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Hammerhead Usv-t
The Hammerhead USV-T (Unmanned Surface Vehicle Target) is a remote-controlled, high-speed seaborne target Seaborne targets are vessels or floating structures that are shot at for practice by naval or air forces. They may be remotely controlled and mobile, or towed behind other craft, or just set adrift in the sea. Target ships Target ships are vesse ... drone used for naval training. The craft is built and produced by Meggitt Training Systems in cooperation with A. F. Theriault & Son Ltd and approximately 80 other companies that produce innards and accessories of the boats. The Hammerhead USV-T is used for tactical training scenarios at sea. Production In 2010 Meggitt achieved a world first by successful demonstrating to the International Naval Community to be able to control 16 of their Hammerheads for a period of 7 hours. During this time many of the useful applications and equipment designed into the Hammerhead were demonstrated. Since 2010 over 190 units have been sold to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seaborne Target
Seaborne targets are vessels or floating structures that are shot at for practice by naval or air forces. They may be remotely controlled and mobile, or towed behind other craft, or just set adrift in the sea. Target ships Target ships are vessels, typically obsolete or captured warships, used for naval gunnery practice or for weapons testing – perhaps most spectacularly in Operation Crossroads (1946), where 95 ships were sunk in a U.S. nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll. Powered targets In the U.S. Navy, a Seaborne Powered Target (SEPTAR) is an unmanned surface vehicle used as the naval counterpart of a target drone. They are remote-controlled, and all but the smallest can be equipped with electromagnetic emitters to appear as a larger ship on sensors. As of 2013, U.S. Navy SEPTARs include: * Hammerhead usv-t: A high-speed drone capable of multiple vessel attacks. *Mobile Ship Target (MST): A ship-sized target some long, with a top speed of . *QST-35: A fiberglass boat w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meggitt
Parker Meggitt (formerly Meggitt plc) is a British international company specialising in components and sub-systems for the aerospace, defence and selected energy markets. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index until it was acquired by Parker Hannifin in September 2022. History Origins The company's history spans back to multiple preceding businesses that were originally founded in both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Meggitt's own official history claims that the company's roots can be traced through to 1850 via the scientific instrumentation business Negretti & Zambra, which had, amongst other innovations, invented the world's first altimeter for the hot air balloon. During 1947, a new business was founded under the trading name ''Willson Lathes''; it operated as a machine tool manufacturer based in Halifax, West Yorkshire. That same year, Willson Lathes became a quoted public company. During 1964, Meggitt, a Dorset- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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