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For a group of people who claim nuance and sophistication, they do seem to fixate on simple metaphor image. I guess it saves them energy by keeping their thought processes confined to their lower brain stem group. Then again when your overall view of the world is solely based on race, everything is racist. So, who is the real racist?
Enjoy it while you can, guys -- the Saudis are running out of oil money.
[AlAhram] Sudan's central bank received a total of $1 billion from Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... in July and August, the Sudanese state minister of finance said on Wednesday.
"Sudan's central bank received an investment deposit from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of one billion dollars. Last month we received $500 million, and we received the second part this month," Abdulrahman Dirar told news hounds.
There was no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia.
Since the Saudi-led military operation in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... began, Riyadh has pledged fresh investments in Sudan's agricultural sector. Sudan has said the economic assistance is not linked to its support for the campaign.
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Overall, this is not a new investment. Saudi interest in Sudan agriculture has been evident for years. Now that the Saudi's own costly investments in grain production and oasis development have been cut back, the logical alternative was to make eastern Sudan, in effect, a Saudi agricultural colony.
[Dhaka Tribune] Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday said they would hand over the baby, hit by bullets in her mother's womb, to her mother today if every thing goes well.
As the baby was born prematurely the DMCH took extra care and assigned additional nurses to ensure the best medical treatment for her, they said.
Suraiya Begum was bullet-hit while she was in her mother's womb during a factional clash of Bangladesh Chhatra League ... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ... in Doarpara area of Magura Sadar.
Medical sources said Suraiya was born when she was only 32 weeks old. She needed extra care.
Dr Kaniz Hasina, Paediatric Department's associate professor who had been with the baby since she arrived at the DMCH, said at present the baby was improving but it could not be said for sure that she was out of danger.
The baby had stopped losing weight but now It has started gaining weight.
"Doctors are now hopeful about her survival. She has gained over 200 grams in two days," she said. Yesterday she weighed over 1860g.
"If we can assign three nurses and prevent entry of general people she can be sent to the cabin to stay with her mother," said the doctor.
She also said doctors from the National Institute of Ophthalmology and Hospital will visit her today and advise if she needs surgery for the right eye. If she continues to improve, she might be discharged next week.
At present, Nazma is undergoing treatment at the Ward 212 and Suraiya was transferred to the Ward 211 for her better treatment three days ago.
The baby was injured when her eight-month pregnant mother was shot in the abdomen during an attack on July 23 in Magura, that left one killed and another person injured.
The bullet went through the unborn baby's right shoulder and damaged her right eye.
She was born after a three-hour-long operation at Magura General Hospital. Later, she was sent to DMCH on July 24.
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[Telegraph] British troops sent to train Ukrainian forces fighting battling Russian-backed separatists are also learning from their pupils.
As the 10-man patrol picked its way down the lakeside track, the pine forest ahead suddenly erupted with gunfire.
The Ukrainian troops took cover and fired back at their unseen ambushers, throwing smoke grenades to cover their retreat, while bandaging up a wounded comrade writhing on the ground.
Moments later, as armoured personnel carriers sped to their rescue, the men clambered aboard and departed to be debriefed by British Army teachers watching the drill from a nearby rise.
In Western Ukraine, a small force of British trainers is trying to teach the beleaguered Ukrainian army battlefield skills that will keep them alive against more heavily-armed Russian-backed separatists.
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“They say that at the front line if they are exposed for more than 11 minutes they can start to get hit by artillery.”
Pretty much par for the course in conventional warfare. Dust off some old late 80s early 90s training manuals, update them a bit and use that. The wars in the Middle East are completely different than what you are facing now.
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First, an aircraft must be detected, which in itself can be difficult in a high electronic stimulus environment. Once the detection is made, a track must be developed and refined to provide range, bearing, altitude, and velocity. While maintaining and refining the track, a weapon system must be assigned to destroy the adversary. Once the decision on weapon system is made, quality track data must be handed off to the surface-to-air missile or fighter. The weapon system must acquire and lock on to the incoming bomber.
Finally, when the bomber is in range, the SAM or fighter can fire their weapon. This is a complicated sequence of events that stealth technology further complicates.
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Ah..flak box. Area saturation. Let it flying into the fuselage and engine degrading crap. You don't have to knock it down, just ding it up enough that its aerodynamics render it no longer capable of performing its flight profile.
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The article notably doesn't mention that it has been done. Serbia.
(1) Targeting routers get lazy, keep using know ingress /egress paths. (It's safer, easier.)
(2) Russian trained SAM package commander notices this. Sends launcher unit to sit under one, orders to conceal and sit tight.
(3) When their intel sees a F117 unit leave on a know profile, message is sent.
(4) Launcher unit is profiled for known altitude, heat seek only. When they hear the jet, they elevate. When they see the contrail in the starry sky, they fire and haul ass.
(5) Wreckage on nightly news.
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Well, you come in low, way low! Jumping and jiggering, a good pilot a real good pilot would make it th...... zzz HELL YES! HE COULD DO IT!
A new strategy document released by US Air Combat Command points to the development of a future close-air-support platform as the service pushes to retire the long-serving Fairchild Republic A-10 â its primary close-in attack airplane used to protect ground troops.
ACC Commander Gen Hawk Carlisle, who approved the strategic plan, said in March the air force is exploring what will follow the A-10, potentially as a more affordable compliment to the F-35 for a high-low force mix. "We're thinking about what an A-X would look like," he says.
Gen Mark Welsh, chief of staff of the air force, then said in April the air force would pursue a new CAS platform in the "relatively near- and mid-term" if funding would allow it [OS: emphasis added]. Bait and switch? Here's the bait, the promise to develop a new CAS airfram (switch is "too pricey, go with the F35" after the A10s hit the boneyard or get sold off)
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Ground Support Aircraft. The AF doesn't want it. Let the Army have fixed wings again rather than their own 100 million dollar (plus) next gen helicopter that does nothing more basically than an A10.
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...I'm sorry, but I know My Beloved Service too well by this point to trust them on anything they say regarding CAS. There is no - repeat, NO possible way they will have the money to support a dedicated CAS bird. Look instead for an A-35 with dedicated radios and a gun pack.
Mike
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My AF son say that in the future, CAS will be done by drones.
Yeah, right.
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It should be mixed Rambler. Most of the future aircraft will be drones and while they may be autonomous and partly controlled by people back at base, there will always be a place for a pair of eyeballs in a cockpit than can direct them to places the sensors can't see.
Imagine a CAS pilot with not only his weapon load, but 30 drones flying with him. He can fly like the A-10, picking out targets that the cameras miss and then can target the area with a few drones that can make multiple passes and then do a suicide run into it if needed. The amount of damage that pilot could do to the enemy without needing to make many, if any, weapon runs himself.
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Darth, I like the way you think. I do believe that a single pilot controlling a lot of drones while scanning the battlefield, flying the plane etc. is pretty aggressive. Maybe it's time to bring back the RIO.
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I think in future the role of Stealh planes is merely to have lag free control over nearby drones.
[Wash Times] As secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton never had to worry about a permanent government watchdog peering over her shoulder.
But the State Department's first Senate-confirmed inspector general in five years, who came into office six months after Mrs. Clinton exited, is showing that he is not afraid to criticize the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination ex post facto.
Inspector General Steve Linick, the new sheriff at Foggy Bottom, also has taken on one of Mrs. Clinton's closest aides, Huma Abedin, in a pay dispute.
In the process, the new IG has paved the way for a nasty turf battle between the intelligence community and the State bureaucracy: The two have squabbled over who controls the review of Mrs. Clinton's stash of 30,000 privately maintained emails, some of which hold the nation's secrets.
Mr. Linick, a career federal prosecutor and former IG at a federal housing agency, took over in 2013 from Acting Inspector General Harold Geisel, who was not Senate-confirmed and remained in place during Mrs. Clinton's entire tenure.
A longtime Foreign Service officer and former ambassador in President Bill Clinton's administration, Mr. Geisel maintained links to State's upper echelon -- a relationship that stirred criticism from a nonprofit watchdog, the Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
"A confirmed IG is usually in a better position to expose and correct the most challenging -- and, at times, controversial -- problems that confront his agency," said Michael Smallberg, a POGO investigator. "Unlike an acting watchdog, a confirmed IG can't be easily replaced, and doesn't need to audition with agency leaders for the permanent role. The mere perception that an acting IG is too cozy with agency leaders can greatly damage the office's credibility in the eyes of whistleblowers, Congress and other important stakeholders."
Mr. Linick arrived with no State Department credentials, just a resume of conducting criminal investigatio. Mr. Linick won't have to worry about IG coordination btwn Foggy Bottom and the CIA. Champ has yet to nominate a CIA Inspector General.
Once is random. Twice is a coincidence. But being singled out for additional scrutiny six times IN A ROW?
Investigative journalist James O'Keefe of Project Veritas has embarrassed U.S. Customs and Border Protection with his Osama bin Laden crossing the Rio Grande video, and his ISIS terrorist crossing Lake Erie video. As a result, O'Keefe is now flagged by Customs whenever he enters the country. His latest video, released today, documents his fifth and sixth detentions by Customs, where the conversations are pretty revealing -- they KNOW who he is.
The Customs officer even asks if he would support Donald Trump as a nominee. O'Keefe says that he was so stunned by the question that he couldn't even get out a coherent response.
How nice that all this effort by U.S. Customs is making sure that U.S. Customs doesn't get embarrassed again by James O'Keefe, instead of actually keeping an eye on the border. I thought their job was to look out for potential threats, not potential embarrassments. Did they really think that O'Keefe wouldn't notice??? After all this time, if they thought that he would just suck it up and take the repeated nagging flagging, then they have just paid for their underestimation of him.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Dhaka Tribune] Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday said they would hand over the baby, hit by bullets in her mother's womb, to her mother today if every thing goes well.
A new strategy document released by US Air Combat Command points to the development of a future close-air-support platform as the service pushes to retire the long-serving Fairchild Republic A-10 â its primary close-in attack airplane used to protect ground troops.
Once is random. Twice is a coincidence. But being singled out for additional scrutiny six times IN A ROW?
