That’s a good possibility, since each Lockheed Martin F-35 in the area is armed with four Raytheon AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs).
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In what may be the biggest surprise to Kim Jong Un, the U.S. may use “mere” jet fighters that end up taking out his next — and perhaps last — missile launch.
That’s a good possibility, since each Lockheed Martin F-35 in the area is armed with four Raytheon AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs). Click here to learn more. A precursor to the U.S. potentially using fighter jets to intercept NORK nuclear missiles upon launch is the mapping of their air defenses by U.S. pilots.
This latest interaction between U.S. military forces and Kim Jong Un has great potential for misunderstanding and may well become a trigger event itself. Comments by the North Korean Foreign Ministry on Dec. 6 warn that North Korea can no longer discern between U.S. military exercises and actual initiation of war. This echoes the comment of the U.S. national security advisor, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, that the likelihood of war is “increasing every day.” Click here to learn more. Despite our self-congratulations over creating ever-more exotic drones, there are few spectacles more enjoyable than to watch what happens when a drone wanders near one of God’s creations like the majestic peregrine falcon.
It turns out that the fastest thing with two wings in the natural world is the perfect drone-killing machine. So naturally, the U.S. military is very interested how these raptors keep fast-moving drones in sight, how they routinely knock them out of the sky and, most of all, how they might be used for military purposes. To learn more and watch drones get destroyed by these apex predators of the air, click here. According to Dr. Aubrey de Grey, co-founder and chief science officer of the SENS Research Foundation (and who, by appearance, may be mistaken for a slightly younger Methuselah), certain persons who are alive today will live to celebrate their 1,000th birthday.
Apparently the whole “aging” thing will become a thing of the past within 20 years. But if our politics and culture continue on their downward trajectory, you may not be interested in beating the Old Testament lifespan record of 960 years. To learn more, click here. Of course, there’s no hurry; you’ve got plenty of time What do the oceans of the world hide? We’ll soon know.
DARPA has announced its “Ocean of Things” program, intended to deploy floating sensors over the seas. Potentially millions of smart floating sensors would track and relay information on everything from sea life to salinity levels to submarine positions. Smart investment opportunities may well be found at DARPA’s Jan. 4, 2018, Proposers Day. Click here to learn more. Hat tip to Admiral Cotton…sobering history and recommended reading by SECDEF Mattis at the AUSA conference…
Mattis also quoted from the classic 1963 work by Fehrenbach, which explained in heartbreaking detail how America was woefully unprepared for the Korean War in the 1950s. “ ‘You may fly over a nation forever, you may bomb it, atomize it, pulverize it and wipe it clean of life. But if you desire to defend it, if you desire to protect it, if you desire to keep it for civilization, you must do this on the ground the way the Roman legions did: by putting your young men in the mud.’ " Mattis said. “I would only modify it today by saying, ‘by putting your young men and women in the mud.’ ” The famous Fehrenbach quote comes from Chapter 25, “Proud Legions,” which can be found online here. Families of US military should leave South Korea because war between America and Pyongyang is “getting close”, according to a senior US Senator and ex-Air Force Colonel. Click here to read more about the deteriorating situation and some of the civil defense preparations underway in South Korea.
Russia has announced that the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) will have their own internet soon. Why do they need an alternate internet?
For one, it will be free of U.S. control, and two, will likely become an important part of the BRICS countries’ alternative international financial system. A third possibility is that it will give Russia and China a free hand to wage all out cyber warfare against the U.S. Or is that just being cynical? We’ll keep an eye out for how to play this development. Click here to learn more. Conventional wisdom (a contradiction, I know) says that the U.S. will NOT attack North Korea.
The reason? It would lead to war with Korea. News Flash: That war is already underway. With an above ground nuclear test next on the NORK agenda, and Iran treading the same path to nuclear armament as North Korea, it just may be that Trump sees that denuclearizing Kim Jong-Un by force before his next nuke test will make the mad mullahs in Iran re-think their plans. Learn more. |
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