The military has its eyes in the skies — MQ-1 Predators, Global Hawks and other airborne surveillance systems all the way up to orbiting satellites – but it also has ears to the ground. And even if unattended ground sensors themselves lack the electronic eyes of their high-flying counterparts, the data they collect does, in […]
From the monthly archives:
October 2010
Military.com’s founder and current man-about-the-planet Chris Michel snagged a backseat ride in a U-2 a few weeks back. Yeah … we had the same reaction. We’re still flying U2s? Yep. Here’s an excerpt from Chris’ report running at USNI’s way gouge blog: As I slipped open the sunshade of my spacesuit, I could see that […]
After design snafus, test delays, and a Nunn-McCurdy or two, the AH-1Z Cobra (commonly known as the “Zulu”) has finally been found “operationally suitable and effective” by the Navy’s operational test and evaluation force. According to the press release from NAVAIR the OPEVAL report “noted that the AH-1Z fire control and additional weapons delivery modes […]
It was 53 years ago that the world changed forever. No, it wasn’t the premier of Leave it to Beaver or the unveiling of the Avro Arrow that did it. Close…but on this day in 1957 the Soviet Union successfully launched the unmanned Sputnik probe into space, shocking the world and jolting the US space program into […]
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare correspondent The Stuxnet malware represents a threshold level event. The attack that used the Stuxnet malware has brought cyber warfare out of the shadows of the clandestine world and into the limelight. In addition, the Stuxnet attack ushered in a new model of reality that cuts across the […]
