Our good friends at Soldier Systems have an interesting post on PEO Soldier’s latest improvement program for the fire-resistent ACU pant. It looks as if PEO is going all Gucci on Joes here with high speed knee pads, space-age fabrics and more dip pockets than you can pack a can with. Originally called the Army […]
From the monthly archives:
November 2009
This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology. Three companies are vying to secure an unmanned air vehicle demonstrator contract at the heart of the British Defense Ministry’s so-called Novel Air Capability Vision, but details of their respective proposals for the program are being treated as classified. BAE Systems, missile manufacturer MBDA and […]
Our friend Bob Cox at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram put his tin foil hat on and ran the gauntlet at Area 51 last week to snap this neverbeforeseen shot of an alien spacecraft from the Planet Blue. Well, not exactly. The intrepidest of intrepid JSF reporters snapped this photo of a carrier varient JSF on […]
Well, it looks as if the Marine Corps sent over the first contingent of MV-22s to Afghanistan last week, and as we suspected, the Corps decided to fly VMM-263’s birds off the Bataan, through Pakistan and into Camp Bastion in Helmand. In a release from Task Force Leatherneck in Helmand, the service said all ten […]
Last night Steve Kroft of 60 Minutes looked into how computers and the Internet can be used as weapons, a topic we have covered here for nearly two years. It was a very good piece. The 60 Minutes online and on-air coverage discussed multiple events (cyber attacks) including one event in three cities north of Rio […]
