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Military technology
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Military technology
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Written by Peter Warren
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For the fourth year running a project conceived by Future Intelligence, Sims Recycling and Glamorgan University finds embarrasing data on discarded hard drives.
Appeared in Guardian 7/5/2009 under headline 'Anti-missile defence details found on secondhand computer'
Computer containing confidential data about Lockheed Martin staff was bought online
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Information on the launch codes and staff working on the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD), a critical part of the US defense shield against nuclear attack, has been found during a survey of the data thrown out on discarded computer hard drives.
Among other information found in the survey, which analysed over 300 drives bought from online auction sites and garage sales from France, Germany, the UK and the US, were details of financial transactions involving billions of dollars to finance high interest rate deals to Nigeria, Venezuela and Tunisia. Data that included correspondence with a member of the Federal Reserve Board and also indicated that there were banking investigations into some of the deals, one of which involved $50bn.
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Thaad missile test launch
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Military technology
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Written by Peter Warren
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 Robot vehicles are increasingly taking a role on the battlefield - but their deployment raises moral and philosophical as well as technical questions, says Pete Warren.
Thursday October 26, 2006
The Guardian
(Appeared under headline 'Launching a new kind of warfare'.)
In November 2004, during the second battle of Fallujah, an American uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) - a robot plane - located a mortar battery that had been hampering the US operation to retake the town.The mortar's position was logged by the UAV's operator, who was sitting at his desk in Nellis Air Force base near Las Vegas, thousands of miles away.
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Military technology
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Written by Peter Warren
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A computerised nose millions of times more sensitive than a bloodhound’s has become the latest high-tech weapon in the police’s war against drugs.
For the nose following the distinctive trail of aromatic smoke from a Marijuana joint will be child’s play, this nose is capable of sniffing out the existence of a chemical on a passing asteroid
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Military technology
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Written by Peter Warren
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Commissioned by the Sunday Times
The ruthless nature of the Iraq war has forced the US military to
deploy robots armed with machine guns at military checkpoints to deal
with suicide bombers.
The robots, developed from technology used to deal with unexploded
bombs, can be armed with a fearsome range of weaponry but the first of
the 18 units due to be sent to Iraq this month will be armed with
rifles or machine guns according to US military sources.
The small tank-like machines can carry flame-throwers, grenade and
rocket launchers and will be controlled by soldiers from distances of
over half a mile away.
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