Exocet MM40 Block 3(click to view full) The Emirate of Qatar sits in the middle of the Persian Gulf, a shallow and narrow body of water that lends itself to fast, small, missile armed ships and boats. Qatar’s Navy relies on 7 French and British 400t-500t Fast...
4ID-3BCT: Baqubah, Iraq(click to view full) Fort Carson is located just 1 mile away from NORAD’s famous headquarters in Colorado. It is now home to the 2nd and 3rd Brigade Combat Teams (BCT) of the 4th Infantry Division (a misleading name – 4ID contains...
* US heavily reliant on China for supply of rare earth metals used in high-tech weapons such as radar, night vision devices, and smart bombs, GAO warns. GAO report [pdf] | Bloomberg | TechNewsDaily * Foreign Policy magazine: “Time Is Of the Essence” to...
* RAND Corp. adds to lessons learned from the 2006 war in Lebanon: “Military Capabilities for Hybrid War; Insights from the Israel Defense Forces in Lebanon and Gaza” [PDF] * Berkeley Lab’s Molecular Foundry may have found a way to improve the...
Hesco, explained(click to view full) It’s a surprisingly simple concept. Why ship walls, concrete, or even concrete barriers, when you can ship collapsible forms that can quickly be filled with sand or dirt by any untrained person? Why use sandbags with their...
