TOP 100 MILITARY SITES
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| 12/20/2007: Program Helps Injured Employees Return to Work A new Defense Department program is helping civilian employees injured in job-related accidents and illnesses return to work. defenselink.mil |
01/23/2008: America Supports You: Group's Boxes Help Win Hearts, Minds Folks in the Lone Star State are helping troops in Iraq and Afghanistan win hearts and minds with "Victory Boxes," which contain toys and supplies for children. defenselink.mil |
iRobot iRobot Corporation's PackBot EOD is a rugged, lightweight robot designed to conduct Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), HAZMAT handling, search-and-surveillance, hostage rescue and other vital law enforcement tasks for bomb squads, SWAT teams, military units and other authorities seeking to meet the security challenges of the 21st century.PackBot EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) ROBOTPackBot EOD can handle a full range of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and conventional ordnance disposal challenges. Its lightweight, ruggedized OmniReach™ manipulator system can reach as far as two meters in any direction to safely disrupt difficult-to-access improvised explosive devices, military ordnance, land mines and other incendiary devices.This versatile robot quickly adapts to different IEDs, conventional ordnance and SWAT missions. With its compact profile and patented mobility platform, PackBot EOD operates with confidence on the toughest terrain - from the stairs, curbs and rubble of urban terrain to the rocks, sands and mud of the battlefield.PackBot EOD is built on the battle-proven PackBot chassis deployed by US ground troops in Afghanistan (2002) and Iraq (2003) to help clear caves and bunkers, search buildings and cross live anti-personnel mine fields.PackBot EOD - RAPIDLY DEPLOYED, MOBILE BOMB DISPOSAL ROBOTWeighing less than 24 kilograms fully loaded, PackBot EOD can be hand carried and deployed by a single operator. In its stowed position, the robot can be quickly loaded into the trunk of a squad car and transported to the site. No expensive equipment or specialized vans are necessary. Once on the scene, PackBot EOD can be deployed in under two minutes. Airlifts pose no problem - PackBot EOD fits easily in airplanes and helicopters.PackBot EOD is equipped with tracked QuickFlip™ dual rotating flippers that allow the robot to easily climb up stairs, maneuver over rocks and rubble and navigate narrow, twisting passages. The robot's flexible ToughTrac™ polymer tracks can eject debris and maneuver over any surface - from tiled floor to snow and mud with "human-like" dexterity, quickly positioning its payloads for optimum mission success. This all-weather all-terrain robot goes virtually anywhere.PackBot EOD - MULTI-ROLE ROBOT FOR HAZMAT HANDLING, SEARCH AND RESCUE, RECONNAISSANCE, SURVEILLANCE AND HOSTAGE RESCUEOnce PackBot EOD has reached the target area, a wide range of payloads can handle missions ranging from ordnance disposal weapons delivery to reconnaissance and search-and-rescue. The OmniReach manipulator arm can access targets other robots cannot. With its powerful, low-profile gripper, the robot can perform a wide array of manipulation tasks.PackBot EOD offers multi-mission flexibility in a single, proven chassis delivering cost efficiency and long-term investment protection. The chassis offers eight separate payload bays, each with interchangeable payload modules such as video / audio, chemical / bio-sensors, mine detectors, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) and extra power. Bomb squads and SWAT teams can quickly configure payloads, employ sensors and adjust the level of human control required to meet the needs of each specific mission.PackBot EOD is simple to learn and use. The ruggedized operator control unit has an ergonomic design with intuitive controls for optimum mission success. The robot's intelligent power management constantly monitors battery health to ensure long mission life. army-technology.com |
MILCON: Impacting Army from Texas to Korea Lt. Gen. Robert VanAntwerp, the Army's chief of Engineers, talks about the largest military construction program since World War II. Mary Cochran reports on how the $39 billion MILCON program will affect Soldiers and Families from Fort Bliss, Texas, to Camp Humphries, Korea. www4.army.mil |
“Water to Go” for the British Armed Forces - Innovative Water Bottling Plant Success in Afghanistan At the end of February, Kärcher UK Ltd completed the installation of a water bottling plant for British armed forces in Afghanistan. The plant, which is located in Camp Bastion in the Helmand Province, has been provided to Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR), a company that conducts logistical support for the British Military.The plant purifies, bottles and labels the water from local boreholes and can produce 50,000 one-litre bottles a day. This is only the second plant of its kind and the first ever in its particular configuration of two water purification systems and four water bottling systems.KÄRCHER Futuretech has also provided millions of PET preforms to be used in the plant. To make the one litre bottles, these preforms are warmed in a heating carousel and then blown up in a mould using compressed air. The bottles are then placed on a conveyor track, which transports them through the filling, capping and labelling stations. Finally, the bottles are banded into six-packs and stacked onto pallets. The components included two WTC 1600 treatment systems, which can decontaminate and desalinate 1600 litres an hour; and four WBP 700s, which can produce up to 700 one litre bottles per hour. Each component was housed in a separate 20 ft ISO container, which allows either part or all of the system to be redeployed to new locations. The equipment will allow huge cost savings for the British forces. Previously, bottled water was trucked, at a huge cost, to the British military camp from Pakistan. This required over thirty times the number of trucks that will be now being required to transport preforms.MOBILE WATER PURIFICATION - AT A GLANCEPowerful. With its reliable and innovative water purification systems, developed by people for people, KÄRCHER Futuretech's equipment provides help where it is needed. Depending on the actual requirement, the systems of the Waterclean series produce 10,000 to 240,000 litres of tasty drinking water per day - enough to supply up to 60,000 persons.And well-portioned in bags by the innovative 'Water Packaging System' or filled in bottles by the 'Water Bottling Plant', clean drinking water is a decisive factor for the health of every person. This underlines the claim of the KÄRCHER Futuretech water purification concept: from source to consumption." army-technology.com |