The U.S. Navy is preparing to launch a ship-mounted laser built to launch infrared energy at adversaries’ small boats and unmanned aerial vehicles. In 2014, the Navy plans to install the solid-state laser prototype on the fantail of the USS Ponce, which will be deployed to the 5th fleet region in the Middle East for [...]
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BAE Systems has won a $20 million contract with the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps to develop mine sensor prototype systems with the goal of meeting soldiers’ countermeasures needs. The laser-based airborne prototype systems are designed to detect mines and obstacles in nearshore waters, the company said Monday. BAE will build the systems under the [...]
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The U.S. Navy and Virginia Tech are partnering to to engineer an autonomous robotic jellyfish under a $5 million project funded by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center and the Office of Naval Research. “Cyro,” spanning 5 feet and 7 inches and weighing 170 pounds, is being built to monitor the environment and also handle other [...]
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Boeing Promoting Phantom Eye Drone as Comm Relay Hub; Keith Monteith Comments
April 9, 2013 No Comment
Boeing is rebranding a hydrogen-powered drone it unveiled in 2010 as a relay station intended to support remote communications between U.S. Navy ships. The company built Phantom Eye with 150-foot wingspan, 10,000 pounds total takeoff weight, 450-pound payload capacity and two four-cylinder engines producing 150 horsepower each, Wired reported Tuesday. Spencer Ackerman writes the company is [...]
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Raytheon has developed a fuel tank and delivery system for a U.S. Navy weapon system intended to attack maritime targets and still land targets during anti-surface warfare missions. The company integrated a fuel tank into the Joint Standoff Weapon for a test to evaluate the weapon’s end-to-end operations and flight range, Raytheon said Tuesday. According [...]
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Lockheed Martin is holding a series of tests to evaluate an updated missile defense system the company is building for the U.S. Navy. Four additional live firing exercises will be completed aboard the USS Chancellorsville will host four live firing exercises before the ship starts combat system qualification trials later this year, Lockheed said Thursday. [...]
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Lockheed Martin has completed a series of surveillance tests on gyro-based optical sensors with the U.S. Navy as the company and branch aim to deploy the sensors for all military operations. Sailors at the Navy’s Expeditionary Combat Command sailors evaluated the abilities of both the Gyrocam 15-inch dual sensor and 15-inch triple sensor to track [...]
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