This is Boeing’s next big destructive bad boy. “Boeing is in production on at least one ‘proprietary’ strike weapon system,” says Shelley Lavender, VP and General Manager of Boeing’s global strike systems. Nobody knows anything about it. More »
The 1980s weren’t just about Walkmans and Bon Jovi’s Slippery When Wet album – the early 80s was also the climax of the Cold War between Russia and the USA. And now, 30 years later, the national archives has released classified documents that shows then Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser signed off on a proposal to let the US fire MX missiles from California into the Tasman Sea. More »
Weapons are products just as much as a mobile phone or condom. They have marketing teams who make advertisements who make people buy weapons. How To Be A Retronaut put up a collection of scanned print ads. Don Draper meets Doomsday. More »
This is the Naval Strike Missile, Kongsberg’s latest and greatest cruise missile, as it skims over the Pacific Ocean before tearing into its target on the far side of an island. More »
Uh oh. A plant belonging to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was hacked into recently, although it’s not quite clear what data was pilfered in the attack. More »
The Tamuz uses an advanced electro-optic camera that transmits the image of its target back to operators inside the APC, who then manually drive it toward the target. Tamuz teams work closely with an artillery unit, which operates Hermes 450 reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles that provide the intelligence on the targets that are then attacked by the Tamuz missile. More »
