A perfect distraction from a Friday that just keeps dragging on. Best line: “We’re not doing that anymore…“
From the monthly archives:
June 2007
It looks as if the Air Force has successfully debarred Dragon Skin-maker Pinnacle Armor from participation in government contracts with the service. During congressional hearings on the issue in early June, Air Force director of the office of special investigations, Douglas Thomas, revealed the service was investigating Pinnacle for falsely marking its SOV 2000 vests […]
Yesterday it was Congo, today its Minority Report. Well, sort of. They dont look quite as creepy as the spider bots that crawled under doorways and scanned bath tub surfaces in the Tom Cruise hit, but you can see that it might only take a few years to make them that way. A North Carolina […]
Theres just something so agro about a claymore mine. Tamp it into the ground, set a trip wire or a command detonation chord and clack one off when the bad guys get too close. Nothing like a spray of 700 ball bearings backed by C-4 to ruin your pursuers day. But in todays counterinsurgency fight, […]
Network centric warfare, a term that was in vogue a few years ago, has been rehabilitated by Admiral Gary Roughead, recently appointed to the important position of Commander, Fleet Forces Command, i.e., head of the Navys Atlantic and Pacific ship and air type commanders. Admiral Roughead spoke at a three-day conference in Virginia Beach on […]
