Um, excuse me? Someone has apparently managed to steal eight, yes, eight retired Pratt & Whitney F100 fighter jet engines that power F-15s and F-16s from an Israeli air base, according to an AFP article. How on Earth did this happen in one of the world’s most security-conscious nations? I mean, each engine weighs several […]
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Well, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency has come out and said that it strongly thinks that Syrian target blown up by Israeli fighter jets in 2007 was a secret nuclear plant. While the IAEA hasn’t yet presented hard proof that the site was a nuke facility, it did find prelimary evidence of […]
In case you haven’t seen it already, The New York Times ran an interesting piece last Saturday highlighting a host of clues suggesting the U.S. and Israel collaborated to build the Stuxnet worm that wreaked havoc on Iran’s nuclear program. Among the more interesting facts presented, is that Siemens, the company whose industrial control computers […]
By Kevin Coleman, Defense Tech Cyberwarfare Correspondent Information began coming out in mid-January that the Iranian government was preparing to file a law suit against Israel for crimes against their nuclear scientists including the one that was named to head the Stuxnet cyber attack investigation. The regime went on to warn “Western Nations” if they […]
Israeli fighters scrambled and shot down an intruder bearing down on one of the nation’s nuclear facilities near the Dead Sea; the bandit was a balloon. “Air force planes were scrambled after a suspicious object was seen,” a military spokeswoman told AFP. “It was shot down.” She did not elaborate. Local news site Ynet said […]
