Archive for the 'War' Category
Air Force Training More Drone Pilots Than New Fighter and Bomber Pilots
September 20th, 2009Via: Newsweek: In 2007, the year before Schwartz became chief, UAVs were performing 21 combat air patrols at any one time, for a total of just over 100,000 hours. By 2011, they’ll reach 54 patrols and almost 350,000 hours. For now, the joystick pilots have to be certified fighter pilots as well. But Schwartz says […]
Flashback: Obama Offered Deal to Russia in Secret Letter
September 18th, 2009Via: New York Times: President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday. The letter to President Dmitri A. Medvedev was hand-delivered in Moscow […]
Police to Get Access to Classified Military Intelligence
September 17th, 2009Via: U.S. Department of Defense: IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 713-09 September 14, 2009 DoD Announces New Information-Sharing Access to Help Fusion Centers Combat Terrorism The Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) today announced an initiative to grant select state and major urban area fusion center personnel access to classified terrorism-related information residing in DoD’s […]
This Week in Directed Energy Pain Weapons
September 17th, 2009Via: Wired: Whether you’re trying to control a disturbance at a food-distribution center, get a convoy through a packed junction or determine who the bad guys are in a crowd, it’s not always a good idea to have a lethal force as your only option. That, at least, is the thinking behind the Thermal Laser […]
U.S. Special Operations Command Pays General Dynamics $10 Million to Peddle Bullshit “Web-Based Influence Products and Tools in Support of Strategic and Long-Term U.S. Government Goals”
September 16th, 2009
Via: Register: The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare “influence websites” supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as “targeted regions”. … Now SOCOM’s Joint Military Information Support Command, which “orchestrates a 24/7 multi-media […]
Unmanned Systems North America 2008
September 16th, 2009Research Credit: Pookie
Military Robot Hops Over Walls
September 16th, 2009Via: BBC: Video footage has been released of a robot that can leap over obstacles more than 7.5m (25ft) high. Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot – which is being developed for the US military – uses its four wheels to get around. But the Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated “leg” to […]
Pakistan Army Is Said to Be Linked to Many Killings in Swat
September 15th, 2009Via: New York Times: Two months after the Pakistani Army wrested control of the Swat Valley from Taliban militants, a new campaign of fear has taken hold, with scores, perhaps hundreds, of bodies dumped on the streets in what human rights advocates and local residents say is the work of the military. In some cases, […]
Brzezinski: Western Powers Going Down Same Road as Soviet Union in Afghanistan
September 15th, 2009Via: Herald Tribune: Western powers now in Afghanistan run the risk of suffering the fate of the Soviet Union there if they cannot halt the growing insurgency and an Afghan perception that they are foreign invaders, according to Zbigniew Brzezinski, the former U.S. national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. In a speech opening a […]
NASA Rocket to Create Clouds
September 15th, 2009Possibly Related: HAARP Via: Live Science: A rocket experiment set to launch Tuesday aims to create artificial clouds at the outermost layers of Earth’s atmosphere. The project, called the Charged Aerosol Release Experiment (CARE), plans to trigger cloud formation around the rocket’s exhaust particles. The clouds are intended to simulate naturally-occurring phenomena called noctilucent clouds, […]
