I’ve always followed military technology developments and enjoy military history. Why I never served in the armed forces is a mystery to many people, including myself. Anyway, I remember a debate I had with a friends in high school about the future of warfare. A lot of wild claims were made in that argument by me and my friend. I’ll save all those recollections for another time. But on the subject of Star Wars Missile Defense and Brilliant Pebbles my friend had claimed, “you can’t hit a bullet with a bullet.” (more…)
A minor point but a source of local pride is that the USS Lake Erie and the USS Decatur, two of the three ships involved in coordinating the attack on the satellite, were built at Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine. My home town.