Bell Helicopter has begun placing the spotlight on a new vertical lift platform design, dubbed the V-280 Valor. Similar in concept and range to the V-22, the V-280 targets the …
Industry teams are currently anticipating a near term announcement for the Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstrator (JMR TD) program. The program was outlined in a January 2013 Broad Agency Announcement, …
It’s a matter of historical record that the Royal Navy’s first aircraft carrier, HMS Argus, was fully operational for more than four years before the U.S. Navy’s first flattop, USS …
Few Requests for Information (RFIs) are accompanied by the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Senior Enlisted Advisor, Command Sgt. Maj. Chris Faris, almost simultaneously saying, “there is no one industry …
The recent situation in Northeast Asia has been extensively covered by Defense Media Network. Over the past several weeks, international attention has been focused on North Korea’s increasingly belligerent rhetoric …
It’s the Missile that Hits the Target
The U.S. Navy has a long and largely successful history of shipboard Aegis ballistic missile defense development. While there are countless components to …
If it wasn’t for the possible alliterative value, it’s likely that someone would have come up with a term to replace “Robotics Rodeos,” demonstration events designed to provide military or …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013, has gone down as an historic day for U.S. naval aviation, with the first launch at sea of an autonomous, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). Off the …
Previous posts have focused on missile defense writ large and on ballistic missile defense more specifically, especially, as in the case of the AirSea Battle Concept, what Aegis ballistic missile …
The alpine region of Tyrol, a borderland between Italians and Germans, has long bred skillful hunters and tough mountain warriors. Around 1778, a Tyrolean master gunsmith, Bartolomeo Girandoni (1729-1799), invented …
