Jan 27
While U.S. military has had its fair share of bungled development programs—just look at the V-22 Osprey
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Jan 23
The above is not bonus footage from Battleship. Nor is it promotional material for a fancy video game. What it is, though, is definitive proof that the U.S. Navy will always have way cooler toys than you.
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Jan 17
When an advanced Soviet submarine sank in the Pacific in 1968, the CIA decided to risk World War III on a daring covert mission, using this massive barge to raise the sunken vessel and pry out its secrets.
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Jan 16
If you’re driving along the New Jersey turnpike just outside of Moorsetown and think you see the top of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer peeking above endless rows of corn, miles from the nearest ocean, don’t worry—it’s supposed to be there. It’s just a full-size mock up that Lockheed uses to develop its AEGIS Combat System.
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Dec 05
US Navy Launches UAV From Submarine
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One good thing about submarines is this – they can be silent predators of the sea, moving around from coast to coast while carrying a whole lot of nuclear firepower, making it a potential threat to any enemy country. Well, it seems that the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) with funding from SwampWorks at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Department of Defense Rapid Reaction Technology Office (DoD/RRTO) has managed to put all of that money to good use by introducing an all-electric, fuel cell-powered, unmanned aerial system (UAS) which can be launched from a submerged submarine.
One would wonder now, will Amazon eventually muster up enough money to purchase a submarine so that they can deliver your package to you from a drone that has been fired from the submarine to make the Amazon Prime Air program all the more glitzy? That’s a crazy though that will most probably not happen for sure, but this UAS has taken under half a dozen years of work before results were produced. Launched vertically from a ‘Sea Robin’ launch vehicle, the folding wing UAS will autonomously deploys its X-wing airfoil once it has achieved a marginal altitude, before it assumes horizontal flight configuration. Let us see it put to good use on the battlefield now! [Press Release]
US Navy Launches UAV From Submarine original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Dec 05
Today the U.S. Navy announced that it successfully launched
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Dec 05
If you thought launching a drone from an aircraft carrier
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Dec 02
We all know by now that 3D printing is the future of manufacturing—even the president says so. The march of progress doesn’t always move as quickly as we’d like, however, especially when the military-industrial complex is involved. While 3D printing machines are becoming steadily cheaper and the possibilities incredibly sophisticated, the disparate branches of the U.S. armed forces tend to move slowly, weighed down by procedure and convention. However, there’s plenty of evidence to believe that’s changing when 3D printing is concerned.
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Nov 18
I love this photo by U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Shane A. Jackson: sailors standing aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley during a turn at full speed. It’s crazy to think that a 509-foot-long beast that displaces 9,200 tons can make such high-speed maneuvers.
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Nov 17
The whole point of testing things is to ward off future problems, right? And the Navy has plenty to look into since a drone that was deployed as a radar test crashed into a ship during a weapons system test. Test. Testing. Test.
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