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Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Got a news item from our tip line today that I’m confirming but I thought I would bring it to your attention. Seems that the French are potentially jumping on the SCAR bandwagon with a limited deployment of 10 SCARs to its contingent in Afghanistan and Sudan. Our tipster pointed us to a French blog called [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | yesterday
EDITOR’S NOTE: Our boy Joe Buff went a little crazy on his latest post, forwarding me a 1700 word essay about the evolving piracy threat, the shipping industry’s response and the geopolitics of marauding banditry. So what I did is post it to a Military.com news page and break it into two digestable parts. I’ll crop [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | yesterday
This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. BEIJING — Chinese fighter builder Avic Defense aims to build a large business jet as part of its strategy of exploiting military technology for its civilian sidelines. Avic Defense also will build up an aircraft maintenance operation catering for airline customers, company president Wang Yawei tells Aviation [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
My good friend Matt Cox over at Army Times has done it again. In what might be the best military weapons story of the year so far, Matt got his hands on a brief that shows the Army is seriously looking at major improvements to the current M4, including a heavier barrel, a new round counter [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The big cyber news event of the week is the just released report by McAfee. In this report the security industry giant asks if the age of cyber warfare has arrived. The thirty-seven page report has several very provocative statements about cyber warfare. Upfront, they present three key finding in the report and they are as follows: Although there [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
If the service thought they’d buried the issue of armor testing, they forgot to ask their new Secretary. ArmySec John McHugh announced today he had enlisted the services of the National Research Council to examine the service’s armor testing procedures and compliance protocols in light of a recent GAO report calling into question the Army’s adherence [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
As if we didn’t already have enough to consider with Marpat, UCP, UCP-D, MultiCam and Desert Brush, in comes another pattern making inroads in the milgear blogosphere. I’ve been trolling over at our friends Soldier Systems’ site over the past couple days, and the editor over there is obsessed with the development of this new pattern. [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
This article first appeared in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report. Manufacturer BAE Systems is formulating its marketing of the Mantis medium-altitude long-endurance UAV demonstrator air vehicle in the U.S., following the recent kickoff of test flights of the U.K. version. Mark Brown, BAE Systems vice president of unmanned aerial systems, is positioning the Mantis as a next-generation [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Not really…but got you to look, right? My colleague Bryant Jordan ran across this photo and passed it along to Defense Tech just to show how very far we’ve come with ballistic protection. According to a caption from the archival section at Corbis, these garcons are French soldiers of the Army Ordnance Department showing off the test [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It took more than six months, but the Air Force coughed up some details yesterday on a laser program it’s developing to plink drones and other flying objects from the sky. Out at China Lake in May, a joint team sponsored by the Air Force Research Lab that included the engineers from the Naval Air Warfare Center fired a 2 Kilowatt class [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
This article first appeared in Aviation Week & Space Technology. Rather than waiting for the U.S. Army to flight-test the Fire Scout vertical-takeoff unmanned aerial vehicle (VTUAV), Northrop Grumman is investing heavily in a test program of its own. The company’s impatience may well pay off — when the Army finally makes a decision about air [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Or is it? This guy’s clearly wearing MultiCam and has all the high-speed identifiers that a US trooper would wear. I can’t seem to find a high-rez version of this photo, which itself is a mystery, but given the story that surrounds the photo and context of that area of Afghanistan, I’m leaning heavily toward an [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
The first production model F-35B arrived in the ‘hood last Sunday. BF-1 will begin the JSF’s developmental test program in the next few weeks, including vertical takeoffs and landings. Meanwhile DoD reports show the program is behind schedule and over budget – not a good place to be these days (just ask the F-22 or [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Yesterday we received a call on our new Tip Line wondering if the Russians and US were working on submarine technologies that create an air bubble in front of the sub that allows it to travel 3x the normal speed. Here’s what our readers asked: This is more of a “Is it true” tip?? Someone told me [...]
Defense Tech (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
This article first appeared in AviationWeek.com. The U.K.‘s Mantis medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) demonstrator has completed a series of test flights using the range at Woomera in Australia. The first flight was made Oct. 21, but was only revealed today. Several mission-representative trials have since been carried out, marking the culmination of phase one [...]
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