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Raytheon delivers electronic jamming capability for Gray Eagle UAS Effort will mark first time Army has capability on unmanned vehicle MARLBOROUGH, Mass., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has delivered two electronic attack payloads in support of the U.S. Army's...

At some point during the late 1960s, the Goodyear company studied the possibility of a new giant rectangular transport airship category which they called "Dynastat". Source: AERIAL VERY HEAVY LIFT CONCEPTS FOR THE 1990 ARMY VOLUME III - ACADEMIC & INDUSTRIAL PRESENTATIONS (U.S. Army, November...

i found this on the internet only info on picture was "US prototype" from design, it look like a Tank destroyer

http://s3.e-monsite.com/2010/12/31/38909267terrastar-marginal-amphibian-of-lockheed-pdf.pdf Source: http://www.offroadvehicle.ru/AZBUCAR/Lockheed/Lockheed%20txt.html http://www.amphibiousvehicle.net/amphi/Lb_Lz.html...

i found this You tube video on 1960s prediction on 1970s weapon system sadly it's show only a fragment of original film View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FydcxZt4Xdk&feature=player_embedded

Looking quite notional, but it's the only picture I've seen so far of the Aerophysics contender for the flying jeep: (from Aviation Week August 1957)

Rarefaction Wave Gun (RAVEN) Whatever happened to this project? Seems like a fancy recoilless gun. http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2007gun_missile/GMTueAM2/MinerPresentation.pdf

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...

ASTRON big tank build from 2 other small tanks by Continental Motors, Hen and Chick concept is there more information about this tank concept ? source in Russian http://tancist.livejournal.com/28040.html

One of the most interesting periods in the development of the US Army missile systems is that between 1960 and 1975 or so when the US envisaged self propelled tracked missile systems very similar to those deployed by the USSR. Eventually the SAM D (later Patriot) emerged as a tracked launcher...

I came across the following article from an old Janes Fighting Ships (1969 edition I believe) If these vessels had been realised, what effect would they have had? No doubt there would have been an impact on the later LHA prgramme. Fast Deployment Logistic Ship (FDL): 40,500 tons (FL) 855 x 104...

During the mid-1950s, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral Arleigh Burke sponsored a high-priority program to develop a naval intermediate range ballistic missile. On November 8, 1955, the Secretary of Defense established a joint Army and Navy intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM)...

The Bell Model 309 King Cobra was an experimental attack helicopter based on Bell's successful AH-1 Cobra. The program was started in 1971 as an unsolicited response to the development problems of the Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne that was chosen for the US Army's Advanced Aerial Fire Support System...

Over in the Army Projects section of this forum I came across a thread on a declassified 1946 report of the U.S. National Defense Research Committee, Division 12, "Transportation Equipment and Related Problems." The report is a collection of scientific analyses and research on everything from...

I discovered the attached several years back while researching at NARA; I'm not an AFV guy, so I'm hoping the experts here can shed some light on it. The report dates from June 20, 1945. Does this tank project show up at all in "Firepower: A History of the American Heavy Tank" by R.P...

here some Link and PDF about USA military outpost on Moon Project Horizon (ABMA now MSFC at NASA) http://www.astronautix.com/data/horizon.pdf size 1.3 MB http://www.astronautix.com/craft/hortpost.htm http://www.astronautix.com/articles/propter1.htm...

I’m looking for any further information and/or imagery (especially a plan/side/front schematic) of the US Army’s HMC T92 and GMC T93 heavy self propelled guns (Gun or Howitzer Motor Carriage) from the end of WW2. Both were mounted on the chassis of the T26E3 heavy tank with the T92 mounting a M1...

I stumbled across this ultimate ATV gun-buggy while looking for pictures of the Excalibur PGM for work. It’s the Standard Manufacturing Co. Excalibur/Vulcan gun system that was demonstrated to the US Army’s logistics exposition PROLOG '85. It would appear to be a large Supercat style ATV fitted...

I found an interesting document while ago: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/AD0200798.pdf SUMMARY TECHNICAL REPORT OF DIVISION 12. NDBRC VOLUME 1 - TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT AND RELATED PROBLEMS It describes some of the vehicle projects of National Defense Research Committee Division 12...

Here is some data on an interesting British program from the early 1980s. The following information has been copied from Jane’s Light Tanks and Armoured Cars 1984 by Christopher F. Foss. It is posted here for educational purposes. Alvis Sagitar Alvis Limited has submitted three studies to the...