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ANALYSIS/OPINION By John Price* The Washington Times On May 30, Army Brig. Gen. Kimberly Field announced the formation of a new “rapid response force” to be established at Camp Lemonnier in the East African nation of Djibouti. It will be a force “specifically trained and ready to respond to a crisis such as Benghazi, [Libya, which] we didn’t have before,” Gen. Field, deputy director of Read More …
Posted: 05/28/2013 1:09 pm By Cleo Paskal Associate Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs Huffington Post On August 28, 2012, Chinese Air Force Colonel Dai Xu wrote a commentary for the Chinese-language edition of the Communist Party’s Global Times. It read, in part: Since we have decided that the US is bluffing in the East China Sea, we should take this opportunity to respond to Read More …
By Robert Johnson San Francisco Chronicle A Navy press release, delivered yesterday, points out that with 360-degree scanning capability and an Automatic Identification System — meaning it can classify different types of ships by itself — the MQ-4C will be the main Naval spying drone at sea from 2015 onwards. There will be five operating bases, one of which will keep watch over the South Read More …
China questions Japan’s sovereignty over Ryukyu islands, heightening tension over existing Senkakus islands dispute By Justin McCurry Tokyo Guardian China is attempting to open a new front in its territorial dispute with Japan by questioning Tokyo’s sovereignty over the island of Okinawa, home to 25,000 US troops. The two countries are already pushing rival claims to the Senkakus, a chain of uninhabited islands in the Read More …
The unmanned aircraft was flung into the air from a catapult on the flight deck of the USS George H.W. Bush this morning for a 65-minute transit back to dry land. By Jonathan Skillings news.cnet.com May 14, 2013 The X-47B prototype on Tuesday flew off an aircraft carrier and into the history books. Today’s achievement, the first-ever catapult launch of an unmanned aircraft from the Read More …
By Craig Whitlock The Washington Post In his first term, President Obama instructed the Pentagon to pivot its forces and reorient its strategy toward fast-growing Asia. Instead, the U.S. military finds itself drawn into a string of messy wars in another, much poorer part of the world: Africa. Over the past two years, the Pentagon has become embroiled in conflicts in Libya, Somalia, Mali and Read More …
The incredible U.S. military spy drone that’s so powerful it can see what type of phone you’re carrying from 17,500ft The ARGUS-IS can view an area of 15 sq/miles in a single image Its zoom capability can detect an object as small as 6in on the ground Developed by BAE as part of a $18million DARPA project System works by stringing together 368 digital camera Read More …
The pilotless aircraft needs to prove that it’s up to the rigors of the kind of slingshot launch that it can expect soon from an aircraft carrier. By Jonathan Skillings CNET OK, so it was on dry land, not on an aircraft carrier. But first steps are first steps. On Thursday, the U.S. Navy carried out its first-ever steam catapult launch of the X-47B Unmanned Read More …
This is a breakthrough in advanced military air-sea warfare, a pilotless stealth bomber launched from an aircraft carrier. — PERRY DIAZ X-47B unmanned test aircraft hoisted aboard ship for first sea tests By Christopher P. Cavas Defense News One of two Northrop Grumman X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft was barged down from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, and arrived on Nov. Read More …
By Michael S. Roseff LewRockwell.com No matter what anyone says, Iran is not a threat to the U.S. and not even close to being a threat to the U.S. The forces of the U.S. are so extensive and so overwhelming on so many dimensions that for Iran to attack the U.S. would be sheer madness. The Iranians know this. The U.S. knows this. Israel knows Read More …