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Navy photo by John F. Williams. Coast Guard boat crashing through waves is having a f*cking blast! CAPE DISAPPOINTMENT — Witnesses in the southwestern corner of Washington state have reported that a 47-foot Coast Guard vessel was last seen having the time of its fucking life crashing through gigantic 18-foot breakers past the Columbia River bar.
This Is Russia’s First Autonomous Strike Drone. Secret Probe Into USS Fitzgerald Disaster Revealed a Ship in Appalling Shape. Algeria Is the Latest Country to Field Russian Themobaric Rocket Launchers. Colbert Makes Scaramucci Squirm Over Steve Bannon and Nazis. Stephen Colbert couldn’t quite believe it was happening, but there was Anthony Scaramucci on his Late Show couch Monday night.
This wasn’t Mario Cantone or Bill Hader, but the real “Mooch” himself. And he was ready to talk. The question hanging over the entire interview was why exactly Scaramucci would want to appear on the show of a man who called him an unqualified “joke” when he was hired, a “cock” when his profane interview broke, and compared his firing to a Game of Thrones beheading. After introducing his guest as “the shortest tenured communications director in White House history,” Scaramucci emerged from the wings to a smattering of “boos” from the audience and quipped, “I’ll pretend those are ‘Mooches’ and not boos.” Scaramucci began on Monday night by extending Colbert’s Game of Thrones metaphor, this time comparing himself to Arya Stark. F/A-18 Super Hornet Missed Syrian Su-22 With Its First Sidewinder Missile. By now you've probably heard that a U.S. fighter shot down a Syrian jet about a week ago.
What you might not know is that before the F/A-18E hit its target, it missed–and it missed with the best, newest U.S. missile. On June 18, just moments after a Syrian Arab Air Force Su-22 attacked Coalition forces, a U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet strike fighter rolled into a firing position and opened fire. The Army's Next-Gen Helicopters Could Be Faster, Quieter, and More Nimble. Sikorsky Boeing has released a new CGI video showing off its planned entry in the Army's Future Vertical Lift program.
Can US Warplanes Evade Russian Air Defenses? We May Soon Find Out in Syria. If things go south, high-end American fighters may take on top-of-the-line Russian anti-aircraft missiles.
For years, the U.S. military has been fretting about the return of conflicts in which air defenses play a big role. If tensions escalate in Syria, high-end American fighter jets might face off against Russia’s top-of-the-line anti-aircraft missiles — and both sides will quickly learn who has the edge. Russia began moving its high-end, ready-for-World-War-III air defense equipment into Syria early on in the conflict.
In November 2015, a Turkish F-16 downed a Russian Su-24M near the Turkish border. The Rear Gunner (1943) US Special Forces seeking subsonic ammunition for covert missions. Why is a missile site like a latrine? Earlier this week, I was invited to talk to a roomful of intelligence analysts at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, commemorating the 50h anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis.
Lifting the Veil on NRO Satellite Systems and Ground Stations. Washington, D.C., October 4, 2012 – Today, the National Security Archive posts the fourth in a series of electronic briefing books concerning secrecy and satellite reconnaissance - one of the most sensitive areas of U.S. intelligence-gathering.
Specific satellite programs whose declassification is covered in this briefing book include some of the earliest and, at the time, most secretive programs of their kind: CORONA, ARGON, LANYARD, GRAB, POPPY, GAMBIT, HEXAGON, and QUILL. The 78-document collection, obtained mostly under the Freedom of Information Act, consists of eight parts covering declassification actions from 1973 to 2012 involving satellite programs, ground stations, and launches. For example, long gaps can exist between the date a particular satellite program has been terminated and the date information about it is released -- up to almost four decades in some cases.
Among the specific revelations in the collection: By Jeffrey T. Table 1. Table 2. DARPA’s new cheap robot is capable of changing apparent shape, color, temperature and more. By End the Lie In nature, some organisms use bioluminescence to communicate.
DARPA’s soft robot achieves the same glowing effect by pumping chemiluminescent solutions through channels in the robot’s color layer. (Image credit: DARPA) It seems that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has taken a major step forward in creating an astoundingly cheap and quite small robot that “can change the color, contrast, pattern, apparent shape, luminescence, and surface temperature of soft machines for camouflage and display,” according to a report published in Science. Along with the DARPA-funded miniature spy computer known as the Falling or Ballistically-launched Object that Makes Backdoors (F-BOMB), this robot very well could be produced for less than $100 per unit with costs going down even further over time.
The research is being performed at Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering under Drs.