Hope ya’ll didn’t miss this. The U.S. Navy’s ship and sub fleet seems to be in rough shape according to lawmakers and Navy officials. Lean management and staffing techniques aimed at doing more for less money have taken their toll on the fleet, leaving 22-percent of Navy vessels with a degraded ability to serve in the […]
From the monthly archives:
July 2011
Iraq has not only reopened talks to buy F-16 fighters but it apparently wants to expand its first buy of frontline jet fighters in decades to 36 jets. The country has been rebuilding its air force with significant U.S. help had hoped to buy 18 F-16s for $4.2 billion but froze talks on that deal […]
In more cyber news, defense contracting giant Booz Allen Hamiliton’s networks were apparently breached by the raucous online collective, Anonymous, who proceeded to release more than 90,000 military e-mail addresses and passwords from an unprotected server. Wait a second, an unprotected server at a company positioning itself as a cyber security expert? PR fail. Anonymous […]
We may be seeing a serious step in the evolution of drone aircraft with the inauguration of the first-ever drone only air corridor in the United States. Oklahoma State University researchers are asking for FAA permission to allow unrestricted UAV flights between airspace over-and-around Fort Sill, Okla., and the old Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base about 60-miles away. […]
Happy Tuesday. Check out the latest in Military.com’s Tip of the Spear series. This time we join Detachment 2 of the U.S. Navy’s Riverine Squadron 3 for a tour of their boats and training runs in the waterways around Fort Knox, Kentucky. While their armored Riverine Patrol Boats, equipped with everything from multiple M240 Squad Automatic Weapons […]
