America wakes up to the shift in global power | Andrew Sullivan – Times Online

Posted by Matt in December 5th, 2009 | no comment

Published in U.S., 1970s, Andrew Sullivan, Break, China, Decline, Emergence, Global Online, Global Power, Gloom, Left Behind, Morass, News Magazines, Raw, Ronald Reagan, Ruminations, Wealth Creation, Weekly News, Wings

I’ve long feared this moment would come. It feels like the late 1970s but with no cheerful Ronald Reagan in the wings and no obvious course of action to break out of the morass. The weekly news magazines are again full of ruminations on American decline; China’s emergence as the source of most of the [...]

Video: Pentagon’s Robo-Hummingbird Flies Like the Real Thing

Posted by Matt in July 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Military Tech, 1 Million, Air 1, Air Vehicle, darpa, Drone, Flies, Hummingbird, Mad Science, Nano, Pentagon, Science Division, Spies, Wings

Military-backed researchers have built a tiny drone that looks and flies like a hummingbird, flapping its little robotic wings to stay in the air. So far, the mock bird, built for Pentagon mad-science division Darpa, has only stayed aloft for 20 seconds at a time. But that short flight was enough to show the potential [...]

China Looks to Undermine U.S. Power, With ‘Assassin’s Mace’

Posted by Matt in July 4th, 2009 | no comment

Published in China, Military, Airpower, Assasin's Mace, Assassin, China, Emissions, High Speed, Mace, Military Trade, Missile Sam, radar, Radiation, Ramo, Surface To Air, Surface To Air Missile, Trade Show, weapons, Wings, Zhuhai

U.S. airpower depends on the ability to overcome surface-to-air missile (SAM) defenses, and one of the key weapons for this role is the AGM-88 High Speed Anti-radiation Missile (HARM), which homes in on radar emissions. (You can see them, under the F/A-18’s wings in the picture, above.) The defenders can either turn off their [...]

Why Europe is secretly afraid of a socialist America

Posted by Matt in November 15th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Europe, Corruption, Endless Vacation, Europe Today, Fragile Ego, guardian, Imperialists, Ruling Class, Sixty Years, Socialist America, superpower, Sweet Deal, Tax Money, Wings, Yankee

Suppose you’ve been living under the protective wings of a benevolent superpower for sixty years. And suppose you’ve used that big half century to take off on an endless vacation — spending all your tax money to buy votes for the socialist Ruling Class. It’s been one long, grand, drug-infested, sex-drenched, self-indulgent, tabloid party scene. [...]

Israel slated to buy US smart bombs

Posted by Matt in September 14th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Israel, Adverse Weather Conditions, Bomb, Capabilities, Explosives, GPS, Israel, Kg, Penetration, Smart Bombs, standoff, Targets, Wings

The GPS-guided GBU-39 is said to be one of the most accurate bombs in the world. The 113 kg. bomb has the same penetration capabilities as a normal 900 kg. bomb, although it has only 22.7 kg. of explosives. At just 1.75 meters long, its small size increases the number of bombs an aircraft can [...]