Rapidly aging in orbit, US Air Force (USAF) weather satellites are dropping like flies. Since 2004, two of the USAF’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellites have broken up in orbit. On Monday, the military branch admitted that a third, identified as DMSP Flight 12, […]
Anti-satellite weaponry is possible, something which should be reckoned with when planning possible military operations, defense expert Vasily Kashin told Sputnik China. An artist’s concept of a ground / space-based hybrid laser weapon, 1984 © Photo: Wikipedia Star Wars Reboot: US Sets Stage for Space-Based […]
After several years of tests, the US Air Force Space Command assumed control of a telescope that monitors the Earth’s orbit on Tuesday. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) transferred operations of the Space Surveillance Telescope (SST) to the Air Force during a […]
Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Qassem Soleimani has arrived in Hashd al-Sha’abi (popular forces) operations room in Mosul to play his advisory role in anti-ISIL campaign in Iraq, Arab media reported on Wednesday. “Hashd al-Sha’abi will […]
Federal data showing annual accidental gun deaths in Tennessee soared to 105 from just 19 propelled a fierce firearms control campaign, but it turned out the stats were about as accurate as a two-dollar pistol. The numbers, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, […]
A concert in Istanbul by the Dresden Orchestra to mark the 1915 genocide of Armenians by the Ottomans has been cancelled by Germany. That follows reports that the musicians sent out invitations to the Turkish President and his top aides. The concert, run by the […]
Russia is sharply upgrading the firepower of its Baltic Fleet by adding warships armed with long-range cruise missiles to counter NATO’s build-up in the region, Russian media reported on Wednesday. There was no official confirmation from Moscow, but the reports will raise tensions in the […]
Britain said on Wednesday it will send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO’s biggest military build-up on Russia’s borders since the Cold War. Germany, Canada and other NATO allies also pledged forces […]
US, Turkey and Poland are among the NATO member states which confirmed their readiness to dispatch naval units to the Black Sea in 2017, boosting the alliance’s presence in the region, according to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Stoltenberg noted “progress” in in strengthening NATO’s […]
KHAZER, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi special forces have moved more than 1,000 people from villages near the front lines of the battle to retake the Islamic State-held city of Mosul and surrounding areas, where the U.N. says militants have committed a number of atrocities in […]
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