This article explores why computers can’t do floating point maths, which is what makes Excel and all those online calculators such lousy mathematicians – basically because computers are binary, they can’t calculate anything after a decimal point, so the workaround is to put the number including the decimal point in a register of a certain Read more about Why computers suck at maths[…]
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This thing was proposed from the outset, but I have no idea what happened to it. Now finally they’ve got it going, and they’re claiming the new nozzles add 7% thrust and reduce fuel consumption by 5%. VIDEO: Eurojet proposes thrust-vectoring upgrade for Typhoon.
NATO is looking towards the citizens of the alliance to contribute to a new understanding of NATO’s role and methodology. The new strategic concept is yet to be written and comments posted on their forum are fed to a panel of experts, who will have a hand in writing the new concept. NATO’s Strategic Concept Read more about NATO’s Strategic Concept[…]
A sad sad day indeed – pilots who will never fly in an actual plane, just remotely control a drone, that they will likely never see either. AF Class of 2009: Pilots Who Won’t Fly.
Apparently the USSR actually went and built a doomsday machine – something that would launch command missles which would transmit coordinates to other ICBMs in the event that the Soviet Union was destroyed. The system, called ‘Perimiter’ and known as ‘Dead Hand’ basically ran through some checks and then delegated launch authority to whoever it Read more about Soviet Doomsday Machine[…]
The Dutch ministry of defence has apparently known since 2005 that the budget reserved for the JSF buy (to replace the KLu F-16 fleet) was in nowhere near enough for the planned 85 F-35s they needed. The Dutch MOD has answered parliamentary questions about this with the statement that they expected a budget increase and Read more about Dutch JSF buy based on unreal figures[…]
And continuing on with the US military madness, the alternate Rolls Royce power source for the F-35 is to stop receiving funding from. This is a huge slap in the face to the UK. US Senate axes F-35 alternate engine -23/07/2009-Washington DC-Flightglobal.com.
The US has just gone and done something I really can’t see the point of besides politics: they’ve gone and chopped their air dominance fighter after a production run of under 200 aircraft. Instead they want to lay their eggs in the F-35 JSF basket – which performs poorly against the current Australian F-18s and Read more about F-22 chopped by US Senate[…]
The Moray Eel Hunter is a drone that seeks out single swimmers closing in stealthily on your coast at 8 kts. Once it finds you it lights up, makes noise, sends signals and swims around you. So how long before it gets armed?
Who’d have thought it? Pictures of the MiG factory online for all to see!
This is like a taser without wires. It has a maximum range of 27m.
How to shame your WWII veterans: don’t attend the D-day anniversary, or fund the 500 remaining troops the trip to attend. The UK prime minister, Gordon Brown, won’t be attending and claims sending the vets there will be too expensive. There will be no official recognition from London, even though the US, French and even Read more about UK won’t remember D-Day[…]
This is a huge list of the Army Field Manuals. From how to point a gun, to how to run an infantry brigade.
Mounting the ipod on the rifle and then adding the external ballistics calculator app Bullet Flight, allows you to set bullet profiles and enter environment information.
The Royal Navy has only lauchend it’s conversion to Windows for Warships a month ago or so, and allready they’re infected by virusses! Not that it would have been any different if it had been OS X for warships (yes, macheads, you do in fact get virusses too) but still… who didn’t see that coming?!
The UN Security Council has passed a resolution permitting member countries to enter the territorial waters of Somalia to fight piracy.
The missile shield will be upgraded by multiple kill vehicles being carried up by as a single payload in a rocket. There are two competing tenders: Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. Lockheed guides the mini rockets from a central command unit, Raytheon’s system has each of the warheads acting as a seeker / controller in theory, Read more about US Missle Sheild Upgrade[…]
Yup, the USA military is definitely past it’s prime – first the grounding of the entire F-15 fleet, then the ongoing A-10 grounding, the ancient tankers which have no replacement coming and now the F/A-18s are being grounded and inspected for structural faults found in many earlier models around the aerolon hinges. These kind of Read more about And now: the F/A-18 Hornets[…]
After the F-15 grounding, which left the US without an air defence in the beginning of this year, now many A-10s have been grounded due to cracks in the wings. With the tanker acquisition being put on hold, it’s looking more and more like the USAF is an organisation filled with geriatric aircraft. And congress Read more about USAF A-10s grounded[…]
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) staged an excercise pitting the JSF against the 4th generation russian fighters and it got it’s arse handed to it in the turning game. Link goes to the movie. Memorable quotes are: “The report says the JSF is: “‘Double inferior’ relative to modern Russian/Chinese fighter designs in visual range Read more about JSF doesn’t do too well[…]
Apparently Bush has done something smart! In July he signed an order allowing US troops to go into Pakistan and conduct gound assaults on known Al Qaeda / Taleban locations. They will notify the Pakistani government, but they won’t ask for permission.
And trick your enemy satellite intelligence into thinking you are way way mightier than you are – just try to use an electric pump, as this stuff’ll have you blowing for HOURS.
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