So, why is China buying MRAPs especially at a time when some in the U.S. defense establishment are calling for the U.S. to cut the the purchase of such gear after we leave Iraq and Afghanistan so that we can focus on buying high-end weapons to counter China with? The picture above shows one of […]
From the monthly archives:
July 2011
I just found this video over at The DEW Line. It’s of a Su-30 fighter flying low over Caracas Venezuela, (a city that Steve Trimble and I were stranded in for a day last winter, long story) for that country’s bicentennial celebration. The best part about it is the jet is popping flares right over […]
Well, Marine Corps Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright, the nation’s second highest military officer fired a shot at the Air Force’s renewed effort to field a stealthy, long-range nuclear bomber early in the next decade, saying we just can’t afford it. Here’s what he said today to DoDBuzz’s founding editor, Colin Clark, who now runs AOL […]
So the Army just suspended use of its first new parachute in 50 years, the T-11, following the death of a Fort Bragg soldier killed during a training jump with the chute. The square-shaped T-11 is more than 20-percent larger than the old circular T-10 and is designed to fall slower than the old parachute; something that […]
One of the interesting conversations I had down at the Riverine training week at Fort Knox last month was with an instructional systems specialist who works for the Naval Air Warfare Center training systems shop down in Orlando. The guy — who I’ll keep anonymous since he didn’t clear our conversation with the PAO — […]
