Science and Technology
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 […]
Venezuela raid – where were their SAMs?
Like many other ‘invincible’ entities, Venezuala’s defenses took a thrashing this last week. Seems we keep seeing these so-called battle-tested, best-in-class systems getting absolutely hammered – why is that? For the last decade, the Kremlin’s sales reps have been pitching the S-300VM “Antey-2500” as the ultimate shield. It was sold as a system capable of […]
Cutting edge stuff
Some interesting stuff starting to take shape. The world we know now… I wonder how much of what is cutting edge now will be considered cutely quaint in a few years. Starting off the show, Sweden is introducing what it describes as the world’s first 5th generation submarine. We know the F-35 fighter is 5th-gen, […]
Army going nukular
Ah, the old days when Jimmy Carter had been a nuclear officer but couldn’t even pronounce it. Well, the Army is getting into the nuclear business. Not with ‘special weapons’ (somewhere I have a photo of a Special Weapons transport truck driving by some clueless German anti-nuke demonstrators) although some of the heavy arty […]
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