This is why you don’t keep money under your mattress… In an extremely unusual airstrike, the U.S. dropped bombs Sunday in central Mosul, Iraq, destroying a building containing huge amounts of cash ISIS was using to pay its troops and for ongoing operations, two U.S. defense officials said. The officials could not say exactly how much […]
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High-altitude wind mills – tapping into free wind energy. Several startups are investigating approaches to tapping wind energy at high altitudes. “Altaeros Energies”, for example, is building wind turbines inside helium gas-filled industrial blimps that are tethered to the ground to generate electricity. At 2,000 feet in the sky, the company says a turbine will generate twice as much energy as conventional […]
U.S. B-52 bomber flies over S. Korea in solidarity after N. Korean nuclear claim. Days after North Korea claimed it tested a hydrogen bomb, the United States responded with a display of military might on the Korean Peninsula. A B-52 bomber jet from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam flew over Osan, South Korea, on Sunday […]
New U.S. Navy / Northrop Grumman contract aims to equip hundreds of ships with drones! [sws_facebook_share][sws_facebook_like href=”” showfaces=”false” width=”200″ height=”21″ action=”like” layout=”standard” colorscheme=”light” font=”arial”] [/sws_facebook_like] The Pentagon is hoping a multimillion-dollar investment in new technology will enable drones on hundreds of Navy ships to provide air support to operations around the globe. The goal of the […]