4 times more explosive power than the US built MOAB, the Father / Dad Of All Bombs is around the same explosive power as a nuke, but no radiation fallout. ABC Guardian

The US is tackling the problem of jointness the right way. Jointness is used to describe operations in conjunction with another (or mulitple other) military arm(s) (such as Air Force coordinating with the Marines). The US has set up a Joint Qualification System which offers points depending on joint actions each officer has had in Read more about Joint Qualification for US Officers[…]

Yes! A new way to destroy stuff! You send two sound waves and where they intersect the shock waves create a destructive cavitation field. Here’s some more stuff on supercavitation, which says it works on the surface and in the air as well (from a comment in the original article)

This site has a huge amount of links and resources to all kinds of activities the USAF is involved in.

The UK MOD and Foreign Affairs has published it’s stance on Nuclear deterrent. Interestingly it shows that allthough the UK is the NPT signatory with the smallest arsenal, it’s ordanance is still considerable at 160 warheads and delivery systems. It has decreased in size by 50% since the Cold War and decreased effectiveness by 75%. Read more about UK MOD Whitepaper on Nuclear Deterrent[…]

Want to buy military surpluss? Why not directly from the UK Ministry of Defence?

The Pentagon has released it’s budget (yet again, stunningly huge!) on internet. This link goes to the full summary of tables – for those who are interested in all the numbers for all the different elements that go into an armed forces. There are some interesting thins in there, such as Iraq Freedom Fund, Defense Read more about Pentagon FY 2008 Budget[…]

After the sonic ray gun, the US has released and tested its microwave ray gun, which makes people feel like they’re about to ignite at temperatures that can be selected by the operator. It can be carried around on a Humvee or mounted on guard towers. Maybe the tin-foil hat brigade isn’t that wrong? Allthough Read more about US Ray Gun II[…]

The UK are going to consolidate in St. Athan, Wales, and consolidating a wide variety of trainings from 27 different locations in to 1. Not only will that be a whole lot cheaper in terms of manpower required to run the academy and property expenses, but it will also mean that inter-services jointness could become Read more about UK building Tri-service defence acadamy[…]

Aviation Now has an interesting article on the USAF special projects, such as followups to the F-117A in the form of stealth cruise missles that also do recce. Particularly interesting is the range of hacking projects the USAF has, such as Suter, which in the first guise can ‘see’ what targetted radars are seeing, and Read more about USAF Special Projects[…]

Shear Thickening Fluid has the property that when struck with force it turns into a rigid barrier. A while after impact it reverts to gel. As it’s light, it can be incorporated into clothing and make bullet proof vests lighter.

The US is going from biggest to even bigger and commissioning a new class of aircraft carrier, the CVN-21. This will displace around 102,000 tons – compared to the British Invincible (22,000t) and the future French carrier (75,000t), this is indeed massive. The current US aircraft carriers are built around a basic design developed 50 Read more about CVN-21 Supercarrier[…]

Some seriously imaginative weaponry that doesn’t exist, such as the cock-rocket, galaxy bazooka, laser guided polar bear, squirrel exploder, squirrel imploder, squirrel unsploder, squirrel desploder, the ADD Gun, Whoop-ass of mass destruction, Atomic bong and sheep air strike.

This video is a collection of loads of small military pilot movies and pasted into a half hour movie with a sound track. Nicely edited, very well done that bloke.

Google Video has a very cool 12 minute promotional video of the Su-35 with computer graphics in it and everything!

The entire inventory of the US nuclear arsenal is spreat over 18 military facilities in the states and Europe and available for download into Google Earth.

Defensetech is running an article about a lt. colonel in Iraq running around his province using lightly armoured small patrols, refusing to use much in the way of technology and booking remarkable success doing the job much more cheaply and effectively than other units in Iraq.

The US Army has a cool new simulation system, which I guess will be integrated with RL maneuver, showing units up to squad level on a map, updated continuously and allowing commanders control of the units. There’s a link in here to the maneuver control system which is well worth following.

or how to track stealth aircraft using your GSM network. This is the clearest explanation I’ve found over the past few years.

Canadian troops fighting in Afghanistan are unable to track Afghans through 10m high marijuana plants. The plants themselves are wet through and through, so they can’t be burned down using phosphorus. They tried putting fire to dryer outlying parts of the forest, but the wind turned and caused unexpected consequences on a troop concentration.

Ground based lasers from China hit lenses on US spy satellites with enough force to blind them temporarily but not enough to destroy them, the US has finally confirmed after a week or so of rumors floating around.

Well, the world’s media is in a buzzfuzz about North Korea’s upcoming Nuclear test ([sarcasm]who knew?![/sarcasm]), but let’s have a quick look at other nuclear states. The USA is the only country to have ever used a nuclear weapon (ok, two of them) in anger on another nation. France, Russia, Great Britain and China (with Read more about Nuclear Holocaust[…]

This article is interesting not only because the USAF is looking at cutting the training budget for pilots, but has a look at a whole load of the technologies they are investing in and keeping or losing. For example, AESA (electronic line scan) radars can jam enemy radar. I didn’t know that one! Also the Read more about USAF funding reductions[…]

It’s like the draft, but only for people who have enlisted and are now out of service. The US armed forces are huge, but now it looks like they’re fighting too many fights and can’t sustain it with their regular forces. How long before they institute the draft?

A good list of them here