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The Air Force's super-stealthy F-22 Raptor fighters likely would see their first combat action if a no-fly zone is set up by the U.S. and its allies over Libya, a senior defense official said Thursday. Under questioning from Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said it would be his "expectation" that F-22 fighters "would be in use" during "the early days" of a no-fly zone mission.

"The Air Force has significant excess capacity for the Libya mission," the veteran fighter pilot says. "It is the perfect scenario for the F-22 and F-16CJ Wild Weasels that are currently not engaged in Afghanistan. The Air Force's bread-and-butter mission is to take down sophisticated, integrated air defense systems, attack air bases to render them unusable, destroy any radars that emit, and clear the skies of any aircraft in flight. After an intense, 24-48-hr. campaign, enforcing the no-fly zone is a routine operation."

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"If the U.S. decides to establish a no-fly zone over Libya, the effort could be led by F-22s in their first combat assignment." Click here for the full article.

The Presidential Protective Detail is the holiest of holies. Everything stops for the presidential motorcade . . . The prime minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was not so understanding. His motorcade was arriving at the Sheraton Hotel while a “POTUS Freeze” was in place. The Secret Service agent in charge of Erdogan’s detail asked him to wait until Obama’s motorcade had departed, but the Turkish prime minister did not heed the advice. He opened the door to his car, and armed Turkish agents began exiting the other vehicles in the motorcade. “Don’t do that!” the American detail leader shouted....

U.S. Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant Colonel Dirk Smith (Commander, 94th Fighter Squadron) peels away from USAF Major Kevin Dolata (Assistant Director of Operations, 94th Fighter Squadron) during the delivery flight of the first F-22A Raptor stealth fighter jets to the 94th Fighter Squadron at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, on March 3, 2006. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm (medium, large) The Photographer Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker, United States Air Force  

One Raptor, one flare, high above the Gulf of Mexico, U.S. of A. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm (medium, large, huge) The Photographer Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr., United States Air Force  

As a professional news reporter, my newscasts are almost nightly filled with instances of gunfire in my local community. Wherever you are reading this story, somewhere in your area of the world there has been enough violence to make you cringe and ask the age-old question of "why?" There seems to be an atmosphere of "in your face" high-pitched disagreement in our country. You need only to turn on some television reality shows, purportedly showing real people in real-life situations, to see arguments and disagreements have reached such a boiling point. Much of what goes for television and movies entertainment...

"Any notion that an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter or F/A-18E/F Super Hornet will be capable of competing against this Chengdu design in air combat, let alone penetrate airspace defended by this fighter, would be simply absurd. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet are both aerodynamically and kinematically quite inferior to the as presented J-XX/J-20 design, and even the shape based VLO capability in the J-XX/J-20, as presented, will effectively neutralise any sensor advantage either type might possess against earlier Russian and Chinese fighter designs." Photo via http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showpost.php?p=1683545&postcount=164

Americans tend not to think outside the box, as was evidenced by our stunned reaction to 9-11. Imagine the following: 1. China tells the world they are going to "absorb" Taiwan peacefully, just as they did Hong Kong. The Taiwanese call on the USA for help. 2. The US federal budget is only 60% funded by internal revenue. The rest is covered by borrowing, much of it from China. China calls in the US debt. The US defaults, casting the US and world economies into chaos. Social Security, military payroll, etc, don't get paid out. 3. Cyber warfare of unknown...

U.S. Air Force F-22A Raptor stealth fighter jets fly together over the Western Pacific Ocean. Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060917.htm (medium, large, huge) The Photographer Master Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald, United States Air Force  

The Via http://www.flickr.com/photos/code20photog/4024791969/  The Photographer Ken Koller 

The Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20050822.htm (photo 16)   The Photographer Tech. Sgt. Ben Bloker, United States Air Force  

I am writing this letter to you because you, as a young general with the capability to think freshly, must place a check on your father's irrational behavior. Your father is hastening the collapse of the North Korean regime although he insists that he is trying to defend it.

The U.S. imperialists openly approved the puppet forces' plan to attack the DPRK by mobilizing all fighters and warships, etc. not bound to the existing "rules and regulations for battles," touting "their right to self-defence." They, at the same time, declared they would consider the proposal for supporting the puppet forces with "information about north Korea" and with "F-22 Raptors" advertised by them as the "most sophisticated fighters in the world" in case of a war between the north and the south of Korea. This indicates that the U.S. is fully joining in the puppet forces' moves for a war...

Photo No. 1 Photo No. 2 Photo No. 3 Photo No. 4 Photo No. 5 Photo No. 6 Photo No. 7 The Via http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-200905.htm (photos 25 and 26)   The Photographer Major Michael S. Humphreys, United States Army   The Video NORAD and Russian Air Force Participate in Air Defense Exercise  

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"If North Korea launches another military attack on our territory and people, we must swiftly and strongly respond with force and punish them thoroughly until they surrender," the new defence minister said. "We do not want war, but we must never be afraid of it," he said, adding South Korea faces "the worst crisis since the Korean War," which ended in an armistice in 1953.

The fate of the joint Gaeseong Industrial Park in North Korea, the last thread of inter-Korean reconciliation, has been called into greater question amid soaring tension after the North’s deadly shelling of Yeonpyeong Island last week. In a confirmation hearing at the National Assembly, Friday, defense minister-nominee Kim Kwan-jin said he would propose closing the complex to President Lee Myung-bak as it could hamper the military’s ability to respond in the event of a North Korean attack. “The complex, where many South Koreans are working, could be an obstacle in mapping out military measures against North Korea,” Kim said. The...

As South Korea dramatically revised its soft rules of engagement with its northern neighbour, a leading Chinese academic said the North's attack was a misjudgment for which it would pay a high price. "The immediate cost might be military strike, and the longer-term cost might be large-scale war, resulting in the disappearance of North Korea as a country," Renmin University's Pang Zhongying said. "But South Korea must consider that before North Korea becomes extinct, it will use up all its weapons, include nuclear weapons."