5.11 Tactical Watch Overview and Specification

5.11 Tactical Field Ops Tactical Watches

  A high-density poly-carbonate case and scratch-resistant mineral crystal face offer lasting durability, a back light toggle provides low light functionality, and an anti-glare coating ensures a low profile. Additional features on the Field Ops Sure shot watch include water resistance to 100 meters, an extended wristband that allows wear over gloves or jackets, an omni-directional bezel, and an integrated digital compass.

This watch built to provide law enforcement officers and tactical operators with a reliable timepiece that stands up to tough environments while providing a high level of functionality, the Field Ops Watch is the ultimate duty/tactical/military watch. With our unique 5.11 Sure Shot calculator, the Field Ops watch allows you to calculate point of impact solutions from up to 1,000 meters.

Overview:

State of the art ballistic watch

Sure Shot calculator

Extended wristband for wear over gloves or jacket

Back light toggle

Integrated digital compass

Water resistant to 100 meters

Specifications:

High-density poly carbonate case

Scratch-resistant mineral crystal face

Anti-glare coating

Omni-directional bezel

Multiple chronometers and audible alerts

For battery life 45 months

Mitsubishi Type 73 Light Truck

The first production of the Type 73, known as the Mitsubishi Type 73 Light Truck Kyu was based on the Jeep CJ-3Bs that Mitsubishi Motors had been producing under license from Willys. The first Type 73 Kyu's had been placed into production in 1973 with the chassis of the Jeep CJ-3B for basis before they made modifications based on it to create the Mitsubishi CJ-3B-J4 and the Mitsubishi CJ-3B-J4C before it was replaced again by producing the Mitsubishi CJ-5A-J54A. Production continued on before it ended in 1997 after the Type 73 Light Truck Shins were placed in production by 1996.

The Kyu's had been exported out of Japan, mostly declared as military surplus vehicles to the Philippines and South Vietnam with the latter using it as one of the main jeeps of the ARVN next to the Willys M606 and M38A1s in the course of the Vietnam War. They had been exported to New Zealand for civilian use.

AGM-28 Hound Dog Missile

                         The North American Aviation Corporation AGM-28 Hound Dog was a rather primitive, supersonic, jet propelled, air-launched cruise missile. The Hound Dog missile was first given the designation B-77, then redesigned the GAM-77, and finally designated the AGM-28, permanently. The Hound Dog was originally conceived as a temporary stand-off weapon for the B-52 Stratofortress bomber, to be used until the proposed AGM-48 Skybolt air-launched ballistic missile was available. Instead, the Skybolt missile was canceled within a few years, and the Hound Dog was deployed for 15 years until the missile was replaced by newer weapons, including the SRAM missile and the USAF Air-Launched Cruise Missile.

LAV-R Wheeled Recovery Info

The LAV-R is an all-terrain, all-weather condition vehicle with a night capabilities. It's an air transportable via C-130, C-141, C-5 and CH-53 E. When combat loaded there are 200 ready rounds and 800 stowed rounds of 7.62mm ammunition. There are 8 ready rounds and 8 stowed rounds of smoke grenades. The vehicle can be made fully amphibious within 3 minutes.

T-38 Talon Aircraft Info

         The T-38 has swept-back wings, a streamlined fuselage and tricycle landing gear with a steerable nose wheel. Two independent hydraulic systems power the ailerons, flaps, rudder and other flight control surfaces.

The instructor and student sit in tandem on rocket-powered ejection seats in a pressurized, air-conditioned cockpit. Critical components are waist high and can be easily reached by maintenance crews. Refueling and preflight inspections are easily performed.

The T-38 needs as little as 2,300 feet (695.2 meters) of runway to take off and can climb from sea level to nearly 30,000 feet (9,068 meters) in one minute.

Student pilots fly the T-38A to learn supersonic techniques, aerobatics, formation, night and instrument flying and cross-country navigation. More than 60,000 pilots have earned their wings in the T-38A.

Test pilots and flight test engineers are trained in T-38A's at the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Air Force Materiel Command uses T-38A's to test experimental equipment such as electrical and weapon systems.

Pilots from most North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries are trained in the T-38A at Sheppard AFB, Texas, through the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration uses T-38A aircraft as trainers for astronauts and as observers and chase planes on programs such as the space shuttle.

Air Education and Training Command uses a modified version, the AT-38B, to prepare pilots for fighter aircraft such as the F-15, F-16 and A-10. and F-111. This model carries external armament and weapons delivery equipment for training.

An ongoing program called Pacer Classic, the structural life extension program for the T-38, is integrating 10 modifications, including major structural renewal, into one process. As a result, the service life of T-38s should extend to the 2010. Additionally, the introduction of the T-1A Jayhawk significantly relieved the T-38's work load.

RIM-116 A (RAM),Rolling Airframe Missile

The RIM-116 A (RAM) Rolling Airframe Missile is a lightweight quick-reaction high-firepower anti-ship weapon system jointly developed by the U.S. and German governments. Currently developed as a Block O-type RAM and Block 1-type RAM, the RAMs will be an added asset.
The RIM-116 A RAM is a joint-venture between the U.S. and German governments. It is currently installed, or planned for installation, on 83 U.S. Navy and 28 German Navy ships.

The RIM-116A RAM is designed as an all-weather, high-firepower, low-cost, self-defense system against anti-ship missiles. It uses the infrared seeking of the Stinger missile and the warhead, rocket motor, and fuse from the Sidewinder missile. Due to its high-tech radio-to-infrared frequency guidance system, it requires no shipboard support after the missile is launched. It has been installed on various surface ships like the USS Peleliu (LHA-5) and USS Gunston Hall. The Navy expects to procure approximately 1,000 RAM Block 1 missiles.

Titan IVB Rocket Boosters

Titan IVB the most recent and largest unmanned space booster used by the Air Force. Titan IVB It provides assured capability for launch of space shuttle-class payloads. The vehicle is flexible because it can be launched with no upper stage, or one of two optional upper stages for greater and varied carrying ability. Titan IVB family was established in October 1955 when the Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin (the former Martin Company) a contract to build a heavy-duty space system. It became known as the Titan I, the nation's first two-stage, intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and first underground silo-based ICBM. Titan I provided many structural and propulsion techniques that were later incorporated into the Titan II. The Titan IVB consists of a liquid-fueled core and two large solid rocket boosters for increased performance. During a launch the strap-on rocket boosters are fired first. When the solid propellant is almost depleted, about two minutes into flight, the first stage is fired and the solid motors are separated from the vehicle. The second and upper stages are fired as the previous stage is depleted of fuel and separated. The Titan IVB's core consists of an LR87 liquid-propellant rocket that features structurally independent tanks for its fuel and oxidizer. This minimizes the hazard of the two mixing if a leak should develop in either tank. Additionally the engines' propellant can be stored in a launch-ready state for extended periods. The use of propellants stored at normal temperature and pressure eliminates delays and gives the Titan IVB the capability to meet critical launch windows. The second stage consists of an LR91 liquid propellant rocket engine attached to an airframe.

FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile

FGM-148 Javelin  has a 2,500 meter range, approximately twice that of the Dragon. Its default anti-tank mode is top-attack, in which, as it nears the target, it "pops up" and dives to hit a tank where the armor is usually thinnest. An innovation, however, is a direct fire mode, where it flies straight at the target, which is preferable for targets such as targets with top cover, or the sides of buildings and bunkers.

A lightweight, shoulder-fired surface-to-surface missile (SSM) principally, but not exclusively, intended as an anti-tank missile, the U.S. FGM-148 Javelin contains significant advantages over earlier shoulder-fired (e.g., the AT-4 unguided rocket) or at least portable antitank weapons (e.g, M-47 Dragon). While intended principally for surface targets, it has some surface-to-air missile (SAM) capability against slow targets such as helicopters.

Landmine

Landmine is usually a weight-triggered explosive device which is intended to damage a target either human or inanimate by means of a blast and the fragment impact.

Land mines were designed for two main reasons:

-To create defensive tactical barriers - such as protecting a unit's flanks against infiltration tactics, channelling attacking forces into predetermined fire zones or slowing an invasion force's progress to allow reinforcements to arrive.
-To act as passive area-denial weapons - in order to deny the enemy use of valuable terrain, resources or facilities when active defence of the area is not desirable or possible.

Su-37 Flanker

It has Developed and  improved version of the basic Su-27 Flanker designed, the Su-37 is based on the Su-35 airframe but with thrust vectoring nozzles to give it supreme maneuverability. In addition to provided that more power than previous engines, the engines on the Su-37 develop steerable nozzles which can vector the engine thrust through +/- 15 degrees of travel in the vertical axis. This thrust vectoring is fully integrated with the aircraft's flight control systems, and requires no input or manipulation by the pilot. In the event of a system failure, an emergency system will return the nozzles to their standard situation. Other modifications to the Su-37 include improved offensive and defensive avionics, an improved pulse doppler phased array radar in the nose as well as the rearward facing radar already present on the Su-34 and 35.

Mi-28A

 

The Mi-28A has small swept-back, mid-mounted stub-wings with four suspension units. Countermeasures pods are mounted on the wingtips. The Mi-28A helicopter is able to equip with a mixture of air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, without guides rockets, and podded guns.

The Mi-28 and Mi-28N Night Havoc are armed with Shturm and Ataka anti-tank missiles supplied by the Kolumna Design Bureau (KBM). Up to 16 anti-tank missiles can be mounted on the Mi-28A helicopter. Shturm is a short-range, radio command-guided missile. The Ataka missile's direction is by narrow radar beam, and greatest range of the missile is 8km. The missile has a tandem shaped-charge warhead for saturation of 950mm to 1,000mm armour.
 

LGM-30 Minuteman III

    

              The LGM-30 Minuteman III is a tactical weapon system with a ballistic missile of worldwide range. Missiles are dispersed in hardened silos to protect against attack and connected to an underground launch control center through a system of hardened cables. Initiating crews, consisting of two officers, perform around-the-clock alert in the launch control center. A variety of communication systems provide the National Command Authorities with highly reliable, virtually instantaneous direct contact with each launch crew. Should command capability be lost between the launch control center and remote missile launch facilities, specially-configured E-6B airborne launch control center aircraft automatically assume command and control of the isolated missile or missiles. Fully qualified airborne missile combat crews aboard airborne launch control center aircraft would execute the NCA orders. An extensive life extension programs is under way to keep the missiles safe, secure and reliable well into the 21st century. These major programs include the following, substitution of the aging direction system, remanufacture of the solid-propellant missile motors, substitution of standby control systems, fix of launch facilities, and fixing of updated, survivable communications tools, and new command and control console to improve direct communications.

C-130 Hercules

The C-130 Hercules is the mainly flexible transporter airplane ever made. Over 2,000 have been built over 50 years; manufacture it the longest, incessant construction run in history. It's used over 50 countries, and is one of the most used and safest transport aircraft in process. Here is  the plane is ejecting flares during a test of an infrared missile warning and self-protection system installed on a C-130 Hercules. The trailing vortices formed in the wake are clearly visible and it can also over clouds and firing sequence.
   
The C-130 provides essential tropical cyclone forecasting information. It penetrates tropical cyclones and hurricanes at altitudes ranging from 500 to 10,000 feet (151.7 to 3033.3 meters) above the ocean surface depending upon the intensity of the storm. The C-130 is specializing to collect high-density, high-accuracy weather data from within the storm's environment. This includes penetration of the center (eye) of the storm. This vital information is instantly relayed by satellite to the National Hurricane Center to aid in the accurate forecasting of hurricane movement and intensity.

XOS 2 exoskeleton

This is the XOS 2 exoskeleton it is a lot more bulky than the armor from Mr. Tony Stark. It actually reminds me of the power loader suit that Ripley wore in Aliens.

The suit is able to boost the user’s strength. You can see here that the wearer is punching through several layers of wood like a karate master. It is also designed to make a 170 to 200 pound weight feel like ten pounds.

but, the power source stem from a very thick wire from the back. So it is going away to be a while before there will be one of these on every soldier. I’m guessing that would be a very expensive endeavor, too.

 But still, if you were to put them on every fighter, you would definitely enlarge their endurance as well as strength. Imagine doing a ten mile hike that only feels like one mile.

Yes, the future is looking pretty bright for the future of exoskeletons. I guess all those science-fiction books and shows with armor like this served as inspiration for times such as this.