Recent Posts

Helicopter technology developments and trends driven by their rising employment in civil and military missions

The helicopter is a type of aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more sets of horizontally revolving overhead rotors.  It has two rotors that spin several blades. A blade is a tilted airfoil, just like an airplane wing. As it speeds through the air, each blade generates …

Read More »

Modern Bigdata Battlefield requires rugged commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Computers and Servers

Military is increasingly looking to commercial ICT devices like Smartphones and tablets and they are rapidly making their way into military operations. Modern ICT devices can provide  “information superiority” to military by providing information with  greater timeliness, relevance, accuracy, and comprehensiveness than to an adversary.   Intelligence and military applications rely on …

Read More »

Joint Multi-Role (JMR) helicopter program demonstrations to mature technology for future vertical lift (FVL) program

The US  Army is pursuing plans to develop a family of future vertical lift aircraft that will be able to perform a variety of mission sets. Key to that effort is a technology maturation program which has Bell and a Sikorsky-Boeing team designing new aircraft. The precursor for FVL is …

Read More »
error: Content is protected !!