The next wave of Army fighting vehicles are still on the drawing board. So, in the meantime, “Boeing is outfitting 34 commercially produced limousine-style Hummers with radios and computer networking equipment to stand in for the… vehicles during tests and exercises,” according to Inside Defense. In early January, seven of the vehicles will drive up […]
December 2005
There are few things rarer than an old Kurdish man. Decades of oppression, poor nutrition and medical care, war, flight and starting over have taken their toll. The low life expectancy of Kurdish men goes a long way to explain why the survivors are so revered. More than most, Kurdish culture is patriarchal and personality-worshipping. […]
At the Erbil Ministry of Culture’s media hall, the Iraqi-Kurdistan Symphony Orchestra has just struck the final chord of the Kurdish national anthem, and the audience — Kurdish Christians and Muslims, Arabs and Turkomens, maybe even an Iraqi Jew or two, all in black ties and gowns — bursts into loud applause, foot-stomping and cheers. […]
“The National Security Agency has traced and analyzed large volumes of telephone and Internet communications flowing into and out of the United States… by tapping directly into some of the American telecommunication system’s main arteries,” the Times is reporting. The volume of information harvested from telecommunication data and voice networks, without court-approved warrants, is much […]
I love the bit in Bond films where 007 goes round Qs laboratory checking out the latest top-secret gadgets. Thats why I enjoyed talking to Capt.Wegner and his colleagues at ScorpWorks, source of a variety of laser weapons and other one-of-a-kind devices. The ScorpWorks is the Air Force Research Laboratorys in-house development team for laser […]
