The Army has given Lockheed Martin $1.1 million (which, let’s admit, is peanuts) to test its “next generation HULC advanced robotic exoskeleton”; basically a really, really expensive load-bearing, wearable harness. The idea is that HULC transfers a trooper’s heavy load from the legs and back to the exoskeleton which then provides a power assist up […]
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July 2010
The CIA’s drone bombing campaign in Pakistan resumed today after a two week pause when guided missiles from either a Predator or Reaper drone killed at least 10 al Qaeda and Taliban linked militants, according to AFP. The pause was the longest since the Obama administration stepped up the bombing campaign in summer 2008. The […]
The death toll in Afghanistan is on course to be the highest ever this year, and, as one would expect, the number of wounded U.S. troops is reaching all time highs as well. Through July 3, 2,000 Americans have been wounded in Afghanistan; in June alone, 517 Americans were wounded. That compares to 2,139 wounded […]
The U.S. will carry out a series of naval and air exercises with South Korea in the Sea of Japan, located on the east side of the Korean peninsula, and the Yellow Sea, on the west side of the peninsula, near China. The exercises are meant to send a clear message of “deterrence” to North […]
Influential Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who chairs the Armed Services Committee, wants CIA piloted drones to add the Haqqani network operating in Afghanistan but based in Pakistan to their target list. U.S. officials, including Afghan commander Gen. David Petraeus, have long said the Haqqani network is their most lethal enemy in Afghanistan. Defense Tech friend […]
