Sunday 3 November 2013

Corner Shot :

The Corner Shot was designed in the early 2000's for Special Weapons And Tactics teams and for the special forces in dangerous situations. It was designed by Lt.Col. Amos Golan of Israel. Amos Golan works in the Israeli Defense Forces. 

The Corner Shot allows the attacker to see the enemy with the help of a small camera and with the help of the a small pistol attached at the end which can be rotated, the attacker can shoot the enemies.

The Corner shot's been developed into various forms like the 40mm grenade launcher, the APR and a derived anti-tank version.

Countries using Corner shot : Isreal, Azerbaijan, China, India, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia, South Korea and United States.

Saturday 2 November 2013

SR-72 Hypersonic Spy Drone :

Lockheed Martin announces plans for SR-72 Hypersonic Spy Drone


The long awaited SR-72 will arrived!!! Plans for the successor of the super fast SR-71 Blackbird are now out!
The SR-72 Blackbird is currently the only Hypersonic jet! Whoooo!

The SR-72 is said to travel with the speed of Mach 6 that is 6 times the speed of sound! It's about twice as fast as the SR-71 Blackbird.
The SR-72 would have the ability to gather intelligence, conduct surveillance and reconnaissance, and launch combat strikes at an unprecedented speed. The plane is designed to fill what is considered in military circles to be a gap in capabilities between the spy satellites orbiting Earth and the manned and unmanned technology meant to replace the SR-71. 
The original Blackbird, which was introduced in 1966 and served until 1999, was primarily used by the US Air Force and NASA to collect intelligence through the Cold War. Along with flying at speeds fast enough to outrun a surface-to-air missile, the Blackbird also avoided enemy radar by flying at low altitudes. A total of 32 aircraft were built and, although 12 were lost to accidents, not a single one was lost to enemy combat.  
Yet the sheer cost of replicating the Blackbird has prevented the US military from commissioning such a powerful weapon at a time when the Air Force has dominated international skies with the drone program. 
But Lockheed Martin now believes it has encountered a technological breakthrough rendering the conversation around costs irrelevant. 
Brad Leland, portfolio manager for air-breathing hypersonic technologies, said the crux of the new project hinges on an air breathing engine that combines the traditional turbine with a scramjet. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) explored the idea on previous projects but abandoned it because of cost. 
The Skunk Works has been working with Aerojet Rocketdyne for the past seven years to develop a method to integrate an off-the-shelf turbine with a scramjet to power the aircraft from standstill to Mach 6 plus,” Leland said. “Our approach builds on HTV-3X, but this extends a lot beyond that and addresses the one key technical issue that remained on that program: the high-speed turbine engine.” 
Leland, who said that roughly 20 employees have worked on the project so far, elaborated in an interview with Reuters. 
What we are doing is defining a missile that would have a small incremental cost to go at hypersonic speed,” he said. “Hypersonic is the new stealth. Your adversaries cannot hide or move their critical assets. They will be found. That becomes "game changer".


SR-71 Blackbird :

The SR-71 Blackbird was developed by Lockheed Martin.It was an advanced, long-ranged strategic aircraft which flies at speeds higher than Mach 3.
It was developed in the 1960's from the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft project.
Out of the 32 SR-71's built, 12 were lost in accidents but none in battles.
The SR-71 Blackbird was designed to dodge the enemy missiles. How exactly would it do that?
Simply. When it detects a missile heading towards it, it would simply accelerate to higher speeds and boom! Missiles out flied! The SR-71 holds the record for the fastest air-breathing manned aircraft.

The Blackbird family consists of the YF-12, A-12 and SR-71.
The blackbird family flew for 3,551 mission sorties and 17,300 total sorties.The mission flight hours of the blackbird family are 11,008 hours and total flight hours are 53,490. They flew over Mach-3 for about 2,752 hours in missions and totally over 11,675 hours.

Jim Zwayer, a Lockheed flight-test reconnaissance and navigation systems specialist was killed in a flight accident. Rest of crew members ejected safely or evacuated their aircraft on ground.

The Blackbird has a crew of 2.
The max. take off weight of Blackbird is about 78,000 kgs.
Maximum Speed is 3.3 Mach at 24,000 meters.
Range : 2,900 nmi.
Service Ceiling : 25,900 m.
Rate of Climb : 60 m/sec.