If 1.83 billion English-speaking people online most frequently used the “word” 404, then that’s a lot of fail. And that might be why No. 1 is “404” and No. 2 is “Fail” in the list of top words for 2013.
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A week after recommissioning Lockheed-Martin’s X-47B proof-of-concept carrier-launched drones for additional testing, the US Navy awarded $ 15 million contracts to four companies contending to be the maker of the X-47B’s successor. The contracts are part of the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Launched Surveillance and Strike (UCLASS) aircraft program, which aims to produce an autonomous robotic attack plane capable of spying on and attacking enemies.
The relatively small $ 15 million contracts—awarded to Lockheed-Martin, Northrop-Grumman, Boeing, and General Atomics (the manufacturer of the Predator and Reaper armed drones)—will fund preliminary design reviews of proposals from the companies. The Navy will pick a winning design by the fall of next year. The goal is to start taking delivery of the winning UCLASS drone within three to six years; just how fast the winning drone is produced will depend on how “mature” the winning design is.
The Navy has said that the UCLASS aircraft have to be compatible with the fleet’s existing bombs and that no new weapons will be designed for the aircraft. UCLASS will likely not be a replacement for the firepower of the Navy’s and the Marine Corps’ FA-18s; the goal is an aircraft capable of reconnaissance and “light strike” using existing weapons in the Navy’s arsenal, up to 250 pounds each.
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How Cyberwarfare and Drones Have Revolutionized Warfare
New York Times (blog) Since World War II there have been many advances in military weaponry, communications and technology. In early May 1942, naval forces from Imperial Japan and the allied forces of Australia and the United States fought in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Cyber Warfare: What Are the Rules? World War Web: Preparing for Cyberwarfare Decoding the new information war |
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Cyber warfare, drones in focus at NATO meeting
Deutsche Welle Cyber warfare, drones in focus at NATO meeting. NATO currently has no structure for dealing with cyber attacks across the alliance, so defense ministers are considering how to respond to the threat. German Defense Minister De Maizière also discussed … NATO boosts cyber defences but members differ on its role NATO to set up rapid reaction teams to counter cyber-attacks NATO takes up cyber-defence as threat grows |
