Here’s an exclusive Defense Tech video giving you an update on General Atomics’ high-speed railgun project. Last summer, General Atomics and Boeing tested a high-speed sabot round to replace the “hypersonic bricks” (which tended to tumble out of control) that the company had been firing from the gun, says General Atomics’ Tom Hurn. The sabot […]
From the monthly archives:
April 2011
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Whoops! Here’s some great footage of Tuesday’s collision between an Air France Airbus A380 superjumbo and a Delta Comair regional jet on a taxiway at New York’s JFK airport. To say the A380 “clipped” the regional jet is a bit of an understatement. […]
…Fooled around, made some inter-service love and nine months later the jet pictured above emerged. Ok, not really. In all seriousness, this is a cool shot of one of the Republic of China’s (aka, Taiwan) 130 F-DC-1 Ching Kuo air superiority fighters taking off from a highway during a recent military exercise held by the island nation. […]
Well, it looks like backers of GE-Rolls Royce’s F136 alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter may have more ammo to renew their campaign to get the Pentagon to buy the engine amidst news that Pratt & Whitney’s F135 engine’s “cost performance” does not make Ashton Carter, the Pentagon’s top weapons buyer happy. Apparently, […]
In case you didn’t see this yesterday, six U.S. Air Force F-16CJ Wild Weasels and five Navy EA-18G Growlers have been flying “defensive” strike missions against Moammar Gadhafi’s regime in Libya since NATO took charge of the air campaign there. So, what qualifies as “defensive” missions? Why suppression of enemy air defenses, so yes, technically […]
