One of the more intriguing new technologies spotted at this week’s Navy League Sea-Air-Space Expo was General Atomics’ electromagnetic rail cannon. The company has been working for a number of years with the Office of Naval Research on a 200 nautical mile gun system. In a parallel effort, they’ve been developing a smaller, pulse-power technology […]
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* Gitmo detainees get no appeal * Stennis sprints to Gulf * Shipbuilding plan making sense? * Raptors arrive in Japan * North Africa: new Al-Qaeda home? * STRATCOM chief: cyberwar strategy “dysfunctional“ * Asteroids! Run! (Big ups: RC)
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* Sea Knight down; 5th copter in 18 days (background) * Double the IEDs in Iraq * Air war picks up; 10K CAS missions in ’06 * Early, bad “signs” for would-be killer astronaut… * … her sudden descent * Yikes! Giant cyberattack * Israel talking up Iran strike * All kinds of fraud at […]
