We knew it was only a matter of time until people started talking about the contested Falkland Islands in the wake of Britain’s decision last month to retire its Harrier jump jets, a move that will leave the United Kingdom with no carrier-borne strike fighters for roughly a decade. Now a group of former British admirals have written an […]
From the monthly archives:
November 2010
With this week’s 235th birthday of the United States Marine Corps, we at DefenseTech thought it might be a good idea to take a look at Commandant, Gen. James Amos’ recent words during a speech at Quantico Marine Corps Base to see if we could catch a glimpse into what the future Marine Corps might […]
Continuing today’s theme of weird stuff in the sky, check out this video of an F-117A Nighthawk stealth fighter ripping through desert airspace over a U.S. military installation. What’s interesting is that the cameraman claims it was shot in July, 2010, several years after the jets were retired and placed in protective storage at the Air Force’s […]
Like I asked an hour ago, anyone know anything about what appears to be a mystery missile launched off the Southern California coast on Monday? I just heard back from NORAD about it and they still don’t know that the object was. “At this time we are unable to provide specific details but we are […]
As I wrote in an earlier post, I was able to attend a U.S. Army conference for mid-level officers and civilians last week aimed at identifying possible scenarios in which the service may have to operate in the coming decades. One of the factors attendants were asked to consider shaping the world of the future was a series of trends in the evolution of terrorist technology. […]
