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The death of San Diego sailor Benjamin D. Rast in Afghanistan last week may have been caused by “friendly fire” from an unmanned aerial drone.
The Associated Press is reporting that Rast, a hospital corpsman, and a Marine reservist were killed when they were mistaken for insurgents Apr. 6 in southern Afghanistan.
A Predator drone fired the Hellfiremissile that killed the 23-year-old sailor and the 26-year-old Marine, in what may be the first case of American troop deaths from an unmanned aerial vehicle.
The Associated Press said the two men were hit while moving toward other Marines who were under fire in Helmand province.
Reports from the field indicate that Marines who were under attack there mistook Smith and Rast for militants heading their way and called in a strike from an Air Force Predator, the news service said.
The Pentagon has said only that the incident is under investigation. The International Security Assistance Force, the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, issued a statement saying that the Apr. 6 deaths were a result of friendly fire but gave no other details.
The U.S. military has used aerial drones extensively in Iraq and, now, in Afghanistan because the vehicles can stay in the air longer and operate at lower cost than manned crafts.
Rast was part of San Diego Naval Medical Center’s Expeditionary Medical Force Detachment.
After joining the Navy in April, 2009, he left San Diego in November to be a field "doc" for Marines fighting in Afghanistan.
"He was a remarkable sailor who was respected by his peers and co-workers for his integrity and strong work ethic," said Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Pietro Martone, in a Navy news release. "He was frequently complimented by his patients for his outstanding customer service skills."
Rast is survived by his father and stepfather. The Navy hospital in San Diego is planning a memorial service for later this month.
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'Friendly fire'...another example of the Orwellian state we live in. Pat Tillman anyone? Someone pushed a button, made a decision. Will they be held accountable or get a slap on the wrist like the Afghan kill team that murdered innocent children and posed with their corpses as trophies? Bad press for a Nobel Prize winner, unconstitutionally starting another war at the mandate of his UN masters.
Look at that picture. Could be from WWII, but it was last week. Sure, he's a hero. He didn't know that 9/11 was a staged event, perpetrated by rogue elements of our government usurped by the New World Order. And if people knew of the treason, there would be no war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya. We'd still have some rights, maybe our country wouldn't be going in the sh!tter so fast and this poor guy wouldn't have had a bomb dropped on his head by some coward with a PlayStation controller.The death of San Diego sailor Benjamin D. Rast in Afghanistan last week may have been... more
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Turkish President Gül is in Indonesia for an official visits. According to the President’s office, following eight cooperation agreements signed between the two countries, during the visit.
AGREEMENTS SIGNED BETWEEN TURKEY AND INDONESIA
A Memorandum of Understanding in Technical Matters; Cooperation Agreement on Defense Industry; A Memorandum of Understanding in Cooperation between Small and Medium-Scaled Enterprises; A Memorandum of Understanding in Cultural Exchange Program; Sea Transport Agreement; A Memorandum of Understanding in Developing Labor Force; A Memorandum of Understanding in Investment Support and a Memorandum of Understanding in Cooperation on Exchange of News and Programs between Turkish Radio and Television (TRT) and the Indonesian State Television.
I have emphasized the Cooperation Agreement on Defence Industry, because according to Turkish Zaman newspaper this agreement cover sales of two Milgem class corvettes to Indonesia. I was not able to find another independent source on the internet to verify this information. Though there a few Indonesian websites confirming the signing of the above mentioned agreements between two nations.
If this news turns out to be true, then it will be big news. As it will be the first major export success for Milgem and important milestone for Turkish defense industry.
Let’s wait and see how things will develop.
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Class overview
Name: MİLGEM
Builders: Istanbul Naval Shipyard
Subclasses: Ada class
TF-100 class
Building: 2
Planned: 12
General characteristics
Class and type: Patrol and Anti-Submarine Warfare[1]
Type: Corvette
Displacement: 2,000 tonnes
Length: 99.00 m
Beam: 14.40 m
Draught: 3.75 m
Propulsion: 1 gas turbine, 2 diesels, 2 shafts, 30,000 kW (CODAG)
Speed: Economy: 15 knots
Maximum: 29+ knots
Range: 3,500 nautical miles (6,480 km) @ 15 knots
Endurance: 21 days with logistic support, 10 days autonomous
Complement: 93 including aviation officers, with accommodation for up to 104
Sensors and
processing systems:
Combat Management System: G-MSYS (GENESIS MİLGEM Savaş Yönetim Sistemi)
Search radar: SMART-S Mk2
Sonar: TBT-01
Communication: SatCom, GPS, LAN, ECDIS/WECDIS, Link 11/16
Navigation: ECPINS-W
IPMS: UniMACS 3000
Others: X-Band radar, fire control radar, navigation radar, LPI radar
Electronic warfare
and decoys: EW radar, Laser/RF systems, ASW jammers, DG, SSTD
Armament:
Guns:
1 x 76 mm (retractable for lower radar cross section, guidance by fire control radar and electro-optical systems), A position
2 x 12.7 mm Aselsan STAMP Stabilized Machine Gun Platform (guidance by Laser/IR/TV and electro-optical systems, automatic and manual modes), B position
Anti-surface missiles:
8 x Harpoon (and/or RBS15 Mk.IIIand/or NSM)
Anti-aircraft missiles:
21 x RAM (PDMS)
Mk.41 VLS for ESSM (TF-100 class)
Torpedoes:
2 x 324 mm Mk.32 triple launchers forMk.46 torpedoes
Aircraft carried:
Hangar and platform for:
S-70B2 Seahawk ASW helicopters
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV)
Aviation facilities: Capability of storing armaments, 20 tons of JP-5 aircraft fuel, aerial refueling (HIRF) and maintenance systemsTurkish President Gül is in Indonesia for an official visits. According to the... more
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To hear Navy Petty Officer Stephen C. Jones tell it, what happened in his bedroom one night last month was purely innocuous: Another male sailor came by to watch “The Vampire Diaries,” and they both dozed off in the same bed.
“That is the honest, entire story,” Jones said.To hear Navy Petty Officer Stephen C. Jones tell it, what happened in his bedroom one... more
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NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia — Walking into a control station at Jefferson Labs, Quentin Saulter started horsing around with his colleague, Carlos Hernandez. Saulter had spent the morning showing two reporters his baby: the laboratory version of the Navy’s death ray of the future, known as the free-electron laser, or FEL. He asked Hernandez, the head of injector- and electron-gun systems for the project, to power a mock-up electron gun — the pressure-pumping heart of this energy weapon — to 500 kilovolts. No one has ever cranked the gun that high before.
Smiling through his glasses and goatee, Hernandez motioned for Saulter to click and drag a line on his computer terminal up to the 500-kV mark. He had actually been running the electron injector at that kilovoltage for the past eight hours. It’s a goal that eluded him for six years.
Saulter, the program manager for the free-electron laser, was momentarily stunned. Then he realized what just happened. “This is very significant,” he says, still a bit shocked. Now, the Navy “can speed up the transition of FEL-weapons-system technology” from a Virginia lab to the high seas.
Translated from the Nerd: Thanks to Hernandez, the Navy will now have a more powerful death ray aboard a future ship sooner than expected, in order to burn incoming missiles out of the sky or zap through an enemy vessel’s hull.
“Five hundred [kilovolts] has been the project goal for a long time,” says George Neil, the FEL associate director at Jefferson Labs, whose Rav 4 license plate reads LASRMAN. “The injector area is one of the critical areas” of the whole project.
The free-electron laser is one of the Navy’s highest-priority weapons programs, and it’s not hard to see why. “We’re fast approaching the limits of our ability to hit maneuvering pieces of metal in the sky with other maneuvering pieces of metal,” says Rear Adm. Nevin Carr, the Navy’s chief of research. The next level: “fighting at the speed of light and hypersonics” — that is, the free-electron laser and the Navy’s Mach-8 electromagnetic rail gun.
Say goodbye to an adversary’s antiship missiles, and prepare to fire bullets from 200 miles away, far from shoreline defenses. No wonder the Navy asked Congress to double its budget for directed-energy weapons this week to $60 million, most of which will go to the free-electron laser.
It won’t be until the 2020s, Carr estimates, that a free-electron laser will be mounted on a ship. (Same goes for the rail gun.) Right now, the free-electron laser produces a 14-kilowatt beam. It needs to get to 100 kilowatts to be viable to defend a ship, the Navy thinks. But what happened at Jefferson Labs Friday shrinks the time necessary to get to 100 kilowatts and expands the lethality of the laser. Here’s why.
All lasers start off as atoms that get agitated into becoming photons, light that’s focused through some kind of medium, like chemicals or crystals, into a beam operating on a particular wavelength. But the free-electron laser is unique: It doesn’t use a medium, just supercharged electrons run through a racetrack of superconductors and magnets — an accelerator, to be technical — until it produces a beam that can operate on multiple wavelengths.
That means the beam from the free-electron laser won’t lose potency as it runs through all the crud in ocean air, because its operators will be able to adjust its wavelengths to compensate. And if you want to make it more powerful, all you need to do is add electrons.
But to add electrons, you need to inject pressure into your power source, so the electrons shake out and run through the racetrack. That’s done through a gun called an injector. In the basement of a building in Jefferson Labs, a 240-foot racetrack uses a 300-kilovolt injector to pressurize the electrons out of 200 kilowatts of power and send them shooting through the accelerator.
Currently, the free-electron laser project produces the most-powerful beam in the world, able to cut through 20 feet of steel per second. If it gets up to its ultimate goal, of generating a megawatt’s worth of laser power, it’ll be able to burn through 2,000 feet of steel per second. Just add electrons.
And that’s why Hernandez’s achievement is so important. He shrugs, concealing his pride. A powerful accelerator at Cornell University is “stuck at 250″ kilovolts, he grins. And he’s on a roll. Hernandez’s team fired up the injector in December with enough pressure to prove the FEL will ultimately reach megawatt class. Steel: Beware.
“It definitely shortens our time frame for getting to 100 kilowatts,” Saulter says, and it produces a “more powerful light beam.” But he won’t speculate on how much sooner this means the laser can get into the fleet. In any case, the Navy doesn’t yet have the systems to divert the amount of power from its ships’ generators necessary to operate the laser, but anticipates it will by the 2020s.
There are still a lot of obstacles to getting the free-electron laser onto a ship. The 240-foot racetrack that Neil built at Jefferson Labs — a scale model of one that’s underground here, seven-eighths-of-a-mile long — is way too big. Boeing has a contract to build an initial workable prototype by 2012, but by 2015 the racetrack has to be much, much smaller: 50 feet by 20 feet by 10 feet. And as the model shrinks, it’s got to get more efficient in harvesting photons from electrons.
But that starts by getting more electrons out of the power source.The better the injector is at that, the more powerful a beam results, even presuming that the engineers can’t keep finding efficient ways of getting their photons. Walking into a conference room, Saulter is still stunned. He figured he’d just wind Hernandez up by putting the project’s ultimate goal in his colleague’s face. “I had no idea he’d get up to that today.”NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia — Walking into a control station at Jefferson Labs,... more
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"The White House has ordered the Pentagon to squeeze almost all growth from its spending over the next five years, which will require eventually shrinking the Army and Marine Corps and seeking controversial increases in the fees paid by for retired, working-age veterans for their health insurance, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday.""The White House has ordered the Pentagon to squeeze almost all growth from its... more
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WASHINGTON — The United States Navy removed the commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Enterprise on Tuesday, citing his “profound lack of good judgment” for creating and starring in a series of coarse and sexually explicit onboard videos several years ago that were meant as entertainment for the ship’s crew.
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The videos were broadcast to crew members on the aircraft carrier Enterprise via closed-circuit television in 2006 and 2007.
The officer, Capt. Owen Honors, was permanently relieved of his duties some two weeks before the Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered carrier, is due to leave its home port in Norfolk, Va., to support combat missions in Afghanistan.
Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., the commander of the United States Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk, said in a statement that after viewing the videos, he had lost confidence in the captain’s ability to lead. Captain Honors’s lack of judgment and professionalism, the admiral said, “calls into question his character and completely undermines his credibility to continue to serve effectively in command.”
The videos include scenes of simulated masturbation, simulated eating of feces, a simulated rectal exam, antigay slurs and a pair of men and a pair of women showering together. They were produced by Captain Honors and shown to sailors and Marines aboard the Enterprise, which has a crew of some 6,000, in 2006 and 2007. The videos, which also include a scene that suggests an officer is engaged in sex with a donkey in his stateroom, were first disclosed by the Norfolk newspaper, The Virginian-Pilot.
Capt. Dee L. Mewbourne, the chief of staff of Navy Cyber Forces and a former commander of the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower, was permanently assigned as the commanding officer of the Enterprise. Captain Honors has been reassigned to an administrative position at Fleet Forces Command in Norfolk. The Navy said he was not available for comment.
It remains unclear why it took five years for the videos to surface and whether any of Captain Honors’s superiors knew about the videos, shown weekly on closed-circuit television aboard the Enterprise. Captain Honors, who was the Enterprise’s executive officer, or second in command, at the time of the videos, was supervised by the ship’s commanding officer, Lawrence S. Rice, now a rear admiral.
Two other superior officers, Rear Adm. Raymond Spicer and Vice Adm. Daniel Holloway, commanded the Enterprise strike group — made up of the combat and support vessels that accompanied the carrier — during Captain Honors’s time as executive officer. Typically the admirals would have lived on the Enterprise. Admiral Spicer recently retired; Admiral Holloway is now commander of the Second Fleet.
Admiral Harvey’s statement said that the Navy was continuing an investigation into the videos, including “the actions of other senior officers who knew of the videos and the actions they took in response.”
In one of the videos, the actress Glenn Close makes an appearance, the result of video taken when she visited the carrier four years ago. In a statement Tuesday, Ms. Close called the use of her image in the video “deeply offensive and insulting.”
As of Tuesday afternoon, more than 11,000 people had posted comments on a Facebook page in support of Captain Honors. The vast majority of them expressed the view that the videos were morale boosters and that the news media were overreacting.!
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Capt. Owen Honors is relieved of command for 'lack of good judgment and professionalism.' The incident highlights the military's cultural struggle as it faces repeal of 'don't ask, don't tell.'
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The Navy video scandal brought about by Captain Owen Honors has garnered quite a buzz of controversy, but the Navy hasn't revealed the fate of the carrier officer yet. At this point it is unclear whether Honors, captain of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, will keep his position.
According to the Virginian-Pilot, Honors produced and broadcasted a series of short videos during an "XO Movie Night" meant to entertain the crew that featured "anti-gay remarks, sexual jokes, subordinates parading in drag, and sailors pretending to masturbate and shower together" for the crew.
Since an edited version of the video was released by the newspaper over the weekend, U.S. Fleet Forces Command has launched an investigation into Honor's lewd videos.
Read more: http://www.thirdage.com/news/navy-video-scandal-will-capt-owen-honors-lose-his-job_1-3-2011#ixzz1A4OYOly6The Navy video scandal brought about by Captain Owen Honors has garnered quite a buzz... more
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The Navy has launched an investigation into the production of a series of videos containing simulated sex and antigay slurs shown to servicemembers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
CNN reports the videos were reportedly shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in 2006 and 2007. Navy spokesman Cmdr. Chris Sims called the videos “clearly inappropriate.”
The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia first published excerpts from the videos and descriptions of their content on Saturday.
According to Time Magazine, the man behind the videos is Capt. Owen Honors, who at the time was the executive officer, or second-in-command, of the Enterprise. Honors recently took command of the carrier, which is weeks away from deploying.
In one of the videos, two female Navy sailors stand in a shower stall aboard the aircraft carrier, pretending to wash each other. In other skits, "sailors parade in drag, use anti-gay slurs, and simulate masturbation and a rectal exam. Another scene implies that an officer is having sex in his stateroom with a donkey."
According to Time, Honors is likely to lose command of his carrier before it heads out from Norfolk.The Navy has launched an investigation into the production of a series of videos... more
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Take note folks when you have all the trolls here on current advocating continued business with the Communist red Chinese. Traitors all that do business with these bastards. In one shot of this Aircraft Carrier missile 5,000 sailors could be killed. Whenever you discuss an issue with these globalist ask them who their oath of allegiance is with?
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Many people say, "There are no atheists in foxholes." As a practical matter this obviously isn't the case, but the Army's new Comprehensive Soldier Fitness Program (CSFP) implies it should. After all, bullets don't have an opinion about God.Many people say, "There are no atheists in foxholes." As a practical matter... more
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Say hello to the Navy's little friend.
Navy scientists set a world record Friday during a test of an electromagnetic railgun, a tractor-trailer sized weapon that sends a 20-pound projectile rocketing through the air at seven times the speed of sound.
The futuristic gun was tested twice at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va., and the first shot generated 33 megajoules of force out of the barrel, a world record for muzzle energy, the scientists said.
One megajoule is a unit of energy roughly equal to the energy generated by a 1-ton vehicle moving at 100 MPH. The same rail gun generated about 10 megajoules during a test two years ago.
Roger Ellis, the railgun program manager, told The Washington Post that people "see these things in the video games, but this is real. This is what is very historical."
What is novel about the gun – aside from its astonishing power – is the way it works.
Instead of relying on explosive propellants like gunpowder to fire, the gun uses a giant surge of electricity to propel the slug out of the barrel at speeds that can approach Mach 8 and can strike targets more than 100 miles away.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/12/12/2010-12-12_navys_scifi_railgun_breaks_record_for_most_powerful_gun_on_the_planet_video.htmlSay hello to the Navy's little friend.
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CNN and Headline News are giving families the amazing opportunity to send their loved ones in the Armed Forces a digital salute with custom audio, photos, and messaging while they are at camp or overseas!
With the new 'create your own Salute to Troops' website, you can build your own customized, multimedia salute featuring photos of your hero, his or her name and rank, even your voice if you want. Then you can and send it off immediately!
Create your own 'Salute to Troops' tribute here: http://bit.ly/SendSaluteCNN and Headline News are giving families the amazing opportunity to send their loved... more
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Analysis: US carrier visit a dilemma for China
BEIJING – This weekend's arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea poses a dilemma for Beijing: Should it protest angrily and aggravate ties with Washington, or quietly accept the presence of a key symbol of American military pre-eminence off Chinese shores?
The USS George Washington, accompanied by escort ships, is to take part in military drills with South Korea following North Korea's shelling of a South Korean island Tuesday that was one of the most serious confrontations since the Korean War a half-century ago.
It's a scenario China has sought to prevent. Only four months ago, Chinese officials and military officers shrilly warned Washington against sending a carrier into the Yellow Sea for an earlier set of exercises. Some said it would escalate tensions after the sinking of a South Korean navy ship blamed on North Korea. Others went further, calling the carrier deployment a threat to Chinese security.
Beijing believes its objections worked. Although Washington never said why, no aircraft carrier sailed into the strategic Yellow Sea, which laps at several Chinese provinces and the Korean peninsula.
This time around, with outrage high over the shelling, the U.S. raising pressure on China to rein in wayward ally North Korea, and a Chinese-American summit in the works, the warship is coming, and Beijing is muffling any criticisms.
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The navy's website was shut down this morning after a self-confessed security enthusiast claimed to have hacked into the site and its databases.
:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8117144/Royal-Navy-website-infiltrated-by-computer-hacker.htmlThe navy's website was shut down this morning after a self-confessed security... more
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The Royal Navy's website has been forced to shut down today as a result of being hacked on Friday by a Romanian hacker known as TinKode.The hacker gained access to the website on 5 November using a common attack method known as SQL injection. TinKode published details of the information he recovered, which included user names and passwords of the site's administrators.A Royal Navy spokesperson confirmed the site had been compromised and said: "There has been no malicious damage."As a precaution the site has been "temporarily suspended" whilst the security teams are investigating how the hacker got access. They said no confidential information had been disclosed.The Royal Navy website is currently just a static screen grab of the site with a black box bearing the text: "Unfortunately the Royal Navy website is undergoing essential maintenance. Please visit again soon."TinKode first mentioned the attack on his Twitter stream and added a web link to a page that contained more details about what he had found.Graham Cluley, senior security analyst at Sophos, told the BBC the incident was "immensely embarrassing, particularly in the wake of the recent security review where hacking and cybercrime attacks were given the top priority."Now we have the Royal Navy with egg on its face."Mr Cluley said the hacker had apparently gained access to the Navy's blog, Jackspeak, and to an area called Global Ops."He's obviously more of a show-off type of hacker rather than malicious," said Mr Cluley.
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Don't ask, Don't tell is government sponsored discrimination based upon sexual orientation (in my opinion). It should stop. In a decade or two we will look back upon it as we now look upon Jim Crow laws or denying women the right to vote.Don't ask, Don't tell is government sponsored discrimination based upon... more
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