US Action News

Rather than ensuring that our armed forces can defend America without wasting billions, President Obama and his alliance prefer to wage war on fossil fuels.

Spending four times as much for biofuels may impress the Democratic Party’s environmentalist special interests. But to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other U.S. adversaries, it will be a sign of weakness and an invitation for aggression.

Rep. Duncan Hunter said the Navy seemed to be trying to make a political statement instead of upholding the tradition of honoring military war heroes. But the union agenda is Obama’s agenda and what better way to keep those union dollars flowing to Obama and the Democrats than to declare March 31 an annual Cesar Chavez Day in the new Unionized States of America. That is a real twofer for the pres. He gets union dollars and Hispanic votes.

U.S. naval planners are scrambling to deal with what analysts say is a game-changing weapon being developed by China — an unprecedented carrier-killing missile called the Dong Feng 21D that could be launched from land with enough accuracy to penetrate the defenses of even the most advanced moving aircraft carrier at a distance of more than 1,500 kilometers (900 miles).

This silent video shows during a recent test, a Navy laser using a tracking system from Raytheon to shoot down the unmanned aerial vehicles with lasers. People scoffed when Reagan promoted such ideas.

“The strike fighter capacity of our Navy and Marine Corps is a strategic asset that should not be allowed to wither.”

It was big news when Capt. Holly Graf was fired as skipper of the USS Cowpens. But the story behind the story is how www.MilitaryCorruption.com unearthed a dramatic photo of Graf’s cruiser nearly hitting the destroyer the USS John S. McCain while drag racing at sea and coming within 300 feet of collision.

Development of the Joint Strike Fighter, as it is also known, has fallen so far behind schedule, with huge cost overruns, the defense secretary ordered the firing of the F-35 program manager.

The risk in Gates’ decision is hammered home by this stark fact: the Air Force estimates it could be short 800 fighter-bombers by 2024. Levin called it “a shortfall that’s large enough that if it were realized could cause us to tie up aircraft carriers at the pier for lack of aircraft to send with them.

Two U.S. congressmen take the lead in proclaiming the obvious — that those who attack this country should be punished and not those who risk their lives to defend it.

USS Farragut dispatched an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter to MV Barakaale 1 after it raised a distress call saying it was under attack from a gang on a skiff, the embassy said in a statement.