And we’re WORRIED about the Russians? Russia said Wednesday it plans to buy a new helicopter-carrying assault warship from NATO-member France in an unprecedented deal experts say reflects Kremlin efforts to accelerate military modernization. The agreement for purchase of one Mistral-class naval ship also equipped with hovercraft and landing craft will be completed by the […]
August 2009
Sometimes the more things change, the more they stay the same. I ran across a perfect example of that over at Soldier Systems blog which features a neat little post on an updated version of the trench periscope. With all these walled compounds and impromtu urban sniper postions, the US Tactical Supply Scout Sniper Periscope […]
From missile defenses to parachutes…you never know where Defense Tech will take you. It sort of jibes with Noonan’s last video post — which I’m still wiping the tears off my face from laughing so hard — but the Army has begun fielding — for the first time in 50 years — a new parachute […]
This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology. The likelihood of the U.S. establishing a fixed Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) missile interceptor site in Poland appears to be waning as the Pentagon is more sharply focused on the quick fielding of a land-based SM-3 system to protect Europe from an Iranian ballistic missile […]
I just finished an interesting Podcast with Jake Allen, former PMC contractor and Marine officer who’s in the private security biz and a regular contributor to Defense Tech and The Private Military Herald online e-zine. Jake and I had a conversation about the stories surrounding the CIA contracts with Blackwater to form al Qaeda kill/capture […]
