Lots happening this week…
British major and founder of remote Pakistan school to retire, aged 94
US Navy Plans for Partnering Tomahawk Cruise Missiles with SF Teams and Small UAV’s
Indian Coastguard’s first Griffon Hovercraft commissioned
Javelin Missile fired from Kongsberg Remote Weapon Station
Ursula Brennan moves on from the MoD
France orders more Sperwar UAV’s
Boeing Phantom Eye Hydrogen Powered UAV (Video)
Army Still First Rate Despite Cuts
The V1 Flying Bomb (video)
British Soldiers skeleton found at Waterloo
Defence Cuts will Castrate UK Armed Forces
Army Restructuring Risky and Unproven
Did She Fall or was she PUShed
MBDA delivers first Fire Shadow loitering weapons
Army future at risk with cull of most experienced officers
US Marines fire Excalibur from record range in Afghanistan
Mobile test rig for General Dynamics UK specialist vehicle programme rolls out
Frazer-Nash wins RAF Puma helicopter contract
UK soldiers hand over Nad ‘Ali patrol base to Afghan Police
Gibraltar Regiment soldier provides medical training to Afghans
30th anniversary of Falklands liberation marked
Speech by the Prime Minister David Cameron to the Falkland Islands Government reception in London
“Last Novemeber, the British with their Astute Class submarine, launched a Tomahawk on the west coast as part of training and directed it into the training range at China Lake and redirected it from their [special operations] control center in London” while it was in flight.” – Interesting.
Read more: http://defensetech.org/2012/04/20/navy-partnering-tomahawks-and-small-drones-as-hunter-killers/#ixzz1xu2qmOcz
Defense.org
The “MBDA delivers first Fire Shadow loitering weapons” link is broken.
Also looks like Fire Shadow might already be cancelled: https://twitter.com/ihsjanes/status/213315112247885827
TD, another interesting link is the US General Accounting Office report on the F-35′s progress.
https://GAO.gov/assets/600/591608.pdf.
Amused me this morning.
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/News-and-Events/Latest-News/2012/June/21/120621-Royal-Navy-rescues-stricken-army-yacht
They even had a rather skilled photographer on hand to capture the moment.
Wonder if this is part of the armies plan to save money, by sailing supplies to Pakistan.
APATS, I see you an Army Yacht and raise you a bambi, must have been a slow news day
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/DefenceNews/TrainingAndAdventure/HmsSutherlandCrewRescueDrowningDeer.htm
RE: the link about Puma LEP
“Under the contract, Frazer will analyse the series of events occurring during technical failures.”
- not much you can do about high CoGravity; when you have to go through a crash or otherwise hard landing, the likelihood to keel over will remain