Since this is the last Sunday Paper for 2007 it seems appropriate to pose a “year in review” sort of question: Who would you pick as “Defensetech’s Newsmaker of the Year”? Why? My pick is General David Petraeus. From the Surge to the Moveon.org NYT ad, he’s been the man in the middle of this […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2007
My boy Gordon Lubold with the Christian Science Monitor has a great story on the latest feat for greenies in Blue… The US Air Force is experimenting with a synthetic fuel that could become a cheaper fuel-alternative for the entire US military and even commercial aviation, officials say. As the cost of a barrel of […]
While aboard a DC-9 aircraft, a remote operator uses a robot to suture a section of simulated tissue. If a robot surgeon is treating you, your life is in danger. That’s not due to any machine-borne malice, but because current research into autonomous surgery is focused on battlefield casualties barely clinging to life and astronauts […]
Guns, guns, guns…I know you all can’t get enough! So I’ve decided to throw you a bone here and call your attention to a story we’ve just put up over at the Military.com Warfighter’s Forum. Now, I’ve written about the Magul Masada on these pages before, but our friends over at Soldier of Fortune had […]
The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard have expressed interest in the 30-ft.-long Protector, which comes mounted with a machine gun and could be retrofitted for commercial use. Robots versus pirates — it’s not as stupid, or unlikely, as it sounds. Piracy has exploded in the waters near Somalia, where this past week United States warships […]
