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The rise and rise of Turkish drone technology The rise and rise of Turkish drone technology Everything’s coming up roses for Turkey’s thriving drone industry, but a cash-strapped economy and technological challenges may slow further progress. (April 11, 2021 / Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies) As recently as the early 2000s, Turkey was dependent on Israeli-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) in its asymmetric warfare with Kurdish rebels fighting for autonomy or independe...

Charles CoatesGetty Images DARPA is looking for one-person powered flight platforms, including jetpacks and powered wingsuits. The platform could be used for search and rescue and “augmented urban combat.” The Pentagon has announced it’s willing to fund a “portable personal air mobility system”—including yours, if you have the right idea. ➡ The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will pay up to $1.5 million in development costs for a powered flight system capable ...

But rest assured, there was two ac-130 gunships. these are amazingly devastating air platforms. they would have laid waste to everything in that area, if something would have happened other than a prisoner exchange in a peaceful fashion. and rest assured there was probably a quick reaction force or immediate reaction force on the other side of one of those hilltops, guys sitting there in a helicopter, waiting to go. >> thats what i was wondering. this little nugget that comes from the taliban tr...

Counterargument to that because this is not the picture dictionary section of life. you know the republicans arent going on the dirty water, running on the dirty air platform. you just know that regulation seems to be stifling the economy and you also know that its not a matter of people not wanting to hire cops and retain teachers. its wondering if were running in a deficit, is it worth putting $35 billion into the black hole after you did that three years ago? but in the big picture, independe...

Earmarks during the time that i was in congress were this thing that drove up spending in washington, d.c. if you actually look at it, as i said before, as a percentage of gdp, actually the deficit -- some of the debt went down. what happened is there was abuse. when abuse happened, i said, we should stop the earmarking process. but i did say there were good earmarks and bad earmarks. we wouldnt have the v-22 osprey, which is the most essential air platform for our marines in particular, in the ...

Salt lake olympics in the order of tens of millions of dollars, sought those earmarks and used them, and he did it as the governor of massachusetts, $300 million or $400 million. he said i would be something like foolish if i didnt try to go out and get federal dollars. so the idea that somehow the earmarks during the time that i was in congress were this thing that drove up spending in washington, d.c. if you actually look at it, as i said before, as a percentage of gdp, actually the deficit --...