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Video:Libyan Rebel Rocket Truck

Here’s yet another great example of Libyan rebels DIY weaponry. This video shows “The Patriots of Misratah” firing what might be a UB-32 rocket launcher likely (salvaged from a Libyan air force helicopter) in the general direction of what we hope… Continue reading

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Libyan Rebels’ DIY Weapons Factory, Robots and All

Take a look at this video by Al Jazeera TV showing the Libyan rebels increasingly sophisticated ability to jerry-rig weapons. We see everything from machine guns scavenged from Gadhafi’s fighter planes mounted on pickup trucks to remotely fired guns … Continue reading

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Photos of Crashed CIA A-12 Spyplane Outside Area 51

OK, you have to check this out. National Geographic just published this awesome slideshow documenting the crash site of one of the CIA’s A-12 spy planes operating out of Area 51 in 1963. The image above is from the collection featuring recently decla… Continue reading

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A Secret Helo Used In Bin Laden Raid

Britain’s The Daily Mail newspaper may have unwittingly revealed a very, very significant clue as to how those MH-60s managed to penetrate Pakistani airspace during sunday’s mission to kill Osama bin Laden. The answer; the weren’t MH-60s, at leas… Continue reading

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France Dropping Concrete Bombs In Libya

Forget the United States’ low-collateral damage Small Diameter Bomb, France has begun using concrete filled training bombs to literally crush Gadhafi’s tanks without causing massive explosions that can harm nearby civilians.Apparently, the 660-pou… Continue reading

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Is a Lack of Secure Comms Keeping the F-22 Out of Libya Fight?

There’s been lots of speculation as to why the F-22s haven’t been sent to Libya; everything from basing concerns to the embarrassment the U.S. would suffer if one of its premiere jets went down in…

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Propaganda Fail: China Pretends Top Gun Footage is Actual Military Excercise

In case you haven’t seen this already, it’s footage that Chinese state TV officials may have tried to pass off as the results of a recent military exercise. Too bad it’s probably stolen from of one…

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X-37B Had Seven Collisions in Space

Here’s an interesting tidbit from a recent Defense News article on the mysterious X-37B space plane; the craft has seven, yes, seven dents in it from collisions with space debris! “For the first flight, we’re extremely pleased with the outcome o… Continue reading

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15 Percent of All Internet Traffic Secretly Rerouted Through China

By Kevin Coleman – DefenseTech Cyber Warfare Correspondent  Cyber security specialists say they have proof that back in April up to 15 percent of global Internet traffic was hijacked and rerouted through China.  In April, China’s state-contro… Continue reading

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Programmer problem solving sequence

From Phillipe Leybaert:
2010 developer’s problem solving sequence:

Google
Coworkers
StackOverflow
RTFM
Think
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