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Development of the Russian SOSNA-R laser-guided surface-to-air missile (SAM) system is nearing completion, according to Russia's Nudelman Precision Engineering Design Bureau.
The system consists of an upgraded MT-LB multi-purpose tracked armoured fighting vehicle (AFV) chassis fitted with a turret supporting a total of 12 SOSNA-R (9M337) laser guided SAMs in the ready-to-launch position. |
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Saturday 4 April, 2009 04:25 AM |
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By the end of the year , the government plans to select the design of a new generation of nuclear warheads that would be more dependable and possibly able to be disarmed in the event they fell into terrorist hands, according to the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration. |
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Sunday 22 March, 2009 09:37 AM |
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Contractors for the US presidential helicopter plan to design a much cheaper, less-sophisticated version for President Barack Obama.
Lockheed Martin and partner AgustaWestland, a British-Italian joint venture, say that they want to build a cheaper helicopter to clamp down on exploding costs. |
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Monday 16 March, 2009 03:30 PM |
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The Marlborough district of New Zealand is renowned for its vineyards. It also is the site, at Blenheim, of the largest aircraft propeller service provider in the southern hemisphere: Safe Air Ltd.
"About 25 percent of our work is on props, split equally between military and civilian," said Heather Deacon, the company's general manager. Safe Air's military projects include maintenance and repairs of the propellers of C-130H Hercules transport and P-3 Orion maritime patrol planes flown by the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), as well as on RAAF DHC-4 Caribou and C-130J transports, she said. |
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Monday 16 March, 2009 03:25 PM |
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STS-119 has launched after an issue-free tanking and countdown, following engineering work to troubleshoot a LH2 (GH2) leak from the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate (GUCP) attached to the External Tank. Discovery launched at 19:43pm local time launch, with added focus on the T-0 umbilicals on the TSM (Tail Service Masts) - following an incident on STS-126.
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Monday 16 March, 2009 01:24 PM |
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From the battlefield to the laboratory , Jeff O’Dell is dedicated to finding ways to serve his country and the men and women charged with protecting it.
The student and a handful of his classmates have hit on a new design for body armor.
The idea for the new body armor grew from a biomedical class at the University of Virginia’s Engineering School and his own military experience, according to U.S. Army Staff Sgt. O’Dell. |
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Tuesday 10 March, 2009 03:09 PM |
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The U.S. Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) negotiated its latest hurdle, a Critical Design Review (CDR), in December with relative ease, clearing the way for the first hull to roll off the assembly line as a prototype in May 2010.
The CDR was what EFV Program Manager Col. Keith Moore calls “the last off-ramp” since the program emerged from its Nunn-McCurdy law violation and subsequent recertification in 2007. An Overarching Integrated Product Team gave its blessing for the program to move forward without another review of the CDR results. |
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Saturday 7 March, 2009 03:14 PM |
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Arms manufacturer BAE Systems is a major sponsor of "The Big Bang", a science and technology education event aimed at young people. CAAT and SGR
say that BAE's involvement is entirely inappropriate and the sponsorship deal should be immediately withdrawn. They compare BAE's involvement to allowing Darth Vader to demonstrate his light sabre at a children's party.
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Saturday 7 March, 2009 11:13 AM |
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A launch of STS-119 prior to the Soyuz cut out in mid March remains on the cards, as managers prepare to meet on Wednesday for a launch date discussion. The meeting will also outline a plan to “beef up” the most vulnerable area of the MPS (Main Propulsion System) plumbing, which would reduce risk associating with launching Discovery without redesigned Flow Control Valves (FCVs).
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Wednesday 25 February, 2009 04:05 PM |
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a rocket aimed at keeping satellites that orbit the Earth on their proper track.
The Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster is a newly designed, smaller rocket that experts say operates on cheaper gas than the current propellants typically used for maintaining a satellite's orbit.
In fact, it is the first rocket to run on nitrogen, the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere. |
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Tuesday 24 February, 2009 03:22 PM |
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Scientists and engineers who have been working on the James Webb Space Telescope mission for years are getting very excited, because some of the actual pieces that will fly aboard the Webb telescope are now being built. One of the pieces, called the Backplane, is like a "spine" to the telescope. The Backplane is now being assembled by Alliant Techsystems at its Magna, Utah facility.
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Wednesday 18 February, 2009 03:57 PM |
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The Jumbo Drop Test Vehicle is in final preparations for a February 26 drop, as part of the Ares I First Stage parachute tests. Meanwhile, the little-known Max Launch Abort System (MLAS) will conduct its first test in March. |
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Tuesday 17 February, 2009 02:43 PM |
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Otokar, the Turkish armoured vehicle designer and manufacturer, will launch a brand-new, mine-protected armoured vehicle at IDEX 2009 (International Defence Exhibition & Conference), which takes place from February 22 to 26 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. |
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Tuesday 17 February, 2009 11:47 AM |
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will design and develop the next-generation fighter jet Gripen for the Swedish aerospace major Saab, a senior official of the IT bellwether said.
Saab, whose strike fighter Gripen is in race for the Indian Air Force (IAF) order to induct 126 medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) in its fleet, has set up an aeronautical design and development centre with TCS in Bangalore for the multi-million, multi-year contract. |
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Tuesday 10 February, 2009 11:59 AM |
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In all the talk of economic stimulus in the White House and on Capitol Hill, one element has been conspicuously absent: defense programs. Yet including $20 billion to $25 billion per year of increased defense spending in the stimulus -- a tiny amount in a total package of hundreds of billions -- would be both smart politics and sound policy.
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Sunday 8 February, 2009 04:51 PM |
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Defense contractor KBR Inc ., which is under criminal investigation in the electrocution deaths of at least two U.S. soldiers in Iraq, has been awarded a $35 million contract by the Pentagon to build an electrical distribution center and other projects there. |
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Saturday 7 February, 2009 01:49 PM |
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Defence technology specialist Metal Storm Ltd has achieved a major milestone by successfully certifying its semi-automatic 3GL grenade launcher for safe man-firing.
Following extensive testing and successful certification, several 3 round semi-automatic volleys were man-fired at an outdoor range in Queensland. It was the first stacked-round shoulder firing of a certified grenade launcher from the Brisbane-based weapons developer. |
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Wednesday 4 February, 2009 03:03 PM |
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The GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team has begun testing its first production-configuration F136 engine for the F-35 Lightning II aircraft a month ahead of contract schedule, a major milestone in the development program. |
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Tuesday 3 February, 2009 11:19 AM |
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The engineering flight of the 332nd Expeditionary Civil Engineer Squadron here has earned the Brig. Gen. Archie S. Mayes Award for 2008 -- an Air Force-level award that recognizes the most accomplished CE programs flight for the year. |
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Friday 23 January, 2009 04:57 AM |
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Engineers at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, are applying electro-optic technology to locate tunnels used by terrorists to smuggle weaponry. The research, led by Dr. Assaf Klar and Dr. Raphael Linker of the faculty of civil and environmental engineering, will be presented in April of this year at the Defense, Security, and Sensing Conference of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering, in Orlando, Florida.
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Thursday 22 January, 2009 03:33 AM |
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