I just got some information on the Heckler and Koch bid for the Marine Corps Infantry Automatic Rifle. You can see the picture here and below, check out the stats: IAR specs Publish at Scribd or explore others: Technology weapons rifle To me, it basically looks like a 416 with a longer barrel and more […]
December 2008
Here’s a pretty interesting piece of defense tech sent over by DT reader Travis the other day about an innovative mast system that can be used in unmanned ground vehicles that allows the diminutive bots to see over high walls. The so called Situational Awareness Mast uses a patented interlock system that differentiates it from […]
As the new administration takes office, the defense budget will come under extensive scrutiny. A recent editorial in The New York Times entitled “How to Pay for a 21st-Century Military” calls for a halt to the F-22 Raptor fighter, the DDG 1000 Zumwalt–class destroyer, SSN 688 Virginia–class submarines, and MV-22 Osprey programs, among others. Some […]
No one would dispute how convenient thumb drives are, or how theyve made the transfer of files form one machine to another so easy. These drives offer numerous advantages over other portable storage devices. They are more compact, and operate much faster. The new thumb drives using USB 2.0 operate faster than an optical disc […]
This was forwarded to us by our friend Winslow Wheeler who writes: With a Comptroller, William Lynn, who outdid all of his predecessors and successors with the most populous and preposterous budget gimmicks post-Cold War Pentagon spending has seen, with a level of spending that out-did the plan left on the table by that penny-pincher […]
