With the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff telling lawmakers yesterday that the Pentagon may not be able to buy as many F-35 Joint Strike Fighters as planned, it seems like a good time to share the results of a poll we ran two weeks ago asking whether the Marines should buy F-22s instead of F-35Bs. […]
From the monthly archives:
October 2011
You’re looking at what may well be the helmet worn by the first F-35 Joint Strike Fighter pilots at the plane’s schoolhouse at Eglin Air Force Base, Fl. It’s the basis for BAE Systems’ alternate JSF helmet that is being developed due to issues with the plane’s futuristic — and kind of crazy – looking helmet made […]
While not exactly brand new tech, one of the coolest displays at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference here in Washington was Sikorsky’s X2 high speed helicopter. Yup, the actual helo used to test out Sikorksy’s coaxial rotor designs last year. The chopper was a hit of the show, constantly surrounded by picture […]
I was wandering the show floor at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference in Washington when I came across this little guy. It’s called NanoEye and it’s basically a prototype for a tiny class of spy satellite that the Army hopes to develop. The 20 kilogram NanoEye is meant to be cheap, maneuverable and able […]
You quite literally cannot go anywhere in the war zone without seeing the ubiquitous Hesco barrier — the fabric and mesh modules filled with earth that defend forward operating bases from bad guys and the elements. FOBs in Iraq and Afghanistan are made from Hesco barriers sometimes stacked three or four high. The units arrive […]
