Defense Tech: Mattis Still Supports Light COIN Plane Air Force Wants Dead
This should have happened years ago. But it didn’t and any optimism I ever had has pretty much evaporated.
Hopefully, UAVs can do the job. Because F-35s won’t.
A U.S. Marine Corps C-130 Hercules aircraft, center, leads a formation of three F/A-18C Hornet aircraft, right, and three A/V-8B Harrier aircraft as they fly over USS George Washington (CVN 73) July 27, 2010, while the carrier is under way in the East Sea. George Washington is participating in the combined U.S. and South Korean alliance maritime and air readiness exercise Invincible Spirit. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Charles Oki, U.S. Navy/Released)
An EA-6B Prowler from the Cougars of Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 139 catches an arresting gear cable while landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. The EA-6B Prowler is designed for carrier and advanced base operations, providing an umbrella of protection for strike aircraft, ground troops and ships by jamming communications. Ronald Reagan is currently underway participating in Rim of the Pacific 2010, the world's largest multi-national maritime exercise. RIMPAC is a biennial event allowing participating nations to work together and improve interoperability. Photo by Seaman Dylan McCord
Aldrin with assembled seismic experiment
From the Project Apollo Archive.
Ramen noodles were four for a dollar at the store across the street. I usually stocked up when they were on sale for six or seven for a dollar, but they’ve been five for a dollar for a long time now.
Then this four for a dollar nonsense. That’s twenty-five cents each. Crazy.
Was browsing the bird’s eye view of Bremerton Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility and noticed this monster:
Subs in Bremerton (click for larger view)
Is that the USS Triton?
It appears that scrapping wasn’t completed until last November, which surprised me. She was decommissioned in 1969.
Some Algerians in Guantanamo Bay are afraid of being let go:
“It would be outrageous and inhumane to take him against his will,” said Doris Tennant, one of his lawyers.
By “take him,” he means “take him home to Algeria.”
They are afraid of being tortured. At home. Not in Gitmo.
‘Absolutely nothing that leads us to believe that this tale could be even remotely based in reality’
Taliban Monkey Terrorist
Are Taliban Training Monkeys to Kill U.S Troops?
The Chinese People’s Daily reported this week that “monkey terrorists” are being trained by the Taliban in Waziristan, near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The newspaper also claimed that reporters from an unnamed British news agency took photographs of the “monkey soldiers” holding AK-47s and other weapons.The primates are supposedly meant to counter U.S. military technological advantages in Afghanistan.
“In response, the Taliban forces have tried any possible means and figured out a method to train monkeys as ‘replacement killers’ against American troops,” according to the newspaper.
An Afghan soldier attacked his coalition allies with a rocket-propelled grenade and other weapons early Tuesday, killing three British troops and wounding four more before fleeing, officials said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron condemned the killings as “appalling” but insisted the incident should not change the strategy of working alongside the Afghan army.
Officials said the motive of the attack was unclear.
It was the second time in eight months that an Afghan turned against British troops partnering with local security forces. In November, an Afghan policeman killed five British soldiers at a checkpoint — also in southern Helmand province, where Tuesday’s attack happened.
The Afghan got away.
