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    Russian Jamming Got You Down? Try Talking Underwater

    Russian Jamming Got You Down? Try Talking Underwater David Axe David Axe goes to war so you don't have to. January 7, 2017 DARPA Art Russian Jamming Got You Down? Try Talking Underwater DARPA is about to test a buoy-based comms network for warplanes by DAVID AXE Russia and China have...
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    Flying and Fighting Series from Around the World

    Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Please read all articles (and see more photos and multimedia) on their respective websites and support them: http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4595/flying-the-iconic-swing-wing-f-111-aardvark-at-the-height-of-the-cold-war EDIT: Please see post #3 below
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    Russian Tu-154 crashes en route to Syria

    Russian military plane crashes en route to Syria with 92 on board Reuters — Updated 28 minutes ago A Russian passenger plane with 92 people aboard, including a well-known military band, crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria on Sunday minutes after takeoff from the resort city of Sochi...
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    Recalling the H-Bomb that Almost Backfired

    Smithsonian's airspacemag.com Recalling the H-Bomb that Almost Backfired Yang Guoxiang, one of China's top test pilots, tells the story. (Courtesy Yang Guoxiang) By Bob Bergin Air & Space Magazine | Subscribe August 2009 When your assignment is to drop a live nuclear bomb, you’d better...
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    Extra Judicial Drone Strikes

    War Is Boring We go to war so you don’t have to May 15 Bex Walton/Flickr photo A Missing Piece of Obama’s Terrorist ‘Kill Memo’ Still Haunts America The lack of adversarial opinion for a 2011 drone strike on Anwar Al Awlaki could presage the killing of U.S. citizens in America by JAMES PERRY...
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    Eternal Wartime in America

    War Is Boring We go to war so you don’t have to Jul 25 A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber returns from a mission over Syria in April 2016. Air Force photo Op-Ed — Eternal Wartime in America Pondering the world after me by TOM ENGELHARDT I recently dug my mother’s childhood photo album out of the...
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    Dominating the Skies and Losing the Wars

    War Is Boring We go to war so you don’t have to Jun 22 A U.S. Air Force F-15E. U.S. Air Force photo Dominating the Skies — and Losing the Wars Air supremacy isn’t what it used to be by WILLIAM ASTORE In the era of the long war on terror, June 2, 2016, was a tough day for the U.S. military...
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    Apologizing to My Daughter for the Last 15 Years of War

    War Is Boring We go to war so you don’t have to Sep 19 U.S. Army soldiers in Afghanistan. Photo via Wikipedia This Is Me, Apologizing to My Daughter for the Last 15 Years of War It’s up to the next generation to fix this mess by PETER VAN BUREN I recently sent my last kid off for her senior...
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    The Al-Qaeda Leader Who Wasn’t

    War Is Boring We go to war so you don’t have to Apr 26 U.S. military detainees at Guantánamo Bay. U.S. Defense Department photo The Al-Qaeda Leader Who Wasn’t The shameful ordeal of Abu Zubaydah by REBECCA GORDON The allegations against the man starting in 2002 were serious, indeed. U.S...
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    The U.S. Army Kept Trying to Give the Huey Bigger Guns - It never worked

    Next story The Legend of the Vietnam War’s Mystery Fighter Ace Joseph Trevithick Freelance Journalist for @warisboring and others, Historian, and Military Analyst. @franticgoat on Twitter 19 hrs ago General Electric’s modified M-61 cannon sticks out the side of a UH-1B. U.S. Army photo via Ray...
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    The U.S. Navy’s Next Hawkeye Plane Can Detect Stealth Fighters

    War Is Boring We go to war so you don’t have to 19 hrs ago E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes. Northrop Grumman photo The U.S. Navy’s Next Hawkeye Plane Can Detect Stealth Fighters Specifically, the next generation of Russian and Chinese fighters by DAVE MAJUMDAR Earlier this month, the first Northrop...
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    F-22 Evolving Tactics

    From the article 'FIRST FIGHTERS' (text only, not images), a report on USAF F-22s in the January 2017 issue of Combat Aircraft): "...With just six combat-coded Raptor squadrons, it’s easy to see why Air Force leaders openly state that they simply don’t have enough F-22s and that production was...
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    Muslims Emigrating Abroad

    “Verily, as for those whom the angels take (in death) while they are wronging themselves (as they stayed among the disbelievers even though emigration was obligatory for them), they (angels) say (to them): “In what (condition) were you?” They reply: “We were weak and oppressed on the earth.”...
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    Ethanol in Motor Gasoline

    Blogs Ethanol in Motor Gasoline Eat it, drink it, or burn it as fuel? By Kevin Cameron December 1, 2016 Cycle World Technical Editor Kevin Cameron shares his wealth of motorcycle knowledge, experiences, insights, history, and much more. The introduction to a book on bartending once began...
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    How Much are Electric Vehicles Good for the Environment?

    Blogs Basics Of Vehicle Efficiency Comparing internal combustion and electric powertrains By Kevin Cameron November 28, 2016 Cycle World Technical Editor Kevin Cameron shares his wealth of motorcycle knowledge, experiences, insights, history, and much more. On the surface of things it...
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    Madmen With Nuclear Codes — A History of Unpredictable Foreign Policy

    From War is Boring: Madmen With Nuclear Codes — An History of Unpredictable Foreign Policy Richard Nixon’s madman theory increased the risk of nuclear war — and now it has an imitator in Donald Trump by SÉBASTIEN ROBLIN Would being officially and strategically unpredictable make America safer...
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    JF-17's ferry and combat ranges

    Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Following on from : F-16 Ferry Range Analysis https://defence.pk/threads/pakistan-f-16-discussions-2.15226/page-649#post-8906190 and F-16 Combat Mission Radius Analysis https://defence.pk/threads/pakistan-f-16-discussions-2.15226/page-649#post-8916212 I was...

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