And here we go, U.S. intelligence officials are starting to acknowledge that the stealthy RQ-170 Sentinel drone was indeed used to provide ISR support for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad this month. We’ve long figured that the “Beast of Kandahar” had to have been the UAV that […]
From the monthly archives:
May 2011
Here’s a nice little summary of the status of Gadhafi’s forces after weeks of bombardment by NATO. 80 percent of his air force is gone with only helicopters remaining (I’m not sure why any aircraft remain, but hey, maybe NATO forces really are running low on bombs). Meanwhile, the crazy colonel’s army has lost a […]
DT’s video guru Glenn Anderson has been a busy man lately and this is his latest handiwork. It’s BAE Systems’ Mk 38 chain gun used by the U.S. Navy. The newest version of the gun is remotely controlled from the Combat Information Center or the bridge of a ship and features an electro-optical/infrared camera package […]
The long beleagured F-35B shot take-off and vertical landing version of the Joint Strike Fighter is accelerating through its flight tests far quicker than anyone would have predicted a year, heck, even a few months ago. Since January the jet has performed seven times the number of vertical landings that it did in all of […]
It looks like the Libyan rebels aren’t the only ones relying on jerry-rigged battle tech in the civil war there. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces launched a sea-borne UAV of sorts made up of a rigid hull inflatable boat (RHIB) crewed by mannequins and loaded with one ton of plastic explosive. Apparently, two RHIBs were sailing toward the rebel-held port of […]
