Category: Weapons

The FBI is investigating the sending of multiple suspicious packages to military bases and CIA HQs in the Washington D.C. area, officials stated on Monday. The FBI had taken custody of the packages that one official stated was more than 10 of these crude devices. They said packages were sent to the CIA, Fort Belvoir […]

The Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh was targeted by a barrage of missiles fired from Yemeni Shiite rebels on the third anniversary of the war’s start. Missile fragments killed one Saudi resident and wounded two others. The rebels known as Houthis said they launched a missile attack targeting Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport and other […]

The top U.S. general in Afghanistan has said the Russians are supporting and supplying arms to the Taliban, adding more fuel to the already tense relationship between the two superpowers. General John Nicolson said in an interview with the BBC that he’s seen “destabilizing activity by the Russians.”  He said Russian weapons are being supplied […]

Police in Austin, Texas have killed the suspect in a rash of bombings across the area in recent weeks after an armed confrontation early on Wednesday morning, police sources have revealed to the media. The Austin Police Department was working on an “officer-involved shooting” on I-35, according to a tweet from the department. Austin has […]

The recent events that unfolded in the UK with the nerve agent poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter on a bench in Salisbury is putting the secret labs of the Russians that research and manufacture these weapons in the spotlight. During his last run for the presidency, in 2012, Russian […]

Op-ed: The curious case of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, both of whom were found slumped on a park bench, poisoned in Salisbury, outside of Stonehenge, England has all the makings of an assassination. And if it turns out to be just that, an assassination attempt by the Russians, which it does, it is […]

The British government isn’t backing down from accusing the Russians of being behind the attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson saying that the Russians are stockpiling the nerve agent used in the attack. Sergei and his daughter Yulia Skripal remain critically ill in hospital after being found slumped on a bench […]

Ursula von der Leyen, Germany’s defense minister in the most strongly worded statement yet on the Sergei Skripal nerve agent poisoning, said that the Russians were most certainly behind the attack and tied this into the use of chemical weapons in Syria. Von der Leyen appeared Thursday on Morgen Magazin, a joint breakfast show by public […]

The aircraft carrier USS Lexington, sunk during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May of 1942, has been found by a team of wreck-hunters led by the billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The Lexington was the first aircraft carrier ever to be sunk in combat. But during the battle, her planes also sunk the […]

Sergei Skripal, 66, one of four Russians exchanged for 10 deep cover “sleeper” agents planted by Moscow in the U.S. is critically ill in a Salisbury hospital after being poisoned by “suspected exposure to an unknown substance”. Wiltshire police said that a man in his 60s and a woman in her 30s were found unconscious […]

The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770, when a squad of British soldiers came to the aid of a lone sentry who was being heckled and pelted with snowballs from an unruly mob. The British soldiers fired a volley of shots into the crowd of colonists, killing five, three immediately died on the scene […]

China’s modernization program for their military forces looks to advance even fast as they will increase military spending 8.1 percent in 2018. With new stealth fighters and a second aircraft carrier being built, the Chinese military looks to project power far beyond its borders. A budget document made available to the media before the opening […]