Ares: A Defense Technology Blog

6/8 Frago

+ Recycling B-52s as standoff jammers

+ Gather solar in space, microwave it home

+ Is the Pentagon outsourcing too much?

+ Could US repel a cyberattack?

+ Nuke disarmament actually ahead of schedule

+ Bonus: US ship fires on pirates of Danish ship off Somalia

--Sean Meade

6/7 Frago

+ Petraeus interview (via)

+ How will Navy fund everything?

+ Land Warrior goes to Washington

+ Teraflop goal: network 10 100 gigaflop handhelds

+ More on Israeli robotic guns on Gaza border
 

--Sean Meade

6/6 Frago

+ Customized Google Map of Nat'l Guard shortage news (via)

+ The code-breaking that made Midway

+ How do you make a missile do Mach 5?

+ JCA prediction

+ BMD is not your father's Star Wars

--Sean Meade

6/5 Frago

+ Truxtun Aegis destroyer commissioned

+ Pace on Guam (on Guam ;-)

+ US military engineers working on Iraqi infrastructure

+ Israel strengthening borders with Samson Remote Control Weapons Stations

+ Australian radio report on F-35 (mp3) (via)

--Sean Meade
 

6/4 Frago

+ AvWeek today teaser: Space-Based Infrared System missile warning satellite

+ Iraq's power problem

+ Logistics ops in Kirkuk

+ Iran supplying more weapons on both fronts

+ Pick my base for USAF cyber command HQ!

--Sean Meade

6/3 Frago (Late Edition)

+ DARPA can't win: Too 'pie in the sky' or too 'risk averse'

+ Superfund military bases

+ Half of troops don't deploy

+ A visit inside secret Combined Air and Space Operations Center

+ C-5 ops

+  Mexico Drug Cartel Map (image via Stratfor)

--Sean Meade

6/2 Frago

+ First indication September won't be soon enough to tell

+ In the Ring: What does 'Help the Chinese with carriers' mean? The Scorpion was sunk by the Sovs

+ Israeli PTSD

+ Car Area Network (thanks, Matt)

+ Video: Camcopter (Try to ignore (or mute) the cheesy voiceover ;-)

--Sean Meade
 

6/1 Frago

+ Rough nuclear threat assessment (via)

+ Hospital ship: preemptive mercy mission

+ EFPs beat MRAPs

+ Chinese UAV (pictured) (via)

+ USAF: bullets to Lebanon, repair a Herc

--Sean Meade

5/31 Frago

+ Brits: including French will delay carrier

+ Will JCA control shift from Army to AF?

+ Excalibur's not worth the money

+ Puma's fatal flaws

+ Taiwan's losing ground in the air

--Sean Meade

5/30 Frago

+ USAF: 5/35 programs problematic

+ Joint Precision Airdrop System with screamer (steerable GPS-guided container delivery system)

+ Special Ops in Iraq

+ Special Ops FROM Iran

+ Granite MRAP bid

+ Northern ship route and Russia

--Sean Meade