Weather-Studying Warthog: A Fixed-Up A-10 Will Fly Into Thunderstorms – A-10 Thunderbolt II – Popular Mechanics

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Nov 192011
 

The U.S. military’s veteran A-10 Thunderbolt II is built for battle: a titanium-armored cockpit protects its pilot from explosive projectile hits, and it can carry weapons like a 30-mm nose-mounted cannon to take out enemy tanks. Now the National Science Foundation (NSF) plans to arm a retired Thunderbolt not with bombs, but with scientific instruments, and use it to study the inside of violent thunderstorms—where winds, hail, and lightning would take down lesser planes.

Weather-Studying Warthog: A Fixed-Up A-10 Will Fly Into Thunderstorms – A-10 Thunderbolt II – Popular Mechanics.

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U.S. Military To Scrap COIN; Focus on Pacific, Says Vice Chairman

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Nov 182011
 

Omaha: The United States, which rushed to replace and rebuild its ability to wage counter insurgency warfare over the last decade, must plan for a new future in the Pacific and leave COIN behind.

via U.S. Military To Scrap COIN; Focus on Pacific, Says Vice Chairman.

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Feds investigating Illinois ‘pump failure’ as possible cyber attack – CNN.com

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Nov 182011
 

Feds investigating Illinois ‘pump failure’ as possible cyber attack – CNN.com.

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Iran Working to Control Duqu Virus Attack | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

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Nov 142011
 

Iran Working to Control Duqu Virus Attack | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.

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Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of Diaspora, dies at 22 – Nov. 14, 2011

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Nov 142011
 

Ilya Zhitomirskiy, co-founder of Diaspora, dies at 22 – Nov. 14, 2011.

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