El Sistema AutomáticoTerreno y Prevención de Colisiones del F-16 (Auto GCAS) existe para hacer volar con mayor seguridad a los pilotos de combate, y a ayudado a salvar a por lo menos 4 pilotos y sus F-16. Créditos Lockheed Martin.
Saving the Good Guys: Fourth Save Illustrates Life-Saving Auto GCAS Technology
The cockpit of a fighter jet is a dangerous and busy place to work. High-speed fighter aircraft maneuvers can produce g-forces strong enough to knock a pilot unconscious and the pace and complexity of modern aerial combat can mentally “overload” a pilot and lead to spatial disorientation. Both can prove deadly.
Thankfully, innovative systems have been developed to reduce these risks and help eliminate the leading cause of F-16 pilot fatalities: crashing an undamaged aircraft into the ground. The Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS) was purpose-built to prevent these deadly crashes and has already been credited with saving at least four F-16 pilots and their aircraft since the system entered service with the U.S. Air Force in late 2014.
Four Saves and Counting
A recently released video from the head-up-display (HUD) of an F-16 illustrates how the Auto GCAS helped save the life of an F-16 student pilot who lost consciousness during a training mission.
The student pilot, training with the Arizona Air National Guard’s 152nd Fighter Squadron, succumb to G-Induced Loss of Consciousness (GLOC) during a high-speed maneuver. As the unconscious pilot’s F-16 careened toward the ground, the Auto GCAS determined that a ground collision was imminent and initiated a fly up maneuver to roll the F-16’s wings level and upright as the pilot regained consciousness and added Gs to the recovery, saving both pilot and plane.
The incident marked the fourth recorded Auto GCAS save to date and the first involving GLOC. (Video via AviationWeek - declassified USAF footage.)
What is Auto GCAS?
The Auto GCAS, developed jointly by Lockheed Martin, the Air Force Research Laboratory and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is designed to reduce incidents of what is known as controlled flight into terrain, or CFIT. According to U.S. Air Force statistics, CFIT incidents account for 26 percent of aircraft losses and a staggering 75 percent of all F-16 pilot fatalities.
According to Ed Griffin, Lockheed Martin’s program manager for the Automatic Collision Avoidance Technologies (ACAT) Fighter Risk Reduction Program, the system consists of a set of complex collision avoidance and autonomous decision making algorithms that utilize precise navigation, aircraft performance and on-board digital terrain data to determine if a ground collision is imminent. If the system predicts an imminent collision, an autonomous avoidance maneuver—a roll to wings-level and +5g pull—is commanded at the last instance to prevent ground impact.
The Auto GCAS executes in the background and automatically provides protection whether the pilot is distracted, task-saturated, incapacitated, or unconscious. No action is required by the pilot, though the system does have a pilot override function.
“Based on the data we’ve seen so far, the Auto GCAS is doing exactly what it was designed to do: save priceless lives and valuable military aircraft,” said Griffin. “Many aviation professionals believe autonomy is emerging as the new frontier in aviation and Auto GCAS currently represents the leading edge of autonomy as it applies to manned platforms.”
A Close Collaboration
All of this success did not come overnight. Auto GCAS is the result of research collected by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works®, AFRL and NASA spanning nearly three decades. An Air Force F-16D was ultimately selected as a test platform for the system and related flight-testing began in 2009 at the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) located at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Lockheed Martin worked closely with its U.S. Government and Air Force customers to refine this game-changing Auto GCAS capability and help deliver it to the warfighter. Auto GCAS has already saved numerous pilots and will save many more in the future as the system is implemented more broadly across the global F-16 fleet and applied to other aircraft platforms.
Saving Tomorrow's Pilots
In addition to the Auto GCAS, Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Government have also developed an Automatic Air Collision Avoidance System (Auto ACAS). As its name suggest, Auto ACAS is designed to avoid air-to-air collisions. Together, the two systems form the Automatic Integrated Collision Avoidance System (Auto ICAS), the world’s first fully automatic integrated combat flight safety system designed to prevent both air-to-air and air-to-ground collisions.
The U.S. Air Force recently completed the first phase of Auto ICAS flight testing and the second phase is expected to begin in February 2017.
In recognition of the Auto ACAS, Lockheed Martin and the AFRL were presented with a 2016 Aviation Week Laureate Award for the development and flight testing of the system, “which predicts collisions and automatically maneuvers fighter aircraft to avoid mid-air crashes in training exercises. The system is projected to save 34 aircraft, 25 pilot lives and $2.3 billion over the next 15 years.”
The F-16 Auto GCAS system is currently being integrated into the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 fleet and the Air Force and Lockheed Martin plan to develop similar systems for the F-22 and F-35. Current plans call for fielding an Auto GCAS on the F-35 around 2024.
As Col. Chris Baird, former U.S. Air Force F-16 System Program Manager, put it, “It’s not just about killing the bad guys with airpower. It’s also equally about saving the good guys.”
EEUU calienta la zona enviando su enorme radar SBX-1 de banda X a la península de Corea para monitorear lanzamientos de misiles del arlequín Pyongyang, se dice que tiene un alcance de 2.000 km y que puede rastrear un objeto del tamaño de una pelota de béisbol, ahi esta pues otro motivo mas de preocupación.
EEUU calienta la zona enviando su enorme radar SBX-1 de banda X a la península de Corea para monitorear lanzamientos de misiles del arlequín Pyongyang, se dice que tiene un alcance de 2.000 km y que puede rastrear un objeto del tamaño de una pelota de béisbol, ahi esta pues otro motivo mas de preocupación.
Para seguir conservando la supremacía aérea que actualmente tiene sobre las demás fuerzas aéreas del planeta, la USAF el próximo año tendrá quedefinir los requisitos para el caza de sexta generación:
El radar AN / APG-81 Active radar escaneado electrónicamente (AESA) del F-35. Estos tipos de AESA hasta un 30% más eficientes que los radares en uso actualmente, tienen 120 grados FOV (contra 90 en sistemas más viejos), y pueden seguir muchos objetivos furtivamente.
Todo gracias a miles de estos pequeños chicos! Estos se llaman módulos de transmisión y recepción o TX / RX para abreviar. Cada AN / APG-81 tiene de 1500 a 2500 módulos TX / RX dependiendo de la estimación de la que vaya. Lo impresionante de ellos es que son digitales y cada uno puede actuar independientemente como un mini radar con su propio ancho de banda y frecuencia o pueden agruparse para formar varios mini radares. Esto permite efectivamente que el AN / APG-81 cambie las frecuencias 1000's de veces por segundo mientras que solamente usa la potencia mínima requerida para rastrear un objetivo. Esto significa que el F-35 puede detectar, seguir, disparar y destruir un avion enemigo sin que este o sus sensores nunca detecten que estaban siendo alumbrados por el F-35.
El Ojo de Sauron o como otros lo llaman el sistema de orientación óptica electro o EOTS para abreviar. Se trata de un sensor térmico de día o nocturno de todo tipo capaz de apuntar y rastrear de forma pasiva incluso el más frío de los objetos a 90 millas o 140 km de distancia. La mayoría de los otros sistemas similares sólo pueden hacer eso cuando se apunta a un avion enemigo en postcombustión.
Les presento la versión montada en casco versión 3 o HMDIII para abreviar. Esta belleza de la tecnología esencialmente da la visión de rayos X piloto y los lazos entre todos los sensores de los que hablamos y algunos salté a través de algo llamado fusión de sensores. El F-35 también resulta ser la mejor cosa del planeta en la fusión de sensores, ya que tiene más de 650 maneras de detectar pistas e identificar objetivos. Para poner todo en perspectiva, incluso su primo más grande de la F-22 sólo tiene 150-200 maneras de realizar un seguimiento, y la identificación de sus objetivos
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El Sistema AutomáticoTerreno y Prevención de Colisiones del F-16 (Auto GCAS) existe para hacer volar con mayor seguridad a los pilotos de combate, y a ayudado a salvar a por lo menos 4 pilotos y sus F-16. Créditos Lockheed Martin.
Saving the Good Guys: Fourth Save Illustrates Life-Saving Auto GCAS Technology
The cockpit of a fighter jet is a dangerous and busy place to work. High-speed fighter aircraft maneuvers can produce g-forces strong enough to knock a pilot unconscious and the pace and complexity of modern aerial combat can mentally “overload” a pilot and lead to spatial disorientation. Both can prove deadly.
Thankfully, innovative systems have been developed to reduce these risks and help eliminate the leading cause of F-16 pilot fatalities: crashing an undamaged aircraft into the ground. The Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto GCAS) was purpose-built to prevent these deadly crashes and has already been credited with saving at least four F-16 pilots and their aircraft since the system entered service with the U.S. Air Force in late 2014.
Four Saves and Counting
A recently released video from the head-up-display (HUD) of an F-16 illustrates how the Auto GCAS helped save the life of an F-16 student pilot who lost consciousness during a training mission.
The student pilot, training with the Arizona Air National Guard’s 152nd Fighter Squadron, succumb to G-Induced Loss of Consciousness (GLOC) during a high-speed maneuver. As the unconscious pilot’s F-16 careened toward the ground, the Auto GCAS determined that a ground collision was imminent and initiated a fly up maneuver to roll the F-16’s wings level and upright as the pilot regained consciousness and added Gs to the recovery, saving both pilot and plane.
The incident marked the fourth recorded Auto GCAS save to date and the first involving GLOC. (Video via AviationWeek - declassified USAF footage.)
What is Auto GCAS?
The Auto GCAS, developed jointly by Lockheed Martin, the Air Force Research Laboratory and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is designed to reduce incidents of what is known as controlled flight into terrain, or CFIT. According to U.S. Air Force statistics, CFIT incidents account for 26 percent of aircraft losses and a staggering 75 percent of all F-16 pilot fatalities.
According to Ed Griffin, Lockheed Martin’s program manager for the Automatic Collision Avoidance Technologies (ACAT) Fighter Risk Reduction Program, the system consists of a set of complex collision avoidance and autonomous decision making algorithms that utilize precise navigation, aircraft performance and on-board digital terrain data to determine if a ground collision is imminent. If the system predicts an imminent collision, an autonomous avoidance maneuver—a roll to wings-level and +5g pull—is commanded at the last instance to prevent ground impact.
The Auto GCAS executes in the background and automatically provides protection whether the pilot is distracted, task-saturated, incapacitated, or unconscious. No action is required by the pilot, though the system does have a pilot override function.
“Based on the data we’ve seen so far, the Auto GCAS is doing exactly what it was designed to do: save priceless lives and valuable military aircraft,” said Griffin. “Many aviation professionals believe autonomy is emerging as the new frontier in aviation and Auto GCAS currently represents the leading edge of autonomy as it applies to manned platforms.”
A Close Collaboration
All of this success did not come overnight. Auto GCAS is the result of research collected by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works®, AFRL and NASA spanning nearly three decades. An Air Force F-16D was ultimately selected as a test platform for the system and related flight-testing began in 2009 at the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) located at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
Lockheed Martin worked closely with its U.S. Government and Air Force customers to refine this game-changing Auto GCAS capability and help deliver it to the warfighter. Auto GCAS has already saved numerous pilots and will save many more in the future as the system is implemented more broadly across the global F-16 fleet and applied to other aircraft platforms.
Saving Tomorrow's Pilots
In addition to the Auto GCAS, Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Government have also developed an Automatic Air Collision Avoidance System (Auto ACAS). As its name suggest, Auto ACAS is designed to avoid air-to-air collisions. Together, the two systems form the Automatic Integrated Collision Avoidance System (Auto ICAS), the world’s first fully automatic integrated combat flight safety system designed to prevent both air-to-air and air-to-ground collisions.
The U.S. Air Force recently completed the first phase of Auto ICAS flight testing and the second phase is expected to begin in February 2017.
In recognition of the Auto ACAS, Lockheed Martin and the AFRL were presented with a 2016 Aviation Week Laureate Award for the development and flight testing of the system, “which predicts collisions and automatically maneuvers fighter aircraft to avoid mid-air crashes in training exercises. The system is projected to save 34 aircraft, 25 pilot lives and $2.3 billion over the next 15 years.”
The F-16 Auto GCAS system is currently being integrated into the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 fleet and the Air Force and Lockheed Martin plan to develop similar systems for the F-22 and F-35. Current plans call for fielding an Auto GCAS on the F-35 around 2024.
As Col. Chris Baird, former U.S. Air Force F-16 System Program Manager, put it, “It’s not just about killing the bad guys with airpower. It’s also equally about saving the good guys.”
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Osborne Transformer Osborne_Xfmr 18 may.
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EEUU calienta la zona enviando su enorme radar SBX-1 de banda X a la península de Corea para monitorear lanzamientos de misiles del arlequín Pyongyang, se dice que tiene un alcance de 2.000 km y que puede rastrear un objeto del tamaño de una pelota de béisbol, ahi esta pues otro motivo mas de preocupación.
http://www.elespectador.com/noticias/elmundo/estados-unidos-moviliza-un-destructor-y-un-radar-amenaz-articulo-413423
No es la primera vez que lo moviliza a Corea del Sur...
Pero esta vez como que se queda allá haciéndolevigilancia a China tambien.
Embajador Pinzón PinzonBuenoEmb 7 hHace 7 horas
Visitamos en Mobile, Alabama, la planta de @Austal_USA, el astillero que fabrica el Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), el nuevo buque de @USNavy
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haber que tal sera el carl gustav m3 o m4
Para seguir conservando la supremacía aérea que actualmente tiene sobre las demás fuerzas aéreas del planeta, la USAF el próximo año tendrá quedefinir los requisitos para el caza de sexta generación:
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/air-forces-next-fighter-jet-a-program-to-watch-in-2017
Hola a todos.
A Day Inside Giant and Powerful US Submarines: USS Columbia, USS Columbus, USS Ohio Moors in Action
Publicado el 12 nov. 2016
Auf Wiedersehen.
Hola a todos.
Ingalls Shipbuilding - John Finn (DDG 113) Guided Missile Destroyer Weapons Live Firing Tests
Publicado el 17 nov. 2016
Auf Wiedersehen.
El radar AN / APG-81 Active radar escaneado electrónicamente (AESA) del F-35. Estos tipos de AESA hasta un 30% más eficientes que los radares en uso actualmente, tienen 120 grados FOV (contra 90 en sistemas más viejos), y pueden seguir muchos objetivos furtivamente.
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![[IMG]](http://i.imgur.com/7Q8cxFl.jpg)
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Todo gracias a miles de estos pequeños chicos! Estos se llaman módulos de transmisión y recepción o TX / RX para abreviar. Cada AN / APG-81 tiene de 1500 a 2500 módulos TX / RX dependiendo de la estimación de la que vaya. Lo impresionante de ellos es que son digitales y cada uno puede actuar independientemente como un mini radar con su propio ancho de banda y frecuencia o pueden agruparse para formar varios mini radares. Esto permite efectivamente que el AN / APG-81 cambie las frecuencias 1000's de veces por segundo mientras que solamente usa la potencia mínima requerida para rastrear un objetivo. Esto significa que el F-35 puede detectar, seguir, disparar y destruir un avion enemigo sin que este o sus sensores nunca detecten que estaban siendo alumbrados por el F-35.
El Ojo de Sauron o como otros lo llaman el sistema de orientación óptica electro o EOTS para abreviar. Se trata de un sensor térmico de día o nocturno de todo tipo capaz de apuntar y rastrear de forma pasiva incluso el más frío de los objetos a 90 millas o 140 km de distancia. La mayoría de los otros sistemas similares sólo pueden hacer eso cuando se apunta a un avion enemigo en postcombustión.
Les presento la versión montada en casco versión 3 o HMDIII para abreviar. Esta belleza de la tecnología esencialmente da la visión de rayos X piloto y los lazos entre todos los sensores de los que hablamos y algunos salté a través de algo llamado fusión de sensores. El F-35 también resulta ser la mejor cosa del planeta en la fusión de sensores, ya que tiene más de 650 maneras de detectar pistas e identificar objetivos. Para poner todo en perspectiva, incluso su primo más grande de la F-22 sólo tiene 150-200 maneras de realizar un seguimiento, y la identificación de sus objetivos
Crédito por las fotos al Flickr Lockheed Martin.
https://www.armada.mil.co/es/content/buque-uss-zumwalt-de-visita-en-cartagena
Buque USS “Zumwalt” de visita en Cartagena
Construyendo/ensamblando un GLOBAL HAWK.
Electromagnético (EM) Railgun,(por BAE System)
https://translate.google.com.co/translate?hl=es-419&sl=en&u=http://www.baesystems.com/en-us/product/electromagnetic--em--railgun&prev=search
La Armada de EEUU desarrolla proyectiles hiperveloces ´multiuso´
Is the Navy Abandoning the Railgun?
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/06/04/Navy-Abandoning-Railgun
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