Terrell Jermaine Starr
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Breaking News: The F-35 Is Still An Expensive Mess
Availability of spare parts is getting worse. Repairs are delayed. Jets aren’t available when needed and pilots can’t get enough training hours. Surprise, everyone. The F-35 is still a spectacularly inefficient, super expensive shitshow that continues be the leader in military procurement mismanagement.
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How To Dismantle A Nuclear Weapon
Dismantling the world’s 15,000 nuclear weapons is one the most important geopolitical challenges humanity faces. That number seems bleak, given the current state of affairs. But if you wanted to dismantle just one warhead, here is what it would take.
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Drones Are Getting Their Own Air Traffic Control With No Need For Humans
Drones are buzzing around the sky delivering products to customers, snapping videos and photos and conducting search and rescue missions, making it necessary for all of these high-flying machines to be regulated – with their own air traffic system set to launch in the US by 2025.
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DARPA Wants To Create A ‘Soldier Cell’ To Fight Biological Weapon Attacks
There really is no remedy against a biological weapon attack, but Johns Hopkins University researchers hope the four-year, $US5.7 ($8) million grant DARPA recently awarded them will change that. The aim is for the researchers to create a bio-control system able to deploy single-cell fighters that will hunt down specific pathogens and destroy their lethality.