Our buddy Michael Yon just forwarded a link to his latest post from the front, and we wanted you all to see it as you get ready to celebrate the arrival of 2010. Michael writes: On this small base surrounded by a mixture of enemy and friendly territory, a memorial has been erected just next […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2009
Thank goodness for the Baikonur Cosmodrome (I just love how that rolls off the tongue). Well, if your SLBM goes haywire and leads the Nords to think aliens are attacking, why not take a hard left turn and ram an asteroid? If the rumblings of Russia’s space agencies are true, it looks like they’re planning to spool […]
Came across this interesting little video from the Pentagon’s mega list of multimedia coming out of Iraq and Afghanistan and thought it was worth sharing with the BTDTs on Defense Tech. I love the idea that before becoming an Army infantryman, this guy was a rodeo clown. An honest interview of a private’s first taste […]
[EDITOR’S NOTE: A little late from our partners at Aviation Week, but I wanted to get this out by the end of the year] The $2-billion question in development of a new bomber is whether a major black-world demonstration program is already underway, with Northrop Grumman as the contractor. This hypothesis makes sense of a […]
Just got word from the folks over at the Program Executive Office for Integration overseeing the remnants of the Army’s Future Combat Systems program that the suite of technologies now riding under the “Early Infantry Brigade Combat Team” banner passed a Defense Acquisition Board review, giving the Army the green light to produce a brigade-sized package […]
