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07 Jan 15. Iranian Navy’s Jamaran destroyer equipped with chaff and flare systems. The Iranian Navy’s domestically built Mowj-class guided-missile destroyer Jamaran has been equipped with chaff and flare-dispensing systems. Integrated behind the 76mm artillery, called Fajr 27, on the destroyer’s deck, the chaff and flares are passive and defensive countermeasures, aimed at confusing and diverting enemy radar-guided or infrared-guided missiles. The Asr phased-array radar, which has also been integrated on the Iranian Navy’s Damavand and Sahand destroyers, has the potential to detect and identify targets with a radar cross section of 4m over a 200km distance. It can be deployed on a range of naval missions and to detect aerial targets such as cruise missiles, the Fars News Agency reported. Designed with a helipad to carry helicopters and equipped with modern radars and electronic warfare capabilities, Jamaran is a multi-purpose destroyer integrating anti-submarine capabilities with defence systems for surface, air and undersea warfare. The vessel has a displacement capacity of 14,000t and is armed with a range of anti-ship, surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, in addition to torpedoes, a smart Nour (light) missile and modern naval cannons. Mowj-class vessels can accommodate a crew between 120 and 140, and cruise at a maximum speed of 30k. Iran has domestically manufactured radar systems with ranges up to 3,000km. (Source: naval-technology.com)
07 Jan 15. Connected Gun Lets Anyone Watch What Or Who You Are Shooting 123. DavidGilbert99 writes A gun that lets novices make mile-long shots likes experts and which allows the owner to stream live video to show what the gun is aiming at to anyone, anywhere around the world is being showcased at CES. From the article: “Previously the longest range TrackingPoint’s weapons could accurately hit was about 1,200 yards with the company’s XM1 bolt-action rifle; the ‘Mile Maker’ adds 600 effective yards onto the range of the XM1 by using different rounds, a longer barrel, and most importantly, updated software in the computerized tracking scope. Aside from the ‘Mile Maker,’ TrackingPoint also announced that it will be expanding its weapons’ audio and visual capabilities—rather than streaming videos directly over local Wi-Fi or recording and uploading things after the fact to YouTube or Facebook, TrackingPoint firearms will gain the ability to live-stream the scope’s picture to remote users using TrackingPoint’s smartphone app. Later in 2015, the company will be shifting its lineup somewhat, removing all of the XS-class weapons from its catalog and replacing them with two, new lighter-frame options. The two, new bolt-action options will be chambered in .308 and .300 Winchester Magnum and will use the smaller scope from TrackingPoint’s AR platform. Finally, the company will also begin selling a smaller ‘varmint gun’ chambered in .260 Remington. (Source: Slashdot.com)
07 Jan 15. F-35 Program Office: Gun remains on schedule. The gun on the F-35 joint strike fighter remains on schedule to go operational in 2017, the Pentagon said Wednesday. The Daily Beast reported on Dec. 31 that the gun would not be able to be used until 2019, but in a statement F-35 joint program office spokesman Joe DellaVedova described that story as a “misreporting” of the facts. The gun in question is a 25mm system known as the GAU-22, developed by General Dynamics. It is internal on the F-35A model and carried in an external pod of the F-35B and F-35C designs. GAU-22 testing for all three models is scheduled to start this year.
Since 2005, DellaVedova said, the GAU-22 was planned to go operational with the block 3F software. That software is scheduled to go online in 2017, with low-rate initial production lot 9.
“Delivering the gun capability in 3F softwa