Tag: boeing
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X-51a Waverider Test Flight
A test of X-51A set to achieve hypersonic flight today, dropped from under the wing of a B-52, reports Universe Today. You can view the previous May 26, 2010 flight on You Tube, where the X-plane performed for 200 seconds.
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Second US ‘secret space warplane’ x-37b to launch tomorrow
The US Air Force is set to launch its second X-37B miniature unmanned spaceplane – the type famously dubbed a “secret space warplane” by the Iranian government – on Friday.
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Police State Updates: I’ve Changed My Plea to Guilty
It’s now a tradition – the government militarizes the stupor bowl as another ‘black sunday’ arrives // TSA invades roads & highways with ‘VIPR’ checkpoints // Boeing received $5b in illegal govt subsidies // Russia to adopt universal id card in 2012
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launch of x-37b revisited
David Axe writes in “US Starting Asia Space Race?” April 22nd launch of X-37B robotic spacecraft into orbit by US Air Force counters China’s anti-satellite capability and goes a step further. “The X-37B, built by Boeing, could also be used to spy on and even disable other nations’ satellites, all without them necessarily knowing that…
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air force space plane: military launching robotic space vehicle
from ap: After a decade of development, the Air Force this month plans to launch a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide home to a California runway. The ultimate purpose of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle and details about the craft, which has been passed…
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warwhores: mercenaries, afghanisurge & lewd behavior
state dept extends blackwater/dyncorp contracts in iraq*flashback: dyncorp/halliburton sex slave scandal won’t go away*blackwater prince accused in US district court of intent to kill*poll: most americans oppose more troops for afghanistan*US afghan strategy ‘not working’*US to boost combat force in afghanistan*ray mcgovern: afghanistan for dummies*pentagon terminates controversial contract with rendon group*military cancels controversial reporter-rating contract*cia…
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obama orders review of nasa plan to return to moon
from reuters: The Obama administration has ordered a top-level review of the U.S. human spaceflight program that has been focused on returning astronauts to the moon by 2020, officials said on Thursday. Former Lockheed Martin Chairman and Chief Executive Norm Augustine will head a blue-ribbon panel charged with assessing NASA’s progress on a space transportation…
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Oligarchy In the UK: Obamessiah, G20 & the Bankster NWO
… our misleaders gathered to pose as saviors from an econocrash that they created… and now, the g20 has come down from the mountain with 6 commandments toward the new world order… ahead of g20, council told to switch off illegal £15m cctvfrom guardian: The security operation at this week’s G20 summit was thrown into…
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does the united states make anything anymore?
from ap: It may seem like the country that used to make everything is on the brink of making nothing. In January, 207,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs vanished in the largest one-month drop since October 1982. Factory activity is hovering at a 28-year low. Even before the recession, plants were hemorrhaging work to foreign competitors with…
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miltech: biolabs, spysats, germs & cern
cern atom-smasher relaunch delayed to septemberfrom afp: Researchers announced Monday a new delay for the restart of Europe’s Big Bang atom-smasher, saying the faulty multi-billion dollar machine would now be turned back on in late September. The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) had planned to relaunch the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this spring before…
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obama’s lobbyists, lies & airstrikes (do you get it, yet?!)
obama’s hypocrisy for raytheon:#2 at dod worked for military-industrial complexfrom youtube: Obama has already U-turned on a new policy of not allowing lobbyists in his administration to work with issues they have lobbied on in the past. However, just two days after stating his policy, he is already made an exception to his own rule…
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army looks to save its ‘future’
from danger room: With budget tights and tolerance for high-price technology programs growing thin, the Army today is announcing plans to revamp its massive $200 billion modernization effort, called the Future Combat Systems. Like the program itself, the changes are confusing, but appear to consist of plans to accelerate those technologies the Army thinks are…
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$20m ‘fence’ scrapped for not catching enough illegals
from ap: The government is scrapping a $20 million prototype of its highly touted “virtual fence” on the Arizona-Mexico border because the system is failing to adequately alert border patrol agents to illegal crossings, officials said. The move comes just two months after Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced his approval of the fence built…
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the military vs america, bush’s budget & fcs follies
US troops asked if they would shoot american citizensfrom paul joseph watson: U.S. troops are being trained to conduct round-ups, confiscate guns and shoot American citizens, including their own friends and family members, as part of a long-standing program to prepare for the declaration of martial law, according to a soldier who recently returned from…
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robochoppers, robobugs, radiohead & rudy
boeing robo-chopper for darpa’s super-spyeyefrom uk register: Arms’n’airliners behemoth Boeing has announced that its autonomous robotic stealth chopper, the A160T, will be the initial carrying platform for a new US airborne surveillance payload. The radical new spy system will not be so much an aerial camera as an all-seeing insect-style compound bugeye able to simultaneously…