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Sun Tzu

New Predator Drone Being Tested

There’s a new Predator in the skies.  The Predator-C Avenger has been flight tested over Southern California by General Atomics,  and it looks impressive. The Avenger can fly at more than 400 knots and has an endurance of 16 hours.  It is the fastest of the Predator family and can carry 3,500 pounds of weapons and [...]
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Sun Tzu

India Building Up Military To Deal With China

From the Associated Press: NEW DELHI — In recent weeks, India has decided to buy 126 fighter jets from France, taken delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine from Russia and prepared for its first aircraft carrier — modernizing its military to face a rising China. India and China have a long history of tension, dating back to a [...]
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Congress Passes Bill Opening U.S. Skies To Drones

From the Associated Press: WASHINGTON — After five years of legislative struggling, 23 stopgap measures and a two-week shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration, Congress finally has passed a bill aimed at prodding the nation’s aviation system into a new high-tech era in which satellites are central to air traffic control and piloted planes share the [...]
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Sun Tzu

North Korea Developing Drones…Based On US Drones Purchase In Middle East

Defense News reports that North Korea is developing drones based on Raytheon’s MQM-107D,  the so called Streaker target drones.  These are used by the US Army in training.  According to news reports, they got the drones by purchasing them from Syria. The Streaker flies at 40,000 feet at a maximum speed of 575 mph.  It is [...]
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Swarming Nano Quadrotors: The New Warfare?

This is apparently the future of warfare.  Fascinating…and kinda spooky at the same time.  These are small UAV drones developed by KMel Robotics and  GRASP Labs at the University of Pennsylvania. embedded by Embedded Video jQuery('#lazyload_post_4 img').lazyload({placeholder: '/wp-includes/images/blank.gif'});
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Niccolo Machiavelli

Goodbye Humvee, Hello JLTV

It looks like the Humvee is about to go into the great junkyard in the sky.  Army leaders are expressed by the performance of the New Joint Light  Tactical Vehicle.  They run about $270,000 for the base vehicle,  making it competitive with a revamped Humvee. The Army Times reports: The JLTV: by General Dynamics and AM [...]
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Michael Yon

MEDEVAC Scandal: Officer Reports AMEDD Sacrificing Soldier Safety

An Army officer writes: The Army is not resisting Dustoff policy change because our leadership honestly believes the current policy is superior, but rather because of AMEDD’s [Army Medical Department] protectionist attitude toward “their” Dustoff MEDEVAC helicopters. I’m an active duty infantry officer, and I’ve been following the Dustoff issue since [...]
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Michael Yon

An Important Letter on Army Policy from a Gold Star Mother

A Gold Star Mother is one who lost a child in service of the United States. Ms. Keyko Clark-Davis is a recent Gold Star Mother. I was present when her son Chazray was mortally wounded. We have communicated many times. Chazray’s mother is strong and inspirational. She sends this letter in [...]
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Kerry Patton

Former Special Forces Operative: U.S. Addiction to Drones Could Lead to Domestic Use

“Coercive influence” is arguably construed as a dark art within the intelligence arena. Used to force people to do things they ordinarily wouldn’t do, it is a tactic used for influence and shaping operations. Historically, some coercive influence techniques came from torture, blackmail, and even “sexpionage.” Today, America has incorporated a new tool used in [...]
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John Bernard, 1st Sgt. USMC (ret.),

Unreasonable Risk and Ill-Conceived Combat Missions Define Obama’s Afghanistan Strategy

As a consequence of that misplaced ethical concern for an inappropriately identified non-combatant population, they have unnecessarily endangered our forces and reduced their combat effectiveness by forcing them to consider the lives of these 'non-combatants' as superior to their own. This is the very definition of 'unreasonable risk'.
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