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Mil & Aero Blog 2008 P9
Back to the jungle: would U.S. intervene if war comes to South America?
Here's a potential new spin on Hillary Clinton and her red-phone television commercials. If there's a global emergency in the offing, it might not be in Central Asia, where everyone expects it to be. It could be right here in our own hemisphere. War might be coming to South America. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
Sorry, Boeing; European airframe to be new Air Force refueling tanker
This has to be a bitter pill for Boeing to swallow. Boeing HATES Airbus the way Hillary Clinton hates Barack Obama, only worse, and Boeing's hate has been finely aged over decades. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
Destroyer diplomacy: USS Cole brings symbolic punch to tense Middle East
Think of the USS Cole's symbolic value in the Middle East. Unlike many other vessels, this one has already been bloodied in battle. If things get dicey while the Cole is on patrol off Lebanon, moreover, do you suppose that ship's crew might be in the mood for a little payback? Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
Autonomous arms race: gentlemen, start your robots
I admit that it can be fun to see creepy robots at the movies, but I think it's important to acknowledge a clear difference between monster movie robots and today's generation of unmanned vehicles. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
Rule-based expert system may help forecast terrorist behavior and attacks
News on the terror front comes today from University of Maryland, where researchers are using fundamentals of artificial intelligence to create an experimental rule-based expert system that may help U.S. authorities forecast potential terrorist attacks and terrorist behavior. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
New materials may yield safer, more power-efficient battery power
If there's anything that military forces can never get enough of it's electrical power. Radios, night-vision goggles, wearable computers, and rugged PDAs are heavy enough to carry into the field, but today's fighting forces have to lug along enough batteries to keep their portable electronics running. Lives can depend on reliable batteries. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
Could analog architectures be the next Big Thing in electronics design?
For a long time now, analog electronic architectures have been considered black magic among mainstream systems designers. Analog is difficult to design, simulate, and implement, and has been the realm of a small cadre of lunatic-fringe mad scientists. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
Who knew that a satellite shoot down could cause such hand-wringing?
The shootdown this week of a malfunctioning U.S. radar surveillance satellite, known as USA-193, has got to be one of the biggest Chicken-Little stories I've seen in a long time. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
Indian Ocean becoming a hotbed of sophisticated submarine activity
Submarines are back in the news today with word that India is developing a nuclear-capable missile that can be launched from a submerged submarine. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
Experiment demonstrates beam orders of magnitude more powerful than the Airborne Laser
If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of Michigan laboratory. Read The Mil & Aero Blog online at www.pennwellblogs.com/mae.
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