* Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s likely last procurement emphasis is his call for a replacement of current strategic bomber capacity, which currently consists of 159 airframes between the Air Force’s B-52s, B-Lancers and B-2s. U.S. * Contractors such...
* Repurposed military hardware is already coming under significant negative scrutiny after civil rights issues have become a dominant domestic topic, and midwestern police departments making what appears to be unneeded shows of force. Topping that off are reports that...
* The state-by-state politics of basing are expected to flare up, not just with the f-35 basing displacement decisions, but also with the seemingly vulnerable decision by the military to do away with National Guard Blackhawk assets. Because National Guard bases are...
Silent Hawk Prototype(click to view full) Special Forces has had an abiding interest in silenced motorcycles as stealthy and quick insertion/extraction vehicles – and, not just from having viewed Chuck Norris’s 1986 cheesy Delta Force movie, where his...
* The Department of Defense is set to request 20 percent less in “war funding” for the coming fiscal year, a reduction of about $13 billion. The fact that this request has not declined somewhat proportionally to the size of the reduced mission may indicate...
