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Although some of the commands fired a strict limit of artillery, a Task Force in Afghanistan, with active measures to limit collateral damage, an alternative method.

Task Force King of the 173 Airborne Brigade Combat Team arrived at an alternative for indirect fire missions with highly explosive TNT.
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Soldiers from the 4th Battalion of the 319th Field Artillery Regiment, has a way to switch not explode in a fire-training phase of adaptation, and then switch to a deadly round of fire for effect phase. This method is less shots being fired, reducing collateral damage and civilian casualties.

"Our rules for the use of a challenge, because our enemies know when using a conventional artillery fire and remains a very real chance of unwanted collateral damage," said Command Sgt Maj Dennis Woods, Afar 4-319. . "In our efforts to prevent, but commanders are far less likely to use artillery. Insurgents are not stupid. The enemy is on our ROE, our advantage to avoid the risk of fire support ... until now. "

They brought again artillery in the fighting in the central-eastern province of Wardak.

Training in the use of less lethal round M804A1 as "Smurf" Round known for its blue color. It is to live a ballistic match tour a high-explosive artillery, which means that a domino effect on the run from the tube to the target system. The difference lies in the consequences of the impact.

"The 173rd ABCT does nothing in terms of effectiveness," said Woods. "The effect of fire-by-round is what we all explosive grenades. This new approach we use here is more sensitive to environmental influences, along with the cultural issues that affect the citizens of Afghanistan."

Woods said that since Afghanistan is an agrarian society, the use of explosives to contaminate the soil. erode at TNT, RDX and HMX in plants may be affected, so the use of high-explosive round was not good for the long term future of Afghanistan, much less risk of collateral damage.

"The 173rd ABCT is aware of collateral damage than separates us from the people. If people are the real target in a war of counterinsurgency for our ability to maintain public safety to maintain the moral choice and the strategic decision to combine the best of our vision to increase supply.

With the decline in civilian casualties and collateral damage are the soldiers who support the goals of the counter insurgency doctrine COIN requirements.

"The insurgents have decided to do the people they as human shields," said Woods to fight, adding that the rebels were trying to avoid the shots, hidden in the vicinity of the protected structures.

"This technique, which allows you to deal with the enemy, despite his use of human shields. We may be closer to the fire protection of structures with less potential for collateral damage," he said.

Woods attributed to new technology for its soldiers outside the box thinking with a view to reducing fire effects and "focused lethality".

Each team M777A2 155 mm cannon rounds at a distance of four 319th position of the "smurf" was.

"There are many exercises that would go in that direction for the public safety and security to increase damage, as the 173rd Airborne has been reducing day by day," said Woods.

A Task Force Soldiers King Sayed Abad Comments "as the blue round of on-site training has arrived, I asked," why we demand from the less-lethal shot? "After learning of their goal to collateral damage limitation, I asked," why we were here in the last nine years? "

This is by far the best weapon I ever had. This is a magazine fed rifle labor in the configuration of the bolt, with detachable magazines, a sniper scope and bi-pod.

The Best Sniper Weapon
The Best Sniper Weapon Ever
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means "Bolt Action 'every time you want to load a round, you flick the bolt lever, pull back, push back and forth. This will extract a block of 1x4 magazine, pull the" hammer "elastic (), put the brick in the bedroom and snap the elastic on the back of it.

bolt action rifle was one of the first type of rifle and pump action lever. They were used in World War I and World War II, which are reliable and easy to use.
The Best Sniper Weapon
The Best Sniper Weapon Ever
This gun has a range of snipers, are bi-pod and two 8-round magazines. The stand is foldable and removable and attaches to the front of the barrel. When you break your legs are parallel with the barrel.
The sniper scope seems genuine, but when you aim with it, makes you look through a small hole in scope, I could not get real low.

The mechanism is quite simple, and should almost never jams.
Indian Defense Ministry Wednesday cleared proposals worth nearly 700 million dollars to buy military equipment, but postponed a decision important to billions of dollars for the aging fleet to replace the country.
India defence Agni II missile (Republic Day Parade)

India defence Agni II missile (Republic Day Parade)

Offers especially for the purchase of four helicopters, ships of the survey and the improved electronic warfare system of the nation, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry told reporters.

"The Council of defense acquisition also entitled to a proposal for the purchase of a platform for the transport of military equipment," he said.

Defense Council approved the large military purchases, the decision was postponed a joint bid by the European giant Airbus Defence and Space and the Indian Tata Advanced Systems Ltd. offer transport aircraft Airbus C295.

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Curved wings and flap when the voltage on the PZT material.

It also determines the series of small legs crawling a robot centipedes shaped robot when the simulation of the voltage on the PZT material.

So simulate algorithms required flying insect is stabilized. But "Robofly" Harvard is nearly three times larger than the ARL is working to develop. Gyroscopes can be used to remove during missile navigation, ammunition, soldiers, or even if the GPS does not support work for some reason, Polcawich said.

His team has a number of research projects that relationship known in the position, navigation and timing as SOP. A number of different systems need to make a small robot that integrated realistic works as insect development.

Ron Wood of Harvard University is actually later in the development of a robot fly Polcawich. Said Polcawich However, working with wood and other academic and industrial researchers could quickly start searching.

Polcawich ago piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems or equipment PiezoMEMS in ARL. For micro-
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charged Wednesday that the real motivation behind plans to send blockade-busting ships toward Gaza is to allow free flow of weapons into the Palestinian territory.

Netanyahu spoke as preparations were under way to send several ships carrying aid and pro-Palestinian activists toward Gaza, setting up potential confrontations at sea.

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On May 31, Israeli naval commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists in clashes aboard a Turkish ship headed for Gaza, setting off a world outcry and forcing Israel to ease its three-year-old blockade.

Israel already has warned archenemy Iran to drop its plan to send a blockade-busting ship to Gaza. The Iranian ship is one of several that activists say will head for Gaza in the next few months. One is said to be heading for Gaza from Lebanon within days.

On Wednesday, Lebanon warned that it would hold Israel responsible for any further attacks on blockade-busting ships.

Netanyahu said his government is drawing up a list of weapons and items with military uses that will not be allowed into Gaza "so that we can permit all the rest."

He said the new list will be made public "in the coming days."

Since the violent 2007 takeover of Gaza by Hamas - an Islamic militant group responsible for firing thousands of rockets at Israeli border communities - Israel has let in only limited humanitarian supplies, including basic foods and medicine.

Construction materials, which Israel maintains Hamas could use to make weapons and build bunkers, were barred, and the vast majority of Gaza's 1.5 million people could not travel. The blockade strangled the already poor territory's economy but failed to undermine Hamas, one of the blockade's main goals.

Under Israel's new policy, approved Sunday, "Anyone who wants to bring products can do so - food, toys, medicines, anything," Netanyahu said Wednesday at his Jerusalem office, where he was meeting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann.

Israel insists that all cargo from the flotillas must be inspected at one of its ports to remove weapons, and then the aid supplies would be transferred over land to Gaza. Flotilla organizers have rejected this procedure, prompting Israel to take control of the boats at sea and bring them to Ashdod port.

The May 31 flotilla was made up of six ships, and violence erupted on only one of them. Israel says its commandos were attacked with iron bars, clubs and knives and opened fire in self-defense.
Ankara: The Turkish army has begun using Israeli-made unmanned aircraft to monitor Kurdish rebel movements in neighbouring Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported Monday, quoting the army chief.
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"In the past 10 days, we have started using our Heron systems... the surveillance systems we bought from Israel, in the north of Iraq," General Ilker Basbug said in Canakkale, northwestern Turkey, according to Anatolia.

The drones are being used "at a certain distance in the north of Iraq in coordination with the Americans," Basbug told reporters, adding that the aircraft were operated "by our own personnel."

There has been media speculation that the drones were idle because Israeli operators left Turkey amid the crisis between the two countries over Israel's May 31 raid on Gaza-bound aid ships, in which nine Turks were killed.

The Turkish army is fighting surging violence by the separatist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which uses rear bases in neighbouring northern Iraq as a launching pad for attacks against Turkish targets across the border.

Twelve soldiers were killed in PKK attacks over the weekend, most of them when rebels assaulted a border unit at the Iraqi frontier early Saturday.

Basbug played down suggestions that an intelligence failure had led to the attack, which prompted a Turkish air raid on PKK hideouts in Iraq.
As part of the overall planning for the Norwegian Armed Forces, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence (MoD) is also responsible for the planning of the military’s materiel investments.

FANAF 2010-2017 does not, for various reasons, provide information about projects that cannot be made public. This may include, for example, plans that are covered by the Norwegian Security Act and are therefore kept from public access.

The document features on the Armed Forces’ section of this website http://www.regjeringen.no as an electronic document and will not be published in paper format.

In the Report to the Storting (the Norwegian Parliament) no. 38 (2006-2007) the Norwegian Armed Forces
Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland - In the case of a foreign military sale to work, U.S. Navy, the French army in France, the first antenna is used to trigger an event with fire-163A Coyote Supersonic GQM Sea Skimming Target (SSST), or a missile, April 4.
As part of a foreign military sales case, the U.S. Navy's GQM-163A Coyote Supersonic Sea Skimming Target is launched from the Mediterranean island of Levant during a live-fire presentation April 4
(Photo courtesy of French DGA)

Military service in France, markets Directorate General for Arms (DGA), has worked with the salt air of goals and programs of the Office of bait (PMA-208) and Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) Chandler, Arizona GQM-163A proposal SSST Concert at military firing range off the coast of France.

Foreign Military Sales case, which began in 2006, SSST, including the provision of GQM-163A, equipment
A survey of Salvation Army youth programs in more than 80 cities shows more than eight in 10 programs saw increased demand from children and families in the past year as unemployment and funding cuts strained charities.
The survey released to The Associated Press found 56 percent of the charity’s youth programs — including camps, preschools, daycare and after-school programs — are operating at or beyond their capacity.

The report, “Growing Up in a Downturn,’’ also examined the Great Recession’s effect on youth programs since 2008. Since then, 41 percent of the programs have had to cut back services or close their doors because of insufficient funding. Sites in Los Angeles, Rockford, Ill., and Memphis, Tenn., were among those forced to scale back.
Salvation Army Commissioner William Roberts, the charity’s national commander, wrote in the report that the increasing demand shows parents across the country are facing daily questions about how to provide for their children when even social service programs have to make cuts.
“Should they spend their latest pay check on food or rent?’’ he wrote. “How can they spend time with their children while working two jobs?’’
In raw numbers since 2008, attendance at Salvation Army daycare programs increased by more than 40,000 children. Overall, the charity has seen an increase in need across all of its programs. In 2010, it provided assistance to 30.2 million people in the U.S., compared with 28.9 million in 2007.

 Source : http://articles.boston.com
A tank is a tracked, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and tactical offensive and defensive capabilities. Firepower is normally provided by a large-calibre main gun in a rotating turret and secondary machine guns, while heavy armour and all-terrain mobility provide protection for the tank and its crew, allowing it to perform all primary tasks of the armoured troops on the battlefield.[1]
Tanks in World War I were developed separately and simultaneously by Great Britain and France as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare. Their first use in combat was by the British Army on September 15, 1916 at Flers-Courcelette, during the Battle of the Somme. The name "tank" was adopted in Great Britain during the early stages of their development, as a security measure to conceal their purpose (see Etymology).
Tanks of the interwar period evolved into the designs of World War II. Important concepts of armoured warfare were developed; the Soviet Union launched the first mass tank/air attack at Khalkhin Gol (Nomonhan) in August 1939[2], which later resulted in the T-34, a predecessor of the main battle tank; this was quickly followed up by Germany on a larger scale when they introduced blitzkrieg ('lightning war') less than two weeks later; a technique which made use of massed concentrations of tanks supported by artillery and air power to break through the enemy front and cause a complete collapse in enemy resistance and morale.
Tanks in the Cold War advanced to counter greater battlefield threats. Tanks became larger and their armour became thicker and much more effective. Advances in manufacturing late in the war allowed the mass production of composite armor. Aspects of gun technology changed significantly as well, with advances in shell design.
During the 20th century, main battle tanks were considered a key component of modern armies.[3] In the 21st century, with the increasing role of asymetrical warfare and the end of the Cold War, that also contributed to the increase of cost-effective Russian anti-tank weapons worldwide, the importance of tanks has waned. Modern tanks seldom operate alone, as they are organized into armoured units which involve the support of infantry, who may accompany the tanks in infantry fighting vehicles. They are also usually supported by reconnaissance or ground-attack aircraft.[4]
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank

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Cats in Tanks


The American Civil War (1861–1865) was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ("the Confederacy"); the other 25 states supported the federal government ("the Union"). After four years of warfare, mostly within the Southern states, the Confederacy surrendered and slavery was outlawed everywhere in the nation. Issues that led to war were partially resolved in the Reconstruction Era that followed, though others remained unresolved.
In the presidential election of 1860, the Republican Party, led by Abraham Lincoln, had campaigned against expanding slavery beyond the states in which it already existed. The Republicans strongly advocated nationalism, and in their 1860 platform they denounced threats of disunion as avowals of treason. After a Republican victory, but before the new administration took office on March 4, 1861, seven cotton states declared their secession and joined to form the Confederate States of America. Both the outgoing administration of President James Buchanan and the incoming administration rejected the legality of secession, considering it rebellion. The other eight slave states rejected calls for secession at this point. No country in the world recognized the Confederacy.
Hostilities began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces attacked a U.S. military installation at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. Lincoln responded by calling for a volunteer army from each state to recapture federal property, which led to declarations of secession by four more slave states. Both sides raised armies as the Union seized control of the border states early in the war and established a naval blockade. Land warfare in the East was inconclusive in 1861–62, as the Confederacy beat back Union efforts to capture its capital, Richmond, Virginia, notably during the Peninsular Campaign. In September 1862, the confederate campaign in Maryland ended in defeat at the Battle of Antietam, which dissuaded the British from intervening.[2] Days after that battle, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which made ending slavery a war goal.[3]
In 1863, confederate general Robert E. Lee's northward advance ended in defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg. To the west, the Union gained control of the Mississippi River after the Battle of Shiloh and Siege of Vicksburg, splitting the Confederacy in two and destroying much of their western army. Due to his western successes, Ulysses S. Grant was given command of the eastern army in 1864, and organized the armies of William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Sheridan and others to attack the Confederacy from all directions, increasing the North's advantage in manpower. Grant restructured the union army, and put other generals in command of divisions of the army that were to support his push into Virginia. He led the Overland Campaign to seize Richmond, though in the face of fierce resistance he altered his plans and led the Siege of Petersburg which nearly finished off the rest of Lee's army. Meanwhile, Sherman captured Atlanta and marched to the sea, destroying Confederate infrastructure along the way. When the Confederate attempt to defend Petersburg failed, the Confederate army retreated but was pursued and defeated, which resulted in Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
The American Civil War was one of the earliest true industrial wars. Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively. The practices of total war, developed by Sherman in Georgia, and of trench warfare around Petersburg foreshadowed World War I in Europe. It remains the deadliest war in American history, resulting in the deaths of 620,000 soldiers and an undetermined number of civilian casualties. Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40.[4] Victory for the North meant the end of the Confederacy and of slavery in the United States, and strengthened the role of the federal government. The social, political, economic and racial issues of the war decisively shaped the reconstruction era that lasted to 1877.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
The long range land attack projectile (LRLAP), designed for the DDG 1000 Advanced Gun System, successfully completed two live-fire tests at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Navy announced Sept. 22.

The mission, conducted Aug. 30, was the first live-fire test to successfully demonstrate LRLAP effectiveness against targets.


LRLAP is a 155 millimeter rocket-assisted guided projectile designed to support land-attack and naval surface fire support operations in conjunction with the Advanced Gun System on DDG 1000-class destroyers.
source : asdnews
Iran suspended on Tuesday an Iranian convicted of spying for the country archenemy Israel, reported the official news agency IRNA.

Ali Akbar Siadat who were charged Israel with classified information about Iran's military capabilities, including information on military maneuvers, bases, operational fighter jets, military flights, aircraft crashes and missiles, IRNA reported.

Separately, another Iranian was suspended Tuesday for membership of a banned opposition movement, told IRNA.

In the past decade, Iran has stepped up its domestic military production, including missiles, which Israel and beyond - with the goal of Tehran, spoke about the land of Israel and the United States in Iran, they could strike its nuclear facilities defend.
According to IRNA, Siadat admitted spying for Israel in 2004 in exchange for $ 60,000, and an extra $ 7,000 every time he meets Israeli handlers. IRNA said he met with the Israeli secret agents in the foreign trade trips to Turkey, Thailand and the Netherlands, and that he transmitted data according to IRNA, Siadat known to spying for Israel in 2004 in exchange for $ 60,000, and an additional $ 7,000 every time he met with Israeli handlers. IRNA said he met with the Israeli secret agents in the foreign trade trips to Turkey, Thailand and the Netherlands, and that he transmitted data using a digital camera and laptop station.

IRNA reported that in 2008 Siadat was arrested while planning to flee to Iran. There were no details on whether Siadat was an officer or, as he received the classified information.

There was no comment on the enforcement of civil servants in Israel.

IRNA said Siadat was hanged in Evin prison in Tehran. Earlier this week Iran announced that Justice would spy for Israel soon after an appeals court upheld the death sentence of the man. He said that instead of negotiating in the presence of his lawyer.


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Farnborough International Airshow on the 2010, MBDA has an attractive appearance, ideas that could spread to the new generation weapons support for the soldier of tomorrow.
Visions Concept is a new unit at company level too high for innovative approaches to the future defense equipment market to develop in terms of important areas for 2030 and beyond.

MBDA European workers is challenged to propose ideas for how society technologies and concepts for future system's capacity to improve the infantryman. After a screening process, the winning solutions undergo extensive consultation with users, testing and developing the concept of the ideas together - building a "machine" in the concept of market-based approach rocket - a tangible, interactive look into the future.

The final concept Visions offers an integrated solution for firefighters increased support for infantry and focuses on the challenges of operating in complex environments and more reduce the need for correct identification of targets and manage a serious "seal of guarantee.

Steve Wadey, Executive Director of the Technical Group / CEO UK, MBDA, said:

"Visions new process concept is another example of innovation in marketing systems for missiles, MBDA, we can a vision of key areas of Defence. MBDA development highlights the inherent ability to quickly and radically modernize and damage to life the dreams of our technical staff can see customers, suppliers and employees, the development of military capabilities in a different way. "

The system CVS101 concept, published today, was developed as a weapon of the infantry fire support for 2030 and beyond. Your goal should be a light, long range precision weapons that he has a battle to use at the lower levels to ensure a power structure. It was developed to urban challenges were made with a greater freedom to the goals of the opportunity and flexibility, responsiveness and availability of fire ondersteunen precision strike against a wide range of military tasks and to achieve the maintenance of peace.

Unlike existing weapons, the system would be able CVS101, threats to friendly forces or civilians to mix for face, to comply with strict rules of engagement and security. The operating margin is expected to be delivered by the sensors to focus on very specific and precise, and directed the ability of a contemporary, easy to check, use the Fire Man-in-the-loop to the decision to ensure any time.

It is important for its light weight is designed to reduce the burden for soldiers dismantled the equipment to reduce. Unique would be most appropriate in the extreme CVS101 Non Line of Sight focused on opportunities in complex urban environment by their ability to integrate network-centric when used in conjunction with the network of sensors for tactical information.
Boeing [NYSE: BA] congressional staff joined representatives from local government officials and community leaders at 7:09 at Cecil Field in Jacksonville to celebrate the arrival of the F-16 first for the QF -16 target aircraft.
Boeing received a contract to convert the U. S $ 69700000 Air Force in March to a maximum of 126 retired F-16 FF-16 goals in the large-scale aircraft that can fly with or without crew. Deliveries will begin in 2014.

"This is an important program for the Air Force and Boeing," Steve Waltman, director of Boeing Aircraft Maintenance & Maintenance Brigade, told the audience. "It's an important project off platform for our business and We are confident that our team members to provide Cecil Field, the threats of air to our customers budget and time. "
Lockheed Martin Has Won a $ 3.93 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to Develop High-tech rifle-scope attachment. Designed to Improve marksmanship over distances of between three and 600 meters, the Dynamic Image Optic Gunsight (DINGO) system has combined low power laser rangefinder, ballistics year embedded computer and onboard sensors determine wind That and Other environmental effects.
 Based on the One Shot Advanced Sighting System DINGO Calculates the range, digitally zoom in on the target and crosswind Automatically Transmits information to long-range sniper's scope, Modifying the Crosshairs to display the bullet's exact point-of-impact.

Lockheed Martin says the goal Is To Provide Accurate targeting with soldiers while Maintaining optical resolution and the Need to Change Without scopes.
 "Current scopes are optimized for a single target range, Impacting soldiers' Effectiveness and survivability When Engaging targets at different distances DURING a single mission," Said Dan Schultz, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems and Sensors Ship & Aviation Systems business . "Dingo Will solve this problem, Significantly Increasing soldiers' Ability to Rapidly reconfigure optics for use from short to long ranges and Improving Capabilities marksmanship for all soldiers."

The nine-month Phase 1 contract DINGO Will See the System Developed for use on M-4 and M-16 automatic rifles.

Recently Lockheed Martin Also Has Applied The One Shot crosswind measurement technology in a prototype spotter scope. The company says tactical field tests in December 2009 showed sniper That Were Able to Quickly engages targets and have fewer spectators grandir Their probability of a first-round hit by a Factor of Two distances at 1.000 meters Beyond.
The nation’s first Littoral Combat Ship, USS Freedom (LCS 1), recently arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam to participate in the world’s largest maritime exercise, known as Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2010. 
 To view video footage of the arrival, click here.

RIMPAC is held biennially in Honolulu, Hawaii, and hosted by U.S. Pacific Fleet. During this year’s exercise, USS Freedom will operate in the area with air, land and maritime forces from 13 other nations.

“RIMPAC is a tremendous opportunity to build upon and to refine Freedom’s known surface warfare and maritime security capabilities and to break new ground in LCS employment,” said Cmdr. Kris Doyle, commanding officer of Freedom’s Blue Crew, in a recent Navy press release. “We have several ‘first-of’ events scheduled, ranging from air defense to anti-submarine to fire support exercises. Every day, we will be stretching ourselves to learn more about what LCS brings to the fleet and how we integrate in a multinational environment.” 
Source:Lockheed Martin
If you own an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), here's piece of advice: do not fly it near San Nicholas Island, California, or It could be blasted out of the sky - by a laser. Two vehicles suche Were Successfully shot down there on May 24th by a U.S. Navy laser weapon. , According to the official press release, this marks "the first detect-thru-engagement laser shoot-down or a threat representative target in an over-the-water combat representative scenario."

Members of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) utilized a laser beam shot through a director on a KINETO tracking mount, controlled by a MK 15 Phalanx Close In Weapon System (CIWS). The Navy's Laser Weapon System (Laws) HAS Already shot down UAVs in Other scenarios, Bringing the total number to seven or downed flying robots.
 "The success of this effort validates the military utility of EWS & DE (Directed Energy and Electric Weapon Systems) in a maritime environment," said program manager Capt.. David Kiel. "Further development and integration of increasingly more powerful lasers Writing Surface Navy Laws Will Increase Both the engagement range and target sets, That Can Be Successfully Engaged and Destroyed."

The U.S. Navy is interested in laser weapons Because of Their speed-of-light engagement time, and the cost savings realized by Minimizing the use of missiles.

Laser weapons are Becoming a Reality Also in the air. In testing earlier this year, a modified Boeing 747 Equipped with an airborne laser (ABL) shot down a ballistic missile off the central California coast.
The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Army soldiers of the 6th Air Defense Artillery Brigade from Fort Bliss, Texas, successfully conducted an intercept test for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense element of the nation's Ballistic Missile Defense System today. A target missile was launched at approximately 9:32 p.m. Hawaii time, June 28 (3:32 a.m. EDT, June 29), and about five minutes later a THAAD interceptor missile was launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) off the island of Kauai, Hawaii. Preliminary indications are that planned flight test objectives were achieved.

The test involved the intercept of a short-range unitary target in the endoatmosphere (inside the earth's atmosphere). The target, representing a short-range ballistic missile threat, was launched from an at-sea mobile launch platform located in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii. Upon acquiring and tracking the target, the THAAD system developed a fire control solution and launched an interceptor missile, which acquired and successfully intercepted the target missile. The intercept occurred at the lowest altitude to date for the THAAD interceptor missile, which has the capability to engage targets both inside and outside the earth's atmosphere.

Soldiers of the 6th Air Defense Artillery Brigade of Fort Bliss, Texas, conducted launcher, fire control and radar operations, using tactics, techniques, and procedures developed by the U.S. Army Air Defense School. Soldiers operating the equipment were not aware of actual target launch time. Also following the engagement, test personnel used the Simulation-Over-Live Driver (SOLD) software system to inject multiple simulated threat scenarios into the THAAD radar. This exercised THAAD's capability to track and engage a mass raid of enemy ballistic missiles.

Several missile defense assets and emerging technologies observed the launch and gathered data for future analysis. Participants included the Command and Control, Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC) system and elements of the U.S. Army's PATRIOT system. The PATRIOT system, located at PMRF, conducted engagement coordination with THAAD and conducted upper tier debris mitigation exercises during the intercept engagement.

This was the seventh successful intercept in seven attempts for the operationally-configured THAAD system. Operational elements of the Ballistic Missile Defense System are currently deployed, protecting the nation, our allies and friends against limited ballistic missile attack. The system continues to undergo development and testing to provide a robust layered defense against ballistic missiles of all ranges in all phases of flight.
The first Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] C-130J Super Hercules for India has completed painting at the company's Marietta, Ga., facility. The aircraft now enters flight test in preparation for delivery at the end of the year. The program for India includes six C-130Js, training of aircrew and maintenance technicians, spare parts, and ground support and test equipment. Also included is India-unique operational equipment designed to increase Special Operations capabilities.