The State of the U.S. Military

Posted by Matt in January 27th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Military, U.S., arsenal, Collective Decisions, Congress, Jeopardy, Military Equipment, Military Personnel, Planes, Platforms, Republican Presidents, ships, tanks, Tools

Regrettably, the tools required to sustain all of these efforts are in jeopardy. The collective decisions by Congress and both Democratic and Republican Presidents over the past 15 years have left the U.S. military using equipment that is extremely old and, in many cases, outdated.
While compensation for military personnel continues to rise necessarily and deservedly, [...]

How to intercept drone video feeds

Posted by Matt in December 17th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military, Military Tech, Off-Topic, Afghanistan, Drone, Free Videos, Hard Disk, Insurgents In Iraq, Interception, Intercepts, Music Videos, Pentagon, Planes, Predator Drones, Satellite Data, Shelf Software, Shiite Fighters, Skygrabber, Software Programs, Spy, Video Feeds, Wall Street, Wall Street Journal

Have you seen the news reports today about how insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan have hacked into live video feeds from our Predator drones?

Pentagon: Insurgents intercepted drone spy videos
Shiite fighters in Iraq used off-the-shelf software programs such as SkyGrabber — available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet — to regularly capture drone video [...]

ICBMs Without Nukes: USA’s Best New Weapon? – Newsweek.com

Posted by Matt in November 4th, 2009 | 2 comments

Published in Military, arsenal, Barack Obama, Blog, Enemies, Globe, Icbms, New Weapon, Newsweek, Nuclear Warheads, Nukes, Planes, Ratchet, Striking Distance, terrorists, United States, warships, Wealth Of Nations

How might the United States ratchet up pressure on foreign enemies and threats, wherever they are on the globe, while reducing the need to station warships, planes, and troops within striking distance? A new type of weapon might do the trick–and even facilitate President Barack Obama’s efforts to reduce the U.S. arsenal of nuclear warheads, [...]

Russia ’shot down its own planes’

Posted by Matt in July 9th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Conflict, Russia, Brief Magazine, Friendly Fire, Georgia, Military Aircraft, Military Journal, moscow, Planes, Russia

A report in a Russian military journal claims that half the planes Russia lost in its war with Georgia last year were shot down by friendly fire.
The article, in the Moscow Defence Brief magazine, also claims that Russia lost a total of six military aircraft, two more than it is admitting to.
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Russia threatens to supply Iran with top new missile system as ‘cold war’ escalates

Posted by Matt in August 31st, 2008 | no comment

Published in Iran, Russia, Air Defence System, Air Force, Bargaining Chip, Cold-War, Defences, Intelligence, Iran, kremlin, Missile System, NATO, Nato Membership, Pentagon, Pentagon Adviser, Planes, Russia, S 300, Sunday Telegraph, Targets, tehran, Western Neighbours

Russia is deploying the threat to sell a “game changing” air defence system to Iran as a high stakes bargaining chip in its new “cold war” with America, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
US intelligence fears the Kremlin will supply the sophisticated S-300 system to Tehran if Washington pushes through Nato membership for its pro-Western neighbours [...]

Russia’s weaponry shows signs of age

Posted by Matt in July 17th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Military, Russia, 1980s, Advanced Armaments, arsenal, Decades, Lenin S Tomb, Missiles, Pervasive Corruption, Planes, Red Square, Russia, Showcase, Signs, tanks, Victory Day, Weaponry

But Russia’s own state-run defense industries, experts say, face a crumbling manufacturing base and pervasive corruption; they have produced little in the way of advanced armaments in the Putin era.
The Victory Day parade in Red Square in May was intended to showcase the nation’s military might. Instead, Russia’s arsenal showed its age. Most of the [...]

As Iran Tests Missile Fleet, Experts Map High-Tech Israeli Attack

Posted by Matt in July 9th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Iran, Israel, Nuclear, Airstrike, Antiaircraft Missile, arsenal, Attack, Concrete Coverings, Dodge, Dozens, Fleet Experts, Iran, Iran Map, Israeli Air Force, Israeli Air Force Iaf, Israeli Attack, Middle East, Military Ops, Missile Batteries, Nuclear Facilities, Payloads, Planes, radar, Underground Rooms, Warheads

An attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities would be far more extensive than the 1980 raid. Some of the would-be targets for the Israeli Air Force (IAF) are hardened with concrete coverings and underground rooms. Dozens of planes would have to dodge radar and antiaircraft missile batteries to deliver multiple payloads of penetrating warheads—bought from the [...]

Top US military officials say China should do more to ease tensions in Taiwan Strait

Posted by Matt in June 26th, 2008 | no comment

Published in China, Taiwan, China Attack, China Taiwan, China Threat, Communist Chinese Government, Existence, Hundreds Of Thousands, Independent, Military Officials, Missiles, Planes, Taiwan China, Taiwan Strait, Tensions

China cannot allow Taiwan to remain independent. The very existence of the communist Chinese government is threatened by Taiwan.
From the article:
The U.S. Defense Department says China is adding more than 100 missiles a year to the estimated 1,000 it has targeting Taiwan. Hundreds of thousands of troops are based opposite Taiwan, it said, and hundreds [...]

Spyplane shooting by Russia was ‘act of war’ on Georgia

Posted by Matt in May 26th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Conflict, Russia, Act Of War, Aggressive Acts, Conclusions, Credence, Georgia, Georgia Russia, Mikheil Saakashvili, Neighbours, Planes, Reconnaissance Aircraft, Saakashvili Georgia, United Nations

Russia was effectively charged with committing an act of war yesterday after a United Nations report concluded that one of its planes shot down a Georgian reconnaissance aircraft over Georgia last month.
The inquiry’s conclusions gave the first independent credence to claims by Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia’s president, that Russia was responsible for a series of aggressive [...]