Pentagon Prepares A-10 Warthog Surge As Mideast Fleet Set To Double

Russian Frigate Fires Flares At Danish Military Helicopter, Copenhagen Summons Ambassador There's been another dangerous incident and major 'close call' involving a Russian ship in international waters off Europe. In this case, which unfolded Monday, a Danish military helicopter reportedly hovered near a Russian military frigate, seeking to monitor and photograph it. Illustrative, via Naval Technology Soon after, according to the account of Danish military officials, the Fennec military helicopter was fired upon by flares from the Russian ship. It happened in the Baltic Sea, after which Moscow's ambassador in Copenhagen, Vladimir Barbin, laid blame solely...

Chinese Navy Pushes Dutch Frigate From Claimed Waters Via Electronic Warfare The Netherlands has become the latest Western nation to tangle with Beijing and exchange tense words after testing its sweeping claims to the South China Sea. A tense military encounter unfolded involving a Dutch warship, identified as the HNLMS De Ruyter, after it had entered waters near the disputed Paracel Islands. China's military reportedly used electronic warfare measures to force it out of the China-claimed waters in the incident on Wednesday. source: Defensie.nl Chinese military spokesperson Zhai Shichen later charged that the Dutch ship...

She Thought Cotton Fields Vanished With Slavery... Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, In a now viral video, a woman pulled over, pointed her phone at a cotton field, and spoke as if she had stumbled onto a dark secret. Overlay text on the clip asks "how do we still have cotton fields?" as the woman states "Okay, I didn't think they did cotton fields anymore. Y'all check this out. Y'all see that? There is literally a cotton field. Do y'all see that? Isn't that crazy?" Watch: A woman just filmed a cotton field...