Could RI Arsenal Help With Armor Issue?
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Could the rock island arsenal be called upon to help even more with production for our US military? Currently workers are busy making armor plated doors Like these for hum-vees in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The Corps orders up a passle of new South African-designed and Israeli-made bomb-deflecting vehicles. Plus: Walter Reed is not the only problem -- so many docs deployed to Iraq means a military MD shortage at home. In Danger Room.
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Despite aggressive efforts to repair the New Orleans levee system following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, it isn't clear yet whether it could withstand a sizable hurricane this year, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday.
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Military officials said Thursday they were working hard to upgrade the armor on Army vehicles in Iraq, a day after a soldier had pressed Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on the subject. President Bush said, "The concerns expressed are being addressed."
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S. Army will study protective measures for supply vehicles and add steel plating to vehicles if necessary, a general said Sunday, after members of a Reserve unit refused to deliver supplies down a dangerous route in Iraq partly because they were concerned their vehicles were in poor shape...
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The Gunners will be looking to an inexperienced reserve side to restore their battered morale and reputation at Old Trafford. But even though Arsenal have been hit by injuries to key players, as well as a
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Three days of intensive Anglo-Irish talks ended without full agreement yesterday, but with the prospect of a significant move by the IRA on the issue of its arsenal.
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Set phasers to "puke"? The military works on a weapon that makes people so dizzy they fall over and throw up. It can supposedly shoot through walls, too. In Danger Room.
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The Armed Services Committee's hearings will include an examination of criticism that the Defense Department failed to prepare for the insurgency and went into action with a shortage of armor for trucks and Humvees.
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Unmanned aerial vehicles and other remote-controlled weapons are part of a high-tech arsenal the U.S. military is developing to help minimize casualties in battles with insurgents.
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The disappearance of nearly 400 tons of powerful explosives from a former Iraqi military installation has become a heated issue in the presidential campaign and has led to criticism and confusion over when and how the materials vanished, what more U.S. troops could have done to protect them from theft and who, if anyone, is to blame.
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Arsenal's bid to keep the most eagerly awaited date of the season is threatened by injury problems that have been aggravated by the cosmopolitan squad's international commitments over the last week.
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The Decatur build Delta 4 Heavy rocket has apparently hit a little snag. The rocket&#39;s engines didn&#39;t fire as long as it was supposed to and the dummy satellite it was carrying missed it&#39;s intended orbit.
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To write about Arsenal&#39;s problems in Europe is to sound like a broken record. The mystery about the Gunners&#39; inexplicable failures in the Champions League is increasingly becoming one of the most oversubscribed areas of football analysis.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 17 -- This whole back-to-basics thing on defense remains a work in progress for the Washington Redskins. There are depth concerns along the defensive line and in the secondary, and presumably tougher tests ahead.
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Arsenal&#39;s bid to keep the most eagerly awaited date of the season is being threatened by injury concerns that have been aggravated by international commitments over the last week.
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WASHINGTON - An inventory has found another case of missing data involving nuclear weapons, this time at the Energy Department's regional office in Albuquerque, N.M., the department disclosed Thursday.    The Energy Department said that an "accounting discrepancy" involving three copies of a "controlled removable electronic media" - or CREM - was found at the regional office as part of the nationwide inventory of such devices...