US Special Forces Will Use These Silent Hybrid Motorcycles For Stealth Raids
Special Forces teams are all about silently penetrating remote areas and executing complex, lightning-fast raids.Now DARPA is developing a new vehicle to soundlessly race commandoes to their missions:...
View ArticleThe Simple Reason Why Korea Will Never Be Unified
In Korean politics, the idea of peaceful reunification is a universal truth.The theory goes that, following a period of careful, peaceful negotiations and trust-building exercises, the two Koreas will...
View ArticleNew 80-MPH Mini Combat Vehicle Can Be Dropped From The Sky
Master Chief, your new combat vehicle is ready.The U.S. Navy has certified the Phantom Badger, a 240-horsepower combat support vehicle that’s about the size of a Mini and tough enough to traverse damn...
View ArticleThese Photos Show What Troop Life Is Really Like In Afghanistan
What is it really like to serve in Afghanistan?Photographer Robert L. Cunningham and best-selling author and serviceman Steven Hartov attempt to demystify civilians through a series of...
View ArticleAwesome Pictures Of The US Navy From 116 Years Ago
A series of recently uploaded photos from Naval History and Heritage Command reveal what life was like in the U.S. Navy over 100 years ago.The photos are being released to coincide with the official...
View ArticleSailors Playing With A Pellet Gun Freaked The Navy Into Thinking Another...
SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Two sailors playing with a pellet gun caused officials at a San Diego-area naval base to issue a shelter-in-place warning for part of the facility on Thursday, and were taken into...
View ArticleBoeing Says Lockheed Martin's F-35 Is Junk, Wants Navy To Buy Super Hornets...
A rival aircraft manufacturer has worked not so quietly this past year to offer the Navy an escape hatch from the costly Joint Strike Fighter program.The Navy's decision to reduce its F-35C five-year...
View ArticleEcuador Unexpectedly Expels US Military Attaches
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ecuador has ordered all 20 Defense Department employees in the U.S. Embassy's military group to leave the country by month's end, The Associated Press has learned.The group was...
View ArticleThe Crisis In Ukraine Is About The Future Of War And Peace
I find the Ukraine crisis painful to watch for many reasons, but as an American I find it especially painful because this crisis has finally and completely laid bare the utter strategic incoherence of...
View ArticleUkraine Rebel City Says It Is Holding International Observers After Finding A...
SLAVIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - Armed pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian city of Slaviansk were holding a group of international observers on Friday, saying they had found a Ukrainian spy...
View ArticleElon Musk Takes Aim At Boeing And Lockheed Martin's Rocket Launch 'Monopoly'
SpaceX has announced plans to file an official protest against what it sees as the monopoly that Boeing and Lockheed Martin have on U.S. Air Force rocket launches, CEO Elon Musk said Friday.SpaceX...
View ArticleUS Military Suicides Rise Among Reservists And Fall Among Active Duty
Suicides among active duty U.S. forces fell 18 percent in 2013 from a peak in 2012 but climbed among reserve forces, the Pentagon said on Friday as it unveiled figures showing suicide still far...
View ArticlePolice Officer Screams And Takes Cell Phones From Former Marine She Claims...
A North Carolina deputy with the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office was caught on video confiscating two different cellphones and detaining a former U.S. Marine after she claims he got “aggressive.” Her...
View ArticleKim Jong-un To North Korean Troops: 'Nothing Is More Important Than Preparing...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has chided his soldiers, telling them to be ready for "impending conflict with the United States," Pyongyang media reported on Saturday as satellites showed a nuclear...
View ArticleRussia Responds To Threat Of More Sanctions By Violating Ukraine's Airspace
What did Russia do after being threatened with more sanctions by the United States, the European Union, and the leaders of the G7 on Friday? It repeatedly violated Ukraine's airspace with fighter jets,...
View ArticleAmerica's Nuclear Arsenal Is Still Controlled By Antique Computers With...
A major cheating scandal amongst Air Force nuclear missile launch officers has brought increased scrutiny on the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and an upcoming report from CBS "60 Minutes" gives a rare look...
View ArticleUS Air Force Jets Intercept Russian Spy Plane Over The Baltic
According to Latvia’s Military, U.S. Air Force F-15Cs, deployed to Šiauliai, Lithuania for air policing in the Baltics, intercepted an Il-20 spy plane.Russian Air Force missions in the area often...
View ArticleWhy The Pentagon Is Spending So Unbelievably Much On The F-35
Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most expensive acquisition in military history and one of the most controversial. Currently seven years behind schedule and $167 billion over budget,...
View ArticleBOEING: Here's Why Lockheed's F-35 Is Flawed And Needs Our Help
Boeing has been loudly criticizing Lockheed Martin's F-35 in hopes that the Navy and other clients will buy more of its EA-18G Growlers for support and F/A-18 Super Hornets as contingency.Developed in...
View ArticleExpert: American Isolationism Is Destabilizing The World
"You’ve been given a great gift, George. A chance to see what the world would be like without you.”So said George Bailey’s guardian angel, Clarence, in the 1946 classic Christmas movie It’s a Wonderful...
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