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The United States military has recently expressed its interest in outfitting Marine vehicles with advanced weapons systems, capable of shooting down incoming projectiles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) if they become a threat.
Officials announced that this capability needs to be implemented on existing vehicles ... |
10 April 2012
09:14 GMT |
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The United States Navy launched a new tactical satellite from Florida yesterday, February 24. The advanced Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) spacecraft will improve the nation's communication capabilities, and help soldiers in the field gain the upper hand in any confrontation.As the name implies, MUOS-1 i... |
25 February 2012
04:10 GMT |
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According to representatives from the US Navy, the Department of Defense and the Lockheed Martin Corporation will launch a new satellite today, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
The spacecraft will take off at around 5:46 pm EST (2246 GMT) on February 16. It represents a part of the Mobile User Objective Sy... |
16 February 2012
03:49 GMT |
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At this point, railguns are among the most devastating long-range weapons that can be deployed to the battlefield. Experts at the US Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) want to make them even more effective, by having them fire in rapid succession.
The thing about railguns is that they use electromagnetic forces to ... |
9 February 2012
06:37 GMT |
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About a week ago, the second X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle took off from the Edwards Air Force Base (EAFB), in California, at around 12:43 pm PST (2043 GMT). This was the second prototype of the new drone that flew successfully from California. As a result, the US Navy and Northrop Grumman – the company behind ... |
28 November 2011
11:03 GMT |
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The US Navy announces the first successful trip of its algae-biofuel powered destroyer ship, that succeeded in reaching its destination, after a 20-hour trip.
This is a major achievement since representatives behind this project say the innovative kind of biofuel can efficiently replace the fossil fuel usage, rep... |
19 November 2011
03:52 GMT |
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The X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System, which was developed by the Northrop Grumman Corporation and the United States Navy, has just been awarded the 2011 Best of What's New (BOWN) award in the Aviation & Space category of Popular Science magazine.
Officials at Northrop are very pleased about getting this nod, si... |
16 November 2011
10:48 GMT |
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On Friday, October 21, The Boeing Company delivered the 12th modified C-40A aircraft to the United States Navy. These airplanes are now able to carry both troops and cargo, depending on the missions they are assigned to.
This particular aircraft was officially handed over the its new owners during a ceremony in Wic... |
25 October 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Officials at the Northrop Grumman Corporation announce that their X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration aircraft took its first flight in a cruise configuration on September 30.
The achievement marks an important milestone for the program, which is developed for the US Navy. Now that the aircraft is prove... |
10 October 2011
09:54 GMT |
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Engineers from the leading military contractor Northrop Grumman and the United States Navy announce the successful completion of a series of tests, meant to prove that the newly-developed X-47B Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) can be operated from aircraft carriers. The X-47B – developed from the X-47A Peg... |
6 July 2011
03:01 GMT |
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On February 4, officials from the United States Navy and Northrop Grumman witnessed the maiden flight of a new airborne system. The aircraft was developed to meet the Navy's requirements for the new war zones it's currently engaged in.People who saw the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstration (UCAS-D... |
8 February 2011
05:41 GMT |
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As part of a contract with the United States Navy, the Boeing Company has just been awarded an additional $23 million in order to complete a lab demonstrator of a 100-kilowatt Free Electron Laser.The FEL device is estimated to cost about $163 million overall. Cost estimates are however premature, given that the proje... |
14 September 2010
05:55 GMT |
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Motion sickness can happen to most people, whether they are in a car, a train, an airplane or sailing on a ship. NASA researchers however say that it is all a matter of mind control. The agency is currently testing a new method, meant to help astronauts adjust to microgravity.Spaceflight has the same effect on cosmon... |
9 August 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announce that they have dispatched the ship Thomas Jefferson into the Gulf of Mexico. The vessel is to travel at the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and install monitoring and other scientific equipment at the location. This will allow... |
27 May 2010
05:09 GMT |
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In the darkest day of World War II, when German submarines were patrolling the waters alongside the Eastern seaboards of the United States, many a trawling and fishing vessels were pressed into active duty, outfitted with small cannons and machine guns, and sent out on patrol. Large numbers of these vessels fell prey... |
11 September 2009
14:11 GMT |
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As the United States try to reduce their dependency on foreign oil, the Navy is one of the leading actors in this effort. Its ships consume vast amounts of oil each year, and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is looking at reducing these amounts by as much as possible. Recently, they've created a new, underwate... |
25 August 2009
08:38 GMT |
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The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) is currently engaged in a research effort that holds the promise of coming up with a brand new type of materials to be used in coating the Navy's ships. According to the engineers involved, the move will considerably reduce the drag that the ships are currently experiencing ... |
5 June 2009
05:53 GMT |
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The dream of developing a method of obtaining nuclear fusion has been a long-standing one for physicists, ever since the idea was first proposed. Basically, cold fusion is the opposite process of nuclear fission, the method that is currently used in atomic power plants to produce electricity. These facilities split a... |
24 March 2009
05:02 GMT |
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The US Navy and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) environmental organization came to a settlement in their lawsuit, which the group, supported by other similar organizations, filed against the military, in an attempt to force the removal of mid-frequency sonar waves from routine naval exercises. About a mo... |
29 December 2008
03:56 GMT |
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