedded sensors allow the 'bot to see through smoke, and sophisticated upper-body agility let the 'bot throw fire-squelching grenades. Illo: Naval...

I was looking through the 1940's Springstyle Catalog and found this design for a ship designed to combine the tasks of fleet refueller and either escort carrier and/or aircraft ferry. Photo #: S-511-53 - "20 Knot Flightdeck Oiler - Preliminary Study"

Several years ago, US navy lauched an unmaned sea-plane project, called Seagull. Do you remember it and do you have more information?

North American YAT-28E model manufactured by Topping found on eBay. URL: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Topping-North-American-YAT-28E-Desk-Model-/200623021654?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb6105e56

Hello everybody,J look to archive to find cutaway of this magnificent aircraft,does somebody have cutaway of any version,Thanks in advance

Dear Boys and Girls, here is a picture with a caption in French of what I believe to be the Sikorsky S-61N full-size mock-up brought to the 1959 Paris Salon; it shows an aerodynamic saucer-shaped fairing covering the main rotor hub. The accompanying article describes the Sikorsky S-61N as being...

Testers Find Limitations For Global Hawk Jun 6, 2011 By Amy Butler U.S. Air Force testers say the Global Hawk Block 20/30 unmanned aerial system (UAS) is unable to completely and reliably perform the high-altitude imagery and signals intelligence collection missions for which it is...

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...

Aeromarine (nd) Boland's first, unsuccessful plane (1909, 1 built) B two-place pusher motor; canard stabilizers with twin rudders between the wingtips (1910, 1 built) (nd) Aeromarine's first official type, Boland's single-seat canard pusher flying boat (1914, 1 built) (nd) military...

The only mention I have seen of the surface launched version of AIM-54 was a brief mention in Gunston's Rockets and Missiles where he says that "In 1976 a virtually unmodified Phoenix was successfully fired at NWC China Lake traveling 13.5 miles downrange in 90 seconds..." He also mentions that...

Known at various times as: Model 100 Sneaky Pete Cold Pigeon HAVE KEY (Under USAF Aeronautical Systems Division ownership) Approximately 1976-1984, evolved into the ATA/A-12. Sneaky Pete has been mentioned often in other threads, but has no thread of its own. I've recently run across an image...

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...

I couldn't find anything already posted about this, but there's an auction on eBay for a pic of this 4 seater buckeye prototype. Can't really tell much, but see for yourselves...

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...

I did a search and I didn't see anyone linking to this resource... The Navy has PDF scans of all the back issues of Naval Aviation News online here: http://www.history.navy.mil/nan/backissues/newbackissues.htm Unfortunately, they have not been OCR'ed and aren't searchable, but if if you know...

Rockwell NA 430 VSTOL Multi Mission Aircraft Design definition study of NASA/Navy lift/cruise fan V/STOL aircraft. Volume 1: Summary report of Navy multimission aircraft Cavage, R. L. (Rockwell International) NASA-CR-137695 https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19760005982

Seems we completely overlooked this news. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/30/local/la-me-robert-truax-20100930 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/28/AR2010092805243.html http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/systems/sealar.htm etc...

To reply no. 55 by Aerofranz, I misidentified the illustration's top sensor carrier as the Bell SeaPig. It's actually the SeaKat, still from Bell Aerospace. I apologize for the error. Attached are a couple views of a SeaKat factory model. I would be grateful for any info about this little-known...

I have finished some simple drawings of US destroyer designs from the 1960s and 1970s. The drawings are based on sketches and artist renderings found in Norman Friedman's book "US Destroyers An Illustrated Design History". I find the nuclear frigate design (Typhoon) very interesting. Fishjay