The military's porn problem: A national security threat. The Pentagon Pathology. Hyper Velocity Projectile Program: Navy’s Electrically-fired 5,600 mph GPS-guided Bullet. The Office of Naval Research – the same entity which runs the Naval Research Laboratory, developers of the unbelievable Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (SAFFiR) – apparently was not satisfied with their already astounding Electromagnetic Rail Gun.
A 5,600 mph electrically fired bullet apparently wasn’t enough, thus forcing the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to create one which also can be guided by Global Positioning System (GPS). To set the bar even higher, if such a thing is possible, the United States Navy also wants to make this technology compatible with all of the Navy’s current artillery guns. The Pentagon has created a database of every bomb they've dropped since the First World War. U.S. Air Force looks to train pilots for hi-tech threats. By Agence France-PresseSunday, July 29, 2012 10:15 EDT NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nevada — For over a decade US fighter pilots have become accustomed to “owning the sky” in wars against insurgents who have no air defenses, but now the air force is trying to get back to basics reminding pilots how to fly against a sophisticated enemy.
In the desert outside Las Vegas, the US Air Force is reminding pilots how to fly against an enemy with fighter jets, surface-to-air missiles and satellite jammers. Traditional combat skills have gotten “a little rusty,” said Steve Imonti, a former fighter pilot who helps oversee simulated air battles out of Nellis Air Force Base. The Pentagon's New Generation of Secret Military Bases. "Where in Africa? " I asked. Www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/attp3-37-31.pdf. Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog. Www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RL33745.pdf. Www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/R41526.pdf. Www.fas.org/sgp/crs/weapons/RS22907.pdf. Blogs.defensenews.com/saxotech-access/pdfs/decade-of-war-lessons-learned.pdf.
13 Weapons for Cubicle Warfare. Staying sane while spending hours in a cubicle is difficult.
You’re constantly at war with claustrophobia, aching kneecaps and, at times, the guy sitting next to you. Whether mean-spirited or not, an office war requires the right arsenal of weapons, and you don’t want to show up unprepared for any workplace shenanigans. Here are some devious little items to get you started. 1. Airzooka Air Gun – $13 2. Www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22373.pdf. DOD Leaders Strongly Urge Congress to Preserve Budget Request. By Karen Parrish American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, June 13, 2012 – Defense Secretary Leon E.
Panetta cautioned Congress today against dismantling the strategic framework that supports the 2013 defense budget request. Testifying along with Army Gen. America's Last Prisoner of War. In June 2012, fearless Rolling Stone contributing editor Michael Hastings wrote the definitive first account of Bowe Bergdahl — the young American soldier who was captured by the Taliban and became the last American prisoner of war.
Hastings, the journalist who brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal in these pages, died in a car accident one year later. Bergdahl was freed this weekend. Hastings' incredible story is available in full here: The mother and father sit at the kitchen table in their Idaho farmhouse, watching their son on YouTube plead for his life. Super Secret Hypersonic Aircraft Flew Out of Its Skin. Apr 23, 2012 11:22am It turns out that tearing through the atmosphere at 20 times the speed of sound is bad for the skin, even if you’re a super high-tech aircraft developed by the government’s best engineers at its far-out research agency.
Battleship Earth - By Cara Parks and Joshua E. Keating. As summer blockbuster season kicks into high gear, big-budget action movies like The Avengers, Battleship, and Prometheus remind us that there's one thing that unites Americans: Our shared fear of an alien attack.
They also remind us that when the invading space fleet arrives, humanity is not going to surrender without a fight to our intergalactic invaders. At West Point, Asking if a War Doctrine Was Worth It. Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times Members of the class of 2013 at the United States Military Academy practice for coming military maneuvers in the field.
For Each Death, A Hole In The World. First flight of LEMV military blimp scheduled for next month. FBI’s New Secretive Surveillance Unit Can Spy on Skype and Wireless Communications. Www.afa.org/professionaldevelopment/issuebriefs/F-22_v_F-35_Comparison.pdf. Panetta Presses Brazil to Buy Boeing Fighters. During the first visit by an American defense secretary to the country in seven years, Mr.
Panetta used a speech at Superior War College here to focus on smoothing a sometimes thorny relationship and promoting American weapons sales. Brazil is deciding whether to buy 36 fighter jets worth about $4 billion in a competition between Boeing in the United States, Dassault Aviation in France and Saab in Sweden. Al-Qaeda Claims U.S. Mass Transportation Infrastructure Must Drastically Improve Before Any Terrorist Attacks. WASHINGTON—In a 30-minute video released Thursday, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri criticized the mass transportation infrastructure of the United States, claiming significant repairs and upgrades would need to be implemented before the militant group would consider destroying any roads, bridges, or railways with terrorist attacks.
Reading from a prepared statement, al-Zawahiri blasted the U.S. government for its lack of foresight and admonished its leaders for failing to provide Americans with efficient and reliable modes of public transport to reduce traffic congestion, lower carbon emissions, improve air quality, and supply suitable targets for terrorists. "The al-Qaeda network is fully prepared to continue the jihad against the American infidels by launching deadly attacks, but your outdated and rusting transportation infrastructure needs to be completely overhauled for those strikes even to be noticed," al-Zawahiri said. Marines Moving Women Toward the Front Lines. Pentagon establishes Defense Clandestine Service, new espionage unit.
The plan, the official said, was developed in response to a classified study completed last year by the director of national intelligence that concluded that the military’s espionage efforts needed to be more focused on major targets beyond the tactical considerations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Blackwater ‘Gone Wild’ in Iraq: ‘The Warrior Class’ (Videos) Trolling for Kids. The Empire is Using Hard Times to Help it Recruit More Imperial Troops and Cannon Fodder In the militarist society in which we live in these latter days of American Empire, all soldiers are “noble heroes” who have signed up at “great personal sacrifice” to “defend our freedoms,” and we are all expected to pay homage and a great deal of our hard-earned money to support them, both in their brutal efforts to subjugate people in desperately poor parts of the world, and (when they leave the service, either to take jobs in the private sector or to live out broken lives if they were wounded) as veterans. But let’s be honest about all this.
Most of the men and women in the military didn’t join the US armed forces out of any noble motives. Pentagon Gets 12 Weapons For Only A Penny From Columbia Missile and Tank Club. Combat Camera - An FP Slide Show. As fewer Americans serve in the armed forces, the difficulty of translating the experience of military service to a wider public becomes increasingly challenging. U.S. Navy program to study how troops use intuition. Dhs-fast.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Future Attribute Screening Technology. FAST screenshot (blurred) Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST)[1] is a program created by the Department of Homeland Security. A Very Scary Fireworks Show: Exploding H-Bombs In Space : Krulwich Wonders... Starfish Prime. The flash created by the explosion as seen through heavy cloud cover from Honolulu 1,445 km away Starfish Prime was a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States of America on July 9, 1962, a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Defense Atomic Support Agency (which became the Defense Nuclear Agency in 1971).
Exploding H-Bombs In Space: Operation Starfish Prime. Nuclear Weapons on a Highway Near You. Nuclear trucking routes in the US Jeff Berlin. The Onion - America's Finest News Source. War against Islam? Bin Laden’s documents show Obama was right, and Gingrich and Santorum were wrong. Photo by CNN/AFP/Getty Images Two years ago, President Obama changed the way the U.S. government talked about its conflict with Osama Bin Laden. The administration announced that we were at war not with “jihadists,” “Islamists,” or even “terror.”
Afghan Massacre Sheds Light on Culture of Mania and Aggression in U.S. Troops in Afghanistan. Home Movies From The Manhattan Project. Www.fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm1-04.pdf. Conscience and the Military. Even though the Occupy Wall Street movement, especially in the United States, is winter-hibernating – Oakland, California’s dorky vandals notwithstanding – I can’t forget an image from last October’s Zuccotti Park events. Gryphon winged suit drops in for some serious air time. First industry railgun prototype launcher gets all fired up. Using lasers to look through container walls from a distance and detect explosives. How did we forget about mutually assured destruction? 10 Weapons Of The Future That Are Being Developed Right Now. Is The Military Using Psychiatric Diagnoses to Keep Costs Down?
A Military Diagnosis, ‘Personality Disorder,’ Is Challenged. U.S. Army develops “Kevlar underpants” to protect soldiers' nether regions. DARPA’s Robot Mules Carry 400 Lbs, Never Tire (Video) Security By Bending GPS Geography. Panetta Asks Congress to Undo Sequestration, Approve BRAC. Loose Lips Sink Drones. 11 Incredible Weapons That Only America Has. Invisibility Cloak Allows Combat Vehicles To 'Disappear' And Change Shape. Taser's Shockwave Cannon Array Like Many Little Bottles of Lightning Bolts. What should you do if you suspect a car has been following you. Air Force Budget Request Reflects Changing Needs, Official Says. 2013 Pentagon budget: Why so much spending on big-war weapons? Budget Proposal Requests Smaller, More Modern, Agile Force. Future wars may be waged with mind-controlled weaponry, Royal Society warns. U.S. Navy set to test first industry railgun prototype.
iRobot launches new 710 Warrior robot. Www1.rollingstone.com/extras/RS_REPORT.pdf. Barack Obama: Serial Warmonger (Video) Decoding the Pentagon’s Budget Numbers.