As I mentioned the other day, over the next couple of weeks, a bunch of new voices are going to join the chorus here at Defense Tech. The first to take a solo is IBM homeland security analyst Christian Beckner, who runs my favorite domestic defense blog, Homeland Security Watch. Since 9/11, there’s been a […]
March 2006
This may just be my favorite Aviation Week article of all time. It explores, in depth, just how influential the B-2 bomber has been; a quarter-century later, plane-makers are still leveraging lessons they learned from building the thing. Best of all — and most unusually, for AvWeek — the article is actually written (for the […]
*Can Ospreys keep from crashing? * DHS “brain drain“ * Predator 3, IED-planters 0 * Coal = jet fuel? “Kinder, gentler explosives“ * Stealth robo-sub unveiled * Drone budget, broken down * Warthog, upgraded * Downed pilot beacon flicks on * Blimp/plane mashup * Remembering the original RF jammers (Big ups: HT, RC)
Spotting insurgents, sorting out friend from foe it’s beyond tough in todays guerilla war zones. So tough, that no single monitor can be counted on to handle the job. The Pentagon’s answer: build a set of palm-sized, networked sensors that can be scattered around, and work together to detect, classify, localize, and track dismounted combatants […]
Diesel-electric hybrids vehicles are all the rage at the U.S. Army’s Tank-automotive and Armaments Command in Warren, Michigan. Rising fuel prices and attacks on fuel convoys in Iraq have inspired a number of programs to develop more fuel-efficient trucks. The idea, according to industry, is to cut the Army truck fleet’s fuel consumption by 20 […]
