Empire Woes Second Attempt to Test the Air Force’s First Hypersonic Weapon Fails The Russians have had one for years...without a trillion-dollar defense/pork sector Joseph Trevithick 1 Aug 21 1248 22
After 16 Years of Throwing Money at Defense Industry US Navy Finally to Admit Railgun Is a Delusion Has served the function of lining MIC pockets however Joseph Trevithick 6 Jun 21 2187 9
Empire Woes Pentagon Admits Its Drone Fleet Wouldn’t Last Two Seconds Against Russia or China Already looking to retire its giant Global Hawks drones before a realistic replacement Joseph Trevithick 16 May 21 2127 12
Russian and US Warships Are Headed for the Black Sea Russians from the Caspian, Americans from the Med Joseph Trevithick 10 Apr 21 7440 11
Those Pesky Chinese For the First Time China Hits Moving Ships With Ballistic Missiles Joseph Trevithick 19 Nov 20 1556 17
Here’s All the Military Pork Baked Into the Proposed COVID-19 Bill $30 billion of spending on weapons just in the coronavirus bill Joseph Trevithick 3 Aug 20 1071 0
Our Benevolent Empire US Air Force Says Was Practicing a Naval Strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet With Turkey and Ukraine Kind of like if Russia practiced striking the US Navy in the Gulf of Mexico with Venezuela and Cuba Joseph Trevithick 10 Jun 20 1858 11
MIC Joys US Air Force Won’t Use Its Brand New Boeing Tanker Planes Except in an Emergency. A Fix Expected by 2023 or 2024 USAF has already accepted 30 and continues to accept more Joseph Trevithick 11 Mar 20 1096 8
Empire Woes Baghdad Is Blocking US Deployment of Patriot Air Defense Systems to Iraq The Pentagon is trying to move one battery from Saudi Arabia but it's stuck in Kuwait as Iraqis won't let it in Joseph Trevithick 20 Feb 20 2282 16
Our Benevolent Empire US Navy Missile Submarine Begins First Ever Patrol With Low-Yield Nukes But Iran can't make its own fuel for nuclear power plants? Joseph Trevithick 1 Feb 20 901 5
Those Pesky Russians Russia Switches On a Gargantuan Over-the-Horizon Radar to Spot Assailants From the West Plans to build another such gigantic radar array with a 3,000 km range (!) facing the Arctic north Joseph Trevithick 5 Dec 19 2197 1
Those Pesky Russians US Inspectors Have Examined Russia’s Imminently Operational Hypersonic Missile Under the New START treaty which the Trump administration is about to bury Joseph Trevithick 27 Nov 19 1367 2
NATO Squabbles Turkey Tests F-16s and F-4s Against S-400 Radars in Defiance of US Sanctions Threats Washington had optimistically called on Ankara not to "activate" the radars and to send them back Joseph Trevithick 27 Nov 19 1564 6
Those Pesky Russians Russia Is Eying More Armed Icebreakers After Launching Missile-Toting Arctic Patrol Ship Gotta deter those FONOPs Joseph Trevithick 18 Nov 19 720 3
War in Syria US F-15s and Attack Helicopters in “Show of Force” Against Turko-Jihadi Forces in Northern Syria For ostensibly coming "too close" to a YPG-US position Joseph Trevithick 16 Oct 19 525 0
Four of the Biggest Revelations From China’s Massive 70th Anniversary Military Parade The spectacle in Tiananmen Square was full of previously unseen advanced Chinese military developments Joseph Trevithick 4 Oct 19 2075 5
Those Pesky Chinese New Photos Point to Chinese Bomber Being Able to Carry Huge Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles China's anti-access forces get yet more potent Joseph Trevithick 30 Sep 19 1375 2
Those Pesky Chinese China Just Launched Its Huge And Incredibly Quickly Built Amphibious Assault Ship "What may be most impressive about it is China's ability to proceed so fast with its construction" — far faster than the US Joseph Trevithick 29 Sep 19 1296 8
All 400 F-35s Built So Far Lack Simple Chaff Countermeasures, They Will Have to Be Installed Post-Production Why didn't a 1.5 trillion weapon come with simple chaff serially? Joseph Trevithick 11 Sep 19 1491 4
Those Pesky Russians Russia Releases First Ever Video of New Stealth Bomber Drone Here's what we can glean from it Joseph Trevithick 9 Aug 19 12313 6
Trump Balked at Selling Taipei F-16s Lest It Ruined China Trade Talks At least for now RoC won't be getting what it wanted the most Joseph Trevithick 12 Jul 19 414 1
South China Sea Missile Test a Reminder That China Rules the Waves — With Ballistic Missiles Instead of pouding Gobi sand China for the first time fires the "Guam Killer" missile into the South China Sea Joseph Trevithick 8 Jul 19 1997 3
Invincible Empire US Navy’s New $14 Billion Carrier Class Can’t Launch F-35s MIC's destruction of Empire's naval power continues apace Joseph Trevithick 8 Jun 19 1837 4
Did a Third Party Hit Saudi Tankers to Push America to War With Iran? Al-Qaeda has attacked ships in those waters before — and despises the US and Iran both Joseph Trevithick 14 May 19 508 4
