Inside armored personnel carriers, APC’s, such as e.g. Hägglunds CV90 or Mowag Piranha, the possibilities for looking out are rather limited. That is especially true for the soldiers being transported inside the personnel compartment. Because of this, the soldiers are in effect expected to put themselves into harms way with very limited knowledge of what is happening outside the vehicle. One po...

The article provides information on the concept of assessing resource power elements design a specialized armored vehicle during testing and its adjustment to standards NATO member states. It involves implementation simulated mathematical modeling with an evaluation static dynamic characteristics vehicle's structure. When simulating fatigue damage structure, hypothesis linear summation rule is ...

RNase-resistant, noninfectious virus-like particles containing exogenous RNA sequences (armored RNA) are good candidates as RNA controls and standards in RNA virus detection. However, the length of RNA packaged in the virus-like particles with high efficiency is usually less than 500 bases. In this study, we describe a method for producing armored L-RNA. Armored L-RNA is a complex of MS2 bacter...

This paper presents an en-route anti-terrorism security system for commercial vehicle operations (CVO) using kinematic data based on Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies. The real-time information of the coordinate position and speed of the concerned vehicle as well as the speed of and the gap to the vehicle ahead was taken into account duri...

Current United States military chemical protective ensembles do not provide for feeding, removing body wastes, or ensuring the hygiene of troops operating in a contaminated environment. As part of a nuclear-biological-chemical life support demonstration program, systems were developed to provide these capabilities. The nutrient system consisted of foods packaged in tube dispensers and a deliver...

115 Lincoln Laboratory automated four Husky Mark III mine-detection vehicles, the world’s first autonomous vehicles to steer using a novel localizing ground-penetrating radar. At nine tons, these autonomous vehicles are some of the largest to be put into combat operations to date. The vehicle is guided by a novel derivation of the pure pursuit steering algorithm adapted to a proportional four-w...

The Northrop Grumman Cordless Communications System (CCS) is a state-of-the-art, wireless communications system targeted for tomorrow’s armored battlefield. Through a single, hand-held or body-mounted Personal Communications Unit (PCU), the CCS provides the soldier with access to a digital, fullduplex wireless intercom, as well as the capability to simultaneously communicate over a point-to-poi...