Archive for the 'War' Category
Astra: Space Launch Startup Emerges from Stealth Mode
February 3rd, 2020Via: Bloomberg: The company’s founders say they want to be the FedEx Corp. of space. They’re aiming to create small, cheap rockets that can be mass-produced to facilitate daily spaceflights, delivering satellites into low-Earth orbit for as little as $1 million per launch. … Kemp says that Rocket Lab’s going launch rate of about $7.5 […]
A Russian “Inspector” Spacecraft Now Appears To Be Shadowing An American Spy Satellite
January 31st, 2020Via: The Drive: Publicly available data suggests that a Russian inspector satellite has shifted its position in orbit to bring it relatively close to a U.S. KH-11 spy satellite. Russia has a number of what it calls “space apparatus inspectors” in orbit, which the U.S. government and others warn the Kremlin could use to gather […]
F-35’s Gun That Can’t Shoot Straight Adds to Its Roster of Flaws
January 30th, 2020Via: Bloomberg: Add a gun that can’t shoot straight to the problems that dog Lockheed Martin Corp.’s $428 billion F-35 program, including more than 800 software flaws. The 25mm gun on Air Force models of the Joint Strike Fighter has “unacceptable” accuracy in hitting ground targets and is mounted in housing that’s cracking, the Pentagon’s […]
Acclaimed Harvard Scientist Is Arrested, Accused Of Lying About Ties To China
January 28th, 2020Via: NPR: Charles Lieber, the chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been arrested and criminally charged with making “false, fictitious and fraudulent statements” to the U.S. Defense Department about his ties to a Chinese government program to recruit foreign scientists and researchers. The Justice Department says Lieber, 60, lied about […]
U.S. Says 34 Troops Diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury After Iran Strike
January 24th, 2020Via: Reuters: The Pentagon said on Friday that 34 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury following missile strikes by Iran on a base in Iraq earlier this month, a number higher than the military had previously announced. President Donald Trump and other top officials initially said Iran’s attack had not killed or […]
U.S. and Russian Dueling Roadblocks Create Friction Near Syria’s Oil and Gas Regions
January 24th, 2020Via: Newsweek: U.S. and Russian forces have blocked or attempted to block one another’s movements along the strategic M4 highway that connects major towns and cities running parallel to the border with Turkey, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights, a United Kingdom-based monitor with ties to Syria’s exiled opposition, has reported. For more than one […]
U.S. Navy Could Get Potent Airburst Rounds to Take Out Drones
January 24th, 2020Via: Military.com: Crews on Navy littoral combat ships could soon be armed with powerful rounds that can blast hard-to-hit drones out of the sky. Northrop Grumman, which produces modules for the LCS based on its mission, is eyeing a powerful precision airburst munition to combat drones targeting ships at sea. The round would be compatible […]
China Deploys Military Medics to Wuhan Hospitals
January 24th, 2020Via: South China Morning Post: China is mobilising its military medics to help to contain the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, state media reported on Friday. According to the national broadcaster CCTV, the central military command has ordered medical staff to help civilian doctors and nurses. The report said 40 medical officers from the city’s military hospital […]
CIA Psychologist Defends Torture Before Guantanamo Court
January 22nd, 2020Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth: Fire Did Not Cause Building 7’s Collapse: On September 11, 2001, at 5:20 PM, the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed into its footprint, falling more than 100 feet at the rate of gravity for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second destruction. Despite calls for the evidence to be […]
‘Pentagon Racks Up $35 Trillion In Accounting Changes In A Year’
January 22nd, 2020Rotten to the core and the source of most of the problems on this planet. In other news: Nearly 4 in 10 Americans would borrow money to cover a $1K emergency. Via: Bloomberg: The Pentagon made $35 trillion in accounting adjustments last year alone — a total that’s larger than the entire U.S. economy and […]
