A newly released report from Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee says COVID-19’s origins “may have been” linked to a Chinese biological weapons program. While stressing the lack of a “smoking gun” and saying they don’t believe its release into the public was intentional, the report claims that it found “indications” suggesting that the disease […] The post House GOP: COVID “May Have Been Tied” to Chinese Bioweapons Program appeared first on Populist Press ©2022 .

Sure, we all know that the F-22 and F-35 are the best fighter jets the U.S. Air force has and have some amazing stealth capabilities. But when we talk about pure combat records, nothing can beat the F-15. Nothing:  Despite entering service nearly a half-century ago, the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle remains one of the most […] The post F-15 (Photos): The Air Force’s Undefeated Fighter Jet appeared first on 19FortyFive .

Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) on Tuesday raised concerns that the United States is falling behind adversaries China and Russia in manufacturing and testing hypersonic missiles. “As a country, we are behind China, and even Russia for that matter, and this is not a good situation,” Lamborn said, adding hypersonics are “a whole new type of...

The U.S. Navy has lots of ways – and lots of weapons platforms – that China to this day could only dream of. And sometimes the Navy needs to show Beijing precisely the sorts of platforms it would need to deal with in any sort of armed conflict over Taiwan and the South China Sea. […] The post China Was Freaked Out: Why the Navy Surfaced 3 Missile Submarines (At the Same Time) appeared first on 19FortyFive .

DoD Sends "Phoenix Ghost" Kamikaze Drones To Ukraine  The Department of Defense  announced  it was sending "121 Phoenix Ghost Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems" to Ukraine. The never-before-seen kamikaze drone is a brand-new weapon system designed for ambushing Russian tanks. As reported by  Breaking Defense,  the Phoenix Ghost tactical drone is similar to the Switchblade drone already fielded in Ukraine.  Ok a bit more from a DoD official, who is loathe to detail the requirements that differentiate Phoenix Ghost from a Switchblade. Its a "one way drone" that "delivers a punch" [...]

US Imposes Ban On Anti-Satellite Weapons Tests To Highlight Russian Malfeasance In Space The Biden administration is implementing a self-imposed ban on all anti-satellite weapons testing, in order to take the lead in highlighting what it says are the dangerous and irresponsible Russian tests in space, which have lately created a potentially disastrous field of space debris . China has also been accused of similarly reckless anti-satellite missile testing. NBC reported the initiative Monday based on admin sources, and a briefing provided to Congress indicates that the move is to a [...]

A Japanese Yakuza boss was busted in a NYC sting after trying to buy surface-to-air missiles that had been stolen from a military base in Afghanistan and attempting to funnel them to militias in Myanmar.

    Video making the rounds this am, reports that it is first combat use of Russian hypersonic missile – Kinzhal on a weapons depot near the Polish border pic.twitter.com/pVxqEWlT5J — Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) March 19, 2022   Full Story — Putin fires hypersonic missile at Ukraine…   Russia’s most advanced conventional weapon – […]

By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will pay people to open their homes to Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion as the government moves to deflect anger over its response to the

An Estonian-owned cargo ship has been sunk off the coast of Ukraine following an explosion. The Helt is believed to have hit a mine and four crew members are still missing.

Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, allegedly trained her own children to use AK-47s and suicide belts, and conspired to plan an attack on an American college campus, the DOJ said.

F-35 Stealth Jet Crashes On US Carrier In South China Sea, 7 Injured An F-35C Stealth fighter jet has crash landed aboard the deck of the USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea on Monday, the US Navy announced, inuring seven , including the pilot who successfully ejected nad was recovered in the sea by a military helicopter.  "An F-35C Lightning II, assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, had a landing mishap on deck while USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) was conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, Jan. 24, 2022," a military  statement  said. US Navy file: An F-35C tak [...]

How Good Is China's J-20 Stealth Fighter Jet? By Richard Bitzinger, an independent international security analyst. He was previously a senior fellow with the Military Transformations Program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore. First published in the Epoch Times. How good is China ’s most advanced fighter jet , the J-20 ? The J-20 is a “fifth-generation” combat aircraft, which ostensibly puts it in the same league as the U.S. F-22 and F-35. Chinese J-20 stealth fighters perform at the Airshow China 2018 in Zhuhai, in China's Guangdong Province [...]

The S-550 defense system has successfully completed trials and "entered combat duty," Tass reported Tuesday, citing a source inside the Russian defense ministry.

(UPI) — A U.S. Navy ship successfully fired a new, high-energy laser weapon on Tuesday, destroying a training target. The USS Portland destroyed the static target in the Gulf of Aden as part of a demonstration. The gulf separates East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The system was initially installed on the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship […] The post U.S. Navy Successfully Tests High-energy Laser Weapon in Gulf of Aden appeared first on Populist Press 2021 © .

Police in Germany say a World War II bomb has exploded at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich.

Russia Starts Full-Scale Production Of Hypersonic Missile That Can 'Evade Western Defenses' Russia announced on Saturday that it has begun full-scale production of its 6,670 MPH Zircon hypersonic missile which they claim can evade 'all' Western defense systems, according to state-sponsored TASS news agency. The Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic missile was successfully fired at a ground target on the coast of the Barents Sea on July 19, 2021 via the Daily Mail The 'unstoppable' weapon has been ordered to be manufactured at the top-secret Reutovo plant near Moscow, even before trials ha [...]

China's Orbital Bombardment System Firing Hypersonic Weapons Showed Unprecedented Capability, FT Says Since the Financial Times reported China  conducted  two hypersonic tests over the summer, US officials have expressed concern about technological advances because no nation (except China) can propel a hypersonic weapon into space that can fly over the South Pole, rendering US missile defense systems useless. In other words: a possible checkmate.  In a new report via  FT , People familiar with details of the July 27 test said China launched an "orbital bombardment system" rocket [...]

By Idrees Ali and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -An anti-satellite missile test Russia conducted on Monday generated a debris field in low-Earth orbit that endangered the International Space

US Military Conducts Three Successful Tests To Advance Hypersonic Weapon Program The U.S. Navy and Army announced Thursday three hypersonic component prototypes that were tested on Wednesday would increase the development of a new missile,  Reuters  said, citing a Pentagon report. The so-called "components" were tested on the same day President Biden called  China's latest hypersonic weapons test  "concerning."  The three components, which were not named in the report, were tested at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. A statement from the Pentagon said the tests will hel [...]