Here’s the inimitable Jeremy Clarkson proving that all the world’s amphibious assault forces need not buy specialist equipment to undertake a sea-borne beach assault…
What happens when an Everest meets an IED
‘nough said.
Korea’s K-11
Where the Americans failed with their Objective Individual Combat Weapon and the Germans failed to field the caseless-cartridged H&K G11, it appears that the Koreans are about to outdo everyone else with the imminent fielding of their own K-11, a weapon with both a 5.56mm rifle and a 20mm grenade launcher.
The Armed Forces of the [...]
Toys
Two of the coolest toys a man could ever get – a working miniature Ferrari like the one featured on Top Gear (Youtube video here) and this (which I saw here) – 1/6 scale Tiger 1 tank:
Bloodhound SSC to the rescue of Brit school children
It seems that the Brits are at it again. Not content with taking a car past the sound barrier, the Bloodhound SSC (Super Sonic Car) is being developed to go even faster than the original Thrust SSC. Bloodhound will reportedly be powered by an EJ200 (the jet engine that powers the Eurofighter Typhoon) AND a [...]
Of Human Dogs and Tennis Shoes
There’s always news about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan from traditional sources like CNN, but Michael Yon’s Blog puts a real face to words like Taliban, al-Qaeda and Falujah. In his latest entry, we see how locals tell who’s the real Taliban from the rest of the Afghan populace (Taliban wear tennis shoes along [...]
Patent on AUGs
As you can already tell, I’m a big fan of all things military. Guns, of course, are near the top. But though I’ve been reading about guns for a while, I’ve never actually heard of a patent on a gun actually expiring, with the attendant copycats coming out of the woodworks with their own reverse-engineered [...]
No melamine here
Proof that the People’s Republic of China does not put melamine in their fighter planes (photos from www.sinodefence.com):
Self-repairing Airplane
One of my favorite sites reports that a self-repairing airplane might soon be a reality with the development of a self-repairing ceramic material, as well as technology that will automatically detect fatigue in aircraft material. Visit the link for more details:
http://www.airforce-technology.com/features/feature43086/
