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https://www.gd.com/Articles/2022/07/13/gdls-awarded-up-to-280-million-for-trophy-aps-kits
"General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) announced today that it has been awarded a competitive award worth up to $280,112,700 to procure Trophy Ready Kits as an Active Protection System (APS) for Abrams main battle tanks.
Trophy rapidly detects, classifies and engages threats such as recoilless rifles, antitank guided missiles, rockets, tank rounds and rocket-propelled grenades. The detection of threats, including their launch location, allows Abrams tank crews to rapidly handle targets.
The kits will be added to M1A2 SEPv2 and M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams tanks as needed, continuing their fielding across the Army.
“We are honored to have been chosen by the Army to continue to provide this important capability to keep tank crew members and their vehicles safe on the battlefield,” said Gordon Stein, vice president of U.S. operations at General Dynamics Land Systems.
Work on the indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract is expected to extend into mid-2027."
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"The Army said Thursday it has awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a nearly $59 million deal to provide prototypes for the Terrestrial Layer System–Brigade Combat Team (TLS-BCT) program that will undergo operational assessment with a first unit."
"Oshkosh Defense [OSK] said Wednesday the company has received a $130 million order to outfit 95 more Stryker vehicles with the new 30mm Medium Caliber Weapon System (MCWS)."
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An old but relevant tweet.
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https://horstmangroup.com/2022/07/06/horstman-inarm-suspension/
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The Horstman Group, a company of the Renk Group, is pleased to announce that our InArm® external suspension system has been selected by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) and the US Army for the Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) program. The Horstman InArm® was selected from the outset because of its ability to offer superior mobility while at the same time providing good ride quality and a stable platform. The InArm® is a true externally mounted suspension system that eliminates the need for torsion bars, freeing significant space claim inside the hull and improving survivability."
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On 6/1/2022 at 1:05 PM, Ramlaen said:
A little more info about Ultra Safe's REP spacecraft.
"USNC-Tech is proposing a compact 20 kWe, 500 kg dry mass, radioisotope-electric-propulsion spacecraft design powered by a novel Chargeable Atomic Battery (CAB) that is capable of ∆Vs on the order of 100 km/s with a power system specific mass of 5-8 kg/kWe. A spacecraft powered by this technology will be able to catch up to an extrasolar object, collect a sample, and return to earth within a 10-year timeframe. The data collected from samples and data from interstellar objects has the potential to fundamentally change our view of the universe and our place in it."
"The core innovation of this spacecraft architecture that makes this amazing mission possible is the CAB, which has a power density of over 30 times that of Pu-238. The CAB is easier and cheaper to manufacture than Pu-238 and the safety case is greatly enhanced by the CAB's encapsulation of radioactive materials within a robust carbide matrix. This technology is superior to fission systems for this application because fission systems need a critical mass whereas radioisotope systems can be much smaller and fit on smaller launch systems reducing cost and complexity."
https://custom.cvent.com/216E523D934443CA9F514B796474A210/files/d0b0d3fd032a41c9828d0a3cd8b27177.pdf
https://www.enpulsion.com/news/feep-first-successful-in-orbit-demonstration-of-a-feep-thruster/
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500 round life is pretty bad, if true it would explain why there has been so little interest in the gun.
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"Sierra Space, the new commercial space subsidiary of global aerospace and national security leader Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), will supply the propulsion components and integration services for a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system under a recent contract with General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS). GA-EMS and Sierra Space will develop and demonstrate an on-orbit NTP system for a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) program called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO)."
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https://www.gdls.com/news/mpf2022.html
"Designed by General Dynamics Land Systems, the highly lethal, survivable and mobile direct-fire combat vehicle melds recently developed and battle-tested designs to dominate ground threats on the multi-domain battlefield. The MPF vehicle employs a four-person crew and features an enhanced thermal viewer, a large-caliber cannon, a lightweight hull and turret, and a modern diesel engine, transmission and suspension system. It has been designed from the start for capability upgrades, based on future operational needs."
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And the Baby Abrams officially wins.
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"The U.S. Army’s replacement of the Bradley infantry fighting vehicle is likely to be the service’s first combat vehicle with hybrid power, Brig. Gen. Glenn Dean, program executive officer for ground combat systems, said at the Eurosatory defense expo in Paris.
The Army’s Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle competition has already kicked off, with five teams in a preliminary design phase: Point Blank Enterprises, Oshkosh Defense, BAE Systems, General Dynamics Land Systems and American Rheinmetall Vehicles.
All five developed initial designs that are hybrid, Dean said, a capability the Army considers evermore important as it seeks a smaller, tactical logistics footprint."
Gimmie dat ACE diesel electric hybrid.
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3 hours ago, Renegade334 said:
To be fair, we don't see much of the back of the turret on this poster. It doesn't really tell us if GD went the Meggitt horizontal bustle carousel way or if they had a look back at the TTB's vertical carousel (which I don't think they did as it would require more re-engineering than the HC), which has deeper implications for available crew space in the turret. The hatches could still be there, only they're hidden from view.
As for the smoke grenade launchers, they're still affixed to the front sections of the turret sides; it's just that they've been given some sort of angled metal housing that dovetails with the storage baskets, makes it look neater. The launchers don't seem to "dig" into the armor cavity, proper.
That would require redesigning the driver's compartment and reducing the amount of protection afforded by the huge fuel cell that surrounds the driver's seat. Don't know how much wiggle room they've got in there for a second person, much less all the screens and panels required for the second crewmember's tasks and responsibilities. That said, I do remember that a while ago there were proposals to insert a mechanical autoloader into the Abrams and repurpose the now-redundant loader into an UAV/EW operator -- maybe the loader could relocate to the hull front while the commander and gunner keep their seats inside the turret, on the right side of it.
Slightly better enhancement of the poster, from Damian at tank-net:
@Ramlaen Were there any pictures displaying the volume reduction of the Trophy VPS sponsons as well as where exactly would the radars be mounted? Any possibility those turret-side storage containers are actually Trophy sponsons?
Not that I am aware of.
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