M88 & M1: Need a tow?(click to view full) BAE's armored vehicle plant in York, PA could really use a lifeline right now. In August 2013, it got a small piece of planned good news. The Pentagon announced a maximum $149.9 million firm-fixed price order for 49 HERCULES...
* Syrian rebels accuse the government of having killed hundreds of civilians using chemical weapons near Damascus. Claims of chemical weapon use last year were muddled by attribution uncertainty. Russia continues to staunchly support Bashar al-Assad's regime, which...
* US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dempsey explained in a letter to a congressman that opposition to the Assad regime in Syria is too fragmented and would not align with American interests, were they to prevail. In his opinion this weakens the case for...
* China's military officials are not even pretending to be credible when they state that they "oppose of taking use of information and technology to conduct any kind of operation and hostility towards another party in the cyber domain", but given recent revelations...
* The US Congress is split over what to do with military aid to Egypt, while the Obama administration is reviewing its options. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is floating the idea of a EU-wide arms embargo. By design in the European Union, nothing will happen without...
* After a 1-year test, the US's 2nd Infantry Division (2ID) stationed in South Korea does not intend to use MRAPs that were previously used in Iraq or Afghanistan. This reduces the options for a shift of these vehicles from CENTCOM to PACOM, which is likely to affect...
THz flow(click to view full) In 2009, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) began awarding contracts for innovative research proposals under its Terahertz (THz) Electronics Program. Readers will probably be asking the same question that crossed our...
* The status of the 18 crewmen trapped in INS Sindhurakshak is still not confirmed for sure, but Indian authorities have little hope that there are any survivors following the submarine's explosion yesterday. An unnamed Russian official told the Interfax news agency...
* India's problems with its Russian-made Kilo-class submarines continue: an explosion aboard INS Sindhurakshak sank the boat while docked in Mumbai. The status of the crew of 18 trapped onboard, and the cause of the explosion, remain unclear, though at least some of...