While the Chinese Navy has been flexing its stealth ships and floating airports, the ground forces haven’t been slacking either. Case in point: the ZTZ-99A main battle tank. Think of it as China’s answer to the Abrams—if the Abrams spent its weekends in a high-tech upgrade montage. The ZTZ-99A (a.k.a. […]
The concept of a VTOL with fixed-wing airplane flight is not new. Hell, even a cartoon like M.A.S.K. had this concept with the Switchblade. Meanwhile, in real life, VTOLs with fixed-wing flight have proven to be costly to develop, as demonstrated by the V-22 Osprey. Where it used to take […]
In case you are wondering… no, I am not obsessed with grenade launchers. But damn, the developments in recent years—ranging from grenade launcher sniper hybrids to full-on squad support firepower—are hard to ignore. And now Rheinmetall has joined the party with the SSW40, a beast of a weapon that looks […]
Barrett, the firearms manufacturer best known for its absurdly powerful sniper rifle, the Barrett M82, is now making a grenade launcher—or, as it’s officially called, the MARS Precision Grenadier. As the name suggests, Barrett isn’t going solo on this one. It has teamed up with Montana-based firearms R&D company MARS, […]
American aircraft manufacturer, Sikorsky, best known for its helicopters, is working on a unique unmanned VTOL aircraft for DARPA. This is no ordinary VTOL—it is a novel vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aerial system with a twin proprotor ‘rotor blown wing’ configuration that sits on its tail to take off […]
Defense contractor Textron Systems is working on a new Surface Effect Ship for the US Marines and Navy called SECAT which is short for Surface Effect Cargo Amphibious Transport. As a Surface Effect Ship, it leverages the aerodynamic principle of ground effect to achieve high speeds and enhanced stability.
I know some of you folks almost pulled out your no-credit limit credit card for the Manta Ray UUV. But alas! It is not for consumers and also if it were for consumers, what’s the point of not being able to travel inside? So allow us to propose a practical […]
You know how action-adventure/sci-fi movies sometimes depict villains emerging from the depths of the oceans in an underwater sea vehicle that resembles sea creatures like a giant manta ray? Well, that kind of just materialized. Though, whether or not the users are villains is unclear.
As far as commercial jet goes, the aerospace industry is going through a shake-up phase. There is a couple of companies working to revive supersonic air travel and then there was the KLM and Delft University of Technology’s proposal of a Flying V fuselage jet, the most radical design change […]
There is another interesting product coming from Singapore defense contractor, ST Engineering, at this year’s Singapore Airshow. It is an unusual ground innovation amidst the aerial and marine hardware and technologies called Taurus. Taurus is an unmanned ground vehicle paired with a multirotor drone that was revealed publicly for the […]
If you haven’t already heard, Singapore’s homegrown defense and engineering group had a lot to show at the biennial Singapore Airshow this year. In addition to marine and aviation equipment and vehicles, the group also showcased a new assault rifle.