On a cold December evening in 1783 at Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan, Gen. George Washington bade farewell to his staff and resigned his command of the Continental Army. One hundred ninety three years later, on America’s Bicentennial, Congress posthumously promoted Washington to five-star “General of the Armies of the United States.” Washington led the […]
From the monthly archives:
January 2011
Here’s some film of the second F-35B short take-off and vertical landing Joint Strike Fighter test plane making its first vertical landing on Jan. 6 at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland. The flight comes roughly a week after Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced that he’s putting the Marine Corps’ F-35B on a two […]
Check out this video of Boeing’s Phantom Ray stealth UAV being shipped to Edwards Air Force Base in California aboard the old 747-based Space Shuttle Transporter. Now that NASA has little need for the shuttle-carrying jet, Boeing persuaded the space agency to modify the plane to carry its stealth drone from St. Louis, Mo., to […]
It’s official, China’s stealth fighter, the J-20, took its first flight today. The jet flew for about 15 minutes over the same airfield in Chengdu where it conducted high-speed taxi runs last week, according to the AP. Sure enough, the plane’s first flight coincided with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ visit to China aimed at […]
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare Correspondent The investigations into Wikileaks and other web sites that have been brought under scrutiny are in full swing now. The U.S. investigations have turned up the heat and convinced a federal judge in U.S. district court in Alexandria, VA, to expand the investigative inquiry and approved a […]
