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Snowpocalypse – Round Two…

Feb. 10 Strong winds and steady snowfall impede visibility on the National Mall and throughout the Washington region. Ricky Carioti-The Washington Post The winter of 1898-99 – that’s the last time the area saw this much snow.  54.4″ was the talley then – as of 1800 EDT today, we had accumulated 55.4″ (with more still [...] [...]

Navy

Postcards from Deployment: Now Liberty Call – Asia (Eat Your Heart Out Skippy-san!)

Our deployed correspondent, AT1 Charles Berleman, checks in from the latest liberty port: SJS, Okay to start with I am currently in Malaysia, but last week I had a chance to visit the island of Phuket (pronounced Foo-Ket) in the Indian Ocean side of Thailand. An interesting place historically. It is one of the few [...] [...]

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Measurements and Metrics from Snowmageddon

…And, we’re back. Didn’t lose power or satellite TV, but the internet went lights out about 5 hours into this weekend’s storm. Some metrics from the storm: 32″ at the homestead vs.  18″ at Reagan National (it always skews low there – must be all the hot air from up river…) 14,180 ft3 of snow [...] [...]

Missile Defense

Iran Announces New Space Launch Vehicle (SLV)

  We are about one-third of the way through Iran’s annual “Ten Days of Dawn” observation which celebrates the victory of the Islamic revolution in Iran and the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979.  The occasion serves as a platform for Iran to boast about progress under the Islamic Republic and demonstrate military, scientific [...] [...]

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Weekend Planning

“245 PM EST WED FEB 3 2010 .WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRI MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN STERLING VA HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH.WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRI MORNING THROUGH SAT EVENING. * PRECIPITATION TYPE.SNOW. * ACCUMULATIONS.THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO PRODUCE 12 OR MORE INCHES OF [...] [...]

Missile Defense

BMDR Release and BMD Deployments to the Gulf

Gulf BMD Deployments Lots in the news today – let’s start in the Gulf: US officials have let it be known that it now has Patriot batteries in four Gulf states – Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. US anti-missile ships are also being stationed in the Gulf.  All this comes as the [...] [...]

Air Warfare

Some More Observations on the Sukhoi PAK-FA

Перспективный Авиационный Комплекс Фронтовой Авиации, Perspektivnyi Aviatsionnyi Kompleks Frontovoi Aviatsy, literally “Future Front-line Aircraft System” As more video and still footage becomes available, some thoughts are emerging.  First observation is that clearly this is just a flying prototype that focuses on the airframe and not much else for a 5th gen fighter: Alexander Golts, an [...] [...]