PLA's new destroyer could bring down F-35 stealth fighter

via WantChinaTimes

The US fifth-generation F-35 stealth fighter can be detected by the radar system installed aboard the People's Liberation Army Navy's new Type 052D destroyers, according to the Moscow-based Voice of Russia, citing military experts.
Vladimir Evseev, director of the Moscow-based Center for Social and Political Studies, told the Russian broadcaster that details of China's radar project, including the amount spent on its development, remain unknown, however it is a great leap forward in regards to the nation's military modernization program.
China has encountered a lot of obstacles in its attempts to develop its own radar system, but it has managed to overcome these issues with Russian help, Voice of Russia said, citing Konstantin Sivkov, director of the Russian Academy for Geopolitical Issues.
Sivkov said that the most crucial part of China's success is that the PLA Navy finally knows how to handle active electronically scanned array radar systems. With this technology, Chinese destroyers are able to track and shoot down F-35 fighters from a distance of 350 kilometers.
Meanwhile, Pavel Zolotaryov, deputy head of Institute for USA and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that the Chinese warship not only has the ability to locate the US stealth fighter but can also deploy countermeasures against the fighter's electronic interference capability.
The new system will gradually increase the combat capability of the PLA Navy in Western Pacific region, Voice of Russia said.

If this is based off the AEGIS radar and if this report is true then the USAF is going to have a serious problem operating in the Pacific.

Lack of electronic warfare aircraft in their future plans points to a glaring oversight.

They aren't planning for worse case scenarios and it could bite them. 

Bundy Ranch News. Shit is getting real.....

via Fox News.

Clark County sheriff's officials say they've been interviewed by the FBI as part of an investigation into armed supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.
Assistant Sheriff Joe Lombardo told KLAS-TV that federal agents have opened an investigation into the conduct of supporters of Bundy who reportedly pointed guns at officers during a standoff at his ranch April 12.
Bundy, a states' rights advocate who refuses to acknowledge the authority of the federal government, owes more than $1 million in fees and penalties for letting his cattle use government land over the past 20 years.
Last month, the Bureau of Land Management stopped trying to round up his cattle after a showdown with hundreds of Bundy supporters, some of them armed.
Since the standoff, Bundy went from being proclaimed a patriot by some for his resistance to a racist for comments he made about blacks being better off under slavery.
Bundy supporters have denied pointing weapons at authorities and say that BLM rangers were the ones pointing guns. Lombardo said it's expected the alleged behavior would be the subject of a criminal investigation.
"The federal authorities are conducting an investigation and I am pretty confident it is going to go into the future," Lombardo told KLAS-TV.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie confirmed the investigation in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He said agents will interview every law enforcement officer who was present during the showdown.
"Everyone anticipated that this would occur," said Gillespie, who told the newspaper that he was interviewed by FBI agents on April 28. "I’ve said all along there has to be accountability for what took place on April 12."
Lombardo told the Review-Journal that FBI agents are primarily interested in who allegedly pointed weapons at federal agents. He said he believed agents would be poring over video and photos to identify people making threats.
“They have a certain standard of what they believe is a violation of the law,” he said. “You can’t expect the federal government to walk away.”
A spokeswoman for the FBI in Las Vegas did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

Rumors are swirling all over this thing and now the FBI is involved.

I can guarantee that every photo from every news source will be looked at.  Additionally you can bet that the no fly zone over the Ranch was so that UAVs could provide surveillance of the situation recording license plates and taking additional photos.

These guys are going to face some serious charges and they'll probably be made an example of.  I wonder what will happen to some of the more outspoken participants.  James Yeager, a well known gun rights/weapons instructor, showed up and I wonder if they'll charge him.

Regardless this will be interesting to watch.

Its getting to the point where guys should just hire hookers....

via The Daily Caller...

A University of Michigan student was given a four-year suspension after being found guilty of sexual assault–despite receiving little notice of the charges against him, no attorney, no trial and no jury.
Now, the former student, Drew Sterrett, is suing the public university for abridging due process rights guaranteed to him under the U.S. Constitution.
Sterrett had sex with a female student in his dorm room during his freshman year at the university in 2012. Five months later, while at home in New York for summer break, the university informed him that she had filed a rape complaint against him, according to The Michigan Daily.
He was told that if he spent any time trying to find an attorney, the university would proceed without him. Later that day, he attended a hearing by Skype in which he denied any wrongdoing, according to The Detroit Free Press.“At no point during the call/interview was [Sterrett] given notice of the specific allegations which had been made against him,” the lawsuit claimed.
The investigation was halted in September after Sterrett’s accuser expressed second thoughts about having the details of their encounter made public. Sterrett was left in the dark about this, though he was warned to stay away from Mosher-Jordan, the residence hall where his accuser lived.
Ultimately, the university proceeded to adjudicate the matter. Administrators eventually informed Sterrett that he was found guilty of raping his accuser and creating a “hostile environment” for her, and would be suspended until 2016.
Sterrett says the charges are ludicrous, and the proceedings a gross perversion of justice. For one thing, his roommate was present for the sexual encounter and could have provided testimony that their sex was consensual. For another, Sterrett was not given adequate representation–nor was he ever given an opportunity to address his accuser’s specific allegations.
Still, a university appeals board upheld the ruling against him.
“The decision of the Appeals Board was a rubber-stamp of the flawed investigation and Report and Addendum, lacked fundamental fairness, was reckless, arbitrary and capricious, and clearly denied [Sterrett] due process,” according to Sterrett’s lawsuit.Sterrett’s lawyer, Deborah Gordon, said the university ignored the facts, the law and its own policies on sexual assault in its malicious prosecution of Sterrett.
The suit demands that UM reinstate Sterrett and pay damages. UM has denied any wrongdoing.
“The University is reviewing the complaints and plans to defend them vigorously,” said Kelly Cunningham, a UM spokeswoman, in a statement to The Daily.
Civil libertarians are concerned that new White House recommendations for public universities handling sexual assault cases will further erode the rights of the accused on campuses. 

Quite honestly the old game of chasing women and trying to bed one of them is becoming too risky on a personal and professional level to even consider.

The only safe way to date these days is....I don't know if there is a safe way.  If you're accused of wrongdoing (and I'm assuming the guy is innocent in this scenario) then your life is over.

The old saying that Drill Instructors pound into recruits heads about Women Marines applies to all women today.

Don't look at them, don't talk to them, don't date them and always have a witnesses when you're around them! 

A lesson in messaging for the good people of Sikorsky....

Sikorsky needs a lesson in messaging.

They've jacked up the launch of this helicopter and they forgot that they don't have to sell this to policy makers.  That work should have already been done.

They should be trying to sell the helicopter to the public!

Images, CGIs, and graphs of the helicopter should be floating all over the internet, not speeches of VIPs at the rollout ceremony.

Selfies are for hot babes with big breasts, not for a company's officials at a rollout ceremony.  We don't want to see them, we want to see the helicopter.

So what is the terminal learning objective for this block of instruction?  Less people, more hardware!  Its about the product (and although VERY important) not the people behind it.

A comic book says it best....

Well said.

Time for the warrior tribe to plant its feet and say no more.

The yielding to the craziness must stop.  Just because the Press, Politicians and the mob (probably led by some teenager or 20-something that doesn't even know what the world is about) says that wrong is right doesn't make it so.

Who would have ever thought that a comic book panel could be so powerful?

Chinese police will be patrolling the streets of Paris this summer

via Business Insider.

Chinese police will be patrolling the streets of Paris this summer alongside their French counterparts to help combat a surge in attacks against high-spending Chinese tourists.
The French authorities are determined to improve security for more than a million Chinese tourists who visit the capital for shopping and sightseeing each year.
Their habit of carrying large amounts of cash has made them a “prime target for muggers and pickpockets”, a police source said.
Chinese visitors to Paris are estimated to spend an average of €1,470 (£1,205) each on shopping, mainly buying designer brands, according to Global Blue, the Swiss-based duty free services company.
An interior ministry official said the number of Chinese police to be deployed in Paris was still being decided. “Their role will be preventive and they will carry out patrols with French police at tourist sites,” the official said.
In an incident that caused alarm in Beijing and received wide media coverage, a group of 23 Chinese visitors were robbed of cash and passports last year as they left a restaurant only a few hours after landing at Charles de Gaulle airpo

This has bad idea written all over it.

The very idea of deploying the police from a communist country to patrol the streets of a democracy is downright crazy to me.

But I'm old skool so maybe this is the wave of the future.  Washington DC has tons of Chinese visitors.  I wonder if we're going to invite their police to help out there?

I thought inviting the Chinese to Rimpac was bad enough but this?  Just plain wow.

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