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25 April 2019

US Navy introducing guidelines for pilots to report UFO sightings

Secretive program tracked UFOs for 5 years Washington (CNN) Navy pilots who think they may have seen unidentified flying objects will now have a detailed means of reporting unexplainable events so the military can...

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23 April 2019

Lockheed’s F-35 $1.5 Trillion Operational Cost Just Grew – Again

Apparently, the Pentagon prefers to dole out information about costs of the F-35 program in portions. Lambasting Lockheed Martin’s F-35 multirole fighter for its cost has become almost passé at this point. With its $1.5 trillion...

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25 June 2017

Pentagon Dusts Off Retired Warships as US Navy Expansion Program Falters

The Pentagon is considering putting some of its mothballed frigates back into service. Military expert Vladimir Kozin told Sputnik Radio that currently the US Navy is facing a number of challenges. The command of the...

Russian Air Force Su-27 intercepted reconnaissance aircraft

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24 June 2017

What’s Behind ‘Unprecedented’ Number of Russia-NATO Aerial Intercepts

The number of reconnaissance aircraft intercepted along Russia’s border from June 12-18 was unprecedented, even by Cold War standards, according to Russian military expert Konstantin Sivkov. NATO Steps Up Reconnaissance Near Russian Borders –...

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24 June 2017

Pentagon Awards Over Half a Billion Dollars to Build New Littoral Combat Ship

The Pentagon announced on Friday it had awarded over half a billion dollars contract to build a new littoral combat ship for the US military. Austal USA is being awarded a more than $584-million...

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22 June 2017

Russia’s Tu-160M2 Bomber More Advanced Than Anything Pentagon Has In Its Arsenal

Russian Aerospace Forces Commander Viktor Bondarev has confirmed that the new Tu-160M2 strategic bomber would take to the skies in March 2018. Military analyst Viktor Tuchkov says that with an estimated combat effectiveness two...

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21 June 2017

Please and Thank You: Pentagon’s DARPA Teaches Robots Manner

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has developed a general model “for what norms and normative networks are” and how they can be developed into interactive algorithms for training tomorrow’s robots to be more...

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20 April 2017

U.S. Aircraft Carrier Wasn’t Sailing to Deter North Korea, as U.S. Suggested

Just over a week ago, the White House declared that ordering an American aircraft carrier into the Sea of Japan would send a powerful deterrent signal to North Korea and give President Trump more...

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22 October 2014

U.S. accidentally delivered weapons to the Islamic State by airdrop, militants say

This post has been updated with additional reporting. The Islamic State has released a new video in which it brags that it recovered weapons and supplies that the U.S. military intended to deliver to...