Flightdeck Friday: Vergeltungswaffe Attack
Continuing our theme from yesterday (Pillars of BMD), the objects of Operation CROSSBOW’s attention:
V-2:
V-1
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Continuing our theme from yesterday (Pillars of BMD), the objects of Operation CROSSBOW’s attention:
V-2:
V-1
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I continue to be amazed (though I really shouldn’t by now) at the volume of email that is generated over the course of a generic three-day weekend. This past weekend was no exception to that rule either – especially as the miserly mailbox sizes set by the sysadmins is, well, miserly, one must spend the…
March 2011. The still of the pre-dawn darkness is only slightly disturbed by the passage of a container ship. Like the many thousands of others like her plying the ocean’s ways, this one’s cargo is neatly stacked on the deck — ISO shipping containers in a multitude of colors and shippers markings. …
(aka Sejil-2) Iran’s new MRBM and the latest complication in the brewing nuclear arms race in the Middle East: WASHINGTON (AP) – The missile test-fired by Iran is the longest-range solid-propellant missile it has launched yet, a U.S. government official said Wednesday, raising concerns about whether the sophistication of Tehran’s missile program is increasing. The U.S….
The latest revelation of well known public research facilities with a hidden Cold War mission comes from the merry ol’ – England’s Jodrell Bank telescope, to wit: London, Nov 23 (ANI): The creator of the giant space telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory in the UK has disclosed after 50 years that the telescope was…
As if the 29 April statement from the DPRK Foreign Ministry wasn’t provocative enough, comes the latest missive dated 29 May (full statement here): As long as the UNSC fails to respond to the DPRK’s just demand, the DPRK will not recognize any resolution and decision of the UNSC in the future, too. Third, if…
April 2015. Over a landscape made all the more surreal by the dim light of a waning moon, an F-22 continues its patrol, the sensors embedded in its skin alive, searching. Across the night sky digital datalinks reach out, carrying their payload of data – a threat radar to the east – a Navy EA-18G…