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  • This is War! Mexican drug cartels plan attacks on Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and other explosives to fight US crackdown

    02/03/2025 8:03:53 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 127 replies
    New York Post Via MSN ^ | 02/03/2025 | Jennie Taer, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
    Mexican drug cartels are ordering their members to attack US Border Patrol agents with kamikaze drones and other explosives in a desperate bid to thwart the crackdown at the border, according to an internal memo obtained by The Post. The alert, which cites social media posts and other sources, cautions federal agents “to remain cognizant of their surroundings at all times” in the face of the new threat. “On February 1, 2025, the El Paso Sector Intelligence and Operations Center (EPT-IOC) received information advising that Mexican cartel leaders have authorized the deployment of drones equipped with explosives to be used...
  • Army Withholding Name of Female Crew Member in Reagan Airport Helicopter Collision with Passenger Plane

    02/01/2025 6:50:28 AM PST · by airdalechief · 120 replies
    www.thegatewaypundit.com ^ | Jan. 31, 2025 4:56 pm | Kristinn Taylor
    The Army announced Friday that at the request of the female pilot’s family, it is withholding the name of one of three Black Hawk helicopter crew members killed in the mid-air collision with a passenger plane over the Potomac River while the plane was on final approach Reagan National Airport near Washington, D.C., Wednesday night. The Army said the name “will not be released at this time”, leaving open the possibility of later public identification.
  • Trump says Army chopper was "flying too high, by a lot" as new up-close videos emerge of American Airlines collision (best video that I've seen to date)

    02/01/2025 6:13:37 AM PST · by airdalechief · 59 replies
    notthebee.com ^ | Jan 31, 2025 | Joel Abbott
    CNN obtained two new videos that show the collision from much closer than previously available clips. Both show that the Army helicopter did not attempt to swerve before colliding with the American Airlines flight out of Wichita.
  • A pilot’s view on why helicopter did not avoid passenger jet in Washington crash...Dominic Nicholls, who flew helicopters for the British Army, explains how airspace is usually controlled to avoid accidents

    01/30/2025 11:20:14 AM PST · by Red Badger · 104 replies
    Yahoo - Telegraph - UK ^ | Dominic Nicholls Associate Editor (Defence).
    In order to enable safe flight, airspace is split into categories ranging from very tightly controlled areas around airports to other zones – mostly rural – where rules are much more relaxed. The most stringently controlled zones are Class A airspace, such as the area around the Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington. Pilots must obtain clearance from Air Traffic Control (ATC) to enter and, except in an emergency situation, must follow ATC instructions – such as on heading, height or clearance to land – to the letter. If reconstructions of the situation in Washington on Wednesday night and ATC...
  • Experts ask why Black Hawk helicopter may have been flying above allowed altitude before crash

    01/31/2025 1:06:15 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 72 replies
    CBS News ^ | January 30, 2025 9:25 PM EST | Laura Geller, Matthew Mosk, Pat Milton, Nicole Vap, John Kelly
    The military Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into a passenger plane near Reagan National Airport Wednesday appears to have been flying above the permitted altitude, publicly available flight data analyzed by CBS News shows.This data point is one of several key mysteries investigators are exploring as they seek to explain what caused the nation's worst air disaster in more than a decade, aviation experts said."That's the $64 million question that needs to be answered," said Greg Feith, a former senior air safety investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board, in an interview with CBS News. The permitted flight ceiling on...
  • Man pleads guilty to crashing drone into firefighting plane

    01/31/2025 1:13:14 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 17 replies
    ktla ^ | 01/31/2025 | : Tony Kurzweil
    Peter Tripp Akemann admitted to “illegal conduct in flying the drone that posed an imminent safety hazard to the Super Scooper crew,” the DOJ stated in a news release. The collision damaged the wing of the SuperScooper Quebec 1 on Jan. 9, forcing it to be taken out of service two days after the fire erupted. Investigators determined that while the wildfire was burning in and around Pacific Palisades, Akemann drove to the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica and launched his drone from the top floor of the parking structure to observe damage caused by the fire. With federal...
  • DC plane crash live updates: Helicopter ‘was flying too high, by a lot,’ Trump insists (LIVE UPDATES)

    01/31/2025 7:55:18 AM PST · by bitt · 88 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | 1/31/2025 | By Victor Nava
    Bodies of 41 people killed when an American Airlines plane and an Army helicopter collided in the air over Washington, DC, Wednesday night have been recovered from the wreckage, officials said Friday. The Black Hawk chopper hit the airplane, coming from Wichita, Kansas, as it approached Runaway 33 at Reagan National airport around 9 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. ...SNIP: 59 minutes ago Supervisor let air traffic controller leave shift early before crash: report By Patrick Reilly A supervisor at the Reagan National Airport tower reportedly let an air traffic controller leave early from his shift shortly before...
  • France to Deliver ‘Kamikaze’ Drones to Ukraine in ‘Coming Weeks’

    10/16/2024 7:28:44 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 15 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 10/16/2024 | Kurt Zindulka
    France will begin supplying Ukraine with ‘kamikaze’ drones in the next few weeks to use in its battle with Russia, the French defence minister announced Wednesday. Sébastien Lecornu, the Minister of the Armed Forces for Emmanuel Macron’s government, said that the first round of French remotely-controlled attack drones will be sent to Kyiv in the “coming weeks”. The French defence minister hailed the development for demonstrating that Paris has begun “regaining sovereignty over this key segment for our armies in less than two years” by producing the drones domestically.
  • DeSantis assembles senior staff for expected 2024 presidential campaign

    04/27/2023 4:53:19 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 92 replies
    Guardian ^ | 4.27.23 | Hugo Lowell in Washington
    Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, is quietly assembling a senior staff for an expected 2024 presidential campaign that will be headed by his top political adviser, Generra Peck, and around seven other Republican operatives serving as top advisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. The leadership roster remains subject to change since the campaign – which could launch as soon as the start of next month – does not yet technically exist and most salaries are being paid, for the moment, through the state Republican party. But some of the senior staff have started to move in recent weeks...
  • A Ceremony for the Fallen: Aftermath of a Kamikaze Attack

    05/27/2022 2:18:48 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 10 replies
    Burial at sea is a ceremonial tradition dating back to ancient times when necessity dictated that the remains of deceased Sailors return to the deep. During World War II, several navies, including the U.S. Navy, buried their dead at sea. Often conducted while still on station in combat areas, the ceremonies were generally as brief as possible. On 12 May 1945, the day after two kamikazes struck aircraft carrier Bunker Hill (CV-17) off Okinawa, one of the longest burials at sea in U.S. Navy history commenced. The ceremony was not only a testament to the fallen, but to the survivors,...
  • US Training Ukrainian Troops On Switchblade Kamikaze Drones

    04/08/2022 2:54:33 AM PDT · by blam · 10 replies
    Zubu Brothers ^ | 4-8-2022
    A little over a week ago the US revealed that it is sending 100 killer drone systems to Ukraine as part of huge new $800 million weapons package approved by the Biden administration last month. The small, low-cost but high tech weapons, called “Switchblade” drones are a type of “kamikaze drone” in that they act as guided missiles capable of loitering before slamming into their targets. “We have committed 100 Switchblade tactical unmanned aerial systems to be delivered in the most recent package of presidential drawdown,” assistant secretary of Defense for international security affairs Celeste Wallander previously told the House...
  • Clearing the Air on Kamikaze Culture

    01/01/2022 10:11:01 AM PST · by dmam2011 · 26 replies
    The Clarksvillian ^ | 12/31/2021 | Eric Fisher
    The honor and dignity of Japanese culture carefully hides dubious aspects of their WW2 military operations. Why would a culture place such a high priority of respect onto legacies of kamikaze pilots, suicide submarine missiles, and underwater suicide mine bombers? In short, families of these soldiers knew the personal realities behind the warrior myths.
  • Saved by the Wind? The Mongol Invasions of Japan

    12/27/2021 5:29:50 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 17 replies
    Nippon ^ | Dec 23, 2021 | Kawai Atsushi
    In the late thirteenth century, the Mongol Empire under Kublai Khan made two unsuccessful attempts to invade Japan. Historian Kawai Atsushi gives the background to the invasion, examines different theories about reasons for its failure, and looks at the aftermath for both sides. In November 1274, a fleet carrying some 30,000 Mongol Empire troops approached Hakata Bay off the Japanese island of Kyūshū. Genghis Khan had established the empire in the early thirteenth century by unifying the nomadic peoples of the Mongolian Plateau. Successive leaders expanded the empire through central Asia, and made Goryeo (Korea) a vassal state in 1259....
  • Biden’s Kamikaze Presidency

    11/11/2021 8:12:13 AM PST · by Starman417 · 16 replies
    Flopping Aces ^ | 09-11-21 | Larry Brandes
    Biden reminds me of the Kamikaze pilots Japan desperately recruited during the final stages of WWII. Selected aviators flew suicide attack missions against Allied naval vessels by diving their planes directly into enemy ships to inflict as much damage as possible. Their final doomed flights were intentionally one way missions. Slow Joe Biden and his tail gunner, Kackling Kamala are on their own personal Kamikaze mission but unfortunately, their objective is to destroy America. Our own allies must be bewildered to watch a president intentionally inflict catastrophic damage to his own country. Biden's apparent cognitive decline is no longer secret....
  • To Those Whose Grave is the Sea

    05/25/2020 2:18:06 AM PDT · by Jacquerie · 38 replies
    ArticleVBlog ^ | May 25th 2020 | Rodney Dodsworth
    “If you ever want to sleep with a blonde again, you had better shoot down these bastards as soon as they come up” - a destroyer captain motivates his exhausted crew shortly before a kamikaze attack. The sea-battle toll for Okinawa that ended on June 21st 1945 was 36 U.S. warships sunk and 368 damaged. Almost 5,000 sailors were KIA and another 5,000 wounded. War naturally conjures images of courageous soldiers. Flanders Fields, Charge of the Light Brigade, and not the Coral Sea or Leyte Gulf. Too often forgotten are the heroic Navy, Coast Guard and Merchant Marine sailors felled...
  • Japan reveals plan for space defense unit

    01/22/2020 10:18:52 AM PST · by RomanSoldier19 · 25 replies
    ssbprep ^ | · JANUARY 22, 2020 | BY SSBPREP
    apanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday his country will form a space defense unit to protect itself from potential threats as rivals develop missiles and other technology, noting that the new unit will work closely with its American counterpart recently launched by President Donald Trum
  • Where our Sailors Rest

    05/24/2019 5:00:32 AM PDT · by Jacquerie · 18 replies
    ArticleVBlog ^ | May 24th 2019 | Rodney Dodsworth
    “If you ever want to sleep with a blonde again, you had better shoot down these bastards as soon as they come up” - a destroyer captain motivates his exhausted crew shortly before a kamikaze attack. The sea-battle toll for Okinawa, which ended on June 21st 1945, was 36 U.S. warships sunk and 368 damaged. Almost 5,000 sailors were KIA and another 5,000 wounded. War naturally conjures images of brave infantrymen. Almost 200,000 soldiers and marines rest in cemeteries around the world. Too often forgotten are the Navy and merchant sailors felled at sea. It’s understandable; there are no battlefield...
  • Duterte: Philippine Troops Will ‘Prepare For Suicide Missions’ If China Seizes Disputed Island

    04/05/2019 9:27:07 AM PDT · by blam · 30 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 4-5-2019 | John Hayward
    Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte escalated his unusually confrontational rhetoric with China over the fate of a disputed South China Sea island on Thursday, warning Beijing that Philippine troops are prepared to conduct “suicide missions” if China does not back down. “I will not plead or beg, but I am just telling you to lay off the Pagasa because I have soldiers their,” Duterte said in a speech on Thursday, using the common Filipino name for Thitu Island in the Spratly chain. “If you touch it, that’s another story. Then I will tell my soldiers, ‘Prepare for suicide missions,’” Duterte warned...
  • Hitler's last gasp! Kamikaze Doodlebug with room for a PILOT that was the Nazis' [tr]

    06/22/2017 6:32:10 AM PDT · by C19fan · 26 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | June 22, 2017 | NIck Enoch
    An incredibly rare Kamikaze version of Adolf Hitler's deadly V1 terror weapon is about to go on display at a British museum 47 years after it was saved from the scrapheap - and restored in Germany. The piloted Doodlebug was effectively a suicide bomb packed with one ton of explosives in its nose. Towards the end of the Second World War, some 5,000 V1 rockets, the world's first cruise missile, were launched by the Germans to bomb London, causing massive loss of life.
  • VIDEO: Kamikaze Attack In 1945

    "This is incredible actual footage during the 80-minute attack on the USS Laffey. About the best naval footage ever shot by a Navy cameraman. The camera was in the gun turret under attack. The USS Laffey, "the ship that would not die", was hit by 6 Kamikazes and 4 bombs, but remained afloat after an 80 minute battle that included 22 Kamikaze attacks"