The military may well acquire hundreds of the high-advanced new Abrams variant.
The Army is making a massive, $4.62 billion buy of the emerging, upgraded variant of the Abrams tank, signaling continued confidence in the value of heavy armor and bringing a wide sphere of new combat attack-enhancing technologies.
The concept with the M1A2SEPv3 Abrams variant is to bring new technologies, firepower, computing, high-fidelity sensing and survivability systems to the decades-old platform, to essentially re-engineer it in some ways into a new tank. The current upgraded Abrams, for instance, is much different in terms of combat performance than the original tank which first emerged in the 1980s.
Woodbury to join cities flying drones The eyes-in-the-sky are increasingly popular among law enforcement. December 31, 2020 7:47pm Text size Copy shortlink:
In a few weeks, the city of Woodbury will lay out its plans at a City Council meeting to buy and fly a drone for police and other purposes, hoping to join a growing number of municipalities that rely on drones.
If it once seemed excessive or futuristic for a suburb to fly its own unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), that notion is quickly fading.
A number of Minnesota cities and counties now have drones that not only feed live video back to their controllers, but also use heat-seeking cameras, bright spotlights and speakers to search for people or carry out other missions. Some carry payloads, from handwritten messages to life jackets.
The F-35 Has Been Unstoppable in Every War Game It Has Ever Played
“I’ve never seen anything like it before. My wingman was a brand new F-35A pilot, seven or eight flights out of training. He gets on the radio and tells an experienced, 3,000 hour pilot in a fourth-generation aircraft. ‘Hey bud, you need to turn around. You’re about to die.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The F-35 is lightyears ahead of its competition.
As 60 enemy fighters closed in on a US Air Force 4th Generation fighter aircraft, blinding the jet with electronic warfare attacks, an experienced pilot faced unseen life threatening attackers closing in during an air-combat Red Flag exercise closely replicating actual warfare scenarios back in 2019.
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Kayaker rescued from Lough Gill
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Sligo Coast Guard recued a kayaker clinging to a kayak n Lough Gill on Sunday, December 20.
The alarm was raised after a member of the public who heard whistle blasts from the lake which sits in Sligo and Leitrim and alerted emergency services.
The Rescue 118 helicopter were tasked to carry out a search of the lake where a heat source was found on our FLIR (Forward Looking InfraRed) camera. This was identified as a kayaker who was clinging to an upturned kayak and was lifted from the lake.
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