So, Finnish Authorities yesterday found 69 Patriot air-defense missiles and another 160 tons of explosives on a ship bound for China. What!? The British-flagged merchant ship Thor Liberty apparently left Emden, Germany with the missiles and stopped in Finland to pick up anchor chains when Finnish customs inspectors found the weapons — in crates marked as fireworks […]
From the monthly archives:
December 2011
Yup, NASA’s hiring astronauts. Just make sure you’ve got 1,000 hours in jet aircraft and can fit inside a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Check out this hilarious and cool job posting a friend just sent me.
Here’s a major first in the use of UAVs, on Saturday one of Lockheed’s unmanned K-MAX helicopters delivered a sling load of supplies to Marines at a base in Afghanistan. This marks a pretty significant turning point in the development of drone warfare. For nearly a decade drones have been used to collect intelligence and […]
Your pic of the day is this official Air Force photo of an airman aboard the last U.S. military plane to leave Iraq on Dec. 18. Correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like he’s flashing Jay Z’s Roc sign in celebration as his C-17 prepares to leave Ali Air Base in Iraq. I […]
So, just days after returning to port, China’s first aircraft carrier, the ex-Soviet ship Varyag, is putting to sea again. Check out these photos that supposedly show the ship making her way out of the Dalian shipyard for yet another cruise. Her first time at sea was a very short cruise last August, she returned […]
