The F-8 'Daytime Fighter' Absolutely Ruled The Skies Over Vietnam [PHOTOS]
Navy personnel referred to the F-8 as "Vought's Last Chance," since the Vought company's last iteration, the F-7, was a miserable piece of gear.Vought hit a home run though, producing a fighter jet...
View ArticleThis Week Al-Nusra Showed They'll Either Win Or Destroy The Syrian Revolution
It appears Jabhat al-Nusra — the most fearsome Syrian rebel fighting force — led another successful attack as the opposition captured its first major military airport, Zeina Karam of The Associated...
View ArticleFrench Troops Have Arrived In Mali To Help Battle Islamists
French troops are reported to have arrived in Mali amid a rapid escalation of international efforts to intervene in the country, where Islamist groups are continuing to clash with the army for control...
View ArticleNokia Caught Exposing User Data To Potential Snoops
Nokia has changed how it handles data after an investigation by IT blogger Guarang K Pandya.Pandya uncovered how Nokia was having all of its handset users' supposedly secure data diverted to its own...
View Article'Double-Tap' Strikes In Pakistan Create Chaos To Start 2013
So far in 2013 Pakistan has been messier than usual, mostly due to brutal "double tap" tactics employed by both radical Sunni militants and busy CIA drones.The Associated Press reports that a series of...
View ArticleOBAMA: 'Starting This Spring, Our Troops Will Have A Different Mission' In...
President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are set to hold a joint press conference at the White House this afternoon following a morning meeting in which they discussed the "continued...
View ArticleArmed Guards Are Searching Lunch Boxes At A Pennsylvania Elementary School
A Pennsylvania superintendent wasted no time when news of Adam Lanza hit the airwaves, Superintendent Mike Strutt was on the phone with Butler County School Board President Don Pringle that same day,...
View ArticleThe Air Force Wants Its Nukes A Lot Smaller And More Portable
The new year came with finishing touches on the Air Force's new $4.2 million "Nuke School" and a $3 million prize for research proposals for an upgraded mobile nuclear missile fleet.The initiative is a...
View ArticleBritain's New Stealth Bomber Is Unmanned And Fully Autonomous (BAL)
Britain's Royal Air Force has been using Tornado jets as bombers for decades and is already building a fleet of new Typhoons, but BAE hopes to supplement those forces with a powerful new drone.The...
View ArticleHere Are The Questions You Should Be Asking About Gun Control
Vice President Joe Biden, after a week of meetings with almost every imaginable stakeholder in the Great American Gun Debate, is no doubt crafting the list of gun policy recommendations he is expected...
View ArticleOrlando Florida Patrolled By Surveillance Drones As Early As This Summer
When Congress passed a bill last February allowing unmanned drones to fly American skies it became only a matter of time before UAVs patrolled U.S. cities for local law enforcement.While most drones in...
View ArticleNorth Korea 'Preparing New Nuclear Test'
North Korea vowed on Monday to strengthen its defences amid concerns the country may conduct a nuclear test as a follow-up to last month's long-range rocket launch.Citing US hostility, Pyongyang's...
View ArticleJapan To Send Two Massive Patrol Ships To The East China Sea
Japan will deploy two more patrol ships to boost its defence of islands at the centre of a territorial row with China and has conducted its first drill simulating the recapture of an isle seized by...
View ArticleREPORT: Assad Has Left Syria For A Warship In The Mediterranean
After nearly two years of conflict and 117,000 displaced Syrians UPI reports Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family have left the country and live aboard a warship manned with Russian...
View ArticleInvestigation Reveals Iran's Secret Role In African Conflicts
An alarming report published Friday, Jan. 11, shows how Iran fuels the spread of horrific violence in Africa one round at a time.The Distribution of Iranian Ammunition in Africa, by the private British...
View ArticleReports Of Russia's Gigantic Navy Upgrades Are Totally Overblown
The commissioning of the Yuri Dolgoruky Borei-class SSBN this week, which follows closely on the heels of the launching of the Vladimir Monomakh SSBN at the end of December, has made a number of...
View ArticleCloud Computing Has Officially Brought The Global Cyber War To The US Doorstep
The U.S. has been very aggressive in deploying cyber attacks in recent years, and it appears that subsequent concerns that America invited attacks on vulnerable U.S. networks were well-founded.In fact,...
View ArticleA City Where All Teens Would Be Required To Carry Loaded AR-15s
Gun enthusiasts want to build it in the mountains of Idaho. They've already drawn up plans and are taking applications. Imagine that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg built a private city of his own...
View ArticleNuclear Missile Officer Describes Life In The Underground Bunker
A Reddit user named Vmikey popped up an AMA today claiming to be a nuclear missile tech who worked in a giant underground silo.Naturally we were intrigued. Reddit moderators independently verified him,...
View ArticleHow Robots Could Change The World By 2023
Robotic technology has taken historic strides in the past decade. Nanorobotics is changing how scientists, doctors and surgeons think about the future of medicine. UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) have...
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