The U.S. Navy is one step closer to developing a ship-mounted laser capable of defending against everything from swarms of speedboats to anti-ship missiles. After more than two decades of research, scientists at Los Alamos National Lab last month demonstrated the technology, known as a Free Electron Laser, needed to generate a one megawatt beam that could […]
From the monthly archives:
January 2011
Check this out, the Air Force successfully fired off the largest ever rocket launch the West Coast has ever seen yesterday when a Delta IV Heavy rocket lofted a supposedly very large spy satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office into a low Earth orbit. The Delta IV Heavy stands 235 feet tall and its three RS-68 liquid […]
Anyone know anything about what looks like a new airbase being built in the UAE? I first noticed it on Google Maps about a year ago. It looks like a military airfield is under construction just outside the desert town of Madinat Zayed about 80–90 miles southwest of Abu Dhabi. I called the press office […]
In case you haven’t seen it already, The New York Times ran an interesting piece last Saturday highlighting a host of clues suggesting the U.S. and Israel collaborated to build the Stuxnet worm that wreaked havoc on Iran’s nuclear program. Among the more interesting facts presented, is that Siemens, the company whose industrial control computers […]
Oops. A “substantial” part of the aerial refueling boom aboard an Airbus A330 MRTT tanker built for the Royal Australian Air Force broke off and fell into the Atlantic during a recent flight test. While everyone aboard the (Airbus crewed) tanker and refuelee was ok, a “major part of the boom broke off part-way through […]
