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Navy Ships With Shark Skin...

Navy Ships With Shark Skin
| October 28, 2009 | 350 Views |
The U.S Navy has announced that it will begin coating the hulls of its ships with a bacteria-busting film, Sharklet, designed to inhibit or enhance microorganism growth. The new film, inspired by the rough skin of sharks, is the first no-kill, non-toxic surface developed to control bacteria including Staph a., MRSA, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, E. coli and others. The Sharket surface,...
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USS New York...

USS New York
| October 14, 2009 | 478 Views |
The USS New York, a Navy ship built with tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers, began its maiden voyage last Tuesday, down the Mississippi River on route to New York. The USS New York, was built and named to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But the ship means so much more to many, as the workers were tragically hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, during the...
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Non-lethal Solutions To Combat Pirates...

Non-lethal Solutions To Combat Pirates
| May 15, 2009 | 1,221 Views |
Over the last year, every source of mass media has been inundated with reports on the pirating off Afric’s coast. The loss suffered from these attacks is phenomenal and has lead some of the worlds largest freight companies like Maersk, to re-route cargo at the costs of millions. Combating the threat of pirates is much more difficult than it may seem. Pirates typically use...
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Navy Gun Turret Weapons...

Navy Gun Turret Weapons
| March 16, 2009 | 1,925 Views |
A gun turret is as armored rotating platform that protects the crew or weapon, from incoming fire. Gun turrets are often mounted on buildings, anti-naval land batteries, armored vehicles, naval ships or military aircraft, and can be armed with one or more machine guns, automatic cannons, large-caliber guns, or missile launchers. A turret that carries no weapons, only sighting devices,...
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Visby Class Corvette Stealth Warships...

Visby Class Corvette Stealth Warships
| February 5, 2009 | 2,354 Views | 1 Comment
The Visby is the latest class of stealth corvette warships to be built for the Swedish Navy after the Göteborg and the Stockholm class corvettes. These stealth corvette warships, designed by Swedish Defence Material Administration (FMV) and built by Kockum AB (a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems of Germany), are based upon experiences learned from the experimental ship HMS...
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USS Trayer Disaster Simulator...

USS Trayer Disaster Simulator
| January 16, 2009 | 2,281 Views |
The USS Trayer is the most advanced, realistic and ambitious disaster simulator in the world. Housed inside a new $82 million facility, the 210 foot long replica of an Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer rises above the 90,000-gal. pool of water at Battle Station 21. Designed to recreate the intense environment of an attack at sea, the $56 million USS Trayer prepares...
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Titanic Search Was Secret Military Cover...

Titanic Search Was Secret Military Cover Up
| May 26, 2008 | 6,736 Views | 5 Comments
The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that his mission was used as a cover up story to camouflage the military’s real objective of inspecting the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines. Dr Bob Ballard who led the team that found the wreck of the Titanic back in 1995, admitted that he was only allowed to search for the sunken luxury cruise liner after he located...
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V-22 Osprey Tiltrotor Vertical Short Tak...

| August 3, 2007 | 13,093 Views | 1 Comment
Range, speed and flexibility. Hard rules once defined by the limitations of previous medium-lift helicopters. The V-22 is the world’s first production tilt-rotor combines the vertical performance of a helicopter with the high speed and range of a fixed wing aircraft which offers twice the speed, three times the payload, five times the range, and can fly more than twice as high as...
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Sea Sentinels Protect Ports from Terrori...

Sea Sentinels Protect Ports from Terrorism
| July 11, 2007 | 2,133 Views | 3 Comments
Defense and security has come a long way in recent years, with tragic events like Sept 9/11 the public has seen a sharp increase in security measures worldwide. Now a Florida based start-up dubbed SeaAway (no relation to Segway) has turned their attention to making our ports a lot safer and guarding against terrorist attacks. To security experts, the immense cargo ships that ferry more...
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Military Tribute to Armed Forces...

Military Tribute to Armed Forces
| July 4, 2007 | 1,749 Views |
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Lockheed Martin – Gibbs Develop Mi...

| May 30, 2007 | 17,748 Views | Comments Off
It is often said that amphibious assaults are the hardest of all military operations to coordinate. High Speed Amphibians enable a transformation of operational maneuvers from the sea to the land like never before. An amphibious operation is a military operation launched from the sea by naval and landing forces embarked in ships or craft involving a landing on a hostile or potentially...
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