Posted on 2007 under Security, Aero |
21
Jul
The U.S. has commissioned an squadron of General Atomics’ MQ-9 Reaper drones like the one above, shown at Creech Air Force Base. The Reaper will do more than surveillance, carrying up to 14 satellite-guided Hellfire missiles that can cause some serious damage. Click for a super-high resolution version of the Reaper showing all its naughty bits.
These babies are about two times as fast as their Predator predecessor, thanks mostly to its new and improved 900-hp turbo-prop engine. They are scheduled to be deployed between this fall and early next spring.
As a bonus, here is a video of a similar beast, the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Block 20 Global Hawk.
Source: sayanything.awardspace.com via Slashdot
Posted on 2007 under Security, Miscellaneous |
20
Jul
The credit card system now these days on boom and they are very common payment system in this financial system. Most of the merchants use credit card as payment because they are very easy to use & also hassle less. Hence a retail business requires reliable merchant services for their retail businesses needs. There are many Merchant Account companies on the net but every time there was an issue that which are reliable & can provide professional and quality credit card services, so my finding divert to this & ultimately, I find a great one & genuine which provides those facility that no one other merchant company can provide, This is Card service sales company every famous/expertise merchant company mainly for retail business that’s offers merchant account & various other types of merchant accounts to its customers for the frequent & smoothing running of retail business for the retail customers on his demands like e-commerce merchant a/c, retail merchant a/c, mail/phone orders merchant a/c(individual business), wireless merchant a/c etc & one thing more these merchant a/c you can create on the most lower price you ever see, this is why more than 300,000 members choose Card service sales company. Card service sales company also provides wide range of facilities & services to its customers like Free software’s, Free reprogramming and other free services to its customers, they also offers credit card machines through First Data Independent Sales a wide variety of terminals, to suit the performance, size and cost demands of your business it has credit card machines that they provide or supports like The LinkPoint, WAY Systems MTT 1556—Credit, Debit & Smart Card and many more other machines . One more thing there are many companies on merchant account but only you choose better this is only in your hand which one is best, those who made reliable relationship with more than 300,000 customers & those who made un-reliable relationship with its customers.. So decision in your hand!
Posted on 2007 under Security, Software, Aero |
18
Jul
(Source: Google and FAS)
The Chinese military may likely become the latest enemy of Google Earth
Google Maps and Google Earth users now have the ability to see a new high-tech Chinese nuclear ballistic missile submarine which can reportedly fire intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons analyst for the Federation of American Scientists.
Kristensen found the Jin-class, or Type 094, nuclear submarine’s image after it was taken by the Quickbird commercial satellite late last year. The Jin-class is the successor to the Xia-class submarine, “the unsuccessful Xia-class (Type 092) of a single boat built in the early 1980s,” Kristensen wrote.
The Jin-class submarine was photographed while moored at the Xiaopingdao Submarine Base.
Using an image of the Xia-class submarine — taken in 2005 — Kristensen was able to point out some of the differences between the Xia- and Jin-class submarines. The Jin-class submarine is at least 35 feet longer than the Xia-class, mainly because of an “extended mid-section” responsible for housing missile launch tubes. The images do not conclusively determine whether the Jin-class mid-section has 12 or 16 tubes.
China expects to build as many as five Jin-class submarines in the next few years. China currently relies on land-based nuclear missile technology, but the new submarines add an additional tool to the military’s arsenal.
Images and technical information about the submarine can be found on Kristensen’s Strategic Security Blog.
This may cause the Chinese military to become the latest organization to show concerns over what Google Earth can reveal to users. The U.S. government and Indian military are both worried about the high-level quality of satellite imagery which is available to users. A spy chief also predicted curbs on satellite photos may be needed for programs like Google Earth.
Source: sayanything.awardspace.com
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