A few weeks back, buzz was building, fast, for Trophy, an Israeli “active protection” system that stops rocket-propelled grenades in mid-air. At the Naval Surface Warfare Center, demonstrations of the vehicle-mounted defender a went well, with the Trophy’s four radars picking out out RPG threats, and firing a kind of buckshot at the incoming shells. […]
April 2006
By now the numerous slights both deliberate and accidental during Chinese President Hu Jintaos visit to Washington are well known: mixing up Taiwan and China when introducing the National Anthem; the Falun Gong heckler; President Bush unceremoniously tugging President Hu around by his coat-sleeve; administration officials dozing through Mr. Hus statements. What’s less understood, though, […]
* Border patrol drone crashes * MIT mini-sats take off * The Army’s $25-billion repair bill * House bill: CIA, NSA can make arrests for “any felony“ * MRE containers = combat coffee * Mmmmmm… taste that warzone * Moon race! * Tanker war! * Cop fires bullet into gunman’s barrel * Navy gets blimpy […]
…wandering around Paris for a week, and coming home to discover that, if anything, your blog is in better shape than it was when you departed. David Axe, David Hambling, Jason Sigger, Steven Snell, Geoff Edwards: Thanks for taking such good care of the ranch while I was gone. I should leave more often!
I hadn’t seen a picture of the Stryker NBC Reconnaissance Vehicle (NBCRV), but now it’s up at a few sites now (here and here). Word is that General Dynamics got the contract in January to start modifying the basic Stryker chassis to manufacture 17 NBCRVs under a low rate initial production contract for test and […]
