By RIA Novosti on Tuesday, November 12th, 2013

Researchers from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, or ARL continue to expand body armor analysis work to offer protection to Soldiers – not just protecting their lives, but in addition their lifestyle functions after treatment and recovery. The team of researchers, who work within the Warfighter Survivability Branch of ARL’s Survivability Lethality Analysis Directorate, implement methodology to raised understand and analyze the protecting capability of body armor, both relating to mitigating injury and life changing outcomes. For instance, eye injuries have a low level at the threat to life scale but are very significant in the case of quality of... Read More »

Kosovo’s government proposed on Thursday making a 5,000-strong army to “protect sovereignty” of the ethnic Albanian territory, six years after it seceded from Serbia. The army would double the scale of the present civil emergency Kosovo security force (KPS), said an announcement issued after a cupboard session. Since the top of 1998-1999 war between independent-seeking ethnic Albanian guerrillas and Belgrade forces under the command of late strongman Slobodan Milosevic, NATO was in control of maintaining peace and security in Kosovo. The lightly-armed KPS, created with NATO assistance in 2009, is tasked with going through emergency response and protection of public... Read More »

Boeing will continue to extend the B-52 bomber’s effectiveness and flexibility under a brand new U.S. Air Force contract that demands the aircraft’s smart weapons capacity to expand by 50 percent. Under the $24.6 million agreement, Boeing will develop a modification to existing weapon launchers so the aircraft can carry smart weapons within the bomb bay, allowing aircrews to take advantage of the B-52’s entire weapons capacity. “When you mix that ability with the extremely long flying time of the B-52, you’ve a good and flexible weapon system that’s very valuable to warfighters at the ground,” said Scot Oathout, B-52... Read More »

An important step within the introduction of the Royal Australian Air Force’s electronic warfare capability has commenced, with the primary pilot instructor commencing flying at the EA-18G Growler within the U . s .. Flight Lieutenant Sean Rutledge has commenced training with the Electronic Attack Wing, US Pacific Fleet (CVWP) at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. Once he’s completed his training, Flight Lieutenant Rutledge may be qualified to instruct other RAAF aircrew for the 12 EA-18G Growlers the Australian Government is purchasing from the us Foreign Military Sales program. Wing Commander Paul Jarvis, Deputy Director EA-18G Growler Transition team, believes... Read More »