Military and Defence We live in interesting times. And it's unfortunate but the military play an important part in it. Military and defense operations have been responsible for many innovations however that we take for granted in our lives. Indeed the success of our military almost relies upon their being ahead of the game which drives them to constantly innovate.
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Ricardo, Inc . , the US subsidiary of Ricardo plc, the leading independent provider of technology,
product innovation and engineering solutions to the world's automotive,
defense, transport and new energy industries, has announced the launch of the
Ocelot , a unique collaboration between Ricardo and Force Protection Europe.
This revolutionary new light protected patrol vehicle (LPPV) concept offers
the potential for much higher standards of occupant protection and operational
flexibility than today's defense light vehicle products. |
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Wednesday 9 September, 2009 07:51 AM |
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‘Team Z’ , the collaborative alliance set up between leading military vehicle design and engineering house, Creation - and defence manufacturer and through-life support specialist, Babcock, is using DSEi at London’s ExCel for the world market debut of its radical new Zephyr armoured vehicle programme.
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Sunday 6 September, 2009 09:55 AM |
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Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) are invaluable assets for soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, with more than 12,000 deployed. But mobility is still an issue, especially in urban environments where a small box on tracks can have difficulty negotiating stairs, curbs and fences. This is prompting researchers to find innovative ways of increasing mobility.
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Thursday 3 September, 2009 11:58 AM |
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NASA has taken a major step toward
building the next crew exploration vehicle by completing the Orion Project's
preliminary design review, or PDR. Orion is being designed to carry astronauts
to the International Space Station and other destinations.
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Wednesday 2 September, 2009 02:04 PM |
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Babcock International Group PLC is a FTSE 250 company, and one of the UK’s leading engineering support services organisations with reported revenue of £1.9 billion in 2009. The company designs, builds, manages, operates and maintains assets that are vital to the delivery of many key public services, both in the UK and overseas. Its services, which are delivered through nine customer facing divisions, are underpinned by three core skills: asset management, project management, and engineering excellence.
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Wednesday 2 September, 2009 10:01 AM |
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Israeli company Plasan Sasa - the world leader in armour and survivability systems for military vehicles - is partnering with Thales - a global technology leader for the defence market - to develop a new Light Protected Vehicle for the Australian Army and the international market.
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Tuesday 1 September, 2009 05:29 PM |
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U.S. Defense Department leaders plan to submit to outside technical review their forthcoming recommendation on how to proceed with nuclear warhead modernization, a process that might delay a decision on the contentious plan until next year, according to a senior official |
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Friday 28 August, 2009 10:44 PM |
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The head of the Russian Air Force recently admitted that their new Su-35 fighter was having some serious problems with its engine (the AL-41), and would have to use the older AL-31 engines (used on the Su-27/30) in the meantime. But the more powerful AL-41s are needed to give the Su-35 some of its F-22 like capabilities. |
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Monday 24 August, 2009 05:32 PM |
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The JCSAT-12 communications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (SKY Perfect JSAT) of Japan, was successfully launched today from Kourou, French Guiana. Lift-off occurred at 6:09 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) aboard an Ariane 5-ECA launch vehicle provided by Arianespace of Evry, France. Initial contact with the satellite was confirmed at 7:17 p.m. EDT from Lockheed Martin's satellite tracking station in Uralla, Australia.
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Sunday 23 August, 2009 11:02 AM |
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Military tanks are to Prius' as the NRA is to PETA, right? Maybe not – The U.S Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center began construction this week on a 30,000-square-foot facility that will be used to test military vehicles ranging from HMMWVs to tanks with hybrid-electric and fuel-cell technologies. It’s called the Ground Systems Power and Energy Laboratory (GSPEL), and for all you military-industrial complex conspirators out there, it’s being built in Warren, Michigan. From the press release: |
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Friday 21 August, 2009 10:19 PM |
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The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research Development and Engineering Center broke ground this week on a new test facility for military vehicles.
The new Ground Systems Power and Energy Laboratory is being built in Warren, Mich. Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in San Antonio designed the new Army laboratory. Terms of the design contract were not disclosed. |
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Wednesday 19 August, 2009 08:55 AM |
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General Dynamics C4 Systems is opening an innovation center in August in Taunton, Mass., to focus on command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) and vetronics for tactical wheeled vehicles. |
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Monday 17 August, 2009 07:07 PM |
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The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program has been in serious difficulty for some time, showing all of the textbook symptoms of a failed project. Like all failed projects it will eventually collapse, the question is now simply one of when it will collapse, rather than if it will collapse.
The F-35 has been on political life support for the last four years, with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Pentagon acquisition bureaucrats investing much effort in convincing the White House, Congress and participant Allied nations that the project is an icon of virtue in the current pantheon of failed major acquisitions. While former procurement Czar John Young went as far as to criticise the program’s prior management history, he was not prepared to admit the obvious, which is that the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter now qualifies in all key respects as what project management professionals term a “non-executable project” |
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Monday 17 August, 2009 07:44 AM |
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Wearing body armor for protection against bullets and shrapnel has been a double-edged sword for soldiers. While the armor provides an indispensable defense, its weight and placement on the body exposes the wearer to neck, shoulder and back discomfort, and possibly years of lingering pain. |
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Thursday 13 August, 2009 09:45 AM |
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Ceramic heat-protection tiles - for three decades, the fragile symbol of the space-shuttle era - have gained an unexpected new lease on life.
Long assumed to be destined for the engineering garbage can as NASA abandons the shuttle for a new spaceship, the tiles have made a comeback as part of the thermal-protection system of the Orion space capsule that is supposed to return astronauts to the moon in 2020.
Even better for the beleaguered work force at Kennedy Space Center - which expects to lose thousands of jobs when the shuttle is retired in 2010 - the tiles will be manufactured and applied to the sides of the Orion capsule at KSC. |
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Monday 10 August, 2009 02:51 PM |
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Assembly and test of the Mars Science Laboratory rover, and its Sky Crane descent stage, are accelerating at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. toward launch on an Atlas 5 from Cape Canaveral in October or November 2011. |
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Thursday 6 August, 2009 08:40 PM |
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Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. , Tuesday said the United States Special Operations Command or USSOCOM rendered the company a $60 million ceiling increase to the Acquisition, Logistics, Management, and Business Operations Support or ALMBOS contract.
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Wednesday 5 August, 2009 11:44 AM |
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A Belfast academic is working on research that could help protect soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
Professor Wei Sha is testing how safe vehicles with titanium alloys are when hit by bullets or explosions.
Mr Sha, from Queen's University's School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, is examining the damage tolerance of titanium.
It is the first research to reveal the reasons behind the deformation of titanium alloys under strong impact.
British forces serving in Afghanistan currently use Land Rovers which have titanium alloys. |
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Thursday 30 July, 2009 12:02 PM |
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The historic Apollo 11 mission in July of 1969 culminated in the first manned moon landing. While many of the proud Americans who were involved in that project are no longer with us 40 years later, the technologies they built still live on, will be further refined, and will return us to that lonely world and beyond. |
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Monday 20 July, 2009 12:33 PM |
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With its smooth and elegant lines , this could be a prototype for some future successor to the stealth bomber.
But this flying wing was actually designed by the Nazis 30 years before the Americans successfully developed radar-invisible technology.
Now an engineering team has reconstructed the Horten Ho 2-29 from blueprints, with startling results. |
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Wednesday 8 July, 2009 02:17 PM |
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The Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) is undergoing further reductions in its capability - including the elimination of the vehicle’s unmanned ability - as Constellation managers attempt to resolve numerous issues ahead of the Orion Project PDR (Preliminary Design Review). Issues noted in the recent “Top Risks” review list 10 serious issues with the Ares and Orion vehicles, ranging from Ares I-X, through to Orion itself. |
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Sunday 5 July, 2009 08:34 PM |
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