And they’ve found another one. Yup, Colombian authorities just seized a $ 2 million, 100-foot long, fully submersible submarine built by the cartels to smuggle drugs under the ocean surface. Apparently the boat had two diesel engines and navigation gear allowing it to cruise about 30 feet below the ocean’s surface while carrying four people and eight […]
From the monthly archives:
February 2011
Our sister site, DoDBuzz, recently posted this article asking; why will it take so long to field the Air Force’s new bomber if it’s going to be built using existing technologies? Remember, Pentagon officials said during yesterday’s budget rollout that they have requested $197 million in FY-12 to kick off a bomber program expected to […]
Ahh yes, the Pentagon. Lovely Place. Enjoy this uplifting little song about the Five-Sided Crazy Building.
Well, here you go, here’s a summary of the funding requests for weapons modernization in the Pentagon’s FY-12 budget. Let’s start of the with F-35 program. It’s getting a total of $9.4 billion under the request with more cash put into R&D funding for the jet while reducing the total buy of F-35s in 2012 […]
Here’s some cool video of the first flight of the F-35C with a U.S. Navy test pilot at the controls. The flight happened last Friday, with Lt Cmdr. Eric “Magic” Buus at the controls out of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. While the Marines’ B model isn’t exactly doing well, the Navy’s C and […]
