Being part of Military.com, it wouldn’t be right if we here at DT didn’t do something to recognize the ten-year anniversary of 9/11. We figured we’d list off some of the most significant advances in weaponry that have occurred over the last decade — some driven by the wars spawned by that day, some independent of them. […]
Special Ops
Remember when we showed you the badass gear that might have been worn by Cairo, the military working dog that participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden? At the time, there was no direct evidence of any of the specific gear that Cairo wore. All anyone could do was make educated guesses as […]
Well, it was a V-22 Osprey that had the job of ferrying Osama bin Laden’s body from Afghanistan to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the Arabian sea where he was dumped overboard, according to an article in The New Yorker that stitches together a ton of details about the tech used in the […]
It used to be that military tech was far ahead of tech that was routinely available on the civilian market. In many ways, those days have passed. However, that’s not quite the case with this mapping tech. For the last five years, special operators in Iraq and Afghanistan have been equipped with what at first […]
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 — […]
