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Originally posted by superkrait:
It is pretty cool. I dont think its brand new though, but i only just found the pics.

Poor brits, seems they lost an aircraft carrier to the accountants... HMS Prince of Wales will now carry helos instead of F35s, like HMS Ocean. Not enough money for the fighter complement, but too late to back out of the ship's construction.

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14:06 GMT, October 21, 2009 Kockums’ Piraya project has recently attracted attention in the media. The Project has also been highlighted in conjunction with a conference on naval security, attended by some one hundred experts from all over the country.

“This in-house development project aims to study ways in which many Unmanned Surface Vessels can be managed simultaneously,” states Project Manager Jens-Olof Lindh. “To do this, you need some USVs that you can use for trial purposes. For this reason, we have worked on developing both USVs and software during 2008 and 2009, to enable us to conduct these tests. The fourth Piraya vessel was completed and became operational at the end of September. Kockums now has four USVs that can be deployed for testing and trials, such as with communications and control systems.”

The seminar on the Piraya project attracted keen interest, a project in which many have already previously expressed interest. The Swedish Navy and representatives from civil port authorities wish to be updated on how this type of vessel might be used for surveillance and security applications. The Piraya USV can operate independently or in conjunction with other land-based or seaborne systems.

“We recently operated three vessels with the same control system,” states Jens-Olof Lindh. “As well as technical trials, we’re developing methods for handling a range of functions, such as vessel preparation, transfer between the team and tactical management and surveillance of the marine sector in which we operate, to secure marine safety.”

A feature article in Swedish technology journal Ny Teknik headlined the project in the following terms: “Kockums’ unmanned miniature vessels are a smuggler’s nightmare.” The article noted that Kockums has been quietly engaged in developing brand new technology for the control of unmanned vessels over the past two years, adding that the Piraya project’s four prototypes can be controlled as a small and partially automated fleet by a single operator.

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Originally posted by muttbut:

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Originally posted by superkrait:
It is pretty cool. I dont think its brand new though, but i only just found the pics.

Poor brits, seems they lost an aircraft carrier to the accountants... HMS Prince of Wales will now carry helos instead of F35s, like HMS Ocean. Not enough money for the fighter complement, but too late to back out of the ship's construction.

No, the article is poorly worded, they will get the 2 carriers, but one at any given time will carry helos ect while the other will carry the jet's/ What they are apparently going to do is cut back the intial amount of F-35's they were going to buy. Not a great burden IMHO, they never had the air&ground crew for the 150 they planned to get at the start.

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Originally posted by superkrait:
Some wierd camo system the australian army put on its M1A1s called barracuda...



The Barracuda camo system is made by Saab and is quite impressive. Saab is arguably the world's leader in camo netting (very high tech).

Apparently the danish are using a variation on their leopards in afghanistan, keeps the heat down.

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Originally posted by Mig-29:
M247 Sergeant York.

Failed Mobile AA project in the 70s/80s
Developed By ford aerospace.
Based on m48 chassis.
It was suppose to incorporate some sort of advanced tracking system or something.

What exactly was wrong with this project?

The Sgt. York DIVAD had radar problems(used a modifiedwestinghouse from early F-16's IIRC) as the radar had trouble separating ground clutter from actual targets,turret traverse wasn't fast enough and the system was very sensitive to even simple ECCM(counter counter measures)

A cause of the poor turret traverse, the 20 ton turret also bogged down the old patton hulls it was mounted on as well, so it couldn't keep pace with the Abrams and the Bradley.


Poor development,(it couldn't really compare to the Gepard, which was only a few years older)and use of a lot of off the shelve product and the fact that it was pressed into development right at the dawn of missile based systems, made that it was a bit of a problem child, and was subsequently cancelled in favour of other systems, the majority of them missile based(though the VADS was apparently a succesful gun system)

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Originally posted by superkrait:

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Originally posted by MrRandom004:
There's sexy, there's uber sexy, then there's this

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Originally posted by Inquisitor_Zeal:
Do they really already have missiles that can turn around 180 degrees right off the launch (and that quickly)like they showed them doing in the videos?