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Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant & Bell-Lockheed Martin V-280 Valor

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 teams - Sikorsky-Boeing with their Defiant, and Bell 
Helicopter-Lockheed Martin with their V280, are also vying for the 
lucractive contract to create a manned version of the  'supercopter'.</span></div>
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called the Joint Multi Role Technology Demonstrator Air Vehicle, which 
will then inform the Army's Future Vertical Lift (FVL) program to 
replace the long-serving Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk and Boeing AH-64E 
Apache.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The FVL program will also inform the US Navy's MH-XX program to replace the MH-60 Seahawk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Bell revealed this week it believes it's entrant could enter service in 2024. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'There's
 no real technology that needs to be further developed for us to be able
 to design and develop an aircraft that meets those requirements,' said 
Vince Tobin, Bell's vice president of advanced tiltrotor systems, 
according to <a class="" href="http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/04/futuristic-aircraft-may-replace-black-hawk-will-fly-next-year/127929/?oref=d-topstory" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">DefenceOne</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Our
 big push now is that, after we fly this and prove out that we can build
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manufacturing development.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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Sikorsky's program director for its Joint Multi-Role tech demonstrator.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 intent of the JMR TD effort is to maximize the knowledge gain and risk 
reduction toward an anticipated Future Vertical Lift acquisition 
program,' said Dan Bailey, the Army's JMR/FVL program director when the 
two finalists were announced. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Two
 other teams led by Karem Aircraft and AVX Aircraft were not selected 
for continued development, but the service is still interested in their 
technologies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
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teams based on resources and opportunities,' the service said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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helicopter design with co-axial rotors and a pusher-propeller.  </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Bell Helicopter design, which is called the V-280 Valor, is an advanced
 tilt-rotor design that is based upon technology similar to the 
Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The new tilt-rotor is smaller, faster and much more manoeuvrable than the Osprey and has a top speed of over 300 knots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span class="">The Future Vertical Lift (FVL) is a program to develop a family of military helicopters for the United States Armed Forces. </span></span></div>
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The Bell V280 program completed its final design and risk review period in August, and construction has already begun. <i>dailymail</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span class="">Four different sizes of aircraft are to be developed, and they will </span><span class=""> share common hardware such as sensors, avionics, engines, and weapons.</span><span class=""> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span class="">It
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AH-64 Apache, CH-47 Chinook, and OH-58 Kiowa helicopters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span class="">The
 precursor for FVL is the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) helicopter program, 
which will provide technology demonstrations planned for 2017. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Chris
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 the V280 program completed its final design and risk review period in 
August. Spirit Aerosystems has completed building the fuselage in 
Wichita, Kansas, and shipped it to Amarillo just before AUSA.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This is real. The aircraft is coming together now,' Gehler told<a class="" href="http://www.defensenews.com/story/defense/show-daily/ausa/2015/10/13/jmr-helicopter-demo-shows-strong-industry-commitment-to-future-vertical-lift/73776790/" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank"> Defense News</a>. </span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen111" style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Sikorsky-Boeing entry, called the SB-1 Defiant, is a compound helicopter design with co-axial rotors and a pusher-propeller.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The design will have a cruise speed of 250 kn (290 mph; 460 km/h), but less range due to using the 'old' T55 engine. </span></div>
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 side-to-side movement, and hovering with the tail up and nose down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Defiant demonstrator will be powered by the Honeywell T55, which powers the CH-47 Chinook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It will be slightly modified to better operate at slower speeds down to 85% rpm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'About
 this time next year,' he said, the aircraft will look ready to fly and 
the team will be running pre-flight checks, ground runs, shake tests and
 other reliability activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 U.S. Army-led Joint Multi-Role Demonstrator (JMR-TD) program is the 
science and technology precursor to the Department of Defense's Future 
Vertical Lift program expected to replace 2,000 to 4,000 medium-class 
utility and attack helicopters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The U.S. Army's current helicopter fleet cruises at 140 knots. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The 
Bell Helicopter design, which is called the V-280 Valor, is an advanced 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The new tilt-rotor is smaller, faster and much more manoeuvrable than the Osprey and has a top speed of over 300 knots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The first flight of the next generation tiltrotor is scheduled for the second half of 2017. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Bell has unveiled a radical new tiltrotor drone that could be launched from warships to carry out attacks automatically.</span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen106" style="font-size: 1.2em;">Called
 the V-247 Vigilant, Bell says it will 'combine the vertical lift 
capability of a helicopter with the speed and range of a conventional 
fixed-wing aircraft'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It boasts the craft could be in service by 2023, and is able to take off from anywhere - even a dangerous ship's deck. </span></div>
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 Bell V-247 Vigilant is the next leap in innovation making the future of
 aviation a reality today – it's a testament to the power and 
versatility of tiltrotor flight,' said Mitch Snyder, president and CEO 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 unmanned tiltrotor is the latest example of how we are changing the way
 the world flies, taking our customers into the dynamic world of 
next-generation aircraft.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 aviation giant says the UAS is designed to provide 'unmatched 
long-endurance persistent expeditionary and surveillance capability and 
lethal reach, as well as runway independence to operate successfully in 
maritime environments and locations without secure runway availability.'</span></div>
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 bays on the Bell V-247 Vigilant are designed to carry high definition 
sensors, fuel, sonar buoys, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) modules,
 360-degree surface radar modules, an MK-50 torpedo or Hellfire or JAGM 
missiles optimally.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"> With
 its signature blade fold wing stow design, it will fit inside a DDG 
hangar space, and two can be loaded on a C-17 aircraft. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Leveraging
 lessons learned from our extensive history and experience with 
tiltrotors, we have found the best available solution to fulfill the 
Marine Corps need for a Group 5 UAS,' said Vince Tobin, vice president, 
advanced tiltrotor systems at Bell Helicopter. </span></div>
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reduce the complexity of deployment, increase speed of employment, 
reduce mission times and increase response time – all critical elements 
to completing missions to save lives and protect our freedom.'</span></div>
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Radical hypersonic engine to take to the skies

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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The Oxfordshire-based firm has been 
developing a turbine that combines both jet and rocket technologies to 
achieve rates five times the speed of sound, to fly anywhere in the 
world in just four hours</span> </span></div>
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'Fighter jet' sized 4,000mph engine that could go from New York to London in under two hours to be built</h3>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Plans for a
 revolutionary hypersonic propulsion system have now taken a big step 
toward the construction of a ground demonstrator – but at roughly a 
quarter the size of the original vision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Reaction
 Engines Ltd has scaled back its design for the Sabre engine to bring 
about a demonstrator that is more affordable and better suited to early 
applications, including a potential X-plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Oxfordshire-based firm has been developing a turbine that combines both
 jet and rocket technologies to achieve rates five times the speed of 
sound, to fly anywhere in the world in just four hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Rather
 than aiming for a demonstrator that can achieve more than 150,000 lb 
thrust, the firm will instead now target an engine size capable of 
roughly 44,000 lb thrust, according to <a class="" href="http://m.aviationweek.com/technology/reaction-engines-refines-hypersonic-engine-demonstrator-plan" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">Aviation Week Network.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In
 the new plans for the Sabre demonstrator, researchers will target a 
smaller engine similar in size to the F135 engine for the F-35 joint 
Strike Fighter (JSF).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Such a
 system, scaled back due to the slowness of funding, could be used in 
multistage vehicles or hypersonic craft the size of an X-plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It
 is now more affordable, more rapid to execute and will potentially find
 its first application quicker,’ Reaction CEO Mark Thomas told Aviation 
Week Network.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘It’s
 a quarter of Sabre, effectively. In an application for something like 
Skylon, the engine would have four combustion chambers connecting to the
 single nozzle, a bypass system and the same turbomachinery, intake and 
heat exchanger.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">A model of the revolutionary Sabre engine is pictured  </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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runway and accelerate to five times the speed of sound, before switching
 to a rocket mode, propelling it into orbit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The Sabre engine works by burning atmospheric air in combustion chambers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It then uses the heat to turbo-charge the engine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">At
 the moment, rockets have to carry liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen to 
power them and the cost of carrying this heavy fuel is expensive. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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engine from 1,000°C to minus 150°C in a hundredth of a second – six 
times faster than the blink of an eye – without creating ice blockages.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The revolutionary Sabre engine could 
allow aircraft to take off from a runway and accelerate to five times 
the speed of sound, before switching to a rocket mode, propelling it 
into orbit. A computer generated image of the ground demonstrator is 
pictured.  <i>dailymail</i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This
 new class of aerospace engine is designed to enable aircraft to operate
 from standstill on the runway to speeds of over five times the speed of
 sound in the atmosphere. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It
 can then transition to a rocket mode of operation, allowing spaceflight
 at speeds up to orbital velocity, equivalent to 25 times the speed of 
sound.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘There
 is a view that you could modularize the engine to a far higher degree, 
so that you could have four compressors and still have a large heat 
exchanger. From this point onward you could go completely modular, so if
 you could demonstrate one element, then it is all about integration.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Along
 with a JSF-sized engine for the ground demonstrator, the firm plans to 
solve the power gap between air-breathing and rocket engines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">While the engine is still in the design phase, the firm plans to see three main test phases stretching into the 2020s.</span></div>
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 hoped that the first test will take place within the next 12-15 months,
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scaled back its design for the Sabre engine to bring about a 
demonstrator that is more affordable and better suited to early 
applications, including a potential X-plane. <i>dailymail</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Then, the team will move on to the integrated engine tests in 2020-2021.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 system will undergo sea-level testing, and researchers will simulate 
high velocity air by heating the air flow. And, they will run wind 
tunnel tests to assess flow conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In the third phase, the firm is looking toward concepts of an X-plane or flight demonstration aircraft to put it to the test.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 core will eventually be tested in the UK, meaning Reaction will need to
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In July, it was announced that the European Space Agency has invested $11 million toward the development of the engine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Along
 with this, Reaction Engines announced that it had secured over $66 
million in funding from the British government, with more than $55 
million from the UK Space Agency, and the ESA contribution acting as the
 final piece.</span></div>
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 the moment, rockets have to carry liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen to 
power them and the cost of carrying this heavy fuel is expensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 new engine creates its own liquid oxygen by cooling air entering the 
engine from 1,000°C to minus 150°C in a hundredth of a second – six 
times faster than the blink of an eye – without creating ice blockages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This
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possible, without the risk that it will overheat and break apart. </span><i>dailymail</i></div>
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The hidden horrors of Nagasaki: Confiscated photographs of the devastating effects of America's atomic bomb

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<span id="ext-gen182" style="font-size: 1.2em;">Haunting
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
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Some of his 
photographs, which became iconic after featuring in a 1952 edition of 
Life Magazine, are considered the most complete record of the attack's 
aftermath. However some were confiscated by an unidentified US military 
policeman in the months that followed, never to be seen again until now</div>
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 of his photographs, which became iconic after featuring in a 1952 
edition of Life Magazine, are considered the most complete record of the
 attack's aftermath.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However
 some were confiscated by an unidentified US military policeman in the 
months that followed, never to be seen again until now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">They
 were requisitioned following a direct order from General Douglas 
MacArthur to seize and destroy any such pictures to shield the true 
scale of the carnage from the public back at home.</span></div>
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 the military policeman kept hold of the images, which have since been 
acquired by a collector, and are now being sold in the US by RR Auction 
with an estimate of £38,000.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The full album contains 24 photographs developed from Yamahata's original negatives.</span></div>
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 of these 12 were never published because, unbeknownst to Yamahata at 
the time, they were taken using a defective shutter that created small 
black dots on the finished product and thus made them surplus to 
Yamahata's requirements.</span></div>
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policeman, including candid snaps of General MacArthur and President 
Dwight Eisenhower greeting troops and a personal account from Yamahata 
about the horrors he witnessed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">In
 this article, published by a Japanese magazine in 1962, he says: 'I 
tried climbing up onto a small hill to look - all around, the city 
burned with what looked like little elf-fires, and the sky was blue and 
full of stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It was a strangely beautiful scene.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'On my way, I began to hear the voices of dying people calling out, 'Water, give me water, please'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'I stumbled over things in my path, such as the belly of a horse that had been charred to death.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'At
 2am in the morning it was pitch dark so I couldn't see anything. But 
after sunrise I saw that the skin had been exposed was a reddish 
brownish colour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The victims faces were horribly inflamed. They brought to mind 'watermelon ghosts'. Even their eyes were burned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 blacks of the eyelids were red and swollen as though they had been 
turned inside out, and the edges of the eyes were yellow like the fat of
 a chicken.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Blinded people groped their way forward with both hands extended in front of them.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Many of Yamahata's photographs were used in Japanese publications just a few weeks after the bombing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">He died aged 48 in 1966 of cancer, which is believed to have been caused by extensive exposure to radiation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Robert
 Livingston, RR Auction's executive vice president, said: 'When you hold
 this album in your hands you get a feel for how powerful these images 
are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'These are the originals, not retouched, not fixed and have rarely been seen in public before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'They
 show us just how much of a devastating weapon this was, and what the 
atomic bomb bomb did to the human body is pretty gruesome and disturbing
 to see.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The US's nuclear strike against Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, came three days after a similar bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">These attacks resulted in the deaths of around 120,000 people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Japan surrendered six days later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The lot is being sold on September 25. </span><i>dailymail</i></div>
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The hidden horrors of Nagasaki: Confiscated photographs of the devastating effects of America's atomic bomb

The collection of poignant images taken by Yosuke Yamahata, a Japanese military photographer, show the flattened land...

Test of cannon for T-50 PAK-FA

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T-50 PAK FA testing its new 9-A1-4071K cannon</h3>
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Test of cannon for T-50 PAK-FA

T-50 PAK FA testing its new 9-A1-4071K cannon

Meet the B-21 Raider

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<i>Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James announced the B-21 bomber will be 
called the B-21 Raider. The name represents the historically important 
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 Air Force’s long-range strike bomber that will replace the antique 
B-52's developed during the cold war has  officially been named the B-21
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The all-black plane has a distinctive, zigzagging shape and a low profile designed to make it hard to spot on radar.</span></div>
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on Friday unveiled the first image of its next-generation bomber that 
will replace antique B-52s first developed during the Cold War. The 
all-black plane has a distinctive, zigzagging shape and a low profile 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 name was ultimately selected by James and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen.
 Dave Goldfein after a panel composed of staff from AFGSC and 
Headquarters Air Force determined the top-ranked selections from more 
than 2,100 unique naming submissions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
 B-21 is intended to operate in both conventional and nuclear roles, 
with the capability of penetrating and surviving in advanced air defense
 environments,' The Air Force said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It will be capable of operation by an onboard crew or piloted remotely.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Earlier
 this year the US Air Force unveiled the first image of its new stealth 
bomber when Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James provided the world 
with the first glimpse of the project using an artist's rendering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The rendering bears more than a passing resemblance to the Air Force's B-2 bomber, which is also made by Northrop Grumman. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">However the new document reveals it may not be that accurate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The released rendering shows a flying-wing design not dissimilar to the B-2, although simpler in shape. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'It resembles early proposed designs that later evolved into the B-2.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 report also outlines the craft,s unmanned capabilities, saying 'Initial
 B-21s will be manned, with unmanned operation possible several years 
after initial operational capability (IOC).'</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nuclear qualification will also take two years or so after IOC, the report says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It is designed to be launch from the continental US and deliver airstrikes on any location in the world. </span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen70" style="font-size: 1.2em;">At
 an earlier event in Orlando, James revealed the plane - previously 
known as the Long Range Strike Bomber - would be called the B-21 until a
 new name has been agreed on, and she invited air crews to help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The designation B-21 recognises the aircraft as the military’s first bomber of the 21st century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'This
 aircraft represents the future for our Airmen, and (their) voice is 
important to this process,' James told the Air Force Association's Air 
Warfare Symposium.</span></div>
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The new bomber is
 a high Air Force priority because the oldest ones in its fleet — the 
venerable B-52s — have far outlived their expected service life. Even 
the newest — the B-2 stealth bombers (pictured) — having been flying for
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The program has been shrouded in secrecy since its inception for fear of revealing military secrets to potential enemies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The military also wanted to avoid giving the losing bidders any details before their formal protest was rejected last week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Air Force wants 100 of the warplanes, which will replace the ageing 
B-52s and the B-1 bombers that first saw action in the 1980s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Industry
 news reports say that while the new plane's specific capabilities are 
highly secret, it likely will be equipped with high-tech communications 
gear and other electronics that would allow it to perform a variety of 
missions, not just dropping bombs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 new bomber is a high Air Force priority because the oldest ones in its 
fleet — the venerable B-52s — have far outlived their expected service 
life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Even the newest — the B-2 stealth bombers — having been flying for more than two decades. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A third bomber, the B-1, is used heavily for conventional strikes, but no longer is certified for nuclear missions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Pentagon in October announced Northrop as the winner of the contract to
 build the bomber in a decades-long program that will likely end up 
costing in excess of $100 billion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But
 work on the new plane was delayed for months while federal auditors 
reviewed a protest by Boeing and its key supplier, Lockheed Martin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Boeing
 has now told senior U.S. Air Force leaders that it will not take 
further legal action challenging the contract, Reuters said, citing two 
sources familiar with the decision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Air Force, under pressure from lawmakers and retired Air Force 
officers, has promised to release more information about the new plane 
in March.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">And the program has now survived the legal protest process, it still faces hurdles in Congress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Senate
 Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain on Thursday said he would
 block the Air Force's use of a cost-plus type of contract for the 
long-range bomber since it holds the government responsible for cost 
overruns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 Air Force says that only the engineering and development phase of the 
program, valued at $21.4 billion, is structured as a cost-plus contract 
with incentive fees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Analysts
 say the program will be worth around $80 billion in total, providing a 
boon to Northrop and its key suppliers, but the Air Force has said only 
that it expects to pay $511 million per plane.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">John
 Michael Loh, a retired four-star U.S. Air Force general, has urged the 
Air Force to name Northrop's suppliers to shore up support in Congress, 
and avoid a re-run of the B-2 bomber program, which was scaled back from
 132 planes to just 21, which drove the price of each plane sharply 
higher. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 first operational aircraft, christened Spirit of Missouri, was 
delivered to Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, where the fleet is 
based, on 17 December 1993.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Twenty one aircraft were built in the original B-2 fleet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 B-2 has demonstrated its capabilities in several combat scenarios, 
including Operation Allied Force in Kosovo; Operation Enduring Freedom 
in Afghanistan, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and most recently, in Libya, 
during Operation Odyssey Dawn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 B-2 is the only U.S. aircraft that combines long range, large payload 
and stealth in a single platform, giving it the ability to project air 
power anywhere in the world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It can fly 6,000 nautical miles unrefueled and 10,000 nautical miles with just one aerial refueling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">With
 its ability to carry more than 20 tons of conventional and nuclear 
ordnance and deliver it precisely under any weather conditions, the B-2 
also has the ability to change the outcome of a conflict with a single 
mission. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Today,
 the fleet consists of 20 aircraft, following the loss, in February 
2008, of the Spirit of Kansas, which crashed while taking off from 
Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, the only such incident in the B-2's more 
than 20 years of operation. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Nineteen
 B-2s are currently based at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., home of the 
509th Bomb Wing, while one aircraft is assigned to flight testing at 
Edwards AFB, California to validate software and weapon systems 
upgrades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The
 idea is that the latest B-21 bomber, which is still on the drawing 
board will replace Air Force B-52 bombers, which have been flying for 
more than half a century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">It will also eventually the B-1 bombers, when they retire sometime in the 2040s.</span></div>
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