Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser
Manufacturer: Northrop Grumman [NYSE: NOC]

The Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser (MTHEL) missile defense system is likely the most successful design for defeating high trajectory threats in theaters of operation. Under the constant threat from incoming projectiles, the nation of Israel designed this system using existing technologies; the main challenge being to incorporate them all together in a deployable package. The laser is a deuterium flouride beam, which operates on such a wavelength to deliver intense heat for up to 5 km. Upon detecting a launched threat, the system’s radar identifies and tracks…

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…

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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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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…

The Lockheed Martin-developed Aegis Weapon System is the world’s premier naval air defense system and the sea-based element of the United States’ Ballistic Missile Defense System. Let’s just hope it actually works when it counts and not just in tests like the one in the video below.Several navies around the world are joining the growing Aegis family as they consider alternatives for new ship classes. Today’s Aegis Weapon System is the only operational radar and weapon system capable of simultaneous warfare against air, surface, subsurface and land targets. The Aegis System is an extremely complex weapon system.

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