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Special Operations Medicine Today
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 2 comments
Every American warfighter now goes into combat with a personal first aid kit and Combat Lifesaver training to provide both personal and buddy medical care immediately. Only moments away is a Combat Medic, ...more »
Warfighter Hearing Impairment: Prevention and Treatment
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
The ongoing conflict in Southwest Asia has brought new understanding – and treatments – to a number of age-old military medical issues. One that has received less public attention than most, but has ...more »
Tasers on Steroids and More: 21st Century Non-Lethal Electrical Shock Weapons
By Dwight Jon Zimmerman in Defense Wide under Defense Technology, Featured with no comments
The Department of Defense’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD) at Quantico, Va., is the go-to place for weapons designed to do everything but kill an adversary. One JNLWD program is the Human Electromuscular ...more »
FNH USA Responds to End of SOCOM SCAR Mk 16 Procurement
By Chuck Oldham (Editor) in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, News with 2 comments
FNH USA posted the following press release following the news over the weekend that SOCOM will not be allocating further funds to the 5.56 mm SCAR Mk 16 and will instead reallocate the ...more »
Helping Haiti: Logistics Challenges and Successes
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
When a devastating earthquake struck the Caribbean island nation of Haiti in January 2010, destroying its airport and harbor facilities, President Barack Obama pledged an immediate and all-out rescue and humanitarian relief effort.
With ...more »
Shout Them Down: 21st Century Acoustic Weapons
By Dwight Jon Zimmerman in Defense Wide under Defense Technology, Featured with no comments
“So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, ...more »
“Set Lasers on Stun”
By Dwight Jon Zimmerman in Defense Wide under Defense Technology, Featured with no comments
In the 23rd century, Capt. James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise famously (and routinely) ordered his crew to “set phasers on stun” against unarmed or lightly-armed attackers. In the early 21st century, ...more »
Next-generation Precision Strike
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
During World War II, waves of Allied aircraft dropped thousands of bombs on German cities, military installations, railroads, and industrial facilities. Where a given bomb might hit was as much luck as skill ...more »
NATO at the Crossroads
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
For nearly half a century, the 16-nation North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) stood ready to confront a massive air and land attack from its Eastern European counterpart, the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact. It was ...more »
TechWatch: Commercial Expos
By J.R. Wilson in Defense Wide under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured with no comments
The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas is the world’s largest exposition of cutting edge civilian technology – both recently entered into the marketplace and planned to begin shipping within the ...more »
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