Pax Buys Business Chase Jets
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NAS Pax River buys two business jets, C-38A Couriers, from the Air National Guard to chase the P-8A, E-2D, MQ-4C, E-6B, and C-130 for testing, reports Seapower Magazine.
The Coast Guard seizes $1.01 billion worth of narcotics in 23 separate confrontations with drug smugglers in the Pacific, reports Military.com. Video on YouTube shows what 34 metric tons of cocaine look like.
NOAA estimates humans have explored less than 5 percent of the ocean, Boeing’s Echo Seeker unmanned submarine could change that quickly, reports Popular Science.
It’s musical carriers as a three-crew switch starts this week in California with the arrival of the USS George Washington, reports USNI. The USS Gerald R. Ford, first of a new class of carriers, 2016 deployment date could be set back by a “full ship shock trial,” (where live explosives test the ships integrity) ordered last week. Although the Navy requested, the Pentagon did not fund a shock trial for the second ship, reports Defense News.
Non-toxic Skunk crowd-control has been shipped to the Ferguson, MO, police departments, reports Defense One. The blend of amino acids and baking soda, developed in 2008 by the Israeli Defense Forces for use against Palestinian protesters, carries a long lasting stench described as a blend of rotting animal and human excrement and serves as a non-lethal method to disperse a crowd.
A week after the Washington Post reports on the magnitude 2.2 earthquake Aug. 8, centered in Anne Arundel County, Gov Exec reports 16,585 people in Maryland are exposed to “potentially damaging ground shaking” out of 143 million at risk in the lower 48 states.
