The United States Marine Corps have officially retired the Bell AH-1W “Super Cobra” from their ranks after more than 30 years of dependable service, according to a recent service news release. According to a USMC statement, after 933,614 flight hours over a 34-year career, the AH-1W “Whiskey” Super Cobra flew its last flight over the City of New Orleans passing its legacy and mission to the “Zulu” variant, the AH-1Z Viper. The iconic dual-blade aircraft served as the dedicated attack helicopter for the Marines through multiple campaigns, including Operation Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom, and Enduring Freedom. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING […]
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TikTok discarded the offer of another American tech giant, Microsoft, before reaching an agreement with Oracle, which is expected to protect the Chinese video platform from being banned on the territory of the US over accusations of being a threat to national security. CEO of the tech giant Oracle, Larry Ellison, donated a hefty sum of $250,000 to the “Security is Strength” Super PAC, which only supports Senator Lindsey Graham’s re-election bid, three days before TikTok announced that it would strike a deal with Oracle to avoid being banned in the US. Graham, who is currently trailing slightly in the polls behind […]
Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam at a speech by President Trump during the Republican Jewish Coalition 2019 Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam at a speech by President Trump during the Republican Jewish Coalition 2019 Annual Leadership Meeting in Las Vegas. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, pumped $75 million into a pro-Trump super PAC in the final stretch of the presidential campaign, providing a late cash infusion for President Trump’s faltering reelection […]
U.S. Army is being criticized for the development of new deadly cannon, which is expected to fire rounds out to 1,000 km, or 620 miles. The Army is exploring possibilities both with Governments and the private sector to develop a new massive artillery system that can precision hit targets at 1000 kilometers. The Army interest in long-range cannon capable of firing a higher volume of low-cost rounds to help offset the cost of hypersonic weapons. The program called the Strategic Long Range Cannon (SLRC) is comprised of a weapon, prime mover and trailer, projectile and propelling charge capable of delivering massed […]
All eyes remain on Starship SN8’s next-level test campaign, advancing the test program from 150-meter hops to high-altitude flights. Amid SN8’s preparations at the launch site – and numerous Starships, at various points of construction, at the Production Site – several Super Heavy sections were observed during the week in advance of stacking operations for the first prototype booster. Starship Status: Following SN8’s rollout to the launch site, the expected test flow has moved slightly to the right due to the delay in lifting the vehicle on to the launch mount due to high winds impacting crane operations. Once the conditions […]
Donald Trump’s high-rolling fundraiser at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster, New Jersey, took place 1 October, and the next day the US President Donald Trump revealed that he and First Lady, Melania, had tested positive for COVID-19 and would go into quarantine. New Jersey authorities are scrambling to deal with the possibility of a surge in coronavirus cases in the aftermath of Donald Trump’s high-rolling fundraiser at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., on 1 October. After the bombshell announcement by Trump on Friday that he and his wife, the First Lady Melania Trump, had tested positive for COVID-19 in […]
A U.S. Air Force C-130J Super Hercules aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday at the airport of Odessa in Ukraine, the Dumskaya.net says. According to Dumskaya.net, a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, assigned to the 37th Airlift Squadron, has made an emergency landing at Odessa International Airport in Ukraine after one of its engines failed. “The plane departed to Odessa from the Ramstein Air Force base in Germany. During the flight, one of its four engines failed. The crew is currently working on the issue,” the report says. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The C-130J is […]
Starship SN8 has arrived at the launch site for a test campaign full of firsts for SpaceX’s prototype vehicle. Complete with aero surfaces, SN8 will be tested and launched with three Raptor engines on a refined test flight to 50,000 feet (15 km). This vehicle is the first in a family of Starships that will incrementally test the launch, return, and landing capability ahead of the push to orbit next year. SN7.1: SN8’s trip to the launch site waited until the test program with SN7.1 had concluded, with – as planned – a pressurization to failure. Known as the Burst Test, […]
Since emerging in China in late 2019, the coronavirus has spread to virtually every country around the world, causing nearly a million deaths, and doing trillions of dollars in economic damage amid efforts undertaken by all but a handful of nations to slow its spread. A small number of coronavirus-infected ‘super-spreaders’ is responsible for the rapid spread of the coronavirus, biologists and mathematicians from the Polish Academy of Sciences and the University of Warsaw have found. The explosion in cases experienced by many countries in these early months was the result of super- and hyper-spreaders appearing at “super-spreading events” such as […]
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Starship SN6 is aiming to conduct a 150-meter hop test on Thursday, just a few weeks after SN5 completed the first Starship prototype launch. SN6’s test will be a near-mirror of SN5’s short flight, with both prototypes aiming to refine SpaceX’s launch and landing operations. Meanwhile, additional Starships continue to evolve, along with preparations for the Super Heavy booster, which – according to Chief Designer Elon Musk – could conduct an initial test hop by October. SN5 and SN6: In another sign of SpaceX Boca Chica’s production cadence, the allowance for SN6 to be ready to hop just weeks after SN5 […]
Starship SN6 is aiming to conduct a 150-meter hop test on Sunday, just a few weeks after SN5 completed the first Starship prototype launch. SN6’s test will be a near-mirror of SN5’s short flight, with both prototypes aiming to refine SpaceX’s launch and landing operations. Meanwhile, additional Starships continue to evolve, along with preparations for the Super Heavy booster, which – according to Chief Designer Elon Musk – could conduct an initial test hop by October. SN5 and SN6: In another sign of SpaceX Boca Chica’s production cadence, the allowance for SN6 to be ready to hop just weeks after SN5 […]
As SpaceX continues to roll through its 2020 launch campaign, the company is slated to launch another batch of Starlink internet satellites to help complement the current constellation in low Earth orbit. The mission is currently set to launch on a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday morning at 10:12 am Eastern time (14:12 UTC), pending acceptable weather conditions at the launch site. Sunday’s mission, also known as Starlink V1.0 L11, will be the fourteenth orbital launch for SpaceX in 2020, and the 94th flight of the company’s workhorse […]
President Trump gave a man whose life was turned upside down by rioters earlier this year a wonderful gift today at a rally in Minnesota. Minnesota’s KB who spent his life savings building a sports bar had his life turned upside down on May 27th. On that day rioters viciously destroyed his bar and dreams. The black man and his wife were in Mankato today to see President Trump. KB and his wife have four kids and they immigrated from West Africa 25 years ago. Now he and his wife have to start over. He did say that through donations […]
The Air Force Command of Ukrainian Armed Forces has confirmed that the country is reviewing the future of its combat and training aircraft, a role currently filled by L-39 Albatros. On Agust. 14, service reported that Armed Forces officials are considering reducing the number of ageing L-39 aircraft and replacing them with Brazilian EMB314 Super Tucano turboprop trainer aircraft. “The Super Tucano aircraft was considered during a visit of the delegation of the Ukrainian Air Force to Brazil in 2019, as a combat training aircraft, which, according to its characteristics, can replace the so-called “school desk” for military aviators, the combat […]
Donald Trump’s “official” super PAC has spent more than $25 million since last year to get the president re-elected. Now it’s trying a new tactic: the group, America First Action, has launched a news website. The site is called the American Herald, and it describes itself as “a conservative news platform designed to bring you all the news the liberal media doesn’t want you to know. We commit to cover national issues that impact all Americans, not just what fits the left’s political agenda.” The American Herald’s formation comes during an election cycle in which Trump’s political machine has sought to […]
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Neanderthals May Have Been More Sensitive to Pain Than Most Humans by Alex Fox/Smithsonianmag.com A new study of Neanderthal DNA suggests our species’ extinct relatives may have been particularly sensitive to pain, reports Ewen Callaway for Nature. Neanderthals disappeared some 40,000 years ago, but some humans living today retain bits of Neanderthal DNA—evidence that our species once interbred. Though they hunted large, dangerous animals—including bison, mammoths and cave bears—in frigid climes, Neanderthals may be the source of a genetic variant associated with increased sensitivity to pain in modern humans, according to the new research published last week in the journal Current Biology. Researchers looking to compare Neanderthals’ DNA to modern […]
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What did we just watch? Advertisement – story continues below 77-year-old Joe Biden emerged from his basement on Wednesday and delivered remarks on the country’s plans to reopen businesses following the COVID-19 lockdowns. The former Vice President gave a speech in Darby, Pennsylvania on “making sure the country’s reopening is effective, safe, and gets Americans back to work,” according to his campaign. The end of Sleepy Joe Biden’s speech was super awkward. TRENDING: Fulton County DA Announces 11 Charges, Including Felony Murder on the Officer Involved in Fatal Shooting of Rayshard Brooks – Says Brooks Never Informed He Was Under Arrest? […]
The best thing about summer, in my opinion, is you get too hot to care about much. The other day, I went to get my bike fixed, and after standing out in the sun for about twenty minutes, I was drenched in sweat, parched for water, and would’ve done almost anything to hop in a pool. Unfortunately, there wasn’t one nearby, but when we got back to the house, we did the next best thing: filled up cups with water and threw them at each other. It got me thinking that a great way to spend time outside, cool off, and […]
The U.S. Navy recently tested, for the first time on an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft, the GBU-53/B StormBreaker glide bomb that will give operators an upper hand in combat by hitting moving targets in some of the worst weather conditions. The new StormBreaker smart weapon, commonly known as a smart tank hunter, is a winged munition autonomously detects and classifies moving targets in poor visibility situations caused by darkness, bad weather, smoke or dust kicked up by helicopters. “StormBreaker is the only weapon that enables pilots to hit moving targets during bad weather or if dust and smoke are in the […]
New Zealand Minister of Defense Ron Mark has announced that country’s Air Force plans to replace the current C130-H Hercules fleet with five C-130J-30 Super Hercules transport aircraft. Defense Minister Ron Mark confirmed the purchase of the C-130J-30 Super Hercules transport aircraft on 5 June at Royal New Zealand Air Force Base Whenuapai. “Generations of New Zealanders have grown up and grown old with the Hercules, and they know these aircraft are an essential first line of response,” Mark said. According to the NZ Herald, as part of $1.521 billion project, the New Zealand Air Force will receive the first of […]
Women’s world number three Karolina Pliskova says any male stars complaining over demands for equal pay for their female counterparts are “super weak” – but insisted she is not pushing for parity between the sexes. Recent weeks have seen renewed calls from the likes of men’s icon Roger Federer for the ATP and WTA tours to merge – leading to questions over what that would mean for the pay disparity between the tours. Also on rt.com Impractical idealism? Roger Federer calls for ‘men’s and women’s tennis to come together as one’ Pliskova, 28, said she did not think that a merger […]
The 19th Airlift Wing (Air Mobility Command) has received the final C-130J Super Hercules turboprop military transport aircraft. The 19th Airlift Wing is the host wing and provides the Department of Defense mission ready Airmen and supports the largest C-130 fleet in the world. As part of AMC’s Global Reach capability, the wing’s responsibilities range from supplying humanitarian airlift relief to victims of disasters, to airdropping supplies and troops into the heart of contingency operations in hostile areas as well as supporting base partners as the host unit. A brand new C-130J Super Hercules was delivered to Little Rock Air Force […]
Jim Bognet’s congressional campaign is very much a family affair. It’s based at the offices of his father’s contracting business in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, about 25 miles south of Wilkes-Barre. He tapped his cousin early on to be the campaign’s finance chairman. And now that same cousin, along with Bognet’s father and another family member, have helped finance a super PAC spending on his behalf. A public-affairs consultant and former Trump administration appointee, Bognet is vying for the Republican nomination in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District. He is one of a number of congressional candidates getting support from super PACs funded by […]
More than 1.1 million people in eastern India and Bangladesh are being hurriedly evacuated as the ‘extremely severe’ cyclonic storm ‘Amphan’ threatens to make landfall within days. With winds of 150 miles per hour (241kph) and predicted storm surges of up to 30 feet, India’s National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has mobilized more than 750 people to undertake the unenviable task of evacuating hundreds of thousands of people during a global pandemic. Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm ‘AMPHAN’ (pronounced as UM-PUN) over west-central & adjoining central parts of South BoB: Cyclone Warning for West Bengal and north Odisha coasts. To intensify further […]
While the rest of the world is tentatively coming out of lockdowns, China is taking advantage of the cheapest crude oil in years to stock up as demand is starting to return in the world’s largest oil importer. At present, a total of 117 very large crude carriers (VLCCs) – each capable of shipping 2 million barrels of oil – are traveling to China for unloading at its ports between the middle of May and the middle of August. If those supertankers transport standard-size crude oil cargoes, it could mean that China expects at least 230 million barrels of oil over […]
US President Donald Trump has offered a sneak peak into the future of American military tech, talking up what he called a “super duper missile,” but his scientific terminology was simply too much for some netizens to take. The comment came during an Oval Office ceremony to unveil the official flag of the Space Force on Friday, with Trump taking a brief detour into state of the art hardware under development at the Pentagon. “We have, I call it the Super Duper Missile. And I heard the other night [it’s] 17 times faster than what they have right now,” Trump said. […]
Boeing, a world’s largest aerospace company, has announced that it delivered the final F/A-18 Block II fighter jet to the U.S. Navy. As noted by the company, next year, they will begin integrating Block III Super Hornets into carrier fleets. “Delivery of this last production Block 2 Super Hornet is […] a stepping stone along the path to continuously evolving our platforms to meet the US Navy’s ever-evolving needs,” said Captain Jason Denney, Program Manager of the F/A-18 and EA-18 Program Office (PMA-265). “Block 3 delivery is just steps behind and the production lines won’t miss a beat, with the first […]
U.S. aerospace giant Boeing announced on 8 May that first F/A-18 Block III Super Hornet test jet has rolled out of final assembly. “Two of these test jets will head to the U.S. Navy, where they’ll help pilots familiarize themselves with the updated jets and be used in carrier flight tests,” the company said on Twitter. The F/A-18 Block III Super Hornet is the newest highly capable, affordable and available tactical aircraft in U.S. Navy inventory. The Super Hornet is the backbone of the U.S. Navy carrier air wing now and for decades to come. The combat-proven Super Hornet delivers cutting-edge, […]