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I have read a article, a third crew member can take place with also a small bed very usefull for long missions all this.
Unusual bomber ofc but very difficult to maintain in general on 19 based to Whiteman ( used by 509 th BW, 325 and 393 BS) about 10 are operationnal.
509th BW use also 16 T-38 in her 353 Cbt Tr Sqn which help for training especially more economical ofc.
In this very nice gallery
The last, 20 th is based to Edwards used by 419 Fl Test Sqn, 412 Test Wing depends AF Mat. Command this unit have also 2 B-1B and 1 B-52H.
Unusual bomber ofc but very difficult to maintain in general on 19 based to Whiteman ( used by 509 th BW, 325 and 393 BS) about 10 are operationnal.
509th BW use also 16 T-38 in her 353 Cbt Tr Sqn which help for training especially more economical ofc.
In this very nice gallery
The last, 20 th is based to Edwards used by 419 Fl Test Sqn, 412 Test Wing depends AF Mat. Command this unit have also 2 B-1B and 1 B-52H.
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Army sensors research enables future capabilities
January 1, 2015
By
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Jan. 1, 2015) -- Army scientists and engineers are advancing sensors research in hopes of giving future Soldiers enhanced situational awareness.
Sensor technology has broad application across the Army. Medical researchers are investigating how physiological sensors may help Soldiers achieve superior performance on battlefields of the future. Soldiers of 2025 and beyond may wear sensors to help detect and prevent threats such as dehydration, elevated blood pressure and cognitive delays from lack of sleep.
"I think that Army [Science & Technology] is looking at a broad number of approaches for what sensor capabilities we will need to meet future challenges," said Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology Mary J. Miller in an interview with Army Technology Magazine. "We're looking to improve situational awareness, mobility, lethality and even improve the maintainability and effectiveness of our systems."
Miller is the featured interview for the January-February 2015 issue of the publication, which focuses on the future of Army sensors.
"Sensors and situational awareness are the keys to our Soldiers being effective," Miller said. "I think we've all seen the reports that have come out of Afghanistan, where unfortunately a majority of the engagements our Soldiers (at the squad and team level) had with the enemy is because they were surprised. That is a situation in which we do not want to put any of our Soldiers. Holistically the work we have been doing in our sensor technology areas is to help ensure that never happens."
As the Army looks to the future, sensors will become smarter, smaller and cheaper.
"Our real goal will be to build in multi-functionality," said Karen O'Connor, Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence portfolio director for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. "There are sensors in imaging, motion detection, radar, chemical-biological detection and more. At the end of the day, sensors are all about collecting data."
One critical area of research is enhancing air operations in degraded visual environments, known as DVE. At the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, Army engineers are advancing and implementing new technologies. One research program fuses images of multiple sensor technologies such as radar, infrared, and laser detection and ranging, also known as ladar. Each of these sensor technologies provide unique advantages for operating in various types of DVE conditions.
"Successfully fusing the images of radar, IR, and ladar provides the pilot a more accurate, high-resolution picture of the operational environment in all DVE conditions by exploiting the advantages of each sensor technology and compensating for its weaknesses," said Maj. Joe Davis, an experimental test pilot at Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, or AMRDEC, Aviation Applied Technology Directorate.
In the future, sensors will be everywhere.
"Army researchers are working on flexible plastic sensors that could be attached to individuals, gear or vehicles. With this technology, Soldiers will gather information on the chemical-biological environment, troop movements and signal intelligence," said Jyuji Hewitt, executive deputy to the commanding general of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command. "The Army of 2025 and beyond calls for advanced sensors that can locate and identify threats, enable protection systems to counter those threats and make it less likely an enemy will detect our vehicles."
Sensors are redefining our world and how research and development community supports Soldiers.
"Sensors are no longer considered simple, separate sensing elements that are just components in a standalone weapon system," said Dr. Donald A. Reago Jr., director of Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center's Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. "[Sensors] are becoming holistic cross-domain solutions unto themselves that provide capabilities greater than the sum of their parts."
As networking and communication technologies become decentralized and integrated into dynamically aware sensors, sensors have emerged as a focal point where Soldiers are connected into the digital battle space at both the individual and global level, Reago said.
The Army is really relying on its scientists and engineers, Miller said.
"We are being asked to stand up and deliver, and I fully expect that we will," she said. "I have yet to see us fail at being able to solve a problem."
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Army Technology Magazine is available as an electronic download, or print publication. The magazine is an authorized, unofficial publication published under Army Regulation 360-1, for all members of the Department of Defense and the general public.
RDECOM is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. AMC is the Army's premier provider of materiel readiness -- technology, acquisition support, materiel development, logistics power projection, and sustainment -- to the total force, across the spectrum of joint military operations. If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, eats it or communicates with it, AMC provides it.
U.S. troops under mortar fire in Iraq
By Paul McLeary, Staff Writer7:18 p.m. EST January 5, 2015
COMMENTEMAILMORE
WASHINGTON — The 320 U.S. soldiers and Marines at Al Asad air base in western Iraq have been coming under "regular" mortar fire from insurgent forces for several weeks, Defense Department spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters Monday.
While Warren insisted that the attacks have been "wholly ineffective" and "no U.S. personnel, no U.S. equipment have been impacted in any way," this was the first time that the Pentagon acknowledged that the 2,100 U.S. troops in Iraq have been in danger since deploying late last year.
In addition to the Marines from a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force training units with the Iraqi Army's 7th Division at Al Asad, there are another 170 U.S. soldiers from the Army's 1st Infantry Division training another four Iraqi Army battalions near Taji, which is just northwest of Baghdad.
Both sites were major U.S. bases during the American war there from 2003-2011.
Warren added that the US is currently establishing two other sites to train a total of nine Iraqi and three Kurdish battalions in Irbil in the Kurdish-controlled north and Besmaya, which is just south of Baghdad.
The Besmaya Combat Training Center was transferred to the Iraqi Army in July 2011, and was intended for use as a training site for Iraqi Army-purchased M1A1 Abrams tanks.
While the last of the 3,100 U.S. troops President Obama has committed to training and advising the Iraqi Army are arriving, equipment is also flowing into the country.
Over the past two weeks, 250 U.S.-made mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles have been sent to Iraq: 225 to the Iraqi Security Forces and 25 to the government in Kurdistan, according to the U.S. Central Command.
The cost of refurbishing the vehicles was $9,832,500, a command spokesman told Defense News,adding in an email that "all of the MRAPs were located and repaired in the CENTCOM Area of Operations and will be used by Iraqi and Kurdish defense forces to fight ISIL."
The Iraqi Embassy in Washington tweeted out a picture on Monday that showed what appeared to be Caiman MRAPs being offloaded from trucks.
And if other recent proposed deals are signed off on by the government in Baghdad, plenty more armor is on its way.
In December, the U.S. State Department announced that Baghdad has requested 175 more Abrams tanks and other vehicles at a cost of $2.4 billion. Baghdad also requested 1,000 Humvees for a price tag of $579 million.
Iraq had previously taken delivery of over 250 Abrams tanks from the United States.
The Pentagon continues to insist that U.S. troops will not participate in combat in Iraq against the Islamic State (IS) group, but that U.S. forces have the right to self-defense. Meanwhile, the Shiite-led government of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi is continuing to try and reach out to the Sunni tribes fighting IS in the west and north of Baghdad.
Abadi tweeted on Monday that he "urged the need for a tribal revolt" against IS during a meeting with the governor of Sunni-dominated Anbar province.
January 1, 2015
By
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. (Jan. 1, 2015) -- Army scientists and engineers are advancing sensors research in hopes of giving future Soldiers enhanced situational awareness.
Sensor technology has broad application across the Army. Medical researchers are investigating how physiological sensors may help Soldiers achieve superior performance on battlefields of the future. Soldiers of 2025 and beyond may wear sensors to help detect and prevent threats such as dehydration, elevated blood pressure and cognitive delays from lack of sleep.
"I think that Army [Science & Technology] is looking at a broad number of approaches for what sensor capabilities we will need to meet future challenges," said Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology Mary J. Miller in an interview with Army Technology Magazine. "We're looking to improve situational awareness, mobility, lethality and even improve the maintainability and effectiveness of our systems."
Miller is the featured interview for the January-February 2015 issue of the publication, which focuses on the future of Army sensors.
"Sensors and situational awareness are the keys to our Soldiers being effective," Miller said. "I think we've all seen the reports that have come out of Afghanistan, where unfortunately a majority of the engagements our Soldiers (at the squad and team level) had with the enemy is because they were surprised. That is a situation in which we do not want to put any of our Soldiers. Holistically the work we have been doing in our sensor technology areas is to help ensure that never happens."
As the Army looks to the future, sensors will become smarter, smaller and cheaper.
"Our real goal will be to build in multi-functionality," said Karen O'Connor, Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence portfolio director for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research and Technology in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology. "There are sensors in imaging, motion detection, radar, chemical-biological detection and more. At the end of the day, sensors are all about collecting data."
One critical area of research is enhancing air operations in degraded visual environments, known as DVE. At the Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, Army engineers are advancing and implementing new technologies. One research program fuses images of multiple sensor technologies such as radar, infrared, and laser detection and ranging, also known as ladar. Each of these sensor technologies provide unique advantages for operating in various types of DVE conditions.
"Successfully fusing the images of radar, IR, and ladar provides the pilot a more accurate, high-resolution picture of the operational environment in all DVE conditions by exploiting the advantages of each sensor technology and compensating for its weaknesses," said Maj. Joe Davis, an experimental test pilot at Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center, or AMRDEC, Aviation Applied Technology Directorate.
In the future, sensors will be everywhere.
"Army researchers are working on flexible plastic sensors that could be attached to individuals, gear or vehicles. With this technology, Soldiers will gather information on the chemical-biological environment, troop movements and signal intelligence," said Jyuji Hewitt, executive deputy to the commanding general of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command. "The Army of 2025 and beyond calls for advanced sensors that can locate and identify threats, enable protection systems to counter those threats and make it less likely an enemy will detect our vehicles."
Sensors are redefining our world and how research and development community supports Soldiers.
"Sensors are no longer considered simple, separate sensing elements that are just components in a standalone weapon system," said Dr. Donald A. Reago Jr., director of Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Center's Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. "[Sensors] are becoming holistic cross-domain solutions unto themselves that provide capabilities greater than the sum of their parts."
As networking and communication technologies become decentralized and integrated into dynamically aware sensors, sensors have emerged as a focal point where Soldiers are connected into the digital battle space at both the individual and global level, Reago said.
The Army is really relying on its scientists and engineers, Miller said.
"We are being asked to stand up and deliver, and I fully expect that we will," she said. "I have yet to see us fail at being able to solve a problem."
-----
Army Technology Magazine is available as an electronic download, or print publication. The magazine is an authorized, unofficial publication published under Army Regulation 360-1, for all members of the Department of Defense and the general public.
RDECOM is a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. AMC is the Army's premier provider of materiel readiness -- technology, acquisition support, materiel development, logistics power projection, and sustainment -- to the total force, across the spectrum of joint military operations. If a Soldier shoots it, drives it, flies it, wears it, eats it or communicates with it, AMC provides it.
U.S. troops under mortar fire in Iraq
By Paul McLeary, Staff Writer7:18 p.m. EST January 5, 2015
COMMENTEMAILMORE
WASHINGTON — The 320 U.S. soldiers and Marines at Al Asad air base in western Iraq have been coming under "regular" mortar fire from insurgent forces for several weeks, Defense Department spokesman Col. Steve Warren told reporters Monday.
While Warren insisted that the attacks have been "wholly ineffective" and "no U.S. personnel, no U.S. equipment have been impacted in any way," this was the first time that the Pentagon acknowledged that the 2,100 U.S. troops in Iraq have been in danger since deploying late last year.
In addition to the Marines from a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force training units with the Iraqi Army's 7th Division at Al Asad, there are another 170 U.S. soldiers from the Army's 1st Infantry Division training another four Iraqi Army battalions near Taji, which is just northwest of Baghdad.
Both sites were major U.S. bases during the American war there from 2003-2011.
Warren added that the US is currently establishing two other sites to train a total of nine Iraqi and three Kurdish battalions in Irbil in the Kurdish-controlled north and Besmaya, which is just south of Baghdad.
The Besmaya Combat Training Center was transferred to the Iraqi Army in July 2011, and was intended for use as a training site for Iraqi Army-purchased M1A1 Abrams tanks.
While the last of the 3,100 U.S. troops President Obama has committed to training and advising the Iraqi Army are arriving, equipment is also flowing into the country.
Over the past two weeks, 250 U.S.-made mine-resistant ambush-protected (MRAP) vehicles have been sent to Iraq: 225 to the Iraqi Security Forces and 25 to the government in Kurdistan, according to the U.S. Central Command.
The cost of refurbishing the vehicles was $9,832,500, a command spokesman told Defense News,adding in an email that "all of the MRAPs were located and repaired in the CENTCOM Area of Operations and will be used by Iraqi and Kurdish defense forces to fight ISIL."
The Iraqi Embassy in Washington tweeted out a picture on Monday that showed what appeared to be Caiman MRAPs being offloaded from trucks.
And if other recent proposed deals are signed off on by the government in Baghdad, plenty more armor is on its way.
In December, the U.S. State Department announced that Baghdad has requested 175 more Abrams tanks and other vehicles at a cost of $2.4 billion. Baghdad also requested 1,000 Humvees for a price tag of $579 million.
Iraq had previously taken delivery of over 250 Abrams tanks from the United States.
The Pentagon continues to insist that U.S. troops will not participate in combat in Iraq against the Islamic State (IS) group, but that U.S. forces have the right to self-defense. Meanwhile, the Shiite-led government of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi is continuing to try and reach out to the Sunni tribes fighting IS in the west and north of Baghdad.
Abadi tweeted on Monday that he "urged the need for a tribal revolt" against IS during a meeting with the governor of Sunni-dominated Anbar province.
Our Harriers are not retired, I believe the time table is 2030
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Tyrant King
The British Retired there Harriers and sold a good number to the US who use them for spare parts.
The USMC has retained it's operational AV8's and will for sometime
Cheaper FFG built in large number, 51, especially for escort convoy in the North Atlantic between USA and Europe, good ASW hunter with 2 ASW helos also polyvalent get SAM, SSM, USN was also at this time 46 Knox and some Brooke but many Soviet submarines...
Jura The idiot
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more than twelve billion for a new sub:
"Production for the lead ship in a planned fleet of 12 Navy ORPs is expected to cost $12.4 billion — $4.8 billion in non-recurring development costs and $7.6 billion in ship construction, Navy officials have said."
according to
"Production for the lead ship in a planned fleet of 12 Navy ORPs is expected to cost $12.4 billion — $4.8 billion in non-recurring development costs and $7.6 billion in ship construction, Navy officials have said."
according to
Well, it's not just any "sub." These are the Ohio SSBN replacement vessels which are high dollar items.
And, typically, the non-recurring R&D costs are not included. Those subs would be billed at 7.6 billion, which is still a LOT, but when you consider the mission and technology, and size, it is something we need to do. They will be at sea for 40 years or so and will be worth the cost for the 12 of them (which is what I think the current plan is).
