A fire aboard a secret Russian nuclear research vessel that killed 14 Russians may have been involved in secret operations by Moscow to support underwater drone operations. Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement that the fire broke out aboard a research submersible designed to study the seafloor and ocean bottom on July 1, killing […] More
China’s military conducted a flight test of an anti-ship ballistic missile in the contentious South China Sea last weekend in violation of a pledge four years ago by President Xi Jinping not to militarize the waterway. “Of course the Pentagon was aware of the Chinese missile launch from the man-made structures in the South China […] More
A Russian special operations submarine powered by a nuclear reactor has suffered some kind of a fire/explosion/gas-producing casualty while submerged in Russian territorial waters. The submarine, officially classed as the AS-12 “Losharik”, is designed for operation at extreme depths and is believed to be designed to cut or tap undersea communications cables. It is transported […] More
President Trump approved an offensive cyber strike that disabled computer systems used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to control rocket and missile launches, “crippling Iran’s military command and control systems,” U.S. ATTACKS IRAN WITH CYBER NOT MISSILES — A GAME CHANGER, NOT A BACKTRACK By Zak Doffman, Security and Surveillance, Forbes, June 23, 2019: The decision by […] More
Amid fears that the US is running headlong into yet another sure to be disastrous war in the Middle East, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters Friday that the Pentagon is prepping “contingency plans” should things quickly escalate militarily. “When you look at the situation… 15 percent of the world’s oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz,” […] More
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blamed Iran for the “blatant assault” on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman earlier on Thursday. In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Pompeo said the U.S. had come to the conclusion based on intelligence, the type of weapons used and the sophistication of the assaults. He charged that Iran is […] More
The US Navy has released new videos of an altercation this morning in the Philippine Sea with a Russian destroyer. The Russian ship came so close to the USS Chancellorsville that they had to reverse engines to avoid a collision: At approximately 11:45 am on June 7, 2019 while operating in the Philippine Sea, a […] More
American service members stationed onboard the USS Wasp sent reporters into a frenzy Monday over morale patches bearing the slogan “Make Aircrew Great Again.” The patches, in addition to the slogan, features the face of a blonde man who bears a loose resemblance to President Donald Trump. They were spotted and highlighted by a number […] More
Last night Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who is a former Navy SEAL, paid a special tribute to his military brothers who were lost in the line of duty. Crenshaw says “Enjoy your Memorial Day and let us remember why we celebrate. We celebrate the lives of the heroes we have lost. Never Forget.” Enjoy your Memorial Day […] More
This is the closest that the U.S. has been to a war with Iran in decades, and yet most Americans are either clueless or they don’t seem to believe that it could actually happen. And I certainly don’t think that President Trump wants a war, but he is surrounded by war hawks that have been pushing an extremely aggressive “get tough” […] More
In an unprecedented move, the U.S. government seized a North Korean cargo vessel that was allegedly used to violate sanctions placed against the North Korean government. National security officials announced Thursday the U.S. had seized the Wise Honest, a 17,061-ton ship that is registered in North Korea. The Wise Honest was intercepted April 2, 2018, […] More
Worries about deep fakes — machine-manipulated videos of celebrities and world leaders purportedly saying or doing things that they really didn’t — are quaint compared to a new threat: doctored images of the Earth itself. China is the acknowledged leader in using an emerging technique called generative adversarial networks to trick computers into seeing objects in […] More
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