The Pic of the Day: Federal workers protest the partial government shutdown

CHICAGO, January 10 – Government workers protest the government shutdown during a demonstration in the Federal Building Plaza on January 10, 2019 in Chicago, Illinois. The protest, on the 20th day of a partial shutdown, was one of several held around the country today. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Watch President Trump’s full remarks to […]

The US Navy just changed the status of its sub-hunting drone warship to ‘classified’

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 […]

The Pic of the Day: Living in the aftermath of a tsunami

BANTEN, Indonesia, December 28 – A man looks at a fishing boat that was driven onto land by the tsunami on December 28, 2018 in Banten, Indonesia. Flights have been rerouted and the alert lever for the Anak Krakatau volcano raised to the second-highest level as it continues to erupt, sending massive clouds of ash […]

The Pic of the Day: US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents conduct readiness drills

TIJUANA, Mexico, January 10 – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents walk on the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexico border during a “large-scale operational readiness exercise” on January 10, 2019, as seen from Tijuana, Mexico. President Trump is currently visiting the southern border of Texas.   Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images   Watch footage […]

The Pic of the Day: Elon Musk breaks ground on new Tesla factory in China

BEIJING, China, January 09 – Tesla CEO Elon Musk, left, shakes hands with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as he arrives for a meeting at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound on January 9, 2018 in Beijing, China.   Photo by Mark Schiefelbein – Pool/Getty Images   Watch Musk deliver remarks at the groundbreaking, below:

Watch: Ever see an F-16 fly itself? Take a ride in this fighter’s empty cockpit

We’re all familiar with F-16s. We’re all familiar with drones. But we’re not all quite so familiar with F-16s flying like drones. Little do most people realize, the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin actually started flying robo-F-16s in complex training exercises back in 2017. Attempts at “dronifying” the F-16 were validated by two weeks […]

The Pic of the Day: Deploying a Martian seismometer

Per NASA’s press release: NASA’s InSight lander has deployed its first instrument onto the surface of Mars, completing a major mission milestone. New images from the lander show the seismometer on the ground, its copper-colored covering faintly illuminated in the Martian dusk. It looks as if all is calm and all is bright for InSight, […]

The Pic of the Day: Afghan Air Force Security Forces

An Afghan Air Force Security Forces member mans a base perimeter guardhouse Dec. 17, 2018, in Afghanistan. The mission of Train, Advise, Assist, Command-Air is to train, advise, and assist Afghan partners to develop a professional, capable, and sustainable air force. TAAC-Air leverages train, advise and assist activities in concert with strong personal relationships, to […]

British airports install anti-drone systems in response to rogue drones

The two largest airports in the United Kingdom will install military-grade anti-drone systems to fend off rogue drones. The administrations of the Heathrow and Gatwick airports, which are situated close to London, announced they will spend several million pounds to avoid any future disruptions to their operations caused by unidentified Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Heathrow […]