Is firing a rocket from the ground straight up into space the right way to do things? It sure was in the 1950s and ‘60s and it persists today. But it’s still expensive, fraught with technical risk and dwindling into obsolescence. There could be an alternative on the horizon, however, that incorporates the concepts of […]
From the monthly archives:
September 2010
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare correspondent Last week U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn IIIdiscussed the five-pillar strategy with NATO leaders in Europe in efforts to promote joint cyber security initiatives. According to a press services report, Lynn held the discussion with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussenbefore delivering a briefing to […]
Our boy Bryant Jordan will run a story tomorrow morning on Military.com to commemorate the Air Force’s 63rd birthday and ask the above question: More than six decades after the establishment of the USAF, are we near the last birthday where the service will celebrate human pilots? [The]specter of obsolescence is beginning to haunt some […]
…and I thought it was the name of an electronic rock band… Trolling through the booths at this year’s Air Force Association convention in the DC area, a new UAV, or shall we say, OPA, caught our eye. The L-3-made Mobius unmanned — or, umm, manned — aircraft is a swept-winged, push-motored prop plane that […]
The US Navy announced today it has found “significant structural” damage and corrosion in its fleet of Cyclone-class patrol coastal vessels based in Norfolk, Va., and forward deployed to the 5th fleet in Bahrain. According to the Navy, the vessels — 10 in all — are all “at or beyond” their 15-year service life and recent […]
