The United States and South Korea successfully conducted their Naval exercise last week which was designed to be a show of force against North Korea for their sinking of the Cheonan. Well I guess that it made some sort of statement but what the heck. It cost us a lot of taxpayer money and didn’t [...]
Al-Qaeda has ticked off the French government to the point that the French will actually raid their training camps. If you want to extract something good from this situation it would be that al-Qaeda has ticked someone else off enough to give us a hand fighting them. That doesn’t seem to be an easy feat [...]
The US African Command is actively conducting training exercises with various African Nations in an effort to strengthen their armies and to become acquainted with each others operational tactics and techniques. We have drastically stepped up the number of operations that we conduct with them because of the terror threat from al-Qaeda as they begin [...]
The Chinese took exception to remarks mage by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her tour of Southeast Asia. She stated that the Chinese should resolve the differences that they have with many of their neighbors on the limits of territorial waters. Now she made sure to put as much sugar on top of what [...]
Rayethon has unveiled its new Scorpion Helmet technology which will give F-16 and A-10 pilots a tactical edge on the battlefield. The technology is a monocle which can be attached to the pilot’s helmet. The biggest advantage of the technology is that it has sensors which will allow the pilot to fire at a target [...]
There are many mitigating factors which hinder the US and NATO led operation in Iraq. Many of them such as ethnic differences in the soldiers in the Afghan Army are unfortunate and unnecessary. One such problem is the infighting that ethnic differences in Afghan troops causes. Most of the Afghan army is comprised of troops [...]
The latest technological improvement that the army is looking at is new lighter ammunition for its Squad Automatic Weapon. The new ammunition has a lightweight plastic casing instead of the traditional brass casing of the regular round. The immediate advantage of the new ammunition is that it is much lighter than the traditional ammunition presently [...]
The book definition of this term is the rate that any weapon that launches projectiles can launch in one minute.There are many circumstances which affect the rates of fire of weapons systems but ideally the military wants to put as many rounds down range as possible. When a weapon has a high rate of fire [...]
The M249 was the answer to some problems that the military needed worked out with its weapons systems in smaller infantry units. Before the SAW was introduced in 1984 squad members used rifles for automatic fire. The M16 could be set to automatic fire so one rifleman was designated to fire his weapon in the [...]
Air Force General Michael Hayden has stated pubicly that he believes (as I do) that an air strike on Iran is eminent. General Hayden who served as the head of the CIA under President Bush cites his reasoning on the fact that Iran is ignoring all means that the world community has tried to use [...]
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