Non-Military And Paramilitary System Concepts

What new systems would be useful for first responders (paramedics, firefighters, wildfire fighters, police, school security officers, school...

Army Robots

Prototype robot tanks are supposed to be about three years away, but it isn't clear just how much autonomy that they will have.  "W...

Nightmares

From here . Referencing an erroneous ballistic missile warning early this month in Hawaii that lasted 38 minutes because the Governor couldn...

The B1-B Bomber Is A Poor Close Air Support Aircraft

The Air Force, which continues to hate the A-10 fighter, officially wants to replace it with the F-35A, which is too expensive and also ill ...

Anti-Surface Warship Warfare Is A Job For Aircraft

It makes all of the sense in the world to see the primary military means of attacking enemy warships to be with missiles deployed from aircr...

Gun Ownership Rates And Well Regulated Militias

Gun Ownership and Conscription Four of the five countries with the highest civilian gun ownership rates in the world (Yemen, Switzerland, Fi...

The U.S. Department of Defense System For Developing New Weapons Sucks

Richard B. Levine provides a brief but useful history of the many failures and rare successes of the U.S. Department of Defense in developi...

Military Works On Plan B If GPS Navigation Fails

The U.S. Army is working on "systems that combine cameras with inertial measurement units, or IMU, which are made of sensors such as gy...

Quote Of The Day

French special forces listen to philosophers yelling at each other. From Questionable Content.

Indigenous Peoples' Day

It is officially Indigenous Peoples' Day in Denver. (Accompanied by a snow storm and freezing temperatures following a 75 degree and sun...