The U.S. military is growing increasingly reliant on satellites to direct precision bombs, relay soldiers’ orders, and give a picture of the battleground. But such dependence is only the beginning, the New York Times reports. 12 national-security space launches are scheduled for 2003; only one was conducted last year. On March 10, the military launched […]
From the monthly archives:
March 2003
BusinessWeek doing a cover story on “The Doctrine of Digital War?” Cool. BusinessWeek using headlines like “Point, Click…Fire: Awesome technology gets a helluva field test?” Puh-leeze. Why do hyper-skeptical editors suddenly fall to their knees when military hardware is rolled out? Go read Drew Park’s expose of EDS (in the same issue) instead.
Turn on the tube, and the only drones you’ll see operating in Iraq are the Predators and Global Hawks. But there are at least ten different types of unmanned planes being used by the U.S. military in Gulf War II, according to Aviation Week. Drones listed by the Pentagon included the Army’s Hunter, Pointer and […]
U.S. Central Command has told reporters embedded with military units in Iraq to shut off their Thuraya satellite phones, Reuters says. The phones could be used to zero in on where troops are — they’re equipped with GPS, and have a location-finding system that’s accurate to 100 meters. Phones from Thuraya’s military-backed rival, Iridium, aren’t […]
The hacking of al Jazeera’s website has many Defense Tech readers wondering: “Is this (the work of) a new breed of patriotic, nationalistic hacker? Or is some tenuous propaganda arm of our own government involved?“ Neither. It’s a cry for attention by a couple of no-skills “script kiddies” trying to show off to their sunken-chested […]
