bullet time fighting

• Armour evolves to match the changing threat: in an age where a guerrilla armed with a recoilless grenade launcher can despatch anything from a main battle tank to a truckload of infantry, William Shakespeare's words *Now thrive the armourers* have never been more true. Armour technologies are evolving to protect everything from the tank to the foot soldier.

... forces has shown that armour-piercing bullets fired from rifles or machine guns have become a ma...The most basic type of armour fitted to fighting vehicles is plate metal, usually steel. In main ba...It is probably only a matter of time before similar vehicles are deployed by drug gangs...

• Armada International
• Vol. 35 Num. 5, Octobre 2011

• Warfare has changed, so should have methods.

... urban terrain, providing there is sufficient time to carry out the whole intelligence and destroy mi... detecting over 95% of supersonic incoming bullets passing within 30 meters in less than 1.5 seconds.... operations often find themselves fighting in urban areas; the rules of engagement prevent th...

• Armada International
• Vol. 33 Num. 4, Août 2008

• All It Takes Is Five Cents

This is one of the last real neighborhood bars left in the city," [Scott Martin] said. "The trend in the industry is toward an Applebee's or some other chain place. I don't know why people think it's more attractive than going to a good, smoky neighborhood bar. I'm lucky. [Simon Lundberg]'s is a busy place because of what it is - because it isn't Applebee's or Bennigans - and because the neighborhood is what it is. I feel like I could almost be a dinosaur. I will fight to say, 'absolutely this is the right kind of place,' the kind of place where you can sit down and drink a beer and have a conversation with somebody. Martin still has the speakeasy door, complete with a steel peephole and a cryptic "n.n. Club" scratched into the wood. Neighborhood rumor is the "n.n." meant "No Norwegia...

...While time has changed the neighborhood from a nearly exclusi..."If he was fighting with Grandma, he would walk to Simon's because she...He installed a bullet-proof check cashing booth and would cash workers' ...

• Nordic Reach
• Vol. 22 Num. 27, Février 2009
• News

• The vertical battlefield.

...500 BC). He was correct: urban fighting involves challenges and costs that can far exceed ... has been folded back on itself multiple times, so that a conflict which would cover a much wider...As a result the bullet loses the velocity-generated fragmentation effect ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 29 Num. 4, Août 2005

• Modern soldier: a sitrep: the development of futuristic networked soldier systems continues in parallel with efforts to field practical/mature equipment, and get it into the hands of infantry soldiers fighting the war on terror.

... Computer Unit (IC4U) will enable the real-time exchange of data between individual infantrymen, t...For firing bullet-trap rifle grenades or 40 mm grenades from an unde...

• Armada International
• Vol. 31 Num. 6, Décembre 2007

• Oh blast!(IED detection)

...The first bullet aims at finding and eliminating bomb makers and th...The scanning time for a vehicle is less than ten seconds, a speed co... part of a new conceptual framework for fighting terrorism focused on identifying the source of the...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 3, Juin 2010

• Securing the base: on 14 July 'hundreds' of insurgents attacked a temporary combat outpost in Afghanistan's Kunar province near the Pakistan border occupied by 45 members of the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team and 25 soldiers of the Afghan National Army. The attack inflicted the highest casually toll in more than three years, with nine US soldiers dead and another 15 wounded.

... can be used by security personnel in fighting positions around the perimeter. Flir Systems has f... heights of 300 to 500 feet and transmit real-time video data to its two operators. Options for the v...Bullet damage can be repaired on site. The Raid elevated ...

• Armada International
• Vol. 32 Num. 5, Octobre 2008

• Naval craft design under civilian influence: modern naval design and construction techniques are evolving to reduce the final cost of a naval vessel to the taxpayer. These same design and construction techniques are also improving a ship's performance, resilience, service life and environmental impact.

... of the Netherlands that can stop a 7.62-mm bullet without using steel or ceramic armour. Tencate, al...However, developments in fire-fighting technology could help to reduce this threat. . [IL...However, it may be some time until large surface combatants have their superstr...

• Armada International
• Vol. 32 Num. 6, Décembre 2008

• Battlefield training systems: it is not so long ago that battlefield training was conducted over dedicated ranges such as Salisbury Plain in Britain or Sennelager in Germany, while week long exercises could involve other rural locations. Vehicles and helicopters marked with white crosses would carry umpires through Blue and Red forces to deliver thunder flashes and declare deaths and injuries.

... training to be tracked and recorded in real-time with a high degree of accuracy. Thus when a soldie... for extremely accurate detection of bullet location. . Meanwhile, Thales Training & Simulatio... than ever before, different types of fighting units, hitherto kept relatively separate, now find...

• Armada International
• Vol. 26 Num. 2, Avril 2002

• Hand on the trigger: forward operating bases (and troops) are some of the most valuable and definitely the most vulnerable assets available to any commander. Keeping the front-line forces safe, and doing so without putting innocents in danger, requires an innovative mix of planning, equipment and technology.

... can be used by security personnel in fighting positions around the base. . Northrop Grumman Miss... to 500 feet, the Desert Hawk transmits real-time video imagery of the perimeter and surrounding are...

• Armada International
• Vol. 31 Num. 1, Février 2007