Not necessarily unique, but here's THAAD doing it's dance on range. Starts at 0:06

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Fire balloons launched by the Japanese against us and Canada during WWII. One resulted in the only deaths (6) of Americans on CONUS by enemy action during the war:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...oon_moffet.jpg

Saw it on this episode of Future Weapons.

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Each bomblet has its own identification and tracking system. As it hovers over an area it searches for vehicles, when it identifies one it locks on and fires its weapon which shoots a jet of molten copper.

My flash player is currently dropping a turd on my head, but i'll check it out soon, thanx for that...

Bumping this thread, there is just too much incredible technology out there right now to not keep up with it, I will make efforts to update frequently

So lets start back with THAAD, its hard to fathom the extreme accuracy involved in trusting a kinetic weapon to take out a missile

Why would you not want an explosive warhead for insurance, proximity fused to go off if its going to be a near miss etc? With all of the problems involved in creating the latest missiles for various platforms and their accuracy/reliability that I read about... its just difficult to understand how THAAD can be trusted to be so accurate

Someone help me understand here


Now to another interest...


I am totally fascinated with our various stealth aircraft craft and the technology they employ

So anyway, it appears that certain nations like Australia are looking for cost effective alternative/complementary pieces for the F-35 and are rebuilding and retrofitting the old but legendary and still quite viable F-15 airframe into stealthy assets

Notice the body reframing, matte finish of stealth coatings and recessed bomb bay of the Silent Eagle...

https://www.google.com/search?q=f-15...y67GXXaOaGM%3A

https://www.google.com/search?q=f-15...H2IQOgqN9NM%3A

And while there isnt a single link I can find to prove it, it sure looks like the F-16 on the left, the prettiest little warbird ever created IMO, the Porsche roadster of fighter jets has gotten the same stealthy treatment

You can ditch the fuel pods on the wings of the 15-16 too, look how sleek and radar evasive they would be without those

http://www.janes.com/article/63090/a...cise-concludes

one of these is on the hill overlooking Ft. Riley.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2102

The 15's rcs is going to need more than paint and a recessed bay, better break out the sawzaw.

as far as I've see the Silent Eagle died since no one committed to purchase

http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircr...ircraft_id=844

Based on what I've read it isnt meant to be/cant be true stealth, but does have a significantly reduced RCS

Yeah the pic I posted from Janes might just make it look like a Silent Eagle, but it appears that Israel wants to order some of them

https://warisboring.com/israel-prefe...b6f#.95713hz0e


At any rate, this is the coolest, most futuristic looking tank I've ever seen... the Polish PL-01

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/08...ms-should.html

Heavy Gustav, the WWII era German rail gun. The largest caliber riled weapon ever used.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...f817242c44.png


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Nice call, Amno, what a monstrous thing that was... this link shows a pic of the rounds it fired :eek:

https://warisboring.com/a-nazi-war-t...ebd#.ejenbusql

It wasn't worth the cost, the rcs was only marginally better, stealthy will never be an attribute of the 15.

Yeah, amazing.

Good thread, btw. I should be able to contribute more. A bit swamped at the moment.

Iron Man will be a reality by 2018

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-te...or-deployment/

yeah, I would think the cost of modifying airframes for the changes was pretty substantial.

looked cool though