Army Maintain AN/TPQ-49 Radar In Iraq In 2009 U.S. Army, via Wikimedia Commons For decades, infantry’s problem with planes has been that they’re hard to reach because they’re far away. Anti-aircraft weapons must be used to keep bombers and fighters from striking at troops on the ground with impunity. Now, the Marine Corps is finding a [...]
A Dome Made Of Spinel: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Jamie Hartman It’s a transparent armor so good it might turn the phrase “glass cannon” on its head. The Naval Research Laboratory developed a manufacturing process to reliably make a strong, transparent ceramic that also allows infrared cameras to look through it, which most commercial glass can't do. [...]
Patrol In Afghanistan: Kimberly Trumbull, U.S. Army Photo There is no better way to survive a fight than not getting hit. Camouflage, the art of making troops look like plants or rocks, is a classic approach to increasing survival odds on the battlefield, but the U.S. Army wants to go further than blending in with the [...]
NET PIONEER: Mohamed was instrumental in introducing the Internet to Malaysians. As Malaysia’s pioneering Internet provider goes into liquidation, its first CEO feels a sense of loss. Anyone old enough to remember the obscenely loud dial-up modems may recall the country’s first Internet provider – Joint Advance Research Integrated Networking, better known as Jaring. Jaring, which [...]