NASA Futuristic 2020 Mars Rover Unveiled Kennedy Space Center

It looks like something out of this world, but that's exactly where it would work. A futuristic Mars rover concept vehicle was recently unveiled at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex with a goal of inspiration and education as NASA continues developing plans for its journey to the Red Planet.
The visitor complex kicked off its "Summer of Mars" promotion with a June 5 ceremony which included former astronaut Scott Kelly. During his appearance, Kelly shared some of his experiences during a one-year stay aboard the International Space Station from March 27, 2015 to Feb. 3, 2016.
According to Rebecca Shireman, assistant manager of public relations for the Kennedy visitor complex, the "Summer of Mars" program will provide a survey of NASA's studies of the Red Planet.
"It's an all-encompassing effort to review the history of our efforts to explore Mars and look ahead to what is being planned," she said. "We hope this will encourage young people to want to learn more about being a part of the effort to go to Mars."
NASA's next robotic Mars rover is set to land on the Red Planet in 2020. The Mars 2020 rover will search for signs of past microbial life and collect core samples for a potentially future return to Earth.
The builders of the scientifically-themed Mars rover concept vehicle, Parker Brothers Concepts of Port Canaveral, Florida, incorporated input into its design from NASA subject matter experts. Construction of the Mars rover was commissioned by the Kennedy visitor complex without use of taxpayer dollars.
The rover operates on an electric motor, powered by solar panels and a 700-volt battery. The rover separates in the middle with the front area designed for scouting and equipped with a radio and navigation provided by the Global Positioning System. The back section serves as a laboratory which can disconnect for autonomous research. While this exact rover is not expected to operate on Mars, one or more of its elements could make its way into a rover astronauts will drive on the Red Planet.
Following several weeks on display at Kennedy's visitor complex, the Mars rover concept vehicle will be displayed at several locations. From July through August, it will be displayed at several locations during a tour along the East Coast.
Shireman explained that the Mars rover concept vehicle will return to the visitor complex to be part of the new Astronaut Training Experience attraction opening in the fall of this year.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-nasa-unveils-mars-rover-concept.html#jCp


Source: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-nasa-unveils-mars-rover-concept.html


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U.S. Navy Released the Kraken: Maximizing U.S. Pilots Performance (NAMRU-D Promo - Interviews)

The Kraken is a mystical creature from the deep whose tentacles twist and toss its victims until they don't know which way is up. Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton, stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, is using its own Kraken not to destroy but to save lives. See how this monster from the depths is working to protect American aviators. The KRAKEN disorientation device is an advanced motion system with multiple capabilities, operated by the Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH.

Source: http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmrc/Pages/namrud.htm

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INDIAN ARMY FIRES BLOCK III BRAHMOS CRUISE MISSILE

The BrahMos (Hindi: ब्रह्मोस brahmos, Russian: Брамосl) is a short-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarine, ships, aircraft, or land. It is a joint venture between the Russian Federation's NPO Mashinostroeyenia and India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) who have together formed BrahMos Aerospace. It is based on the Russian P-800 Oniks cruise missile and other similar sea-skimming Russian cruise missile technology. The name BrahMos is a portmanteau formed from the names of two rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.

It is the world's fastest anti-ship cruise missile in operation. The missile travels at speeds of Mach 2.8 to 3.0. The land-launched and ship-launched versions are already in service, with the air and submarine-launched versions currently in the testing phase.] An air-launched variant of BrahMos is planned which came out in 2012. A hypersonic version of the missile, BrahMos-II, is also presently under development with speed of Mach 7-8 to boost aerial fast strike capability. It is expected to be ready for testing by 2017.

Though India had wanted the BrahMos to be based on a mid range cruise missile like P-700 Granit. Its propulsion is based on the Russian missile, and missile guidance has been developed by BrahMos Aerospace. The missile is expected to reach a total order US$13 billion.

In 2016, as India became a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), India and Russia are now planning to jointly develop a new generation of Brahmos missiles with 600 km-plus range and an ability to hit protected targets with pinpoint accuracy


Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrahMos


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Darpa's Rapid-deployable Undersea Optical Network: TUNA 1st Phase Completion (Report)

The Tactical Undersea Network Architectures (TUNA) program seeks to develop and demonstrate novel optical-fiber-based technology options and designs to temporarily restore tactical data network connectivity in a contested environment. TUNA is currently in an initial phase that emphasizes concept and technology development in three technical areas: system design, small fiber optic cable systems, and buoy nodes.

System design performers are aiming to develop novel system architecture designs that integrate a military tactical data network into a rapidly deployable temporary undersea network. Small fiber optic cable systems performers are seeking to develop lightweight, buoyant unpowered optical fiber technologies capable of surviving deployment and operation in the ocean for at least 30 days. Buoy nodes performers are tasked to develop rapidly deployable buoy node designs and component technologies.

DARPA envisions a second phase to implement an integrated end-to-end system, and to test and evaluate this system in a laboratory setting, simulations and at-sea demonstrations.

DARPA’s Tactical Undersea Network Architecture (TUNA) program recently completed its initial phase, successfully developing concepts and technologies aimed at restoring connectivity for U.S. forces when traditional tactical networks are knocked offline or otherwise unavailable. The program now enters the next phase, which calls for the demonstration of a prototype of the system at sea.

TUNA seeks to develop and demonstrate novel, optical-fiber-based technology options and designs to temporarily restore radio frequency (RF) tactical data networks in a contested environment via an undersea optical fiber backbone. The concept involves deploying RF network node buoys—dropped from aircraft or ships, for example—that would be connected via thin underwater fiber-optic cables. The very-small-diameter fiber-optic cables being developed are designed to last 30 days in the rough ocean environment—long enough to provide essential connectivity until primary methods of communications are restored.

“Phase 1 of the program included successful modeling, simulation, and at-sea tests of unique fiber-cable and buoy-component technologies needed to make such an undersea architecture work,” said John Kamp, program manager in DARPA’s Strategic Technology Office. “Teams were able to design strong, hair-thin, buoyant fiber-optic cables able to withstand the pressure, saltwater, and currents of the ocean, as well as develop novel power generation concepts.”

Source: http://www.darpa.mil/program/tactical-undersea-network-architectures

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Polish Army & United States Army - Anti-Tank Weapon

Anti-tank warfare arose as a result of the need to develop technology and tactics to destroy tanks during the First World War. Since the first tanks were developed by the allies in 1916 but not principally used till 1917 the first anti-tank weapon was developed by Germany. It was a scaled-up bolt-action rifle designated the Mauser Tank-Gewehr Model 1918 that fired a 13mm cartridge with a solid bullet that could penetrate the thin armor of tanks of the time and destroy the engine or ricochet inside killing occupants.[1] Because tanks represent an enemy's greatest force projection (aside from nuclear artillery and tank vs. tank engagements), anti-tank warfare has been incorporated into the doctrine of nearly every combat service since. The predominant anti-tank weapons at the start of the Second World War were the tank-mounted gun, limbered (towed) anti-tank guns and anti-tank grenades used by the infantry as well as ground-attack aircraft such as the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka.

Anti-tank warfare evolved rapidly, particularly on the Eastern Front, to include new infantry and infantry support weapons such as the bazooka, anti-tank combat engineering, specialized anti-tank aircraft and self-propelled anti-tank guns (tank destroyers). Both the Soviet Red Army and the German Army developed methods of combating tank-led offensives, including deployment of static anti-tank weapons embedded in in-depth defensive positions, protected by anti-tank obstacles and minefields, and supported by mobile anti-tank reserves and ground attack aircraft.

From the Korean War to the Cold War, The United States, Soviet Union and other countries faced the possibility that a nuclear weapon could be detonated over an area of tank concentration in one strike. While technology was developed to protect crews of armored vehicles from the effects of radiation, the same could not be done for all their supporting arms and the supply train on which tanks depend for spares, fuel and maintenance. In the NATO countries little if any development took place on defining a doctrine of how to use armed forces without the use of tactical nuclear weapons. In the Soviet sphere of influence the legacy doctrine of operational maneuver was being theoretically examined to understand how a tank-led force could be used even with the threat of limited use of nuclear weapons on the European battlefield. The solution they arrived at was maneuver warfare while massively increasing the number of anti-tank weapons. To achieve this, Soviet military theorists (such as Vasily Sokolovsky) realized that anti-tank weapons had to assume an offensive role rather than the traditionally defensive role of the Great Patriotic War by becoming more mobile. This led to the development of improved guided anti-tank missiles, though similar design work was being performed in Western Europe and the United States.

The French SS.10 missile was the first successfully used in anti-tank combat—by the Israel Defense Forces during the Suez Crisis of 1956,[dubious – discuss] but the impact of Soviet anti-tank missile tactics was not evident until 1973, when Russian 9K11 Malyutka (Sagger) missiles were used by the Egyptian and Syrian armies during the Yom Kippur War against Israel. The outcome suggested that although the French missiles were a threat, they could be countered. The explosive power delivered by the missiles convinced NATO tank designers to continue their emphasis on increased armor, while Soviet designers retained their emphasis on mobility of tank-led forces. The utility of the light anti-tank weapon was also recognized by both sides of the Cold War and led to further development of man-portable weapons used by the infantry squad, while heavier missiles were mounted on dedicated missile tank-destroyers, including dedicated anti-tank helicopters, and even heavier guided anti-tank missiles launched from aircraft. Also being developed were new varieties of artillery munitions in the form of top-attack shells, and shells that were used to saturate areas with anti-armor bomblets. Helicopters could be used as well to rapidly deliver scattered anti-tank mines.


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General Dynamics' MUTT at Modern Day Marine 2016 (Interview and Overview)

General Dynamics Land Systems display the next series of robotic Multi-Utility Tactical Transport (MUTT). The expanding ‘lighten-the-load’ product line includes the 8x8 and 6x6 wheeled versions, as well as the .50 caliber weaponized MUTT. The MUTT has proven to be a rugged, reliable, small-unit force multiplier that provides increased persistence, protection and projection of combat power for land forces.

The Marines have begun testing and using the MUTT. The MUTT can take some of the load off the Marines back as well as join the fight when weapons are mounted to it.

Source: http://www.generaldynamics.com/news/press-releases/2016/09/innovate-adapt-and-win-general-dynamics-demonstrate-innovative-solutions

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BAE Systems' APKWS Laser-Guided Rocket Fire Tests: Surgical Precision Mayhem

The BAE Systems' Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) turns a standard unguided 2.75-inch (70 millimeter) rocket into a precision laser-guided rocket to give warfighters a low-cost surgical strike capability.

APKWS Laser-Guided Rocket shots with the M282 warhead during tests at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

In 2013, the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy conducted the APKWS Fixed Wing Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) to determine the performance and utility of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System rocket.

APKWS is approximately one-third the cost and one-third the weight of the current inventory of laser-guided weapons, has a lower yield more suitable for avoiding collateral damage, and takes one quarter of the time for ordnance personnel to load and unload. As of October 2015, BAE Systems had manufactured 5,000 APKWS units.

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Eurosatory 2016

Eurosatory has just closed its doors and is once again a success: 1,572 exhibitors from 56 countries and 57,018 visitors from 151 countries came as well as 1018 journalists received accreditation to take part to this well-balanced exhibition between Defence and Security.

This world leading event continues to develop with an increase in attendance of Asian exhibitors, a high expansion in cyber, unmanned global systems and robotics.

An important growth of high-profile visitors has been recorded: 213 official delegations from 94 countries (i.e 827 VIP) visited the exhibition. Eurosatory also received the visit of 13 Defence ministers, 23 Defence Vice Ministers and State Secretaries. 25 National Armaments
Directors and 19 Armed forces and Army Chiefs of Staff were also welcomed.

Already recognized as an international exhibition, a technology showcase and a business platform, Eurosatory is now identified as a strong pole of reflection, with the organisation of more than 80 conferences where military, manufacturers, politicians, media and researchers have thought together on ways of making a safer world for the future.

The organisers thank all the participants who have made this 2016 edition a brilliant success and invite you for the 26th edition of Eurosatory, to be held in June 2018, from the 11th to the 15th.

Source: http://www.eurosatory.com/#fermer

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Belgian B-Hunter UAV: Preps, Show-off and Taking off (Footage)

Belgian B-Hunter UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) filmed at Koksijde Air Base, Belgium on June 28, 2016.

The IAI RQ-5 Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was originally intended to serve as the United States Army's Short Range UAV system for division and corps commanders. It took off and landed (using arresting gear) on runways. It used a gimbaled EO/IR sensor to relay its video in real time via a second airborne Hunter over a C-band line-of-sight data link. The RQ-5 is based on the Hunter UAV that was developed by Israel Aircraft Industries.

In 1998 the Belgian Air Force purchased three B-Hunter UAV-systems, each consisting of six aircraft and two ground control stations.

Specifications-General characteristics

Capacity: Payload: 90 kg (198 lb)
Length: 7 m (23 ft 0 in)
Wingspan: 8.9 m (29 ft 2 in)
Gross weight: 727 kg (1,603 lb)
Powerplant: 2 × Moto Guzzi twin cylinder, 4 stroke engines

Performance

Endurance: 11.6 hours at 260 km (140 nmi; 162 mi)
Service ceiling: 4,600 m (15,092 ft)

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TrackingPoint’s 7.62 NATO NightDragon Precision-Guided Firearm Teaser

This special edition NightDragon Precision-Guided semi-automatic 7.62 NATO includes TrackingPoint’s recently introduced Night Vision Kit. The NightDragon™ semi-automatic 7.62 NATO includes TrackingPoint’s recently introduced Night Vision Kit (NVK).

NightDragon™ incorporates the same RapidLok™ technology found in TrackingPoint’s military Precision-Guided Firearms. NightDragon™ is purpose-built for predator eradication, hog eradication, and homestead defense. It allows for precision target elimination 24/7/365. NightDragon™ is also well suited for herd management and dynamic hunting (500-yard Target Lock Range, 15 mph Max Target Velocity, Night Vision).

Features and Capabilities:

-Eliminates targets out to 500 yards
-Tracks targets moving up to 15 MPH
-Night vision capabilities (with IR illuminator attachment)
-Image Stabilization enables off-hand on-the-move stalking
-Records voice and video of all engagements
-RapidLok™ Target Acquisition and Control System with  
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-Can be financed for up to 48 months (payments as low as
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-Night Vision

NightDragonTM incorporates an infrared-sensitive CMOS sensor that detects light not visible to the human eye. Depending on the strength of the IR illuminator, targets can be engaged and tracked out to 200 yards at night. As a shooter pulls the trigger, the target is automatically acquired and tracked. When trigger pull completes, the target is instantly eliminated. Total Time-To-Kill (TTK) is approximately 2.5 seconds. RapidLokTM Fire Control is image stabilized enabling off-hand shots and shots on the run.

RapidLok™ Target Acquisition and Fire Control

As you pull the trigger the target is automatically acquired and tracked. When trigger pull completes, the target is instantly eliminated. Total Time-To-Kill (TTK) is approximately 2.5 seconds. RapidLok™ Fire Control is image stabilized enabling dynamic off-hand shots and shots on the run.

Shared Dominance

NightDragonTM records voice and video. As the shooter engages a target he can voice annotate the recorded video in real-time, creating a rich media experience of his engagement to be shared with friends and family.

Zero-Signature Lethality

When deployed with ShotGlassTM the shooter is completely unexposed. In effect the shooter becomes the predator with skills well beyond the skills of the predator. Wearing the digital glasses the shooter can see exactly what NightDragonTM is seeing without exposing their body or head. The scope view is projected into the shooters ShotGlassTM so shooters can acquire predators with virtually no exposure making the shooter undetectable by the predator. Shooters can engage from virtually any hidden position – over berms, over walls, and around corners with extremely high eradication rates.

Purchase comes with:
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1 Bipod Rail Adapter
1 Pivot Bipod 6-9 inch
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Elbit Systems' IronVision HMS: Tank Crews can now see through the armor like glass (Overview/Promo)

Elbit Systems has debuted a new sensor-fused Helmet Mounted System (HMS) that allows tank commanders to essentially see through the walls of their armored vehicles. IronVision, the vehicle-adapted HMS provides “protective glass walls” for tank or armored fighting vehicle crews who may need to operate in so-called closed-hatch mode when maneuvering in high-threat areas. The system has been developed from using airborne platform technologies to help improve crew’s abilities to locate, identify, track and engage enemy forces and threats.

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Top 10 Sniper Rifles: The Snipers' choice for Headshots (2016 Edition)

A Top 10 Sniper Rifles for 2016. Check out which sniper rifles made it to the top of snipers' arsenal!

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Howitzers' Evolution for the Digital Era: M119 Howitzer Digital Fire Control

A tour inside Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey to look at how they are updating the M119 Howitzer with a digital fire control system.

Digitized M119A2 howitzer will make it possible to start firing rounds and evade return fire quicker.

The M119A2 is a lightweight 105mm howitzer that provides suppressive and protective fires for Infantry Brigade Combat Teams.
The M119 howitzer is the US designation for the L119 light gun, a lightweight British 105 mm howitzer also used by the United States Army. It can be easily airlifted by helicopter, or dropped by parachute and provides suppressive and protective fires for Infantry Brigade Combat Teams.

The upgraded M119 will be equipped with a digital fire control system that includes an inertial navigation unit, guided-precision system technology and other features that will give the weapon the ability to determine its precise geographical location on its own.

Safety testing ensures that the weapon system is still safe for Soldiers use after the assembly and integration of the fire control system onto the M119.

One benefit of the digital fire control system is improved survivability because it reduces emplacement and displacement times, according to Keith Gooding, project manager of Towed Artillery Systems for PEO Ammunition.

"Howitzers are indirect fire weapons, which means you can't always see what you're shooting at. The M119A2 currently has glass and iron optical sites on the weapon that are used to survey and find the howitzer's location." as Keith Gooding stated.

Using optical sites usually takes troops about 10 minutes to survey and assess their location, aim, and then fire the first round.

However, the digitized M119 includes a GPS-aided Inertial Navigation Unit, or INU, that knows where the weapon is at all times, so optical sites are not needed to determine location. The INU allows the Soldier to ready the howitzer and fire the first round in two to three minutes.

Gooding compared the INU to a GPS navigation unit in a car, only more accurate.

In addition to assisting infantry troops quickly, the digital fire-control system will help the M119A2 cannoneers avoid enemy fire by allowing them to "shoot and scoot."

With the ability to aim more accurately, there's less human interaction and human interpretation because Soldiers use a computer to tell them where the cannon tube should be pointing.

SOFTWARE

The software development and integration of the digital fire control system onto the M119 was conducted in-house at ARDEC, thus eliminating the need for an outside prime contractor.

Ninety percent of the software used on the M119A2 was taken from the M777A2. This provides useful standardization between the Army's three howitzers, the M777A2, the Paladin self-propelled 155mm Howitzer and now the M119A2.

The Paladin software was developed and is now maintained at Picatinny, the same holds for the M777A2 Howitzer. Now, the software associated with the digitized M119A2 will also claim its roots at Picatinny. The same government lab will have responsibility for the software on all three Army artillery pieces, something that TCM-BCT (TRADOC Capability Manager for Brigade Combat Teams) has been pushing for.

The M119A2 is the last howitzer to be digitalized. Using similar software also made the upgrades less expensive because separate development efforts and teams were not needed.

Facilities in Building 92 at Picatinny were converted into a maintenance type environment where the howitzers, the digital fire control equipment and the integration documentation were all housed for a three-week period.

During this time, the ARDEC engineering community transformed the M119A2 production howitzers into digitized weapons. The detailed, step by step sequence of events required to integrate the digital fire control onto the howitzers were proven out by the team at ARDEC and documented in the MWO.

The end result is howitzers ready for Integration Testing and a validated MWO which will be used as the baselining document to digitize all M119s once testing is completed.

The program is currently funded to retrofit 603 weapons with the digital fire-control system.

More Info:

https://www.army.mil/article/155135/M119_howitzer_still_plays_critical_role_for_Army/

https://www.army.mil/article/70329/M119A2_Howitzer_upgrade_provides_quicker_firepower/

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ISMT trainer for the Marine Corps: Overview at Sea-Air-Space 2016 (Interview)

Overview of the new and improved Indoor Simulated Markmanship Trainer (ISMT) for the Marine Corps The Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Expo 2016.

ISMT is a three dimensional simulation-based trainer for indoor use capable of instruction in basic and advanced marksmanship, shoot/no-shoot judgment, combat marksmanship and weapons employment tactics. The trainer consists of an Instructor Station, audio/visual system, and weapons firing position.

Each firing position is capable of operating simulated weapons that include AT4, M2 (.50 cal), M9, M16A4, M16A2 fully sensored, M240G, M203, MK19, MP5, SAW, M870 12 gauge shotgun, SMAW, M224 60mm mortar, M252 81 mm mortar, M4A1, SRAW (Predator), and joint services combat shotgun.

The ISMT's can be linked together to allow Infantry Squad Training consisting of twelve firing positions. ISMT-E can also provide Forward Observer Spotting/Control of indirect fire and night vision training capabilities in addition to its baseline features.

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Mixed Reality War: ONR's BEMR Lab at Sea-Air-Space 2016 (Interview)

At this year's Sea-Air-Space expo, the VR training tools that ONR has been working on are presented to the public.

New virtual-reality capabilities emerging at the Battlespace Exploitation of Mixed Reality—or BEMR—Lab, in San Diego, California, will make dramatic impacts across the Navy and Marine Corps, including advancements in affordable virtual training, data assessment, firing of weapons and even basic concepts of operations.

The program is sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and developed at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, Pacific (SSC Pacific).

Viewers can get an inside look at some of the technology of ONR.

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