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How Do You Transport A Super-Secret Plane When You Can’t Fly It?

In a giganormous wooden box, that’s how. This is how Lockheed Martin was transporting this SR-71 Blackbird. You can’t see it, but it’s there, in that giant wooden box sitting on that trailer, travelling from Burbank to Palmdale. [Twitter]

June 7, 2011
News

Those SecurID Tokens Aren’t As Secure As Once Thought

Millions of workers in millions of businesses across the US use one of these SecurID tokens to log onto their computers every morning, with the device generating a unique password every time it’s used. Nonetheless, a security breach still happened.

May 29, 2011
Online

Lockheed Martin’s Security Networks Were Hacked

Lockheed Martin, one of the world’s largest defence contractors, was hit hard by hackers this week who used falsified SecurID electronic tokens to gain access. The breach threatens the security of vital data on present and future military technology.

May 19, 2011
News

Secret Stealth Drones Spied On Bin Laden Months Before Kill Mission

How do you monitor the whereabouts of the world’s most wanted criminal, deep inside a radar-infested region of a country that doesn’t want you there? With this stealth drone, which gave the US eyes on Osama’s compound from above.

March 5, 2011
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Thailand Tried To Buy F-16s With 36.2 Thousand Kilos Of Frozen Chicken. And The US Helped.

So what do you do when you’re a sovereign government that’s short on fighter jets and cash, but flush with frozen chicken? Call up Lockheed Martin! According to a WikiLeaked cable, the US State Department helped broker such a deal between the Thais and Lockheed Martin. It almost happened, were it not for a coup that ousted the poultry-pushing buyers. Oh well. [Atlantic Wire]

January 25, 2011
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The Smallest And Most Precise Missile In The US Arsenal

At only 2.75 inches in diameter, the Direct Attack Guided Rocket – DAGR, pronounced dagger – is designed to be the bread-and-butter air-to-surface weapon in the US arsenal. It’s compatible with every flying thing, very low cost, extremely precise and extraordinarily deadly.

January 15, 2011
Cars

This Is What You Will Fly In 2025, According To NASA

Last year NASA awarded contracts to three teams at Lockheed Martin, Northrop Gurmman and Boeing to create a perfect plane for 2025, silent and with low fuel consumption. Here is what they came up with, which could enter service in 2025.

January 12, 2011
Science

This Is How We Control Space

You know Space Fence, the system that tracks almost every object orbiting planet Earth. What I didn’t know is that their software is amazing, with a user interface out of a good sci-fi movie. I really want to play this game:

September 27, 2010
Cars

First View At The F-35 Hidden Weapon Bays

This is the first declassified view of the weapon bays hidden inside the belly of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II, carrying a standard load: It shows two AMRAAM missiles and two 907kg JDAM bombs. Here’s an even closer look:

July 16, 2010
Science

Lockheed Using Gravity To Spot ‘Subterranean Threats’

The military could soon be hunting for terror threats using detailed maps of the planet’s subterranean territory – thanks to aerial vehicles that tap into the “anomalous gravity signature[s] ” of structures built beneath the earth’s surface.

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