A case for simplicity.

Warrior Talk News Blog has an excellent article for those of us that practice concealed carry.  The theme is simplicity and its worth a few minutes.  Read it here.

Mungo-An option to keep your Airborne or Heliborne Infantry Motorized.

What's one of the many issues for Heliborne or Airborne Infantry the minute their feet touch ground? 

Mobility.

Fortunately, their is a compact solution that is capable of transporting 10 Infantryman per vehicle and is capable of being carried internally in CH-53 or CH-47 aircraft.

Introducing KMW's Mungo.

Multimission deployment range 
The MUNGO family of air-portable vehicles is tailored specifically to the requirements of highly-mobile airborne forces: airportable in a CH53 or CH47, protected, highly-mobile, multi-purpose and logistically easy to supply. Weighing just 5.3 tons overall, the MUNGO can transport ten fully equipped soldiers. The MUNGO is the ideal solution for deploying airportable forces in crisis situations. The vehicle can be disarmed for loading on a CH53 or CH47 transport helicopter or armed for deployment in only five minutes. C130 and A400M transport aircraft can even be used for transporting two or three MUNGOs together with their ten-man crew. The MUNGO can also be transported by helicopter as an external load.

The EFV has a new page.

It looks like Colonel Moore and his boys have been busy not only testing and getting the EFV ready for its budget battle but also have finally decided to revamp their website.

If you've read SNAFU! then you know I've been a little bit annoyed at how this program has been run.

At what I considered a critical point in the "info" wars concerning this vehicle the website even went off line.  I wondered why, I questioned the wisdom of those in charge and I even believed a little "wall to wall" counseling was called for.

Looks like I was wrong.

Yep, the Marine Corps is all in when it comes to the EFV, and this revamped site with all the bells and whistles is another shot toward getting the word out.

LITEF IMU ... what?????

Northrop Grumman LITEF IMU on Typhoon

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by EADS Defence & Security to deliver inertial measurement units (IMU) for Tranche 3A of the Eurofighter Typhoon. The IMUs will be built by the company's German navigation systems subsidiary, Northrop Grumman LITEF.
Developed as part of the flight control system of the Eurofighter Typhoon, the IMU system, with its highly accurate inertial sensors and built-in redundancy, is the sole sensor which measures the motion of the aircraft and continuously provides motion data to the flight control computer to drive the control systems and actuators. This closed control loop stabilization system enables the aircraft to perform with extreme agility as well as a high degree of maneuverability, ensuring it can operate to the maximum of its capability and to the limit of its flight envelope. In a secondary function, the IMU provides backup navigation data.

United States Tanker

Ok this is pure propaganda but it has historical flashes none-the-less. Follow the link.


United States Tanker

Stalker UAS

Nice Product, Weird Company.

I just found another of those weird little businesses that provides specialized military equipment but does it behind a veil of serving the needs of residential consumers.  Check out NetStar Technologies.