Usually it’s the look of designer-made duds that make people sick. Watch 10 minutes of Project Runway if you don’t believe me. But AFP reports that aparently the fancy new fashion designer made Russian military uniforms are sending troops standing guard on Red Square (and other places) to the sick bay. Russia’s sharp new military uniforms, created […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2010
Well, it finally happened. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos this week confirmed that Marines’ F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter won’t be operationally ready by 2012. From Politico: On the F-35B: Not satisfied. “I’d like to see it farther along in the test program, but we are where we are,” he said. “This is […]
Giving some of the first real insight into the numbers of F-35Cs the United Kingdom may purchase, the U.K. announced late last week that it’s considering halving its fighter fleet to a mere six squadrons by 2020. From Defense News: “We are heading for five Typhoon squadrons and one JSF [Joint Strike Fighter] squadron,” said […]
On Friday December 10th, 2010 BAE Systems tested an experimental Electromagnetic Railgun launcher developed for the Office of Naval Research and showed of the firing potential to some top Navy brass at Dahlgren Weapons Station in Virginia. The highly-publicized shot measured 33-megajoules (MJ) of muzzle energy, almost tripling the previous world record of 10.64 MJ […]
Check out this video of Boeing’s Phantom Ray UAV undergoing taxi tests at the company’s St. Louis, Mo., facility last month. I don’t know about you, but it’s the first time I’ve seen an stealthy-looking, unmanned jet on the move. Boeing’s Phantom Works division has been developing the fighter-size plane on its own dime as […]
