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Z-19E Helicopter Details

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How to Kill A Stealth Fighter

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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>It all comes down to radar ... and a big enough missile.</b></span><b> </b></div>
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The United States has poured
 tens of billions of dollars into developing fifth-generation stealth 
fighters such as the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike 
Fighter. However, relatively simple signal processing enhancements, 
combined with a missile with a large warhead and its own terminal 
guidance system, could potentially allow low-frequency radars and such 
weapons systems to target and fire on the latest generation U.S. 
aircraft.<br />
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It is a well-known fact within Pentagon and industry circles that <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/look-out-america-china-can-un-stealth-us-fighter-jets-15293">low-frequency radars</a> operating in the<a href="http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/revealed-can-chinas-radars-track-americas-stealth-f-22-15261"> VHF and UHF bands can detect and track low-observable aircraft.</a>
 It has generally been held that such radars can’t guide a missile onto a
 target — i.e. generate a “weapons quality” track. But that is not 
exactly correct — there are ways to get around the problem, according to
 some experts.<br />
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Traditionally, guiding weapons with low frequency radars has been 
limited by two factors. One factor is the width of the radar beam, while
 the second is the width of the radar pulse — but both limitations can 
be overcome with signal processing.<br />
The width of the beam is directly related to the design of the 
antenna — which is necessarily large because of the low frequencies 
involved. Early low-frequency radars like the Soviet-built P-14 Tall 
King VHF-band radars was enormous in size and used a semi-parabolic 
shape to limit the width of the beam. Later radars like the P-18 Spoon 
Rest used a Yagi-Uda array — which were lighter and somewhat smaller.<br />
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But these early low frequency radars had some serious limitations in 
determining the range and the precise direction of a contact. 
Furthermore, they could not determine altitude because the radar beams 
produced by these systems are several degrees wide in azimuth and tens 
of degrees wide in elevation.<br />
Another traditional limitation of VHF and UHF-band radars is that 
their pulse width is long and they have a low pulse repetition frequency
 [PRF] — which means such systems are poor at accurately determining 
range.<br />
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As Mike Pietrucha, a former Air Force an electronic warfare officer 
who flew on the McDonnell Douglas F-4G Wild Weasel and Boeing F-15E 
Strike Eagle once described to me, a pulse width of 20 microseconds 
yields a pulse that is roughly 19,600 feet long — range resolution is 
half the length of that pulse.  That means that range can’t be 
determined accurately within 10,000 feet. Furthermore, two targets near 
one another can’t be distinguished as separate contacts.<br />
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Signal processing partially solved the range resolution problem as 
early as in the 1970s. The key is a process called frequency modulation 
on pulse, which is used to compress a radar pulse.<br />
The advantage of using pulse compression is that with a 
20-microsecond pulse, the range resolution is reduced to about 180 feet 
or so. There are also several other techniques that can be used to 
compress a radar pulse such as phase shift keying. Indeed, according to 
Pietrucha, the technology for pulse compression is decades old and was 
taught to Air Force electronic warfare officers during the 1980s.<br />
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The computer processing power required for this is negligible by current standards, Pietrucha said.<br />
Engineers solved the problem of directional or azimuth resolution by 
using phased array radar designs, which dispensed with the need for a 
parabolic array. Unlike older mechanically scanned arrays, phased array 
radars steer their radar beams electronically. Such radars can generate 
multiple beams and can shape those beams for width, sweep rate and other
 characteristics.<br />
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The
 necessary computing power to accomplish that task was available in the 
late 1970s for what eventually became the Navy’s Aegis combat system 
found on the <i>Ticonderoga</i>-class cruisers and <i>Arleigh Burke</i>-class destroyers. An active electronically scanned array is better still, being even more precise.<br />
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With a missile warhead large enough, the range resolution does not 
have to be precise. For example, the now antiquated S-75 Dvina — known 
in NATO parlance as the SA-2 Guideline — has a 440-pound warhead with a 
lethal radius of more than 100 feet. Thus, a notional 20-microsecond 
compressed pulse with a range resolution of 150 feet should have the 
range resolution to get the warhead close enough — according to 
Pietrucha’s theory.<br />
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The directional and elevation resolution would have to be similar 
with an angular resolution of roughly 0.3 degrees for a target at 
30 nautical miles because the launching radar is the only system guiding
 the SA-2. For example, a missile equipped with its own sensor — perhaps
 an infrared sensor with a scan volume of a cubic kilometer — would be 
an even more dangerous foe against an F-22 or F-35.<br />
<i><i><span class="legend-default">Dave Majumdar</span>.</i> The defense editor for the National Interest. </i><br />
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How to Kill A Stealth Fighter

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Conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted an 'interstellar mothership' near Jupiter's moon Europa

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An enormous alien structure was seen 
moving in the direction of Jupiter’s moon Europa which, according to 
some, resembles an ‘interstellar mothership’ or ‘an intergalactic 
cruiser’. The image was taken by a Canon 650D camera with a 7D-300mm 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Jupiter has long been shrouded in mystery along with its moon and particularly that of Europa,’ says UFO researcher from <a class="" href="https://twitter.com/SecureTeam10/status/700877111825866752" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">SecureTeam</a>, Tyler, in a YouTube video – who does not give his full name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘There
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the vast oceans that currently exists under its icy surface.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The video was sent to SecureTeam from Louis Read, a Martian researcher from the city of Bristol in the UK.</span></div>
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brightly to the right of it, which they suggest is approaching Europa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Tyler notes that the UFO comes very close to Europa and nothing like this has ever been seen in our solar system – until now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘We definitely have a reflective UFO up there caught on camera,’ he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">SecureTeam
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doubt that the glowing orbit is a structure and could actually be 
multiple structures put together.</span></div>
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wouldn’t surprise me in the least if this was some sort of alien craft,’
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">SecureTeam
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icy world of Europa is also on the top of Nasa scientists’ list for next
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SecureTeam has 
expressed their belief about life on fifth planet and believe the icy 
world of Europa is also on the top of Nasa scientists’ list for next 
exploration mission. As SecureTeam notes, the moon will likely be the 
next mission for the American space agency</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">As SecureTeam notes, the moon will likely be the next mission for the American space agency.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Europa
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hopefully it will be a manned mission where we can land on the surface 
and rill down into the ice’, Tyler said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">‘Get a camera down there and checkout what’s down there in the ocean underneath.’</span></div>
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SecureTeam is very excited about this 
‘amazing find’ because they say there is no doubt that the glowing orbit
 is a structure and could actually be multiple structures put 
together. ‘One thing for sure is that this definitely doesn’t belong 
there and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if this was some sort of 
alien craft,’ says Tyler</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Although
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spacecraft, others are not on-board, as many commentators have 
questioned if the reflecting light is the planet Saturn or a cluster of 
Jupiter’s moons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Others
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‘Europa will likely be one of Nasa’s 
next missions where we send a probe and hopefully it will be a manned 
mission where we can land on the surface and rill down into the ice’, 
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But regardless of SecureTeam’s 
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their full attention on Mars. Right now, the Curiosity Rover is rolling 
around the red planet searching signs of life, conducting experiments 
and sending back thousands of pictures of the dusty wasteland</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">But regardless of SecureTeam’s enthusiasm for Nasa to explore the icy moon, Nasa seems to have their full attention on Mars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Right
 now, the Curiosity Rover is rolling around the red planet searching 
signs of life, conducting experiments and sending back thousands of 
pictures of the dusty wasteland.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">So by the time Nasa does send a manned mission to Jupiter, the alien spacecraft could be long gone.</span></div>
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source who just sent in this image, along with the original. 
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Conspiracy theorists claim to have spotted an 'interstellar mothership' near Jupiter's moon Europa

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The newest version of the 5ft 9in (175cm), two-legged cyborg is shown 
navigating snow-covered terrain, lifting 10lb (4.5kg) boxes with ease, 
and resisting a human’s attempt to knock it over.<br />
Engineers are also seen taunting and teasing Atlas by repeatedly 
knocking one of the boxes out of its hands with a hockey stick, which 
could backfire later if the robot develops revenge programming. <i>rt</i><br />
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<i>“It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and 
stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain, help 
with navigation and manipulate objects,”</i> Boston Dynamics said about the 180lb (82 kg) machine.<br />
<i>The video ends with the robot opening a door and exiting the building, presumably to go plot the fall of mankind. </i><br />
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Humanoid robot Atlas, a possible breakthrough for the cyborg takeover of Earth. <i>dailygrail</i><br />
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In recent years the name Boston Dynamics has become synonymous with 
next-level robotics.<br />
The robotics company has released a number of 
amazing videos showing off their creations.<br />
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Boston Dynamics have now released some footage of the new-and-improved 
model of their humanoid Atlas robot - one that can open doors, lift and 
place objects, recover from being pushed, and even stand back up after 
being knocked over. And those same emotions are bound to resurface, 
swinging from sympathy when Atlas is being pushed around, to trepidation
 when it gets pushed to the ground and manages to stand itself back 
up...remind me again where we've seen a robot keep getting up after 
being knocked down?<br />
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A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside 
buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically
 powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and 
legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid 
obstacles, assess the terrain, help with navigation and manipulate 
objects.<br />
This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter
 than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs.<br />
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Earlier this month, the company showed off their four-legged robot, 
Spot, and, again, staff were shown repeatedly kicking their creation as 
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<span id="ext-gen176" style="font-size: 1.2em;">A radical new weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound could be used by the Navy as soon as 2018.</span></div>
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<span id="ext-gen174" style="font-size: 1.2em;">Described
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force and accuracy it penetrates three concrete walls or six half-inch 
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idea of foregoing the current plan to put a prototype on another vessel 
this year and instead put it directly on future USS Lyndon B. Johnson - 
though no final decision has been made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'The
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electromagnetic railgun,' said Lt. Cmdr. Hayley Sims, a Navy 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">'Due to the size, weight and power requirements, some platforms will be better suited for the technology than others.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Using
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 a projectile between two rails that conduct electricity, before 
launching it at ferocious speed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This means the railgun can fire further than conventional guns and maintain enough kinetic energy to inflict tremendous damage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Railguns were first conceived of nearly a century ago and patented by French inventor Louis Octave Fauchon-Villeplee. </span></div>
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use in propulsion, weapons and sensors. That's more than enough power 
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warships,' said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington 
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quality and best service at the lowest cost of ownership,' according to 
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about the importance, not just of increased digital penetration in 
India, but also of making products in India. 'Unless India innovates and
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everyone, for fishermen and farmers and students. But technology that is
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Preorders for the Freedom 251 open on February 18 at 6AM and close on February 21 at 8PM from the firm's <a class="" href="http://www.freedom251.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank">web </a>site, with 500,000 handsets believed to be available.</span></div>
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billionth mobile phone subscriber in October, according to the country's
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 of RAM, 8GB of internal storage with a MicroSD slot, a 3.2MP camera on 
the back, a 0.3MP one on the front, and a 1450mAh battery. </span></div>
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'Nitro Zeus' Was Cyber Attack Plan Aimed At Iran If Nuclear Negotiations Failed: Report

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Shortly after President Barack Obama took office, 
plans were drawn up to unleash absolute hell on parts of Iran’s power 
grid, air defense system, communications and command and control 
apparatus via a series of coordinated cyber attacks, according to a new 
report in <em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/world/middleeast/us-had-cyberattack-planned-if-iran-nuclear-negotiations-failed.html?_r=0&mtrref=undefined&gwh=1915890CF33F5F8F996668DA689CD7D2&gwt=pay" target="_blank">The New York Times</a></em>.</div>
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The plan, code-named Nitro Zeus, was devised to disable <a class="meta-loc" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iran/index.html?inline=nyt-geo" title="More news and information about Iran.">Iran</a>’s
 air defenses, communications systems and crucial parts of its power 
grid, and was shelved, at least for the foreseeable future, after the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/31/world/middleeast/simple-guide-nuclear-talks-iran-us.html" title="New York Times article.">nuclear deal</a> struck between Iran and six other nations last summer <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/world/middleeast/iran-sanctions-lifted-nuclear-deal.html" title="New York Times article.">was fulfilled</a>.</div>
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arsenal. The proposed intelligence operation would have inserted a 
computer “worm” into the facility with the aim of frying Fordo’s 
computer systems — effectively delaying or destroying the ability of 
Iranian centrifuges to enrich uranium at the site. It was intended as <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/world/middleeast/obama-ordered-wave-of-cyberattacks-against-iran.html?_r=0">a follow-up to “Olympic Games,”</a>
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centrifuges inside Fordo have been removed in recent months, along with 
all nuclear material. The facility is banned from any nuclear-related 
work and is being converted to other uses, eliminating the threat that 
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The<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/world/middleeast/us-had-cyberattack-planned-if-iran-nuclear-negotiations-failed.html?_r=0" target="_blank"> <em>Times</em></a>
 reports that the plan involved thousands of intelligence personnel and 
operatives, costing tens of millions of dollars over multiple years. 
Planting physical hardware within Iran’s existing computer networks was 
also part of the plan. It remains unclear if this portion of it actually
 took place or was still in the planning stages. Either way, the program
 would have involved the seven-year-old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command" target="_blank">Cyber Command </a>and the National Security Agency’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailored_Access_Operations" target="_blank">Tailored Access Operations unit </a>that masters penetrating foreign computer networks.<br />
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Nitro Zeus comes to light as the world is just now fully 
understanding the first time an advanced cyber weapon was used, and on a
 much smaller scale. That would be the <a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/massive-us-planned-cyberattack-against-iran-went-well-beyond-stuxnet/" target="_blank">Stuxnet worm</a>
 developed by the U.S. and Israel and deployed deeply into the heart of 
the industrial control software that ran Iran’s uranium enrichment 
centrifuges.<br />
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The story of this landmark moment in military and technological history is best told by the book <em>Countdown To Zero Day.</em>
 Not only does it go over Stuxnet’s development, deployment and eventual
 discovery in painstaking detail, but it also explains how these weapons
 are created and unveils the murky marketplace on<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_%28computing%29" target="_blank"> which so called zero-day exploits</a>, the back door vulnerabilities in existing software that make cyber attacks possible, are traded on.<br />
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The revelations about this much more expansive cyber attack plan 
aimed at Iran comes from an upcoming documentary about zero-day exploits
 and cyber warfare in general dubbed aptly <em>Zero Days. </em>The movie is directed by celebrated documentary maker Alex Blibney <em>(We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, Going Clear</em>) and is premiering at the Berlin Film Festival this week.<br />

According to the film, another contingency operation was also planned
 should Iranian nuclear talks have failed that focused directly on 
disabling the Fordow nuclear enrichment site buried deep under a 
mountain near the Iranian city of Quam. This attack plan was not 
designed to be used only in response to Iranian aggression like the 
Nitro Zeus, instead it could have been executed at anytime the White 
House thought it necessary.<br />
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The plan would have seen a worm injected into the Fordow’s main 
computer system, frying it with the goal destroying Iran’s centrifuge 
cascade operations in the process. This plan would have been a more 
aggressive follow-on to the Stuxnet worm that struck Iran’s enrichment 
facility at Natanz clandestinely in the late 2000s.<br />
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Above all else, these programs underline how cyberwarfare is quickly 
developing into a go-to “non-kinetic” military tool that can be scaled 
to an incredible degree depending on the effects sought against the 
enemy. Because it can be so devastating, striking not just the enemy’s 
military capability but also civilian infrastructure such as access to 
power, it is becoming more and more a viable alternative to traditional 
forms of attack.<br />
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The small glimpse we have into Nitro Zeus also underlines how a 
multiple-pronged attack, striking different areas of a target’s 
infrastructure and military capability at once, can be paired for 
synergistic effect, leaving its target country’s military blind and deaf
 and its population suffering. And all this can be had without ever 
dropping a bomb and even under the veil of plausible deniability.<br />

Also of interest is that Nitro Zeus is most likely one of a whole 
slew of plans to attack potential enemies via cyber weaponry. Plans 
surely exist for all of America’s potential adversaries, and some are 
likely to be far more elaborate and deadly than anything that has been 
disclosed to date. (And surely America’s potential enemies have similar 
contingency plans.)<br />
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With all this in mind, the wars of the future, especially the hybrid 
kind that we are beginning to become accustomed to today, will likely 
prominently feature cyber weaponry, and nobody seems prepared for the 
potential consequences of their use. Keep in mind that once you deploy a
 cyber weapon, others will eventually be able to dissect it, and 
considering the low cost of entry for developing such weaponry and the 
wide-array of threatening state and non-state actors that exist today, 
America will likely be the largest target for them of all.<br />
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Rise of the machines: Robots will replace half of global workforce

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countries to which they were forced to flee, but the real threat to 
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Shocking new stats were 
announced during Sunday’s annual meeting of the American Association for
 the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington.<br />
Jobs at the middle of the skills curve are most at risk, according to Rice University computer science professor Moshi Vardi.<br />
High
 end skills, including those of doctors and attorneys, are unlikely to 
be developed by machines in the foreseeable future and those at the low 
end such as food service workers are paid such low wages that automation
 would prove more costly.<br />
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<em>“Folks like data entry clerks, hotel clerks, and almost anyone working in delivery or shipping are likely to suffer,”</em> according to Vardi.<br />
The rapid development of self-driving cars also has taxi and truck drivers worrying about their long-term future.<br />
It’s
 a shift that’s been happening since the start of the Industrial Age, 
but current automation displaces less than 40 percent of global 
employment.<br />
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A <a href="http://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/reports/Citi_GPS_Technology_Work_2.pdf">report</a>
 last month from the Oxford Martin School said that the OECD estimates 
that 57 percent of jobs were susceptible to automations deviated greatly
 across the globe.<br />
While
 the US and UK are below the average with 47 and 35 percent 
respectively, developing nations such as Thailand and Ethiopia have a 
higher rate with 72 and 85 percent respectively. China is estimated to 
have 77 percent of its jobs susceptible to automation.<br />
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Within the 
US, the percentage of jobs at risk varies across the country. Boston and
 Washington have the lowest rate of 38 percent, compared to Fresno with 
54 and Las Vegas with 49 percent.<br />
The report warned that, in dealing with the <em>“premature industrialization</em>” brought on by automation,<em> “emerging and developing countries could require new growth models and a need to upskill workforces”.</em><br />
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This
 week, aircraft maker Airbus announced the launch of a program to 
develop humanoid robotics technology which can perform manufacturing 
tasks in its factories.<br />
The company claims the robotic workers would help increase production levels rather than replace workers.<br />
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Speaking
 at the AAAS meeting, Wendell Wallach from Yale University's 
Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics advised that 10 percent of 
funding into AI and robotics should be put towards <em>“studying, managing, and adapting to the societal impact of intelligent machines, including the impact on wages and employment.”</em><br />
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displaces about 140 tons. The prototype will be <em>"christened"</em> in Portland, Oregon in April, before an 18-month trial run to test its long-range utility.<br />
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<em>Sea Hunter </em>is being developed in conjunction with the Office
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Engineering industry innovator Leidos and Oregon Iron Works, which is known for its exotic and shadowy ship designs, designed and constructed the exotic experimental vessel. <br />

The ship is set to be christened in April, but she is already in the 
water at Portland’s Swan Island ship building and maintenance facility 
as local<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/planephotoman/" target="_blank"> photographer Paul Carter, who took the image above,</a> recently discovered.<br />
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The 132 foot long robotic sub-hunter is the largest purpose-built unmanned ship ever
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has been fitted on its sail for initial trials. The design’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimaran" target="_blank">trimaran</a> hull was chosen for its stability, efficiency and speed, allowing it chase submarines over extreme distances in open ocean.<br />

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What you don’t see is the ship’s under-hull mid-frequency sonar that 
is installed in a large bulbous protrusion amidships, as well as the 
high-frequency sonar mounted in smaller underwater protrusions. These 
will be the ship’s primary tools to find, identify and actively track 
even the quietest nuclear and air independent propulsion (AIP) equipped diesel-electric subs for long stretches of time. <br />

A suite of data links, computers and sensors will allow it to 
navigate autonomously, communicate with its handlers and predict a sub’s
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<em>Sea Hunter</em> will undergo a set of increasingly challenging 
trials over the better part of two years, work that could lead to a 
fleet of similar drone ships deployed around the globe. <br />
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<em>A huge thanks to Paul Carter for this shot of Sea Hunter. </em><br />
<em>Make sure to check out all of <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/planephotoman/" target="_blank">Paul’s aviation photography work here</a>.</em><br />
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<i>Harry J. Kazianis. February 12, 2016</i><br />
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The U.S. Navy’s latest and greatest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald 
Ford, when completed, will join the ranks of the world’s most advanced 
warships ever put to sea. It will carry an air wing with firepower 
second to none. It will be defended by some of the most powerful naval 
vessels on the planet. And yet, coming in at an astounding $15 billion 
dollars—the most expensive naval vessel ever—its time as the symbol of 
U.S. power projection and military dominance may be over.<br />
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Notice I used the words may be over. The simple fact is this: no one 
really knows for sure, but the trends all point to dangerous times 
ahead. We do know one thing with certainty—the mighty aircraft carrier 
is under siege, and without major changes to its capabilities, investing
 billions of scarce defense dollars seems a disastrous idea.<br />
<br />

Several recent articles, from popular Web sites to more academically 
themed publications, all point to the same problem set. Countries with 
the technological means, specifically great powers like China and 
Russia—nations the Pentagon considers as the next big challenge for the 
U.S. military—are developing missile platforms that can strike from 
long-range and en masse from multiple domains. Such weapons (and this is
 where that tinge of doubt comes into play)—if accurate, using highly 
trained crews combined with the means to find their target on the vast 
open oceans—could turn America’s supercarriers into multi-billion dollar
 graveyards for thousands of U.S. sailors. While many of these weapons 
have never been fired in anger—some never even tested against a 
non-cooperative maritime target—the sheer proliferation of such weapons 
coming online all point to a crisis for America’s flattops.<br />
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Two recent articles only solidify this great challenge. First, in a 
stinging long-form op-ed for Politico, Jerry Hendrix, a Senior Fellow 
and the Director of the Defense Strategies and Assessments Program at 
the Center for a New American Security, fearing the challenges as 
described above, argues passionately for a change in the U.S. Navy’s 
long-term carrier plan. He notes that “the Navy’s decision on the 
carriers today will affect U.S. naval power for decades. These carriers 
are expected to be combat effective in 2065—over 150 years since the 
idea of an aircraft carrier was first conceived.” He also notes:<br />

<blockquote>
“. . . most weapons platforms are effective for only a 
limited time, an interval that gets shorter as history progresses. But 
until the past few years, the carrier had defied the odds, continuing to
 demonstrate America’s military might around the world without any 
challenge from our enemies. That period of grace may have ended as China
 and Russia are introducing new weapons—called “carrier killer” 
missiles—that cost $10 million to $20 million each and can target the 
U.S.’s multibillion-dollar carriers up to 900 miles from shore.”</blockquote>
This is where things get worse:<br />

<blockquote>
“At the same time, internal Navy decisions have cut the 
strike range of the carrier’s aircraft in half, to 496 miles. If we 
wanted to strike our enemies with these aircraft, the military would 
have to put the carriers well within range of those “carrier killer” 
missiles. It would be a mission fraught with physical danger to the ship
 and its crew.”</blockquote>
In a complementary piece for the more wonky World Politics Review, 
Mark Cancian, a former senior official in the Pentagon currently serving
 as a senior adviser with the CSIS International Security Program, makes
 very similar arguments as Hendrix, but with a twist. Cancian explains:<br />

<blockquote>
“Critics have increasingly asked whether carriers have 
become too vulnerable. No carrier has been seriously damaged by enemy 
action since WWII, but the future, as always, is uncertain. Carriers are
 built with many redundant and survivability features. Proponents note 
that during an accidental fire on the USS Forrestal in 1967, the ship 
withstood the equivalent of nine bomb explosions. On the other hand, 
weapons from highly sophisticated adversaries might be able to penetrate
 battle group defenses and put carriers out of action.”</blockquote>
The author continues, once again, echoing similar points made by Hendrix:<br />

<blockquote>
“Amid disputes over carriers’ usefulness, most observers 
agree that their aircraft are too short-ranged. During the 1980s, the 
average aircraft range was 900 miles. Now it is 500 miles and will not 
get any better with the introduction of the F-35. In permissive 
environments [think bombing ISIS], this is not a problem, because 
aircraft can be refueled to extend their range. In high-threat 
environments [like a war with China or Russia], however, refueling may 
not be possible.”</blockquote>
So what is the solution? In my view, carriers need strike-platforms 
that can attack land-based targets from long-range (think 1,500 miles or
 perhaps more—China’s new DF-26 anti-ship missile could have a range of 
2,500 miles), fly remotely and utilize stealth to slip into areas that 
are protected by advanced air-defenses and anti-access battle-networks. 
This is a point Hendrix makes clear in his Politico piece. Sadly, this 
possibility seems all but dead thanks to the Pentagon’s recent decision 
to turn such an ongoing effort, the budding UCLASS program, into a 
remotely piloted refueling tanker. While the logic is plain to see—such a
 strike-platform as listed above may not be an easy thing to design, 
develop and deploy while increasing the available range of present 
carrier-based aircraft like the F-18 and F-35 is likely technologically 
simpler—such efforts cannot be abandoned just because they are difficult
 to field. As reports suggest, this new remotely piloted refueling plane
 will not even be stealthy. This is can only spell trouble, indeed, if a
 potential adversary were to focus their attacks on such refueling 
aircraft, America’s carrier’s would have to come much closer to enemy 
missile batteries—the very problem that must be mitigated.<br />
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Here’s an idea worth considering: why not field this refueling 
capability in the short-term and place resources into a stealthy, 
long-range, remotely piloted UCLASS-style platform as well? Yes, defense
 dollars are scarce. However, this might be the best solution for a 
complex, long-term problem.<br />

While this debate surely plays out, let’s not be deceived by the 
headlines nor stick our heads in the sand. Just because Washington and 
its allies can pound away at ISIS, a terrorist group who does not have 
the means to fight back does not mean the carrier is safe from harm. I 
am afraid that if we don’t give America’s most expensive weapon of war 
the platforms it needs to strike from range, the aircraft carrier could 
join the battleships of yesteryear as floating museums sooner rather 
than later.<br />

The carrier can be saved, but do we have the political will to do it?<br />
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<i>Harry Kazianis (@grecianformula) is the former Executive Editor of 
The National Interest. Kazianis presently serves as Senior Fellow 
(non-resident) for Defense Policy at the Center for the National 
Interest as well as Fellow for National Security Affairs at The Potomac 
Foundation. He is the editor and co-author of the Center for the 
National Interest report Tackling Asia’s Greatest Challenges: A 
U.S.-Japan-Vietnam Trilateral Report. All opinions are his own.</i><br />
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A Yeti (Beast) Caught On Camera in Russia

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Is the dark hairy creature seen in the film [below] the ever elusive 
Yeti? Or could it just be a bear? Perhaps its some crazy hermit living 
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<em>Reports have been pouring from the south-western Adygeya Republic
 of a large creature covered in hair from head to toe being spotted in a
 remote area about an hour away from the city of Adygeisk.</em><br />

<em>Recently a team of researchers headed to the area to see if they could catch this yeti on camera.</em><br />

<em>Do you know what the difference is between a yeti and bigfoot?</em><br />
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<em>The theory is that they both are some lost species or descendants
 of Gigantopithecus, the difference is that Bigfoot is believed to live 
in the forests, mountains and swamps of North America, while the Yeti is
 believed to live in the mountainous snowy regions of the Himalayas or 
North East Asia and is smaller than its North American cousin.</em><br />
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<em>Residents in the area have claimed to have seen and heard the creature outside in the snow.</em><br />

<em>One eyewitness Ludmila Hristoforova told a local television news 
reporter that “The creature was big, looking like a bear, but not a 
bear. From the door we’ve seen something big and shaggy.”</em><br />

<em>The research team claims they heard the crunching of snow and 
immediately headed outside and caught this footage of the creature.</em><br />
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<em>Eye witness descriptions and this footage fit the traditional 
description of a yeti. A bipedal creature covered with dark grayish or 
reddish brown hair, weighs between 200 and 400 pounds and is about 6 
feet tall.</em><br />

<em>The team also found a rather large foot print in the snow, 
presumably left behind by the monster. They made sure to make a plaster 
cast of the print and sent it off to scientists.</em><br />
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<em>The footprints were 2-3 inches deep and it is estimated it would 
take a creature as heavy as 440 pounds (200 kilos) to press the snow 
down that much.</em><br />

<em>So what do you think of this latest sighting? Real or Hoax.</em><br />
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<em>Interestingly enough, this footage reminds me a lot of the the 
most famous and controversial big foot film of all time. It was shot in 
1967 by friends </em><br />

<em>Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin and almost 50 years later, we still don’t know if it was real or a hoax.</em><br />
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China’s Nuclear 
Engineering Construction Corporation wants to introduce a high 
temperature, pebble-bed, gas-cooled nuclear reactor, in the Shandong 
Province, south of the capital, Beijing. The company is planning to 
bring twin 105-megawatt reactors —so-called Generation IV reactors that would be immune to meltdown—would
 be the first of their type built at commercial scale in the world. It is hoped that the power station will start working by 
November 2017.<br />
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Construction of the plant is nearly complete, and the next 
18 months will be spent installing the reactor components, running 
tests, and loading the fuel before the reactors go critical in November 
2017, said Zhang Zuoyi, director of the <a href="http://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/ineten/" target="_blank">Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology</a>,
 a division of Tsinghua University that has developed the technology 
over the last decade and a half, in an interview at the institute’s 
campus 30 miles south of Beijing. If it’s successful, Shandong plant 
would generate a total of 210 megawatts and will be followed by a 
600-megawatt facility in Jiangxi province.<br />
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Beyond that, China plans to 
sell these reactors internationally; in January, Chinese president Xi 
Jinping signed an agreement with King Salman bin Abdulaziz to construct a
 high-temperature gas-cooled reactor in Saudi Arabia.<br />

“This technology is going to be on the world market 
within the next five years,” Zhang predicts. “We are developing these 
reactors to belong to the world.”<br />
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Pebble-bed reactors that use helium gas as the heat 
transfer medium and run at very high temperatures—up to 950 °C—have been
 in development for decades. The Chinese reactor is based on a design 
originally developed in Germany, and the German company SGL Group is 
supplying the billiard-ball-size graphite spheres that encase thousands 
of tiny “pebbles” of uranium fuel.<br />
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Seven <a href="http://www.ngnpalliance.org/index.php/htgr" target="_blank">high-temperature gas-cooled reactors</a>
 have been built, but only two units remain in operation, both 
relatively small: an experimental 10-megawatt pebble-bed reactor at the 
Tsinghua Institute campus, which reached full power in 2003, and a 
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<br />During a recent visit to the Tsinghua facility, 
technologists were testing the huge helium blower that will circulate 
the gas coolant at the Shandong site once it starts up. Such 
high-temperature reactors are immune to meltdown because they don’t 
require elaborate external cooling systems of the sort that failed at 
Fukushima, Japan, in 2011.<br />
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The graphite coating protects the fuel from 
breaking down, even at temperatures well beyond those found in the 
reactor core during operation, and once the interior temperature passes a
 certain threshold, the nuclear reactions slow, cooling the reactor and 
making it essentially self-regulating. And while pebble-bed reactors do 
not totally solve the problem of nuclear waste, the fuel’s form also 
gives rise to multiple options for waste disposal. China’s eventual goal
 is to eliminate or greatly reduce waste by recycling the spent fuel.<br />
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One of the main hurdles to building these reactors is 
the cost of the fuel and of the reactor components. But China’s sheer 
size could help overcome that barrier. “There have been studies that 
indicate that if reactors are mass-produced, they can drive down costs,”
 says Charles Forsberg, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/nse/people/research/forsberg.html" target="_blank">executive director of the MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Project</a>. “The Chinese market is large enough to make that potentially possible.”<br />
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Several other advanced-reactor projects are under way 
in China, including work on a molten-salt reactor fueled by thorium 
rather than uranium (a collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
 where the technology originated in the 1960s), a traveling-wave reactor
 (in collaboration with TerraPower, the startup funded by Bill Gates), 
and a sodium-cooled fast reactor being built by the Chinese Institute 
for Atomic Energy.<em><br /></em>
<img alt="Illustration example of high temperature gas reactor" height="443" src="http://www.ngnpalliance.org/images/general_files/illus-multiple-reactors-md.jpg" width="640" /><br />
<em>High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor (HTGR)</em><br />
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In
 August, China announced it intended to build a hybrid fusion-fission 
reactor capable of recycling nuclear waste by 2030, which would make 
energy production more environmentally-friendly.<br />
Researchers 
believe that hybrid reactors will be able to generate twice as much 
electricity as current reactors. These reactors are also believed to be 
safer as they can be immediately halted by cutting the external power 
supply.<br />
Current reactors use only fission technology, which means 
dividing atoms in half while future fusion-fission technology will merge
 two atoms in one.<br />
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<em>MIT Technology Review. </em>technologyreview.com<br />
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