Tag: F-35

According to a front page Wall Street Journal article this morning, it looks like piles of data related to the $300 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter military plane have found their way in to the hands of hackers. According to government officials the newspaper spoke with, the Defense Department was the subject of a concerted cyber attack over the past few months in which terabytes (yes plural) ...

We're not exactly sure what would posses someone to build a half-sized replica of the F-35 Lightning II (AKA the Joint Strike Fighter). We're even more puzzled by the fact that this impressively accurate reproduction is actually powered, and a full sized adult can cruise around in this thing at a whopping 5 miles per hour. The 49 year old Arthur van Poppel took 3,500 man hours to construct the ...