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Get Ready For A Year Of Volatility: More Flash Crashes, Fed Hating, Civil Unrest And Bad Weather. Bruce Krasting, My Take On Financial Events | Dec. 28, 2010, 2:22 PM Oh boy is 2011 going to be an exciting year! Some things that I think might happen: -Volatility is going up across the...

Scientists say that global warming causes climate change and all human, animal and plant life will cease to exist as planet earth enter the ice age. ------ Fire and Ice - a poem by Robert Frost FIRE AND ICE Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of...

The Party Is Over In Australia As Debt And Living Costs Surge The party is over in Australia. Many anti-dollar investors and Pollyannas living down under just don't realize it yet. Nonetheless, Australia faces an economic crunch as family finances collapse under the burden of record debts...

Before China Crashes, This Is Going To Happen First Joe Weisenthal, On Monday 3 January 2011, 18:15 Yahoo Finance SocGen's Albert Edwards is the latest to predict an imminent crash in China. Part of his reason for worry is that everyone is really bullish on China, ergo markets are...

I suggest that you read up on Shaped charge explosives...and their intended design objectives as ordnance payloads on guided missiles., especially Anti ship missiles. Perhaps you may also like to know about depleted uranium payloads fitted on artillery and tank ammunition shells, which have...

We can safely assume that the missile has tracking ability. In today's missile regime, that capability is a must. Japan has access to sophisticated military satellites....their own as well as that of USA and acquiring sat based LatLong coordinates should not be an issue for them. Especially that...

Maintaining a 400 KM security envelope round the clock with several combat a/c is a tall order for most a/c carriers. Refueling and turn around becomes logistical headaches. Ballistic missiles have primary INS ( Inertial nav Sys) as well as secondary SAT guidance systems. At high speeds (...

An aircraft carrier..by its very nature and size is a huge ammunition dump. For long endurance at sea it also have large amount of fuel tanks holding 100,000s of liters of fuel. One direct hit from a anti-ship missile with a shaped charge can blow the whole ship to pieces. Hence the tactical...

Yes, not YET. They are building one..keel laid already. Supposed to become operational 2015. A/c carriers are part of any blue water navy.

Hmmmm....... Better read up and be informed....it helps....!!!

China’s Stealth Fighter: The Russian View RIA Novosti‘s Ilya Kramnik takes a skeptical view of China’s new J-20 stealth-fighter prototype, noting that “China has consistently lagged 15 to 20 years behind the world leaders in aircraft manufacturing.” The Russian analyst’s salient points...

Japan’s Carrier-Killing Missile. by KYLE MIZOKAMI By now you might have read about the Chinese DF-21 Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile, the "supposed killer" of American aircraft carriers. Now meet XASM-3, the killer of Chinese aircraft carriers. Asian Defence has the pics. The...

Updated Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:12 pm TWN, AFP At US$ 12 Trillion, it is more than half the size of USA and greater than China and Japan combined. The eurozone: economic giant, political pygmy? BRUSSELS -- The eurozone, in its deepest crisis since the euro's birth in 1999 caused by...

Survey: One in two Germans want Deutschmark back BERLIN -- Almost one in two Germans would like to drop Europe's common euro currency and revert back to the old Deutschmark, according to a survey released on Sunday. The poll, conducted on behalf of the daily Bild, showed that 49 percent of...

No cinema halls, only downloads in future, predicts Lynch Monday 27th December, 2010 (IANS) Filmmaker David Lynch believes movies will eventually only be available to download from the internet in the future. The 'Mulholland Drive' director is a champion of new technology and believes...

China's "father of the Great Fire Wall" gets a taste of his own medicine. Last week, Fang Binxing (方滨兴), president of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and the grand architect of the GFW, signed up on the Chinese microblog Sina Weibo, but not for long. The amount of...

Jakarta. Dozens of people greeted the Indonesian football team as they arrived at East Jakarta's Halim Perdanakusuma Airport from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Monday. Supporters wearing team colors and gear cheered as the players entered the airport around 10:30 a.m. The players waved and smiled...

Indonesia anger over lasers in Malaysia football match - BBC The Indonesian president has said an official protest will be lodged with the Asean Football Federation about the alleged use of laser beams in an international against Malaysia. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was speaking after fans and...

Brazil woman almost buried alive dies 2 days later Sao Paulo, Dec 27, (AP): Brazilian police are investigating the case of an elderly woman who was declared dead, only to wake up hours later inside a coffin in a funeral home. The 88-year-old woman died two days after the incident and...

Malaysian colleges a hotbed for militant recruiting: Experts AFP, Dec 27, 2010, 07.41am KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's universities have become prime recruiting grounds for Islamic militants looking for youngsters to draw into terrorist networks, security experts warn. Unlike neighbouring...