The U.S. Navy recently launched several missiles for the first time from an unmanned surface vessel as part of an effort to combat small enemy boat attacks in the future. The Chief of Naval Operation’s Expeditionary Warfare Division and the Naval Sea Systems Command’s Naval Special Warfare Program Office successfully launched six Rafael Spike missiles […]
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The Missile Defense Agency issued a warning to its employees in July to stop surfing porn sites with government computers, according to a Bloomberg report. Executive Director John James Jr. had to issue a memo to employees telling them to stop watching porn at work and sending pornographic pictures and messages from their MDA computers. James […]
So the Syrian rebels recently took over a battery of what appear to be Soviet-made Vietnam war-era SA-2 Guideline surface to air missile. The rebels got their hands on the SAM site after members of the Syrian army’s 743d air defense battalion defected to their cause. However, government forces soon bombed their own air defense […]
We’ve known for a while that the newest versions of the Navy’s Tomahawk cruise missile can be rediriected in flight to hit moving targets but now the sea service is working to joining Tomahawks and small UAVs operated by special operations teams in a sort of hunter-killer combo. Basically, the SOF teams will use their […]
ATK showed off a compact little bomb it’s developing for use on small UAVs at the Navy League’s Sea, Air and Space show in Maryland this week. Dubbed the “Hatchet,” this 60mm munition can be mounted on platforms such as the ScanEagle and is designed to offer a low-collateral damage alternative to the Hellfire missile […]
