Future Weapon Technology

Surface to Air Missiles or SAM’s are a crucial addition to every countries military force. Being able to defend against air attacks from ballistic missiles, bombers, and fighters, gives any military an advantage over their adversary. The Patriot surface-to-air missile is an incredible weapon that is very precise in shooting down incoming munitions or aircraft. The patriot Missile is produced by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. The patriot is in service in a number of countries including Kuwait, Germany, Greece, Israel, and of course the United States. The range of the missile is 70 Km, and…

There is a lot of debate over what the best jet in the world is. I am going to leave this one up to you guys to decide. The f-22 Raptor is stealthy and fast and is a great technologically advanced Fighter, while the F-15C has the best combat record out of any Fighter in the world. All of the jets are great fighters for different reasons. What do you think the best Jet in the world is?

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Ever wonder how the Military tracks and defends from air threats such as mortars, artillery, and other missiles?

Within seconds, the AN/TPQ-36 Firefinder radar system detects and backplots adversary weapons and provides pinpoint targeting information for the counterattack. The medium range Weapon Locating Radar in the Firefinder Family. The TPQ-36 automatically locates enemy medium range mortars, artillery and rocket launchers allowing pinpoint counter fire to be brought to bear. In use by the U.S. Army and Marine Corps and by nations worldwide.

The Firefinder developed by Northrop Grumman is a very technologically advanced land based radar system…

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC)

The Viper is a standoff munition guided by GPS and laser-guidance. The Viper is primarily used in missions that require a flexible angle of attack, either steep or shallow. The weapon is produced by Northrop Grumann’s Land Combat Systems Facility in Alabama. This particular Viper Standoff munition requires a man to lase the target either from the UAV itself where the missile is fired from, or from the ground. The Viper is similar to the Hellfire missile used in the Predator UAV by the US air-force. The Vipers warhead is smaller than the…

The US military and its allies are moving to a faster, more mobile, and more connected and integrated fighting force. The Cyber Warfare Innovation Network is a battlefield management planning and integration system that connects troops, generals, and military planners on a global basis. The Cyber Warfare Innovation network effectively shortens the kill chain in a world of quickly emerging threats. The capabilities of the CWIN are highly complex. As the people at Northrop Grumann of Germany put it:

CWIN provides capability to explore and evaluate Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) management and exploitation, space operations, information

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The Global Hawk is a High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) recconnasaince aircraft UAV, and the most capable one in the world according to many experts. The newest rollout of the Global Hawk is the Block 20, which is the 17th Global Hawk to be designed. The Global Hawk has logged thousands of flight hours; bringing the United States Military incredible information and High-Res imagery. According to Northrop Grumman:

Although this represented only 3 percent of all the air-based image collection missions flown during the war, Global Hawk generated approximately 55 percent of all time-critical data on

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A technology that will increase the Navy’s capable strike distance by ten fold is on the way. Proposed in the 1970’s under the “star wars” Strategic Defense Initiative, railguns are no longer a thing of the past or just an idea on the drawing boards. The United States Office of Naval Research has successfully fired a Railgun and has plans to incorporate the technology into Naval Ships by the year 2020. The main idea in developing the Railgun is to overcome the limitations of chemical projectiles. The Railgun will deliver projectiles to its intended target much…

LCS 1 USS Freedom

Manufacturer: Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]

As part of a modernization drive by the US Navy aiming to incorporate recent advances in naval stealth technology, land attack capabilities, and hull design; the industrial might of the US defense industry has spawned a new class surface combat ships: The Littoral Combat Ship. Littoral is an adjective used to describe the coastal regions of any body of water, as intended to convey the new ships intention to establish preeminence in these areas, both foreign and domestic. The Navy contracted with both General Dynamics and Lockheed…

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The Phalanx MK 15 Close-in-Weapon-System
Manufacturer: Raytheon [NYSE: RTN]

Designed to defeat terminal threats to naval assets such as missiles and close in enemy aircraft, the Phalanx MK 15 is the US Navy’s own innovative CIWS (pronounced “sea wizz”) close-in-weapon-system design. A CIWS is an autonomous electronically guided robot 20 mm gatling gun, which can effectively down incoming missiles or aircraft with a hail of highly destructive gunfire. The machine gun locks onto the incoming target using its own sophisticated radar systems, but the Phalanx recieves instructions as to what incoming targets to engage as designated by the Aegis battle…