Science and Technology
Floaty Friday
We’ll start with a piece of good news. Darn near lost us a perfectly good handcar airplane back in November 2023. The plane in the scenario is an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. On November 27, the pilot was coming in for a routine landing when one of the arresting wires […]
Hellhound in Army Competition
I am in awe of what science can do today – and the following helps demonstrate why. Cummings Aerospace is submitting a new drone for Army approval in its ‘loitering munition’ competition. Sounds kinda boring, huh? The company took its S3 version of its man-portable loitering munition out to the Pendleton Unmanned Aircraft Systems test […]
Hump Day shorts
Sometimes a column needs 1000 words per topic, and sometimes a lot of little things crop up. Hopefully the major news of the week is the new administration, but here are a couple of other quick items. In good news for recruiting, in the first quarter of the fiscal year the Army signed up 30,000 […]
Friday Fragments
Well, first up is the formerly useful American Civil Liberties Union. I guess I am REALLY old – I remember when they used to be impartial defendants of the Bill of Rights, in its entirety. Heck, I remember when the National Rifle Association mentioned that the ACLU had actually supported the NRA’s side of lawsuits […]
Six shooters? Pah?
Gotta love a sexy six (or seven) shooter – I know revolvers in .22LR are even made as 10-shooters – so kudos to Ed for giving us one Monday. Gotta say, though, that today’s offerings are a tad more sophisticated. Let’s start with Metal Storm – a Chinese made system. How do you intercept a […]
The H-1B skilled-worker program, bringing in talent or displacing Americans?
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are championing the use of the H-1B skilled-worker visa programs to bring in talent. One argument they advanced is that we are competing against other countries in artificial intelligence development and in other technology arenas. To be able to compete with these other countries, one of the things we need […]
More drones, over UK bases
Somehow his doesn’t seem like a TikTok challenge stealing Hyundais. Between Wednesday and Saturday last week, multiple drones were spotted flying over and presumably surveilling US air bases in the UK. The objects were seen between Wednesday and Saturday flying over the Royal Air Force’s Lakenheath, Mildenhall and Feltwell bases, all used by the US […]
More new toys, and one olde one
China has unveiled a largish drone…ten TONs’ worth. The drone is expected to be a “mothership” for smaller drone swarms. While initially it can look like a normal attack aircraft, its central payload section is labeled as ‘Isomerism Hive Module’. This reveals that the mothership could have the capability to launch drones mid-air and then […]
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