The US Army's Joint Multirole-Technology Demonstrator (JMR-TD)/Future Vertical Lift (FVL) effort is moving towards first flights in 2017, but work is currently focused on crucial system architecture demonstrations. Dan Bailey, the army's programme director for JMR/FVL, said the effort is ...
11 Aug 2011 -- Categories:Military and state use|Unusual lasers & uses|SLA news U.S. military helicopters may use lasers to dazzle ground-based attackers firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades. There are two components to the system: detection and laser countermeasures. ...
AI can already dream up imaginary celebrities, so perhaps it can help the Army imagine revolutionary new engine parts or aircraft, too. That’s the goal of a new project from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research wing of the US Defense Department. DARPA wa...
First, the US Army is a land-based military service and China is an ocean away. Second, the wide-open spaces of the Pacific Ocean would seem to make it more difficult to hide in-bound helicopters and tiltrotors from radar. Source: Sikorsky Sikorsky Raider X, a contender for ...
A window of clear weather finally opened on Sept. 3 that allowed Pakistani military helicopters to fly over the climbers' route — 13 days after Dempster and Adamson started up the mountain with enough food and supplies for five days.
In this handout photo taken from video released by Ukrainian Police Department Press Service, Military helicopters apparently Russian, fly over the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Ukrainian Police Department Press Service via AP ...
The U.S. government still relies on Russian military contractors for critical missions in Afghanistan. It purchases Mi-17 helicopters for the fledgling Afghan air forces, uses heavy-lift contractors to move large equipment and relies on Russia for at least a quarter of all gas used ...
While the picture is bleak across the military, the army is in a particularly bad place. Plans exist to modernise the service with fighting vehicles, missiles and upgraded tanks but they were devised before Russia launched its war and the timeline to deliver the transformation i...
The ongoing ARI involves reducing aviation personnel by about 10,000 troops, divesting legacy Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior scout helicopters and a fleet of A- and C-models used as trainers. About 180 TH-67 Creek trainers will be sold as military surplus items, which has raised concerns about ...
Another congressional source said the US military’s views the information it’s receiving from Ukraine as generally reliable because the US has trained and equipped the Ukrainian military for eight years now, developing strong relationships. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t some blind spots, ...