By Army News Service on Thursday, June 20th, 2013 The Army is incorporating a brand new sensor capability into its Apache helicopters. The Apache Sensors Product Office has accepted delivery of the recent Modernized Day Sensor Assembly Laser Rangefinder Designator, or LRFD, the primary section of be fielded inside the Modernized Day Sensor Assembly. The laser represents increased capability to the Modernized Target Acquisition Designation Sight/Pilot Night Vision Sensor, often called the “eyes of the Apache.” “This laser kit, what we call M-DSA phase one, is an investment by the military and this system Executive Office for Aviation, and we’re... Read More »

By Agence France-Presse on Monday, June 17th, 2013 Three top European defence firms called Sunday on governments to launch a program to fabricate drones that European countries are currently having to purchase from Israel or the U.S.. France’s Dassault Aviation, European aerospace giant EADS and Italy’s Finmeccanica argued this sort of joint program would “support the aptitude needs of European military while optimizing the difficult budgetary situation through pooling of study and development funding”. They said in a press release they were prepared to interact at the creation of a ecu MALE (medium-altitude, long-endurance) drone, which permits surveillance of vast... Read More »

By Agence France-Presse on Friday, June 21st, 2013 The US military has destroyed greater than 77,000 metric lots of military equipment — including mine-resistant troop transport vehicles — because it prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan in late 2014, the Washington Post reported Thursday. More than $7 billion worth of military equipment isn’t any longer needed, or will be too expensive to ship back to america, and far of it’s being shredded and sold locally as scrap metal, the Post reported, citing US military officials. Donating the gear to the Afghan government is hard thanks to complicated bureaucratic rules, plus US... Read More »

By Raytheon on Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon Company recently completed a four-year development program of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer (MALD-J) under budget. As portion of the event program, the MALD and MALD-J flew a complete of 30 successful engineering and operational flight tests with a super 30-for-30 record. The MALD-J’s flight test record was 15-for-15 of that total. “The MALD program continues to surpass expectations in performance and capability,” said Harry Schulte, vp of Raytheon Missile Systems’ Air Warfare Systems. “The MALD-J provides significant improvement in strike survivability and tactical electronic attack, giving... Read More »

By Army News Service on Wednesday, June 19th, 2013 What all of it comes all the way down to is keeping Soldiers’ minds on their missions in Afghanistan, instead of on their feet. That’s how Ben Cooper views the event of the new Weather Mountain Combat Boot, or HWMCB, at Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center, which began in spring 2011. Cooper thought it was so important that he got permission to continue engaged on the boot after leaving the Footwear Performance Laboratory at NSRDEC to become a senior materials engineer for the Air Force, still situated at Natick.... Read More »