During the Cold War, there weren’t a lot of things the U.S. military wasn’t willing to nuke in the name of science. The Air Force once considered a nuclear powered bomber that would drop nukes on the Soviet Union forever. NASA once tested the effects of a nuclear blast on beer. Before we decided to send men to the moon, we actually considered nuking it first.
The Atomic Age was essentially a kid with a new toy, the U.S. military just playing around to see what its new toys could do.
Author: Michael
Loose lips sink ships. OPSEC. No matter what era you’re from or how you remember to keep troop placements a secret, the goal is to prevent the enemy from knowing where you are or where you’re going. Times have changed and technology changed with it, but somewhere along the way, troops are forgetting the enemy is watching and listening.
In Ukraine, a private company is using the willingness of Russian soldiers to use their phones and post to social media against them, tracking them down on the battlefield and finding concentrations of them in Eastern Ukraine.
For many of us, the thought of autonomous weapons brings to mind fears of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “Terminator” movies. Robotic feet, part of an army of robots walking on human skulls, bent on destroying a human population foolish enough to build a self-aware computer.
Arguably one of the greatest villains, not just of the “Terminator” franchise, but of all time, was actor Robert Patrick’s portrayal of the liquid metal T-1000 robot from the 1991 film “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
The Irish had been fighting against British rule on the Emerald Isle for centuries before the First World War. But with British troops tied up fighting the Germans on the European continent and elsewhere, World War I was an opportunity for the Irish Republicans to finally shake off the yoke of London’s tyranny.
On Easter week of 1916, more than 1,200 Irish Republicans launched an uprising in Dublin against the 16,000 British troops stationed there. Organized by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), the uprising was joined by volunteers from other independence movements.
In what is likely a precursor to RQ-4 operations from Singapore, the US Air Force flew a Global Hawk from the 319th Reconnaissance Wing, Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota, to Singapore Changi Airport for the 2022 Singapore Airshow. This photo was taken on 18 February 2022. (US Marine Corps/Cpl Bryant Rodriquez)
The United States has deployed a Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in Singapore.
In a statement on 14 March, the Singapore Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) said that the RQ-4 was part of a short-term deployment to the island country.
Something was seriously wrong with Bobby Joe Keesee well before the soldier tried to defect to Cuba and North Vietnam. Although it might not have seemed like it when he enlisted, Keesee would go on to lead a life of crime – and not just petty crime. Keesee’s rap sheet includes desertion, treason, extortion, kidnapping and murder. It all happened in the span of Keesee’s less than 70 years on Earth.
When all was said and done, the disgraced former soldier would spend the rest of his life in prison, but would only spend less than 20 in various cells.
A ULA Delta IV rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 At Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the US Air Force’s ninth Wideband Global satcom satellite. (ULA)
Pentagon budget officials are seeking a significant increase in investment to its satellite communications (satcom) portfolio in fiscal year (FY) 2024, while opting to pare back proposed spending for Global Positioning System (GPS) programmes for the US Armed Forces.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is poised to funnel USD4.
A forward observer with C Company, 1-508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division (Air Assault) uses AN/PRC 148 2-channel Leader Radio to transmit position location obtained from the Android Tactical Assault Kit during a live-fire exercise at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, in January 2019.
Nine days before Russian President Vladimir Putin began his war of conquest in Ukraine, Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Moscow. He summed up his meetings by repeating a phrase made famous by Egon Bahr, West Germany’s emissary to Moscow in the 1970s: “Without Russia, a peace order in Europe is not possible.” This line was […]
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The first E-2D AHE aircraft, BuNo 166501, makes its first flight from St Augustine, Florida. (Northrop Grumman Corporation)
The US Navy (USN) has requested USD339.9 million in research and development (R&D) funds for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye (AHE), to replace old cockpit components, add a heads-up display, and ready the aircraft for the Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) network.
The Hawkeye Cockpit Technical Refresh is intended to replace what the USN describes as “obsolete and failing” cockpit components, including the aircraft’s Avionics Flight Management Computer.