Science and Technology
Floating Drones
Guess it is not a surprise that in addition to all the Air Force drones we hear about (think Predator and Reaper…the ones with cool names) that the Navy is quickly developing new ones as well. Given that we’ve known how to make stuff float for many centuries, and fly for less than two, you […]
New Grenades
The Army has officially adopted the M111 (and it’s practice counterpart the M112). May not sound terribly significant, but they are the first lethal hand grenades adopted since 1968. As many know, our standard M67 grenade works pretty well as a fragmentation grenade. Pull the pin, four-ish seconds later it goes ‘splodey, and sends out […]
Aerial shooting
Here’s a name I suspect very few of you may know. Meet Mr. William Dalrymple Maitland Bell, aka W.D.M. Bell, aka ‘Karamojo’ Bell, Mr. Bell is otherwise known as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, African elephant hunters. He was born too late for the real prime period of ivory hunting, but that […]
Top Aces
Top Aces is a “private military adversary” company that flies F-16s in exercises against regular Air Force and Navy units. Unlike typical aggressor-adversary units, they are flying highly modified F-16s which can successfully use a lot of the tactics and capabilities of modern 5th generation fighters in 4th-gen F-16 airframes. Reading the article, many of […]
High Tech Battlefield
In today’s world of gee-whiz wonder weapons and ammo, you have to be prepared to deal with all kinds of existential threats our fathers never imagined. One such battleground is in Ukraine, where the war keeps dragging on but which is dragging new weapons into public exposure, along with the counter-weapons used to fight them. […]
More cool stuff in the works
Looks like drone killing is getting to be a sport. The Army is getting the rotorheads in on the act now: While the Israeli Air Force had pioneered this role for the AH-64 for years, the U.S. Army has now formally codified it and added new capabilities in the process. Now, as we had suggested […]
Monday… well, it’s a holiday
Keep your eyes on a niche company, RocketLab. Not exactly a household name, but they do some interesting stuff. You know those gee-whiz hypersonic missiles everyone is all about? Gotta test that stuff somehow – pushing a chunk of aluminum and titanium through the atmosphere at 5000mph is going to generate a lot of heat […]
Miniguns
Back around the Civil War, a dentist name of Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling developed an idea for a weapon so terrible that it would end war. Cartridge-loading repeaters were in their infancy, but Dr. Gatling ran with the idea and came up with a gun using multiple barrels turning around a central shaft. As a […]
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