http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/stealth/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:51:58 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418828/posts The United States is considering allowing Japan to take part in a multinational project to develop the F-35 next-generation stealth fighter, a press report said Tuesday. Washington may allow Tokyo to participate in the project even without assurances from Japan that it will procure the F-35, Kyodo News reported, quoting sources from both governments. The move is intended to clear the way for Japan to introduce the F-35 as its future mainstay fighter as countries not participating in the joint development would not be allowed to acquire it at an early date, Kyodo said. Tokyo's participation would be limited to... Space War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418828/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:51:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410241/posts The U.S. Air Force’s ISR chief says a new bomber design will be more about intelligence gathering and non-kinetic weapons than about bombing. The arsenal of this “long-range, ISR/Strike” aircraft may eventually include directed energy and network attack, says Lt. Gen. Dave Deptula, deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). Directed energy weapons under development by the Pentagon include a range of lasers and devices that produce pulses of high-power microwaves. Other non-kinetic capabilities include the attack of enemy sensors with very precise, exotic-waveform jamming and the low-power, electronic invasion of networks that link tactical weapon systems... Aviation Week and Space Technology http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410241/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:42:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404272/posts The U.S. Air Force has acknowledged that it is developing and testing a new, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) — a drone with a sleek, stealth design that will be deployed for military reconnaissance and surveillance missions. Aeronautics fans have nicknamed the aircraft "The Beast of Kandahar," as it was apparently spotted over the skies of Afghanistan. Industry observers speculate it is sophisticated enough to gather aerial intelligence over Iran without detection, perhaps keeping track of the Islamic Republic's emerging nuclear program. FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404272/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:20:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401313/posts The secret is out. The U.S. Air Force has confirmed the existence of the “Beast of Kandahar” UAV that was seen flying out of Afghanistan in late 2007. The jet aircraft – a tailless flying wing with sensor pods faired into the upper surface of each wing – is the RQ-170 Sentinel, developed by Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works. An Air Force official revealed to Aviation Week Friday afternoon that the service is “developing a stealthy unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to forward deployed combat forces.” Aviation Week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401313/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 02:54:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400826/posts The U.S. Air Force has confirmed to Aviation Week the existence of the so-called "Beast of Kandahar" UAV, a stealth-like remotely piloted jet seen flying out of Afghanistan in late 2007. The RQ-170 Sentinel, believed to be a tailless flying wing design with sensor pods faired into the upper surface of each wing, was developed by Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), better known as Skunk Works. An Air Force official revealed Dec. 4 that the service is "developing a stealthy unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to forward deployed combat forces." The UAV had been... Aviation Week and Space Technology http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400826/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 10:13:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400608/posts The existence of a new secret plane photographed this week has been confirmed by the United States Air Force. The secret aircraft now has an official denomination: The RQ-170 Sentinel, a flying wing developed by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works. The RQ-170 is a stealthy unmanned aircraft designed to "provide reconnaissance and surveillance support to forward deployed combat forces." It's flown by the 30th Reconnaissance Squadron at Tonopah Test Range, Nevada, under the Air Combat Command's 432d Wing at Creech Air Force Base, Nevada. The aircraft has a 65-foot wingspan, with a fat body and a blended wing design. It's... Gizmodo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400608/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 23:46:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399726/posts Seriously, how awesome does that look? Imagine Special Forces soldiers zooming through the skies at 60 mph, covering distances of 30 miles or more without being picked up by radar. It could actually happen. A group of German companies with expertise in parachute systems have joined forces to create the Gryphon Next Generation Parachute System. Designed for high altitude jumps, the Gryphon has a 6-foot wingspan and a glide ratio of 5:1, meaning that a solider can glide up to 30 miles in the air—60 if they go ahead with plans to add a small engine like the one... Gizmodo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399726/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:17:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399221/posts The U.S. Navy is playing catch-up by equipping some of its F-18E fighters with IRST (Infa-Red Search & Track). The first F-18E Block IIs are entering service, carrying an IRST pod. IRST uses a high resolution infrared (heat sensing) radar to positively spot and identify a potential aerial target (using a 3-D model of the target in its computer memory.) This is similar to the ATFLIR (Advanced Targeting Forward Looking Infrared) pods used to spot surface targets. FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared Radar) has been around since the 1980s, and as the technology became more powerful, it was possible to spot... The Strategy Page http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399221/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 13:21:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2363916/posts 1) Make it easier for individuals and families to buy their own policies and even to pool their own resources in ways that makes sense to them. The Knights of Columbus started as a life insurance association; we could have many more associations like that based on faith or geography or interest where people could pool their recourses in a way that makes sense to them. This has to be made easier. Groups must be able to sell insurance across state lines. 2) Give people incentives to spend their money wisely. The way it works right now, the employer provides... Blog: Catholic Prophecy Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2363916/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:27:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363738/posts IF only the laws of the uni verse didn't make it impossi ble to conjure something out of nothing. In a magical world free of such encumbrances, Democrats would be spared the bother of hiding the inevitable costs of ObamaCare. The latest gambit of Democrats in both the Senate and House is to take roughly $250 billion out of health-care reform -- for Medicare payments to doctors -- and spend it in a separate bill. This instantly makes ObamaCare appear cheaper, although its impact on the federal budget will be precisely the same. This isn't even competent three-card monte. It's... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363738/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:18:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362128/posts Health care legislation back behind closed doorsSenate leaders start trying to merge bills by The Associated Press Wednesday October 14, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) - Health care talks slip back behind closed doors Wednesday as Senate leaders start trying to merge two very different bills into a new version that can get the 60 votes needed to guarantee its passage. All eyes are on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who has said he wants to complete the wedding quickly and get historic health care overhaul legislation onto the floor the week after next. Both bills were written by Democrats,... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362128/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:24:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357992/posts Security: After Iran admits building a second enrichment facility inside a mountain, the Pentagon shifts money from other programs to urgently fund the mother of all bunker-buster bombs. Why the need for speed? At the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh last month, President Obama announced, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom for several years." U.S. officials said they knew for some time that the facility existed. The announcement was made after U.S. officials learned Iran had told the International Atomic Energy Agency of Qom's existence. Our knowledge of the facility built in... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357992/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 00:40:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357991/posts Security: After Iran admits building a second enrichment facility inside a mountain, the Pentagon shifts money from other programs to urgently fund the mother of all bunker-buster bombs. Why the need for speed? At the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh last month, President Obama announced, "The Islamic Republic of Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility near Qom for several years." U.S. officials said they knew for some time that the facility existed. The announcement was made after U.S. officials learned Iran had told the International Atomic Energy Agency of Qom's existence. Our knowledge of the facility built in... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357991/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 00:37:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357651/posts Sole Control - Sen. Harry Reid will write the bill himself taking pieces of the Baucus vapor bill and the Kennedy "Do it for Ted" bill. This merger will happen with a few chosen people behind tightly closed doors. There will be no hearing, no testimony, no public input. Citizens' Council on Health Care http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357651/posts#comment Thu, 8 Oct 2009 16:57:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2347651/posts Senate Finance Committee Democrats, led by Max Baucus (D-MO), have rejected a GOP amendment that would have required a health care overhaul bill, America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009, to be available online for 72 hours before the committee votes claiming that it was a GOP delaying tactic. Republicans argued that transparency is an Obama administration goal and said their constituents are demanding that they read bills before voting... Unhealthy Stealth Tactics of New ObamaCare Bill Common Sense 2020 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2347651/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:27:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343249/posts Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, plans to propose a new so-called net neutrality rule Monday that could prevent telecommunications, cable and wireless companies from blocking Internet applications, according to sources at the agency. Genachowski will discuss the rules Monday during a keynote speech at The Brookings Institute. He isn't expected to drill into many details, but the proposal will specifically be for an additional guideline on how operators like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast can control what goes on their networks. That additional guideline would prevent the operators from discriminating, or act as gatekeepers, of Web content and... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343249/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:46:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340694/posts The state is getting a $17 million federal grant to provide government health insurance to low-income working parents. The (Raleigh) News and Observer Newspaper (online) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340694/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:25:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339401/posts SCREW THE OBAMA STEALTH CARE PLAN 1. action to avoid detection: the action of doing something slowly, quietly, and covertly, in order to avoid detection 2. furtiveness: secretive, dishonest, or cunning behavior or actions Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. When the paint on VA Clinic walls and VA Hospitals is falling off, and rats roam the halls, THAT'S FAILURE! When MediCare pays out more than it takes in, that's FAILURE! When Social Security is broke... that's FAILURE! Listen to 0bama. He thinks the more control he has over our lives, the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2339401/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:14:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329681/posts What is wrong with the following sentence? Congress wrote the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill while meeting in Washington on the backs of envelopes. Hint: there are at least two correct answers. I have written many posts about the Kennedy-Dodd health care bill. There is only one problem. I learned Saturday, courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, that what we all thought was the Kennedy-Dodd bill, isn’t the Kennedy-Dodd bill. It seems that after the bill was released to the public in June, on July 15, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, under the “leadership” of Sen. Dodd (D.... http://www.radioviceonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329681/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 19:49:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324669/posts Stealthy Sukhois Posted by Bill Sweetman at 8/25/2009 5:00 AM CDT Talking about stealth in relation to the Sukhoi Su-27 and its extended family, including the new Su-35S, tends to cause people to fall over in fits of mirth. Like Chandler's Moose Malloy, the basic airplane looks about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. But just about six years ago, in late 2003, Defense IQ managed to persuade a team from the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Electromagnetics (ITAE), part of the Russian Academy of Sciences, to present at a conference on stealth in London.... Aviation Week http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324669/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:52:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312811/posts One video is worth a thousand words (or, as in this column, about 730). The video in question, put together by a group called Verum Serum, shows public statements by three advocates of single-payer (government monopoly) health insurance explaining that a health care bill with a "government option" would move America toward a single-payer government health care system. You may not have heard of the first two, Rep. Jan Schakowsky and professor Jacob Hacker. But you have heard of the third, President Barack Obama. Schakowsky is a left-wing Democrat from the north side of Chicago and adjacent suburbs and, as... http://www.rasmussenreports.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312811/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:05:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307519/posts Defense: As the failure of engagement with Iran grows more apparent, the administration that has talked very softly may be getting the mother of all sticks ready. Guess we need high-tech Cold War weapons after all.Western intelligence sources have told London's Times that Iran has perfected the means to develop and detonate a nuclear bomb and is merely awaiting word from its supreme leader to produce its first one. Should the order be given, it would take just six months to enrich enough uranium and another six months to assemble the warhead. Time's up. Recently, and perhaps not coincidentally, Defense... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2307519/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 00:15:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299879/posts Northrop Grumman has moved the U.S. Air Force a critical step closer to being able to drop a from the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. 30,000 pound penetrator weapon On April 28, an Air Force team, a Northrop Grumman-led aircraft contractor team and a Boeing-led weapon contractor team verified that the equipment required to integrate the new Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) on the B-2 -- the hardware that holds the MOP inside the weapons bay, the weapon itself, and the hardware used by the aircrew to command and release the weapon -- will fit together properly inside the aircraft. Northrop Grumman... Space War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299879/posts#comment Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:09:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299230/posts The ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee says the battle to fund more than 187 F-22 stealth fighters is not over, even though pro-Raptor forces suffered a stinging defeat in the Senate this week. Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon of California told HUMAN EVENTS the next F-22 war zone is a House-Senate committee conference on defense spending. There, as ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, McKeon will fight to preserve final bill language to provide for 12 more jets, as the House approved...Gen. John Corley, who heads Air Force Air Combat Command in Langley, Va., sent a... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299230/posts#comment Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:46:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297887/posts Defense Spending: The TARP bailout may hit $24 trillion, but the Senate says the F-22 is too expensive to build and maintain. So why are the Japanese so desperate to buy this "unnecessary" Cold War weapon?By a vote of 58-40, the Senate on Tuesday voted to remove $1.75 billion set aside in a defense bill to build seven more F-22 Raptors, adding to the 187 stealth technology fighters already in the pipeline. After some hope the production lines would be kept open, the Senate succumbed to arguments by the administration and others that the fighter was too expensive, too hard... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297887/posts#comment Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:36:56 GMT