In the realm of combat shooting the standard rule of thumb is, he who hits first wins. Consequentially, for the last couple of hundred years, the focus in firearms training has been sight alignment — the faster you can align the front and rear sights on your target, the faster you can put lethal fire […]
July 2007
The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel is looking into evidence that Russia plans to sell 250 Sukhoi-30 fighters to Iran in an “unprecedented billion-dollar deal.” The deal also appears to include compatable aerial refueling tankers. This report comes in the wake of the U.S. signing a deal to supply Saudi Arabia with thousands of Joint […]
The commander-in-chief of the Israel Navy, Vice Admiral David Ben-Bashat, submitted his resignation on July 26, the latest of several senior Israeli military officers who have resigned or been dismissed in the aftermath of last summer’s invasion of Lebanon. During operations against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon the Israeli missile corvette Hanit was struck by a […]
I hate to be a conspiracy theorist, but my greatest fears about how the defense industry operates are being realized these days by developments surrounding the Joint Strike Fighter’s power plant(s). When you have an airplane that is already wrestling with a flyaway unit cost that is well above program estimates ($80 million versus $65 […]
Very soon, maybe today, Barry Bonds will tie Hank Aaron’s home run record. When Bonds “goes yard” with Number 755 those who choose to celebrate the achievement will be met with a Greek chorus of sports purists who will suggest that the milestone is tainted if not irrelevant because of allegations that Bonds used steroids […]
