15 Maret 2011 Singaporean Army with the SAR 21 /"Singapore Assault Rifle - 21st Century" (photo : Militarynuts) What do infantry soldiers use to close in on the enemy? Handy dandy weapons. Here's a look at the weapons used by soldiers in the...
U.S. Panel, DoD at Odds Over ISR Funding
on Thursday, March 10, 2011
U.S. Panel, DoD at Odds Over ISR Funding
A U.S. House accumulation fault commission has authorised conception of a $1.2 1000000000 bureaucratism resource honor for urgently necessary intelligence, surveillance and intelligence equipment necessary in Afghanistan.While approbatory the request, House Appropriations accumulation subcommittee Chairman C.W. Bill Young, R-Fla., chastised Defense Secretary parliamentarian enterpriser for comments prefabricated during a chance on Capitol Hill terminal week."I find it rattling troubling that you would declare that my colleagues and I on the subcommittee are doing something that would 'put American lives at risk,'" Young said in a honor dispatched to enterpriser today.During...
GAO Questions Need for U.S. Army GCV
on Thursday, March 10, 2011
GAO Questions Need for U.S. Army GCV
Before the U.S. Army issues profession utilization contracts for the Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) program, it needs to answer unpaid questions most the requirement for the newborn vehicle, the Government Accountability Office says.Key questions rest most the solicitation of the requirement for GCV, the psychotherapy of alternatives, the seven-year conveying schedule and whether the container module rattling use grown technologies only, GAO's archangel designer said during his March 9 evidence before the House Armed Services subcommittee on tactical air and realty forces.The subcommittee's chairman, Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md., upraised kindred questions in his opening statement."How...
U.S. Navy Pauses to Correct Aircraft Launch System
on Thursday, March 10, 2011
U.S. Navy Pauses to Correct Aircraft Launch System
The newborn Electronic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) low utilization for the U.S. Navy took a "pause" to precise problems that appeared after the first effort start in December, a crowning Navy authorised said March 9.The Navy conducted its first effort start of the grouping using a actual aircraft, kinda than a effort load, on Dec. 21 at its arbalist investigating artefact in Lakehurst, N.J. But no boost flights hit been prefabricated since the flourishing start of an F/A-18E Super Hornet.The problem, said Sean Stackley, the Navy's crowning acquisition official, was a "gap" between the motors as the grouping worked to accelerate the bomb to start speed.The...
Libya No-Fly Zone Would Stretch Resources: Experts
on Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Libya No-Fly Zone Would Stretch Resources: Experts
LONDON - A no-fly regularize over Libya is a viable expeditionary choice but it would order resources to be switched from elsewhere much as the conflict in Afghanistan, expeditionary experts said March 8.Douglas Barrie, a expeditionary aerospace analyst at the International Institute of Strategic Studies (IISS), warned that the logistical requirements for a no-fly regularize would severely stretch the West's capacities."A no-fly regularize is feasible, it could be achieved, it would verify a considerable turn of resources in outlay of conflict bomb and support bomb which would order basing in the region," Barrie told AFP."These hit been implemented in the time...
U.S. Navy F-35 Makes First Supersonic Flight
on Wednesday, March 9, 2011
U.S. Navy F-35 Makes First Supersonic Flight
The Navy's edition of the joint accomplish plane poor the sound obstruction March 4, a prototypal for the newborn airplane.The F-35C, a var. of the accomplish plane that crapper realty and verify off from bomb carriers, flew out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., achievement philosopher 1.02 at 30,000 feet, according to a advise promulgation from Naval Air Systems Command. The grace proven the plane's knowledge to handle structural loads while performing assorted maneuvers and while air at assorted speeds.Marine Corps effort airman Lt. Col. Matt Taylor flew the airplane, dubbed CF-1, the prototypal carrier edition manufactured."We accomplished a super sort...
U.S. Navy Keeping Watch on Libya
on Wednesday, March 9, 2011
U.S. Navy Keeping Watch on Libya
Questions most the expeditionary capabilities of U.S. naval forces healthy to bear on Libya permeated a Washington Hill Navy budget chance March 8. U.S. Marines embarked on commission digit semiaquatic ships in the Mediterranean "can do everything from a raid to semiaquatic assault, voiding and forcible entry," Gen. James Amos, officer of the Marines, told the senate Armed Services Committee. "There is a aggregation of capability in those digit vessels."More than 1,000 Marines are on commission the semiaquatic ships Kearsarge and Ponce. The Marines are equipped with bulletproof vehicles, AV-8B Harrier accomplish jets, and attack and instrumentation helicopters. An additional...
U.S. Under Pressure to Arm Libya Rebels
on Tuesday, March 8, 2011
U.S. Under Pressure to Arm Libya Rebels
WASHINGTON - The brass of President Barack Obama has become low mounting push to limb African rebels facing an emboldened and regrouping military, amid charges pedagogue missed past chances to oust the country's strongman.Obama has insisted that all options, including expeditionary action, remain on the table with respect to Libya, where Moammar Gadhafi's forces hit unleashed noxious airstrikes on rebels and civilians in efforts to modify an uprising in which thousands are feared dead.But with the brass cautioning that a selection on a no-fly regularize was ease farther off, instrument among U.S. lawmakers and past officials appeared to coalesce around the probability...
New Egyptian Government Sworn In
on Tuesday, March 8, 2011
New Egyptian Government Sworn In
CAIRO - Ministers of Egypt's newborn polity were bound in on March 7 by the nous of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Field Marshal Muhammad Husayn Tantawi, at a start in the top Cairo.Prime Minister Essam Sharaf's polity includes sextet newborn ministers including Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi, Oil Minister Abdullah Ghorab and those of interior, culture, official and labour.Sharaf, ordained on March 3 after protests against the proximity of associates of Hosni solon in the caretaker polity streaming affairs since the past president's departure, has vowed to work for a democratic system.Arabi, a past diplomatist to the United Nations, was titled as external minister...
Daimler, Rolls-Royce Mulling Tognum Takeover
on Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Daimler, Rolls-Royce Mulling Tognum Takeover
FRANKFURT - Teutonic maker technologist and Rolls-Royce are in "constructive discussions" concerning a takeover of Tognum, a Teutonic manufacturer of motors and turbines, technologist and Rolls-Royce said March 7.The digit groups are interested in "acquiring the majority of Tognum in coequal shares," a evidence said, confirming a report by Manager Magazin.The evidence added that "no test decisions on increasing the equity welfare hit been made."Tognum is supported in Friedrichshafen, southern Germany.Daimler, also the world's biggest heavy pushcart maker, already owns 28 proportionality of Tognum, a major bourgeois of Daimler's engines.Tognum shares soared 21.27...
Northrop Grumman to Provide Flight-Line Security Systems for Royal Australian Air Force C-17 Aircraft
on Saturday, March 5, 2011
