Showing posts with label secret weapon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secret weapon. Show all posts
Monday, June 7, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
US military's HyperSonic vehicle missing
DARPA's latest project, a vehicle capable of traveling at 20 Mach known as the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 (HTV-2), has gone missing after a test launch. Hope this doesn't set back the project too much.
Physorg
The HTV-2 was launched last week aboard a Minotaur IV rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
The test flight called for a 30-minute mission in which the vehicle would glide at high speed before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, north of a US military test site at the Kwajalein Atoll.
The glider separated from the booster but soon after the signal vanished, a spokeswoman said.
"Preliminary review of data indicates the HTV-2 achieved controlled flight within the atmosphere at over Mach 20. Then contact with HTV-2 was lost," Johanna Spangenberg Jones, a spokeswoman for DARPA, told AFP.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Soviet Russia had plans for own Star Wars system
According to Soviet space scholar Asif Siddiqi, a historian at Fordham University in New York City, Moscow began working on space-based weapons well before Reagan kicked the U.S. program into high gear with his March 23, 1983 Star Wars speech. "[The Soviets] funded two massive R&D studies in the late 1970s and early 1980s to explore how to counter imaginary American missile defense ideas," he says. Two concepts emerged: Skif—a laser "cannon" in orbit—and another weapon known as Kaskad (Cascade), designed to destroy an enemy's satellites with missiles fired from another craft in orbit.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The Beast of Kandahar...America's stealth drone
The US Airforce has confirmed that it has a stealth drone operating in Southern Afghanistan. Last week a French blog posted a photo of the stealth drone, dubbed the Beast of Kandahar or officially known as the RQ-170 Sentinel. The Beast of Kandahar is flown by the 30th Reconnaissance Squadron at Tonopah Test Range, Nev.
The released photo lead to speculation why would the USAF have a stealth drone in Afghanistan. The taliban or al Qaeda have no radar to detect normal aircraft let alone stealth aircraft. So why use a stealth drone in Southern Afghanistan which borders Pakistan and Iran. Hmmmmm...
From Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Air Force on Tuesday confirmed for the first time that it is flying a stealth unmanned aircraft known as the "Beast of Kandahar," a drone spotted in photos and shrouded in secrecy.
The RQ-170 Sentinel is being developed by Lockheed Martin and is designed "to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to forward deployed combat forces," the air force said in a brief statement.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
U.S. Army Tests UAV Sniper
Now any 13 year old kid will be able to take out hostiles. Fox News
The U.S. Army is testing the Autonomous Rotorcraft Sniper System (ARSS) — a remote-controlled unmanned Vigilante robot helicopter equipped with a high-velocity sniper rifle.
Its RND Edge semi-automatic gun is mounted on a self-stabilizing turret with built-in zoom camera, and fires 7 to 10 precisely aimed .338-caliber rounds per second.
Back on the ground, a human directs it using a modified Xbox 360 controller, which plugs into a laptop so that the operator can see what the drone sees.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Secret Weapon used in Iraq?
In Mr. Woodward's latest book he hints that a stealth project, akin to the Manhattan project, has changed the course of the war in Iraq. Secret death rays, voice of G-d, a thermal tagging system? Hmmmm....I always thought it was the surge and the strategy put forwards= by General Patraeus.
I don't know how much truth there is to Woodward's claim but it does sound teh awesome. National Post
Note to terrorists: You can run but you'll only die tired.
"Everyone's buzzing about the 'sophisticated and lethal special operations program,' " said a posting on Wired.com last Tuesday. "What in the heck was Woodward talking about? Secret death rays? The Voice of God weapon?" More likely, the Web site speculated, it was a tagging, tracking and locating program that placing thermal signatures, or tags, on unsuspecting targets to monitor them.
Two reporters from The Washington Post -- Mr. Woodward's newspaper -- posited that it is an assassination team called "fusion cells," which involves special operations, unmanned drones, forensic scientists and the members of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
While remaining tight-lipped on its details in his book, he was a little more explicit during his publicity tour earlier this week. "If you were a member of al-Qaeda or some extremist militia, you would be wise to get your rear end out of town," he told CNN's Larry King this week.
Update: Video added....
Thanks to Ace of Spades for the link
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