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Archive for October, 2010
DARPA orders miracle motor for its flying car
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Oct/2010 02:48
“Intriguing news today on the flying-car front – and indeed many other fronts. A Californian space-rocket company says it has received US government funding to develop a miraculous engine that would offer as much power-for-weight as a gas turbine, but would be much cheaper and simpler to make and maintain.”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/21/transformer_tx_engine_deal/
Slow Motion bullet impacts
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 22/Oct/2010 02:46
This one has been around for a while, but it’s just so darn fascinating…
Afghan National Police and U.S. Troops Search for Caches in Khowst Province
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 21/Oct/2010 22:42
U.S. Army Sgt. Stephen Olson exits a cave during a mission with Afghan national police to search for enemy weapons caches near Shah Wali Zarat, Khowst province, Afghanistan. Olson is deployed with A Company, 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion (Airborne), 4-25 Brigade Combat Team.
Patrol in Khost Province, Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Warriors on 21/Oct/2010 22:40
U.S. Army Soldiers patrol an area near the village of Kowtay, Khowst province, Afghanistan. The Soldiers are deployed with 2nd Platoon, Company A, 425th Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division.
Guerrilla Trucks: why the Toyota Hilux pickup is the AK-47 of vehicles
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 22:34
“As the war in Afghanistan escalated several years ago, counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen, a member of the team that designed the Iraq surge for Gen. David Petraeus, began to notice a new tattoo on some insurgent Afghan fighters. It wasn’t a Taliban tattoo. It wasn’t even Afghan. It was a Canadian maple leaf.
When a perplexed Kilcullen began to investigate, he says, he discovered that the incongruous flags were linked to what he says is one of the most important, and unnoticed, weapons of guerrilla war in Afghanistan and across the world: the lightweight, virtually indestructible Toyota Hilux truck.
“In Afghanistan in particular,†he says, “[the trucks are] incredibly well respected.â€
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/10/14/why-rebel-groups-love-the-toyota-hilux.html
A Year at War
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 22:22
Some 30,000 American soldiers are taking part in the Afghanistan surge. Here are the stories of the men and women of First Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division. Over the next year, The New York Times will follow their journey.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/battalion.html#/NYT/0
Mexican Cartels Purchasing Grenades for $6.50
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch on 21/Oct/2010 20:09
“How much is six dollars and fifty cents? What can you buy with $6.50? Just off the top of my head, in the U.S., I’m thinking I could buy a couple gallons of gas, a pack of smokes, or maybe a value meal from one of my favorite fast food joints.
In Mexico, on the other hand, with roughly $80 pesos, I can buy two packs of smokes and a big bag of chips, a kilo of sirloin, about 9 liters of gas, or a tasty 8 taco breakfast washed down with an ice cold bottled Coca-Çola.
Or, for those same $80 Mexican pesos, according to a report made public in ElNorte, with the right connections, I could buy myself a grenade from Guatemala.”
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/10/mexican-cartels-purchasing-grenades-for.html
HIMARS rockets video footage: Afghani locals “talk with awe of a powerful new rocketâ€
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 19:40
Amazingly, just a few months after NATO and Afghan troops gradually stepped up operations in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar, the insurgents have fled, with a return unlikely.
If pronouncements like “We broke their neck†from the Afghan police commander of Argandab district seem premature, consider this: The NATO general in charge of the area credits a new miracle rocket with helping turn the tide and it has been in Afghanistan for a while.
The Times‘ veteran Afghanistan correspondent Carlotta Gall writes that locals “talk with awe of a powerful new rocket†that NATO’s used to batter Taliban outposts in Panjwai “with remarkable accuracy.â€
NATO general credits new miracle rocket with helping turn the tide in Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 19:37
“HIMARS use is tightly-regulated, precisely because it’s so powerful. Sitting on the back of a 5-ton truck, HIMARS is capable of firing a single, 13-foot ATACMS surface-to-surface missile 100 miles or more away.
Or, it can pound up to half-dozen GPS-guided rockets in a matter of seconds at at a single target more than 40 miles in the distance; that’s more than double the range of a traditional howitzer.
“The advantage of HIMARS is that is can put a lot of firepower downrange very, very quickly,†an Army fire support officer told Danger Room in February.
It’s so much firepower, in fact, that, for a while in Afghanistan, air strikes were easier to authorize than HIMARS. (At least the air assaults had overhead intelligence to back ‘em up.)”
Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/10/did-a-new-rocket-help-rout-the-taliban-depends-what-you-mean-by-new-and-rout/#ixzz132kbR3YP
$19 Billion Later, Pentagon’s Best Bomb-Detector Is a Dog
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 19:29
“Drones, metal detectors, chemical sniffers, and super spycams — forget ‘em. The leader of the Pentagon’s multibillion military task force to stop improvised bombs says there’s nothing in the U.S. arsenal for bomb detection more powerful than a dog’s nose.
Despite a slew of bomb-finding gagdets, the American military only locates about 50 percent of the improvised explosives planted in Afghanistan and Iraq. But that number jumps to 80 percent when U.S. and Afghan patrols take dogs along for a sniff-heavy walk. “Dogs are the best detectors,†Lieutenant General Michael Oates, the commander of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, told a conference yesterday.”
$19 Billion Later, Pentagon’s Best Bomb-Detector Is a Dog | Danger Room | Wired.com.
The Falcon Lake Murder and Mexico’s Drug Wars
Posted by Brian in News, Threat Watch on 21/Oct/2010 17:19
The Falcon Lake Murder and Mexico’s Drug Wars is republished with permission of STRATFOR.
By Scott Stewart
STRATFOR published an analysis last Wednesday noting that a reliable source in Mexico informed us that the Sept. 30 shooting death of U.S. citizen David Hartley on Falcon Lake — which straddles the U.S.-Mexico border — was a mistake committed by a low-level member of the Los Zetas drug trafficking organization. The source also informed us that those responsible for Hartley’s death are believed to have disposed of his body and that the Zeta hierarchy was conducting a damage-control operation to punish those responsible for the death and to distance the cartel from the murder. The source further reported that the murder of the lead Tamaulipas state investigator on the case, Rolando Armando Flores Villegas — whose head was delivered in a suitcase to the Mexican military’s Eight Zone headquarters in Reynosa on Oct. 12 — was a specific message from Los Zetas to Mexican authorities to back off from the investigation.
Since publishing the report, we have been deluged by interview requests regarding the case. Numerous media outlets have interviewed Fred Burton and myself regarding the Falcon Lake case. During the course of talking with reporters and customers, it became obvious to us that a solid understanding of the context within which Hartley’s killing occurred was lacking in media discussions of the case. Viewing the murder as part of the bigger picture of what is occurring in Mexico makes it far easier to understand not only why David Hartley was killed, but why his body will likely never be found — and why his killers probably will not be held accountable for their actions, at least in the context of the judicial system. Read the rest of this entry »
Coalition Routs Taliban in Southern Afghanistan
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News, Threat Watch, Warriors on 21/Oct/2010 01:06
Joao Silva for The New York Times An American soldier looked out Tuesday from a guard post in Arghandab, Afghanistan, a strategic district in Kandahar Province north of the city of Kandahar.
“ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan — American and Afghan forces have been routing the Taliban in much of Kandahar Province in recent weeks, forcing many hardened fighters, faced with the buildup of American forces, to flee strongholds they have held for years, NATO commanders, local Afghan officials and residents of the region said.
Some of the gains seem to have come from a new mobile rocket that has pinpoint accuracy — like a small cruise missile — and has been used against the hideouts of insurgent commanders around Kandahar. That has forced many of them to retreat across the border into Pakistan.
Disruption of their supply lines has made it harder for them to stage retaliatory strikes or suicide bombings, at least for the moment, officials and residents said.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/21/world/asia/21kandahar.html?_r=1
US confirms $60 billion Saudi arms deal
Posted by Jack Sinclair in News on 21/Oct/2010 01:02
“The United States plans to sell up to $60bn worth of military aircraft to Saudi Arabia, the US state department has announced, the largest US arms sale ever.
The sale, which had been expected, includes 84 Boeing F-15 fighter jets and 70 upgrades of existing Saudi F-15s.
It also includes 70 of Boeing’s Apache attack helicopters and 36 AH-6M Little Birds, lightweight helicopters often used in special operations.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/10/20101020173353178622.html