The war in Iraq requires a lot of aerial refuelling and moving a lot of stuff between crappy little airstrips. No airplane is better at both tasks than the venerable C-130. After 40 years of building first-generation Hercules for dozens of customers all over the world, in the mid-1990s, Lockheed Martin switched to the new […]
January 2006
On Thursday, we took a look at the Stiletto, a wild new stealth ship that the Defense Department has built to sneak special forces onto shore. On Sunday night, Stiletto program manager Greg Glaros paid us a visit, answering some reader comments and questions about the ship. Thanks for your comments — Stiletto was constructed […]
* CIA pumps up killer drone ops * NYT channels Gore on wiretaps * CSI: Murderers’ best friend? * Anti-NSA “palace revolt“ * Kids just wanna have fun (with guns) * Spook stumps, eavesdropping poo, and other spy gear * Sea Kings’ final flight * Peters: “There is, in short, not a single enemy in […]
At noisy Al Asad air base, the noisiest jets belong to Marine Electronic Attack Squadron 1. It’s hard not to notice the squadron’s EA-6B Prowlers, but don’t get caught looking. While touring the hangars of Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 332, my escort and I walked past the Prowlers and caught the evil eye […]
Everybody seems to have an answer to the homemade bomb problem: more cargo flights, more radio frequency jammers, even explosive-spotting lasers. This story in the current Atlantic has a solution I hadn’t seen before. The idea, from Gen. Joseph Votel, who headed the IED task force until recently, is to have troops stop riding through […]
