We’re still finding out more details on the report that weapons failures plagued the Soldiers defending positions in the battle of Wanat. I wanted to pass along some thoughts from a very tapped in source of ours who warned me that A) The final report has not been released and that I am basing my […]
From the monthly archives:
October 2009
This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology. U.S. Army aviation leadership has been strategically redistributing the $14.6 billion in Comanche funding among its various modernization programs since the helicopter was canceled in 2004. But the well is due to dry up soon, and the service is formulating a strategy to protect its […]
I’ve energized the grid, so to speak, on this small arms at Wanat issue, but another interesting finding in the draft report is this forceful demand for water purification solutions for troops from the individual to the small unit: The absence of effective crew (squad or platoon) water purification and individual soldier water purification equipment […]
We’re reporting a pretty hard-hitting story today on the conclusions of an Army official report on the Wanat battle showing that the small arms used in the battle showed significant levels of failure, malfunctioning and jamming “at high cyclic rates of fire.” The weapons include the M4 and SAW. Defense Tech doesn’t have the final […]
The Rand Corporation released a report this week called “Cyberdeterrence and Cyberwar.” This report — like so many others — called upon the United States government, military, law enforcement and the private sector to accelerate efforts to defend against acts of cyber aggression. And this report, like so many others, concluded that the U.S. and […]
