Tues -- Fire for Effect
“Frankly, to be blunt about it, the notion that not buying 60 more F-22s imperils the national security of the United States, I find completely nonsense"
China's being a bit generous with the term "territorial waters "
Every time North Korea shoots a missile, Japan turns a little more samurai
...and maybe the Norks actually want to be bombed anyway.
The folks who make Purell Hand Sanitizer likely surprised to find product makes for great rocket fuel .
Video: PLA Navy starting to make blogger a little nervous (with obvious ChiCom propaganda tag)
--John Noonan
Thursday -- Fire for Effect
COIN: Is Air Control the answer ? (says me: no.)
Amazing photo of the day: Peacekeepers and Warfighters
5 ways to defend a supercarrier (with all five being awesome)
Call me Senator , dammit.
Raytheon C-RAM fail
Malaysia has Q-ships?
Video: DUCK!!!
--John Noonan
Friday -- Fire for Effect
A war by any other name is still a war
COIN or CT in the 'stan?
Surprise! China's defense expenditures soaring
Whodunit? America or Israel ?
The freaky-deaky yet surprisingly awesome Japanese trailer for Cat Shit One
--John Noonan
Wednesday -- Fire for Effect
Iran still determined to catch an ass whupping
SECDEF harshes my mell
"Guess what? Dragonskin doesn't work."
Badassery of the day includes the line "using only his bayonet... "
Vid: Goosebumpy USAF ad
--John Noonan
Monday -- Fire for Effect
NATO fleet deploys to either fight pirates or sack Troy
Sometimes I wish they'd they'd let Marines name ships instead of just task forces
Iranian RC clubs make for great target practice
Article on "shadow fighters " just as awesome as it sounds
"Lafayette, we are here back "
Urban legend -- but still damn funny
--John Noonan
Thursday -- Fire for Effect
MRAP protected
What exactly is a "Chinese military space station " supposed to do, anyway?
Russia, Iran, and Missile Defense
The Axis of Upheaval
Hornet driver on the SD F/A-18 crash
G4 on totally rad robo tech
--John Noonan
Tues -- Fire for Effect
Blackwater Xe falls on hard times
ChiComs moving in on Britain's old turf
Weird ass boat found in the jungles of Sri Lanka
Attack of the Drones
Tactical success, strategic defeat
South African Air Force in the weeds
--John Noonan
Monday -- Fire for Effect
Former Vietnamese refugee takes command of the 187th Airborne Infantry
Hot off the presses: US government's new COIN manual
Solar power that doesn't suck ?
Badass: The story of Vulcan 607
Air Superiority 101 and other thoughts about blowing stuff up from the air
Pooh Bear F-15 launch, followed by a prompt arrest
--John Noonan
Monday -- Fire for Effect
The Air Force wants to wean itself off oil with.. uh, coal ?
Gitmo post-mortem
Strange happenings on the 38th parallel
And speaking of the peninsula, what's up with that Nork reactor ?
Preach it brother -- build a bigger Navy
Pull out the tissues: HBO trailer for Taking Chance and the blog post which inspired it
--John Noonan
Fire for Effect -- Friday
Give Japan the Raptor
Army offered the 'Apache Lite,' advanced new attack helo that goes great with pretzels.
Boot camp for gaming addicts , gaming addicts for boot camp
Learning from the real Battle of Algiers
Vote for Military.com's blogs OPFOR and Milblogging as this year's Best Military Blog (but mostly OPFOR).
IDF tanks and soldiers guard the Gaza border. Photo Courtesy of Popular Mechanics
--John Noonan
Thursday -- Fire for Effect
Russia sends shiny new SAMs to Iran
Wicked looking X-47B unveiled
Blast from the Past : Inside the Battle of the Bulge
General Abe Abrams blogs on full spectrum ops
Gulp: Navy discussing 'economic doomsday '
New Ruskie SLBM ready to go into full production
Video: Hey, at least he landed. Via Steeljaw Scribe
--John Noonan
Monday -- Fire for Effect
Old missile site poisoning Cheyenne's water supply
Why the F/A-18 failed (update: readers advise that this article "sucks")
Afghan national air force growing, growing, growing
Oh good grief ...
What makes piracy work?
Video: PT with the Afghan Army!
--John Noonan
Tuesday -- Fire for Effect
Suspicious happenings on the Varyag
Just all kinds of bad guys firing rockets these days...
Crunching the numbers: Mercs v. Soldiers
Afghanistan heating up
Just as rad as it sounds: Multiple Kill Vehicle Hover Test
Army-Navy Prank: Close, but no cigar (annoying music warning)
--John Noonan
Wednesday -- Fire for Effect
Hey no kidding -- take the fight to the pirates
The Navy's holiday wish list
Did they give up on the Raptor? Royal Aussie Air Force wants 100 F-35s
Uh oh -- Iran tests fires solid prop IRBM
Better late than never -- British Vikings get upgraded armor
Photo of the day: B-52 soars over the Pacific (courtesy DoD)
--John Noonan
Monday -- Fire for Effect
Coalition offs gender confused Taliban commander
The dime bio on Lashkar-e-Taiba
Israeli radar sees through walls
Memphis Belle restored
New Xmas gift hotness: the "wifle"
Sounds practical: The navy's supersonic mine layer
--John Noonan
Friday -- Fire for Effect
Nuclear moon bases
B-52s now working as standoff jammers?
Rad meter pinging: Brit Challenger II does its thing
Gulp: Use of nukes "more likely " in the future
Norway burns Gripen, puts in order for the F-35
Frozen Phantom : The South Korean air force showcased its new aircraft testing and evaluation center on opening day, September 8, by coating this F-4 Phantom fighter jet with ice. In the facility, engineers simulate conditions that a plane might encounter at 40,000 feet to determine if the craft’s composite structure—particularly in its wings—can endure the freezing temperatures without cracking
--John Noonan
Thursday -- Fire for Effect
Tali-baddie snuffed out in Pakistan
Hogs now porting JDAMs
Awesome:
Squids getting their money's worth out of LANTFLT
An open letter to the CNO
Hey, even Islam's got Rednecks.
--John Noonan
Monday -- Fire for Effect
JSF goes supersonic
Seal Sub burns
Ummm, Iceland offered the Russians what
BAE busting baddies ' SAMs
Ivan snubs US Marines
Blast from the past part II: Freaky deaky airmobile ICBM test
Monday -- Fire for Effect
The Iraq War is won, Afghanistan -- mmm not so much
Behind the scenes of an ICBM launch
A ballistic missile's newest enemy: mirrors
SOCOM gets the Hummingbird
Inside Israel's missile shield
Blast from the past 1979: US Air Force sponsors First Strike, depicting a catastrophic Soviet surprise attack on America's strategic forces. Reagan defense build-up ensues...
Wednesday -- Fire for Effect
Congress takes the "joint" out of the Joint Cargo Aircraft
So Google apparently has a Navy now...
They weren't already? US, Russian nukes "get sophisticated "
Japan goes all Red October off its coasts
Afghani helicopter fleet triples
Video: Mid-air refueling fail
Thursday -- Fire for Effect
End of the world avoided -- for now
It'd be awesome if it wasn't Russian
New bomber to carry freakin' lasers?
Yikes : Russian Blackjack bombers wargame with Venezuela
The case for more F-22s
Video: Russia's freaky deaky Su-47
Wednesday -- Fire for Effect
"I don’t care which tanker wins , I just need a new tanker."
At last : A robotic tuna fleet for the Navy
Sweetman : Making sense of the next gen bomber
Italian sportscars warships
British badasses just massacring terrorists in Iraq
Via Ares : Stanford's robotic whirlybird
Thursday -- Fire for Effect
Russia reoccupies Syrian port
Screw Clausewitz
Icebreaker wars
It'd be awesome if it wasn't Chinese....
Was knocking down a satellite a prudent public health initiative?
Blast from the past: Van Halen Hagar's Blue Angels vid
Monday -- Fire for Effect
Navy 'rudderless '
Ukraine flips Russia the bird
US invades the Artic
Phew : Minot AFB passes nuke inspection
Predator UAVs require "17 mouse clicks " to kill baddies
From the Military Times : 4th ID launches an RQ-7B Shadow
Friday -- Fire for Effect
F-35 factory to pump out a jet a day
U.S, Allies talk payback
Abolish the NRO?
How Georgia tried to match the Russian arsenal
Now who'll ban blogs? Air Force pulls the plug on Cyber Command
From Ares : Su-25 wreckage smolders in Georgia. Both sides are claiming the kill.
Tuesday -- Fire for Effect
Warp Drive Engine to make .5 past light-speed
Awesome: Scientists that close to an invisibility cloak
Russia bombs Su-25 Frogfoot manufacturing plant... with a Su-25 Frogfoot
Rise of the Droids
Air Force night missions freaking out Kenyans
Tom Clancy "Ghost Recon" video game becomes reality
Just another day on the island
Friday -- Fire for Effect
Canada buys Russian kit
Top 5 next-gen shooters
So remind me... why did we decommission the F-111 ?
Awesome: Liquid body armor could 'turn you into Batman'
From Ares: Aussies prove the 'Varks are still cool
Wednesday -- Fire for Effect
Iron Curtain returns ?
Surging on the Seven Seas
The making (and unmaking) of the American hovercraft
Chinese Aerospace : now with less stealing from the Russians!
Why defense technologies are so damned expensive
Video: The Air Force's highly dorky roots
Monday -- Fire for Effect
Littoral Combat Ship sails with Army crew
Army inches closer to the Imperial AT-AT
Inside the totally rad Aussie Bushmaster Infantry Vehicle
The ever ready nuclear missileer (pdf)
Lockheed gets all Corleone on overseas JSF customers
Video: Swiss Air Force tears it up.
