This is interesting. According to the AP, the U.S. military is bringing heavy armor into the fight in Afghanistan for the first time ever: Two senior defense officials say 14 M1A1 Abrams tanks and 115 additional Marines will be deployed next month. While Abrams were used extensively in Iraq, the Afghan fight has often seen troops using […]
From the monthly archives:
November 2010
Well, only a few months after Russia decided not to sell the advanced S-300 surface to air missile system to Iran, spinsters in Tehran are touting a homegrown version of that very missile. From the AP: Iran has successfully tested a newly developed air defense missile system during the country’s biggest ever air defense drill, the country’s […]
Check out this cool video of BAE’s BvS 10 ‘Viking’ that Military.com’s video guru, Glenn Anderson, put together. The amphibious armored vehicle is already in service with the Brits in Afghanistan. While it doesn’t have the v-shaped hull critical to deflecting IED blasts the way an MRAP does, the Viking is still popular with several NATO allies […]
Air Force rescue personnel have found the wreckage of what they believe to be the F-22 Raptor that went missing on Nov. 16 from Elmendorf Air Force base in Alaska, according to a statement put out by the service tonight. Search and rescue crews have found the apparent wreckage of an F-22 Raptor Nov. 17 that was assigned to […]
Douglas Farah over at the Counterterrorism Blog points out an interesting little aspect in the case of Viktor “Merchant of Death” Bout, the world’s most notorious illegal arms dealer who was shipped to the U.S. to face charges today. Among the routine arms smuggling charges Bout is facing are accusations that he was trying to sell UAVs […]
