By Kevin Coleman — DefenseTech Cyber Warfare Correspondent Military and security experts agree that cyber attacks provide a means for potential adversaries with limited resources and capabilities to overcome the significant U.S. conventional military advantages. It is this concept that has security professionals sounding the alarm about our exposure. The rapidly evolving threat of cyber […]
From the monthly archives:
October 2010
In a move the service says is part of its strategy to float a “Green Fleet” by 2016, the US Navy demoed for media today a boat that runs — in part — on algae. The so-called Riverine Command Boat — Experimental, or RCB-X, runs its engines on 50 percent “algae-based” fuel and 50 percent […]
After yesterday’s somewhat heated discussion about the unfolding demise of British military power the peace-loving DT staff thought it best to calm the waters with something that has traditionally brought the two nations together. This is one of the Fabs more hidden gems (from the movie “Help!”) … and it has some REAL WAR ACTION: Happy […]
In the face of domestic economic pressures, our main ally (and perhaps the last one of any consequence unless you count Russia) has started stepping away from having a military that can exert power worldwide. Max Boot at the Wall Street Journal opines: The Strategic Defense and Security Review released this week by Prime Minister […]
This is serious tech, dammit … with defense implications, too. We saw this via our buddy John Noonan’s Twitter feed, and as he wrote, this is a PSA we can all get behind — or in front of … Fox News reports: Dr. Elena Bodnar won an Ignoble Award for the invention last year, an […]
