Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted June 11, 2010 Author Share Posted June 11, 2010 Ya don't be a NEA sayer, Next thing you know a bot will be driveing up to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 (edited) More on the steerible bullet, seems that several patents have been issued on the system and designs are out there. This one is from a fella we allready heard of. Bullet Guidance System http://www.docstoc.com/docs/49691323/Guided-Bullet---Patent-5788178#viewer-area Did I hear someone say No way are they going to make those? I have friends in the international defence industry, when they say its being devoloped then it is. Edited January 9, 2011 by Athlon64~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 Ma Duce replacement, The good old Browning M2 heavy machine gun is due to be replaced buy this XM307 (click to view full)General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products Inc. of Burlington, VT received a $6 million modification to a cost-plus-award-fee contract for a remotely operated variant of the XM307 Advanced Crew Served Weapon System. Remote operation systems like the Rafael OWS, Thales SWARM, and the Recon/Optical CROWS allow a weapon to be sighted, rotated, and fired from inside a vehicle, trading off reduced situational awareness for less crew exposure to hostile fire. The lightweight XM307 is being developed by General Dynamics under a 2004 contract worth up to $95 million through December 2007. It will replace the M2 .50 cal ?Ma Deuce? machine gun, which has been in service since the 1920s. Here in the 21st century, the USA has had to ramp up .50 cal ammunition production because ?Ma Deuce? remains one of the most requested weapons in the Iraqi theater of war. Truly a hard act to follow ? but the future M307/ M312 has a few new tricks up its gun sleeve. ?Ma Deuce? The 50-pound XM307 is actually intended to replace two ?old reliables? on the battlefield. One is the 84-pound M2 .50 caliber heavy machine gun, which weighs in at 128 pounds with its tripod. The other is the two decades-old MK19 Mod-3 40mm grenade machine gun, a popular choice for some vehicles that offers devastating suppressive fire capabilities. It weighs 79 pounds, or 137.5 pounds with its tripod. Some US Special Forces currently use a different, lighter (63 pounds, 107 pounds with tripod) 53 H&K 40mm GMG as a man-portable ?ace in the hole? when serious firepower is called for, but the XM307 would offer a common replacement for all. Mk 19 Because of its light weight, there is even talk of having the XM307 replace some medium machine guns (7.62mm M240Bs). This might be an especially good option in naval roles, and on some wheeled vehicles and helicopters. With its 25mm air-bursting, armor-piercing, and incendiary munitions, the XM307 offers a lighter alternative that still packs a lethal punch. Its 25mm ammunition consists of grenade-like rounds that are programmed to detonate at a given distance. Enemy in a trench? It detonates over their heads. Enemy in a building? Don?t spray the structure with conventional machine gun fire. Use the single-shot option, and put a couple shots through the window that detonate in the room and spray it with shrapnel. Even at $20 per 25mm bullet, the results will sometimes prove cost-effective as well as battlefield effective. XM307 Comparison Table The revolutionary technology behind the air-burst munition involves integration of the fuse and fuse setter into the weapon?s fire control system. In a process that includes three microbursts of information, the fire control system lazes the target and determines the range. That information is transferred to the round through galvanic hard points as it is loaded into the chamber. The fuse reads the data, verifies it and retransmits it as a safety check. Multiple layers of coding and verification ensure accurate range data and protects against premature detonation of the round in or near the weapon. General Dynamics is developing the new family of 25mm ammunition, while Raytheon is responsible for the full solution fire control. The fire-control system will include a laser range finder and a day-night sight, and can be upgraded to include other modern equipment as well. Kaman Daytron, Inc. produces the high explosive airburst fuse. XM312: 95% common The major uncertainty with the XM307 is that this new computer controlled ammunition has not been used in combat yet. Until it is, no one will be quite sure just how much of an improvement it really is. As a combination of insurance policy and flexibility option, therefore the .50-caliber XM312 is derived from the XM307, and can be created by replacing only five parts. What?s left is an upgraded version of the old M2 that weighs only one-third as much and is capable of firing all of the current .50-caliber ammunition. This includes, but is not limited to, the standard M33 ball round, the M8 armor-piercing incendiary (API), the M903 saboted light armor penetrator (SLAP), and the Mk 211 multipurpose round (penetrates, fragmentation and incendiary). XM312 vs. M2 The one improvement the XM312 would not include is a rate of fire rapid enough to suit it for an anti-aircraft or anti-helicopter role. The existing M2 has shared this issue since before World War 2, however, and US troops seem to love it all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 (edited) Alot of this remotely controlled drone or uavs has taken technoligy from the Radio control model airplane industry as in minture turbine engines, control systems and minture retracting landing gear systems. The early uavs were modified R/C aircraft at first. These boys from general dynamics and lockheed eather are R/C pilots or came out to the feild on any week end where we were flying our R/C planes brewing up ideas on whats next and marvleing on our flying abilitys and just what could be done with model airplanes. They just took it to the extream level with millions in goverment reaserch grants such as darpa. Kind of look familar? Not just with jets but Helis as well The REAL talant lyes with these boys. Giant scale Edited January 9, 2011 by Athlon64~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted January 9, 2011 Author Share Posted January 9, 2011 (edited) You might say the whole idea came about when these guys started putting in wireless camras in the planes, It grew from there, the wireless camra had a short range, so then they looked into increasing the range. Then the camra was fixed, so then they put it on a rotating gimble, then telementry was implamented. It got the defence industrys attention from there and grew into the UAV. Edited January 9, 2011 by Athlon64~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shinobi_EBDA Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 Once war comes to machines fighting machines, there will be no point to it. If it comes to this, then wars won't be won based on military tactical acheivements, more than it will be won by whoever can afford the most robots! Or will we start seeing small groups of rebel robot teams building robots with whatever they can get their hands on, maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EL_n00biachi Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 There will never be a robot vs robot war,because of .......EMP\NNEMP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athlon64~SPARTA~ Posted January 14, 2011 Author Share Posted January 14, 2011 (edited) What is emp? Electro magnetic pulse? They have allready emp proofed electronics for emps. maybe thats the whole idea put and end to war? I think thats what they said about the steerible bullet as well. Edited January 14, 2011 by Athlon64~SPARTA~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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