Archive for the 'War' Category
China’s Space Probe Sends Back First Image of Mars
February 7th, 2021Via: AFP: China’s Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to touch down on the Red Planet later this year. The spacecraft, launched in July around the same time as a rival US mission, is expected to enter Mars orbit around February 10. […]
New Quantum Receiver the First to Detect Entire Radio Frequency Spectrum
February 7th, 2021Via: phys.org: A new quantum sensor can analyze the full spectrum of radio frequency and real-world signals, unleashing new potentials for soldier communications, spectrum awareness and electronic warfare. Army researchers built the quantum sensor, which can sample the radio-frequency spectrum—from zero frequency up to 20 GHz—and detect AM and FM radio, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and other […]
CIA Counterterror Chief Suggests Going To War Against ‘Domestic Insurgents’
February 5th, 2021Mmm hmm. Via: Summit News: The former head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center has suggested that counterinsurgency tactics used by the military in Iraq and Afghanistan should be applied to ‘domestic extremists’ inside the US. NPR reports that Robert Grenier, who directed the CIA’s Counterterrorism program from 2004 to 2006, declared “We may be witnessing […]
U.S. Navy Tests 3D Printers In Move To Shore Up Supply Chain
February 5th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: The race is on, and the US military is preparing to shore up its complex supply chains with 3D printers. The military wants to transform how supplies are deployed in a conflict. The US Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) partnered with Xerox to pilot test the Xerox ElemX Liquid Metal 3D printer on its […]
Robot Motherships To Launch Drone Swarms From Sea, Underwater, Air And Near-Space
February 5th, 2021Via: Forbes: Last week Louisiana-based shipbuilder Metal Shark announced that the U.S. Marine Corps had selected them to develop a Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessel (LRUSV), an 11-meter robot boat capable of operating autonomously and launching loitering munitions to attack targets at sea and on land. The unmanned boat is just the latest of a […]
U.S. Deploys B-1 Bombers To Norway For First Time
February 4th, 2021Via: ZeroHedge: In recent years there’s been a noticeable uptick in large-scale NATO exercises in the Barents region in response to what’s perceived as Russia’s own arctic ambitions to militarize the far north. And now the US Air Force has announced that for the first time ever it will deploy B-1 Lancer bombers along with […]
60 Minutes: Chinese Government Is Trying to Collect Americans’ DNA
February 1st, 2021Via: CBS: For all the polarization that grips Washington, here’s a source of rare consensus: the emerging threat of China’s push to acquire our health care data, including the DNA of American citizens. U.S. officials tell us the communist regime’s aggressive collection of our most personal information presents a danger both to national security and […]
Biden Appoints Warmongers, Military-Industrial Insiders
February 1st, 2021Via: Global Research: The corporate media has focused on Biden’s promise to overturn many of former-President Trump’s policies. But Biden pledged throughout his campaign to make “no substantial change” — and his foreign policy appointments show he meant that. Despite the media talk of justice, new policy and diversity, behind the scenes the same old […]
Navy “UFO Patent” Documents Talk Of “Spacetime Modification Weapon”
January 29th, 2021Via: The War Zone: One of the most bizarre documents in these releases, a slide deck marked For Official Use Only (FOUO), describes how Pais’ Plasma Compression Fusion Device patent could be used to design a terrifying-sounding new form of weapon known as a “Spacetime Modification Weapon:” Under uniquely defined conditions, the Plasma Compression Fusion […]
Military Intelligence Buys Location Data Instead of Getting Warrants, Memo Shows
January 24th, 2021Via: Ars Technica: The Defense Intelligence Agency, which provides military intelligence to the Department of Defense, confirmed in a memo that it purchases “commercially available” smartphone location data to gather information that would otherwise require use of a search warrant. The DIA “currently provides funding to another agency that purchases commercially available geolocation metadata aggregated […]
