Japan Sends Fighter Jets After A Second Ever Chinese Invasion Of Its Airspace
China's first ever invasion of Japan's airspace happened just weeks ago, but the move appears to becoming a routine addition to the burgeoning standoff.The AFP now reports:Japan scrambled fighter jets...
View ArticlePolice Confirm Four Dead After Standoff In New Aurora Shooting
UPDATE: Police have confirmed that the gunman was shot and killed by officers and that four people are dead in the townhouse, including the gunman, 9 News reports.Police entered the home after hours of...
View ArticleThe Department Of Homeland Security Is Buying 450 Million New Bullets
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office is getting an "indefinite delivery" of an "indefinite quantity" of .40 caliber ammunition from defense...
View ArticleEight Things The Marines Aren't Telling The Navy
Update: This Reddit post gave me a chuckle this morning and is a play on words from post title to covers of two papers.There's an old rumor that Marines will lie about everything to increase their odds...
View ArticleWar Correspondent Marie Colvin's $1.85 Million Diss Makes Us Miss Her Even More
Veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin died in Syria's Homs/Aleppo bombing campaigns last February and her loss was felt around the world.The woman was wicked smart from Queens, fearless, motivated,...
View ArticleThe Department Of Homeland Security Is Hard At Work With One Billion New Bullets
Last March we found 450 million rounds of .40 caliber ammunition slated for delivery to the Department of Homeland Service and its agencies.Weeks later we found an additional request for 750 million...
View ArticleREPORT: The US Now Blames Iran For Kidnapping Former FBI Agent Robert Levinson
When Robert Levinson retired from the FBI, he launched a new private investigation career that in 2007 took him to Iran, where he was kidnapped and believed held in Southwest Asia ever since.At the...
View ArticleThese Pictures Show How Oil Sand Mining Releases Carcinogens Into Canadian Lakes
A new Canadian report finds a direct connection between oil sand mining and elevated levels of cancer causing agents in regional water supplies.The news is a blow for oil companies and the Canadian...
View ArticleThe F-8 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 ArticleChina Newspaper Says To 'Prepare For The Worst' After Military Confrontation...
After repeatedly flying surveillance aircraft into disputed airspace with Japan, which made Tokyo scramble F-15s in response, China sent fighters of its own on Thursday into the East China Sea. A...
View ArticleBritain's New Stealth Bomber Is Unmanned And Fully Autonomous (BAL)
Britain's Royal Air Force has been using Tornado bombers for decades and is already building a fleet of new manned bombers, but BAE hopes to supplement those forces with a powerful new drone.The...
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 ArticleREPORT: Assad Has Left Syria For A Warship In The Mediterranean
After nearly two years of conflict and 117,000 displaced Syrians the UPI reports Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family may have left the country to live aboard a warship manned by Russian...
View ArticleThere Isn't A Fighter Pilot Alive That Doesn't Wish They Still Flew The F-14...
The F-14 Tomcat may be the most pined for military aircraft of a generation. When talking to senior Navy officers we've heard more than once how some admiral is always going on about how much they miss...
View ArticleThe Pentagon's New 30,000-lb MOP Bomb Is Ready To Go
Senior Pentagon officials told Congress the nation's largest conventional bomb, the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), is ready for action.The Air Force said as much back in June after rushing the MOP...
View ArticleChinese State Agents Abducted This Young Man For Talking About Censorship
With its global economy and ostensible reform, China gets a pretty good rap — but just when the Communist country seems not so bad, a video like this pops up.Max Fisher at The Washington Post points to...
View ArticleNASA Images Show Thick Toxic Clouds Over Beijing
In case you missed it, the air quality issue in Beijing is no joke; playing out like a scene from some 20th century environmental disaster novel. Flights are cancelled, roads are blocked with pile-ups,...
View ArticleThe F-15 Is Hands Down The Best American Fighter Ever Built [PHOTOS]
From the moment the F-15 first tore into the sky, it had one single-minded goal — to be the best.Total air superiority over any other aircraft it encountered was only half of it; Air Force planners...
View ArticleStrippers Can Earn $350,000 A Year In This Oil Boomtown Club [PHOTOS]
Early last year in Williston there had been too much attention focused on the local gentlemen's clubs for any strippers to talk with me about what they earned, but apparently that's changed.John Eligon...
View ArticlePilot Famous For His Bin Laden Blackhawk Coverage Joins Business Insider's...
Military writing is a detail-focused beat that can quickly humble the best writers, peppering days with ego-crushing blows and the need to believe not everyone knows more than they do. The good...
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