Really Smart Weapons

" Israel is using nanotechnology to try to create a robot no bigger than a hornet that would be able to chase, photograph and kill its targets.

It is one of several weapons being developed by scientists to combat militants. Others include super gloves that would give the user the strength of a "bionic man" and miniature sensors to detect suicide bombers.

It's illogical to send a plane worth $100 million against a suicidal terrorist. So we are building futuristic weapons."

It is also very much fun and at the end of the day that is what we are all about.

Liquid Armor

Thin, flexible and only slightly heavier than kevlar.

Your soft underbelly thanks you.

Dude, I think that Sub's following us !

"Defense officials said the Song-class diesel-powered attack submarine tailed the USS Kitty Hawk undetected, surfacing within five miles of the aircraft carrier -(within range of its missiles and torpedoes)- Oct. 26 before being spotted during surveillance flights.

Don't mind us, just go about your business.

Next up, the popular bump and run that worked so well with the AWACS back in '01.

Iran Cops a Peek - Allegedly

"Iran's Arabic language television station broadcast footage it claimed showed a US aircraft carrier cruising in Gulf waters it said was taken by an unmanned Iranian drone.

The brief minute-long film, which comes near the end of Iran's latest 10-day war games, "Great Prophet II", showed wobbly aerial footage of an aircraft carrier stacked with war planes as it sailed."

Unnamed US sailor quoted as saying drone was towing banner with text, "Seaman Stains, Marry Me, Me Love you Long Time".

Fate of Rumsfeld's Vision

"Rumsfeld envisioned a military powered by information that relied on technology to deliver more effective, more dominant, and more connected armed forces.

He set out to restructure global basing posture and succeeded. He enlarged special operations.

We have a strong precision-strike capability now.

But...the fate of many of Rumsfeld's reforms may now be determined by his two least successful challenges.....: finding Al Qaeda's leaders and the war in Iraq.

At least until the next major stand up fight.