By Kevin Coleman — Defense Tech Cyberwarfare correspondent The hacking group Anonymous took credit for a huge assault on multiple web pages operated by agencies of the Mexican government. A video appeared on YouTube using the name Anonymous publically claimed responsibility for what they termed “Independence Operation” that was designed to “make the government tremble.” […]
From the monthly archives:
September 2011
This isn’t the best week to be an F-5 driver…anywhere. Earlier in the week we showed you this video of the wreckage of an Iranian F-5 that crashed during military exercises. Now, Taiwan has grounded its entire fleet of F-5s after losing two of them during what sounds like a low-level nighttime training flight gone […]
Just a quick F-35 update. The Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday voted to flatline F-35 Joint Strike Fighter production levels at 35 jets per year for the next two years. The original plan called for Lockheed Martin to ramp up to 42 jets per year by 2013. The Bethesda, Md., based-defense giant is in the midst of a […]
Here’s a great shot of the stern section of the USS Gerald R. Ford being put into place at Huntington Ingalls’ Newport News, Va., shipyard. The Ford is the lead ship of the first new class of American supercarrier since the USS Nimitz entered service in 1975. The new ship, slated for delivery in 2013, […]
So the National Reconaissance Office is celebrating its 50th birthday this weekend by throwing a party for 4,000 guests at the National Air and Space Museum’s very cool Udvar-Hazy Center. What’s going to be the highlight of a night spent celebrating the secretive agency that operates America’s spy satellites? The declassification of two famous Cold […]
