The Pentagon announced that the first test of a missile defense system to repel an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was successful. “Intercepting a complex ICBM threat is a huge success,” Voice of America quoted Vice Admiral Jimi Syring of the Missile Defense Agency as saying. Interceptor missile launched...
September 11 will mark the 15th anniversary of the largest terrorist attack in world history. In the autumn day of 2001, 2 passenger aircraft, hijacked by terrorists, rammed the towers of the World Trade Center, the third plane was sent to the Pentagon building, and the fourth crashed in Pennsylvania. ...
Nathaniel Weiklam became a “bounty hunter” when he was 18 years old. Now he is 21 years old, this is his main job, which has already brought him $ 3 in 21 weeks of August, writes The Guardian. His income varies from month to month, but ...
Following the abolition of the “don't ask, don't tell” rule, which allowed members of sexual minorities to serve in the military on condition that they concealed their sexual orientation, the Obama administration took another step. US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that transgender people can also openly serve ...
The head of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, reacted with a comic tweet to the publication of CNN about why he needed a meeting with the American military in the main building of the US Department of Defense, the Pentagon. By posting on his Twitter a link to material entitled “What Elon Musk ...
The US Department of Defense unveiled the latest military technology innovations on Wednesday. In total, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has produced over 60 of its inventions, concepts and programs. The developments presented at the Pentagon are intended for use in the most ...
The Pentagon's Innovation Council is chaired by Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt, the former head of Google. Defense Secretary Ashton Carton on Wednesday named Schmidt as head of the Innovation Council, which will help the Pentagon keep up with the latest Silicon Valley ideas and apply them to the Department ...
The US armed forces reported the death of extremist Sharaff al-Muaddam, one of the leaders of the Islamic State, who was involved in organizing the November terrorist attacks in Paris. As the Pentagon said, al-Muaddam and a number of other commanders of the group were killed as a result of airstrikes in Syria carried out by troops...
The Russian Navy has 186 combat-ready submarines and ships, which makes it the third largest in the world in size. This is stated in the report "Russian Fleet: Historical Transformation", which was prepared by the US Naval Intelligence Agency expert George Fedoroff at the request of the Pentagon. In the first place are the US naval forces, which ...
The US government has discovered massive embezzlement of Pentagon employees. The Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO), formed by the agency in 2006 and later sent to Afghanistan, squandered $ 150 million on living in luxury mansions. Unjustified waste was discovered by the Special General ...