Meanwhile on the International front....

[Songbird]

60 Minutes with a great segment on Operation Boom Goes the Dynamite.

13 quality minutes.

 

[Twirling Time]

I'll let someone else decide whether Bill Ackman is the best source, but let's not shoot the messenger, huh?

 

[MileHigh]

60 Minutes with a great segment on Operation Boom Goes the Dynamite.

13 quality minutes.

I mean ... wow. Beyond cutthroat.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Tens of thousands of Serbs protest against President Aleksandar Vucic

"His tight grip on power has been challenged by weeks of street protests led by university students and the rally at Belgrade's Slavija Square was one of the largest in recent years. It was part of a wider movement demanding accountability over the Nov. 1 collapse of a canopy at a railway station in the country's north that killed 15 people."

(In Serbian accent): In America, that would get you reelected

The CIA should stop fomenting revolution.[/RTExpress]

 

[swingline]

The CIA should stop fomenting revolution.[/RTExpress]

It should. But it won't.

 

[Batman]

The Chinese have themselves a new fighter jet.
Unclear yet how close it is to being operational, but all indications are that it's a big leap forward for them. Maybe even a leap past us.

 

[three_bags_full]

Like the 27, that's probably going to have a cross section similar to a greyhound bus.

 

[Justin_Rice]

The Chinese have themselves a new fighter jet.
Unclear yet how close it is to being operational, but all indications are that it's a big leap forward for them. Maybe even a leap past us.

Let me know when they're fielding it, operating it, integrating it with the rest of their C&C, and sustaining it.

IMO the, "here's a thing that flies fast, far, and stealthy," is almost the easiest of the problems to solve.

 

[Batman]

Another new type of Chinese plane has been spotted. Third this week, which means it's probably not a coincidence.

 

[three_bags_full]

That's a stolen C17 design. Good grief.

 

[Songbird]

Real life game of Risk in Sudan and Chad.

How a U.S. Ally Uses Aid as a Cover in War

The United Arab Emirates is expanding a covert campaign to back a winner in Sudan's civil war. Waving the banner of the Red Crescent, it is also smuggling weapons and deploying drones.

The Emirates is playing a deadly double game in Sudan, a country shredded by one of the world's most catastrophic civil wars.

Eager to cement its role as a regional kingmaker, the wealthy Persian Gulf petrostate is expanding its covert campaign to back a winner in Sudan, funneling money, weapons and, now, powerful drones to fighters rampaging across the country, according to officials, internal diplomatic memos and satellite images analyzed by The New York Times.

All the while, the Emirates is presenting itself as a champion of peace, diplomacy and international aid. It is even using one of the world's most famous relief symbols — the Red Crescent, the counterpart of the Red Cross — as a cover for its secret operation to fly drones into Sudan and smuggle weapons to fighters, satellite images show and American officials say.

 

[Twirling Time]

That's a stolen C17 design. Good grief.

I wouldn't be surprised if they stole the design for the stealth fighter right out of the skunk works too.