It looks like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter officially has some fifth-generation fighter competition. South Korea is eying Sukhoi’s PAK FA stealth fighter as an option for its next gen fighter fleet. In addition to the PAK FA, Soul is looking at F-35, Boeing’s F-15SE Silent Eagle and the Eurofighter Typhoon. Quite the interesting crowd […]
From the monthly archives:
July 2011
It’s officially the end of an era in spaceflight. The great image above is part of this New York Times slideshow of the Space Shuttle Atlantis’ landing this morning at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was the final landing for the shuttle program, ending a 30-year career by the iconic fleet of spacecraft.
Apparently the SEALs want to make their own …something? Sister site Kit Up! just spotted a solicitation by Navy DEVGRU (formerly known as SEAL Team Six) commando asking for a CNC machine to make god knows what. Here’s an excerpt from the solicitation: The government is seeking to purchase a CNC Machine with the following characteristics […]
So Iran is claiming to have downed a U.S. spy drone that was collecting intel on an undergound uranium enrichment site located next to an Iranian military base. From AFP: Lawmaker Ali Aghazadeh Dafsari said the drone was flying over the Fordo uranium enrichment site near the holy city of Qom in central Iran, the […]
By Joe Buff — Defense Tech Undersea Warfare Contributor Since at least the ‘90s, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has needed a stealthy, survivable, long endurance, shirt-sleeves-environment commando midget sub to be deployed/retrieved from the back of a full-size SSN or SSGN “mother ship.” One such project, the Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS), got cancelled […]
