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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
Posted in Around the Globe, Assymetric Warriors, Contingency Ops, Ground Vehicles, Old Skool, Video Lounge
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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
Posted in Ammo and Munitions, Around the Globe, Assymetric Warriors, Fire for Effect, Ground Vehicles, guns
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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
Posted in Cloak and Dagger, Fast Movers, Old Skool, Planes, Copters, Blimps
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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
Posted in Around the Globe, Cloak and Dagger, Commandos, Planes, Copters, Blimps, The Deadlies, Trimble on the Case, You can run...
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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
Posted in Ammo and Munitions, Around the Globe, Contingency Ops, Fire for Effect
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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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Posted in Air Force, Air-to-Air Combat, Around the Globe, Contingency Ops, Fast Movers, Gadgets and Gear, Most Wanted, Net-Centric, Planes, Copters, Blimps, Raptor Watch
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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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Posted in Air-to-Air Combat, Bizarro, China Rising
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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
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
Posted in Assymetric Warriors, China Rising, Cloak and Dagger, Cyber-warfare, Data Diving
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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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Posted in Programming, Software development
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