by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 28, 2012 | Monitor
Iron Dome stopped a lot of rockets in this month’s Israel-Gaza war. But it won’t be able to stop Iran’s ballistic missiles. So the Israelis are already upgrading their missile defenses.
by Noah Shachtman | Nov 27, 2012 | Monitor
American officials are blaming Iran for recent attacks on the servers of western banks. But the hackers taking credit for the sophisticated distributed denial-of-service strikes say they pulled off the bank jobs without any government help.
by Robert Beckhusen | Nov 13, 2012 | Monitor
Iran’s war games are an often entertaining look at antiquated and repackaged military technology presented like it’s the latest gear. Here’s a great example of it. In the latest round of Iranian exercises being carried out this week, the Mullahs are...
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 8, 2012 | Monitor
Two Iranian Su-25 attack jets couldn’t hit a U.S. military MQ-1 Predator, like this one, flying a surveillance mission near Iran on November 1. Photo: National Guard Updated, 4:27 p.m. EST Two Iranian jets recently tried and failed to shoot down an unarmed MQ-1...
by Spencer Ackerman | Oct 17, 2012 | Monitor
A Standard Missile-3 interceptor is launched from the Aegis cruiser USS Lake Erie during a joint Missile Defense Agency/U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test, 2007. Photo: Flickr/Missile Defense Agency Just in time for a presidential election in which both...