Apropos of our earlier post on precision guided indirect fire and the Army’s decision to cut its buy of Excalibur precision 155mm rounds, our own Christian Lowe checks in from his embed out near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border: I spoke with an artillery forward observer with Angel Company, 3–187, at FOB Sharana the other day who […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2010
Defense Tech colleague Jamie McIntyre at our sister site, Line of Departure, has the latest on the fatal CV-22 crash in Afghanistan. Here’s what Jamie found: By Jamie McIntyre An investigation of the crash of an Air Force special operations CV-22 Osprey in Afghanistan last month has concluded the pilot of the tilt-rotor aircraft flew […]
I spent the morning at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment’s release of their new report “AirSea Battle: A Point of Departure Operational Concept” (you can find the report here as well as the briefing slides). Lots to unpack here from the 123 page report, the author’s brief and the lively discussion that followed. […]
Here’s a clip from a new Frontline documentary, “The Wounded Platoon,” airing tonight, that details the very human cost of war. It follows a group of young soldiers who brought the Iraq war home with them, struggling mightily to transition from the battlefield to some semblance of normalcy. From the Frontline promo: On November 30, […]
While there has been much discussion in recent weeks over whether or not Hezbollah actually received Scud short range ballistic missiles from Syria, its Hezbollah’s growing stocks of Syrian made M-600 battlefield short range missiles that may prove more threatening. The M-600 is an improvement on the Iranian Fatah-110 missile, carrying a thousand pound warhead […]
