By Kevin Coleman — DefenseTech Cyber Warfare Correspondent Last week the Washington Post reported that the Cyber Command is seeking authority to launch cyber attacks in efforts to protect U.S. interests. This request is said to have drawn objections from administration lawyers concerned about the legality of offensive cyber operations. The right to bear cyber arms and […]
From the monthly archives:
November 2010
A great pic via x planes. Happy Weekend. – John Reed
Check this out. Rounding out a week of bad news for what’s set to be the Air Force’s mainstay fighter for the coming decades, the F-35, Steve Trimble at Flight Global dug up the air service’s request for information on what might be an F-22 (and maybe an F-35) replacement. (Pictured above is Boeing’s proposed 6th-Gen […]
We’ve all seen this coming for a while now, with all the talk of India’s MMRCA fighter contest and other lucrative weapons deals in the works there, but now that defense budget slashing is really picking up steam in the West, India and other rising Asian powers are becoming all the more important to the […]
While the U.S. Air Force’s unclassified effort to field a next generation UAV, dubbed MQ-X, has been on hold for nearly a year now, the service’s top requirements officer weighed in this morning on what he thinks the plane should be capable of. “We need to look at bridging from the permissive environment” today’s drones […]
