Take a look at this video by Al Jazeera TV showing the Libyan rebels increasingly sophisticated ability to jerry-rig weapons. We see everything from machine guns scavenged from Gadhafi’s fighter planes mounted on pickup trucks to remotely fired guns slaved to targeting cameras. The wildest invention is a machine gun mounted on a remotely controlled […]
From the monthly archives:
June 2011
Saudi Arabia may become the first Middle Eastern nation to buy the world’s most powerful destroyers. Yup Defense News is reporting that U.S Navy officials briefed the Saudi’s on the DDG-51 class Arleigh Burke class destroyers equipped with the famous SPY-1D AEGIS radars that, among many things, are capable of performing in the ballistic missile defense […]
Um, excuse me? Someone has apparently managed to steal eight, yes, eight retired Pratt & Whitney F100 fighter jet engines that power F-15s and F-16s from an Israeli air base, according to an AFP article. How on Earth did this happen in one of the world’s most security-conscious nations? I mean, each engine weighs several […]
Ok, this is wild. Libyan rebels have taken their Mad Max technical pickup trucks to a new level. The video above shows rebels firing what appears to be the turret-mounted 2A28 Grom gun of a Soviet-designed BMP-1 armored personnel carrier from the back of a pickup. Yes, the entire gun turret has been mounted on […]
By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare Correspondent Perhaps the most frequent question I get regarding cyber attack is about the future. Not 20 years out, nor even 10 years out. People are interested in what is likely to take place in the next three to five years. Most seek this insight so that they […]
