U.S. Army

holmes7 · 7 Giugno 2013

Vetronica "Victory" per i mezzi corazzati.

http://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/print/volume-24/issue-5/special-report/emerging-vetronics-standards-aim-to-spell-victory-for-tomorrow-s.html

VICTORY describes an evolving standard that today focuses on vetronics command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and electronic warfare (C4ISR/EW) systems on combat vehicles.

Among the companies lending their names to the VICTORY program are vehicle integrators like Oshkosh Corp. in Oshkosh, Wis.; electronics integrators like General Dynamics C4 Systems in Scottsdale, Ariz., DRS Corp. in Alexandria, Va., and Raytheon Co. in Waltham, Mass.; embedded computing specialists such as Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va., GE Intelligent Platforms in Huntsville, Ala., and Themis Computer in Fremont, Calif.; as well as real-time software companies like Green Hills Software in Santa Barbara, Calif.

"The VICTORY architecture is being developed to facilitate the integration of C4ISR systems into ground vehicles," explains Andrew Shepherd, product manager for vetronics at General Dynamics Canada (GD Canada) in Ottawa. GD Canada is working closely with General Dynamics C4 Systems and other branches of General Dynamics concerned with vetronics design.

.........The VICTORY standard "will drive a lot of commonality for the same functions," Chon says. "If you are running FBCB2, the interfaces would be the same and we can use the same devices that another program may be using. We are building a fundamental framework into the vehicle to integrate incoming devices with a VICTORY-compliant interfaces."

"If you took a vehicle and it had an acoustic shot-detection system, a battle command application, and remote weapons station, and then a shot rings out, the shot-detection would tell you the shot came from over there," says explains David Jedynak, chief technology officer for the COTS Solutions Group of Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions in Ashburn, Va. "With VICTORY, the acoustic shot detection system would publish its message on the network as a VICTORY-compliant threat detection message. The battle command system says I heard a threat detection message and pops it up on the map, and the remote weapon station immediately points at the threat," he says. "It all happens automatically across the data bus because all these systems are joined."

At the heart of the VICTORY architecture as defined today is the Ethernet data network. Ethernet essentially represents a common language for armored vehicle electronics subsystems. For some applications, VICTORY calls out 10 Gigabit Ethernet, for others Ethernet networking that does not have to move data that quickly.

"For some of the sensors and high-definition video, they are asking for 10 gigabit Ethernet. For others it is 1 gigabit or below," says Rubin Dhillon, senior business development manager of communications and networking at the GE Intelligent Platforms military and aerospace division. in Foxborough, Mass. "The bottom line is it calls for Ethernet pipes throughout the vehicle connecting the vetronics together where before it was proprietary links."

holmes7 · 11 Giugno 2013

Arriva la moto "stealth"

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/06/10/zero-motorcycles-testing-stealth-bike-for-u-s-special-forces/

-{-Legolas-}- · 12 Giugno 2013

Arriva la moto "stealth"

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/06/10/zero-motorcycles-testing-stealth-bike-for-u-s-special-forces/

C'è un pò di gusto "Batmoto" in questo rivoluzionario mezzo delle forze speciali.

holmes7 · 18 Giugno 2013

L' ultima "legione" al fronte con i gadgets piu moderni.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/05/tech-of-the-last-brigade/?pid=1843&viewall=true

Modificato 18 Giugno 2013 da holmes7

holmes7 · 28 Giugno 2013

Nuovo proiettili d'artiglieria Multi-Service Standard Guided Projectile (MS-SGP). Se ne dovrebbe ricavare una versione in calibro 155mm e una da 127mm per uso navale.

Notare la precisione davvero notevole.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HwETlaijOW8