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Threats to American civil life come from domestic sources: natural disasters, car crashes, the opiate crisis, and economic downturns, just to name a few. Bee stings kill (exponentially) more people than foreign-born terrorists do every year in the United States. Vast oceans and friendly neighbors have much to do with the lack of conflict, war, […]
Two Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter/bombers collided in midair over the Sea of Japan early Friday, about 20 miles off the Russian coast. Two crewmen were able to eject and have been recovered by Russian Search and Rescue teams. It appears the second jet may have been able to return to a nearby airstrip under its […]
Despite headlines last week about upgrades to the stealth coating applied to Russia’s pseudo-fifth-generation fighter, the Su-57, new reports out of Moscow indicate that production of what was to be Russia’s most advanced military aircraft has been postponed until 2020. The Su-57 has long been touted as Russia’s response to fifth-generation platforms like America’s F-22 […]
Early Thursday, Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of Cybersecurity Policy, announced the social media giant removed hundreds of fake pages and profiles on both Facebook and Instagram that misrepresented themselves as independent new outlets and individuals. Many of these fake news outlet pages were linked directly back to Russia’s state-owned news agency, Sputnik. “Today we removed […]
Among other tasks, Special Forces soldiers are experts at winning people’s hearts and minds. This skillset is particularly useful in a counterinsurgency context. It also comes in handy in other circumstances. For the past few years, the Green Berets of 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group—which is forward-based in Germany—have been saving the lives of civilians. Last […]
Despite headlines last week about upgrades to the stealth coating applied to Russia’s pseudo-fifth-generation fighter, the Su-57, new reports out of Moscow indicate that production of what was to be Russia’s most advanced military aircraft has been postponed until 2020. The Su-57 has long been touted as Russia’s response to fifth-generation platforms like America’s F-22 […]
The Pentagon released its annual nuclear posture review last January, outlining the nuclear capabilities of foreign nations, particularly those that pose a threat to the safety and security of the United States. To the surprise of defense experts everywhere, a long-rumored Russian “doomsday” weapon, the Ocean Multipurpose System Status-6, found its way into the document, […]
The Russian Special Operations Forces (SOF) will be receiving an advanced infiltration capability in the form of futuristic mini subs. According to a source from the Russian government, “the Main Directorate of Deep-Water Research of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed interest in the apparatus, and it considers these bathyscaphes [which is […]
China’s first foray into fifth-generation fighters may have been based on stolen plans for America’s F-22 Raptor, but according to China’s state-owned media outlets, a new slew of upgrades are about to make their J-20 superior to America’s future workhorse stealth fighter, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. According to China’s Global Times, “experts” already agree […]
In 2016, U.S. law enforcement arrested Harold T. Martin III, a National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, for stealing a massive amount of classified data that would put Edward Snowden to shame. Now, it’s being revealed the intelligence that led to the bust came from the unlikeliest of sources: a Russian cybersecurity company. Kaspersky Lab, based […]
The F-35 has been in the headlines repeatedly in recent years. Whenever a news outlet needs an example of gratuitous military spending, you can bet a picture of Lockheed’s banner jet will find its way into the article. If someone’s in the mood to post a bit of patriotic motivation, the F-35’S incredibly advanced technological […]
Last February, NEWSREP reported on the U.S. Navy taking delivery on its latest piece of futuristic sub-hunting technology, a DARPA-developed 132-foot, 140-ton drone warship, purpose-built to hunt down encroaching enemy submarines. Now, almost a year later, the status of the Sea Hunter Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel, or ACTUV, has just been listed as […]
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