Tuesday, March 08, 2016

Call The Hackers: US Superplane Grounded By Software Bug

Over the past few months we have all been given the opportunity to be impress by the abilities of the highly advanced Russian warplane, the Sukhoi Su35. Even The Pentagon's top military aviation officials have been impressed, and we hear what the Chinese have up their sleeves is even more advanced. It was reported late last year during a particularly intense moment in US / Russian relations in the middle east that Pentagon officials had warned Obama not to risk triggering any direct conflict with Russia because the Russians could "obliterate US military capablities."


How did this happen?

Well the Russians focused on what is achievable while American technologists got drawn into a lot of Hollywood fantasy stuff. And the result was:
The troubled creation of the Lockheed Martin F-35 is plagued by yet another technical glitch.

The Lockheed Martin F-35 is not only an extremely expensive aircraft, but is also probably the most software-driven plane ever constructed. And ironically, it is a new software glitch that now threatens the US Air Force’s plans to finally declare F-35 operationally deployable in the near future.
According to IHS Jane’s, the problem lies with the current version of software that runs the warplane’s radar, making it unstable and thus affecting the aircraft’s performance against other airborne targets.
"What would happen is they'd get a signal that says either a radar degrade or a radar fail —something that would force us to restart the radar," Harrigian explained.
The problem was apparently first discovered during tests in late 2015.
"Lockheed Martin discovered the root cause, and now they're in the process of making sure they take that solution and run it through the [software testing] lab," Harrigian said, adding that USAF is scheduled to receive the new software by the end of March.
The F-35 fighter jet is probably the most expensive military aircraft ever developed, with an estimated final cost of $400 billion which is twice the original estimate.
Problems with the F-35 have included flaws in its fuel and hydraulic systems, poor cockpit visibility, faulty radar and ejection seats that don't work. The entire fleet was grounded in 2014 after an engine caught fire as a test pilot prepared to take off.


F35 - nice decals but can it get off the ground?








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Britain’s report on Muslim Brotherhood contradicts U.S. views on group


The Muslim Brotherhood has powerful supporters in places you might not expect to find terrorist sympathisers (Image source)

As the ceasefire in Syria between the forces loyal to the Assad regime and their Russian and Iranian allies and the free Syrian Army, backed by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the USA holds rather shakily, leaving the pro - Assad alliance free to concentrate on clobbering ISIS, it appears that not only have the terrorist group shifted their focus to Libya and it's oilfields, a country where, thanks to a misguided western intervention,  there is no coherent government to protect the national assets, and to causing more mayhem on the streets of European and north American cities.

A spate of warning on the imminent threat of more and increasingly bloody attacks on Britain and Europe by Muslim terror group Islamic State have been issued by British government security agencies in the past few days. As well as one from the Police covert anti terror unit, reported here, another, Muslim Brotherhood Review (.pdf from official UK government website) has been featured in the Washington Times (reproduced below under 'fair use' terms for purposes of public information). In stark contrast to the benign view of The Muslim Brotherhood offered by The White House, where the incumbent is known to have strong sympathies with Islamic terrorists and is rumoured to be personally involved with The Muslim Brotherhood, the UK report spells out in very clear terms that the organisation is involved in promoting violence and terror.

Were the conflict between Islam and civilisation confined to Syria or even to the middle east, despite the confusing nature of the multi faceted war, western nations might have a chance of containing it, but if ISIS do intend to attack westerners in their homelands we are looking at a quagmire that can never be drained of slime.


From The Washington Times

The British government has issued a blistering report on the secretive Muslim Brotherhood, with findings that contradict some favorable U.S. views — including the Obama administration’s — of the Islamic fundamentalist fraternity.

The investigative paper says the Brotherhood promotes (and sometimes takes a role in) violence; seeks world domination of Shariah, or Islamic, law; and views other religions as illegitimate. Its senior leaders “routinely use virulent anti-Semitic language” and have justified the killings of American and other coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

To this day, Brotherhood leaders say the U.S. government fabricated the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that the war on groups such as al Qaeda “is a pretext to attack Muslims,” the British report says.

The report, simply titled the “Muslim Brotherhood Review,” appears to be unprecedented in these politically correct times in that a Western government is confronting a Muslim group that is an ideological organizing force but not overtly a transnational terrorist organization.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said the investigation was conducted to determine whether the Brotherhood is contributing to violence in his country and elsewhere by creating an environment for extremists to act.

“The movement is deliberately opaque and habitually secretive,” Mr. Cameron said.

He said the Brotherhood “promotes values which appear intolerant of equality and freedom of faith and belief.”

Mr. Cameron said the report’s major findings will help his government set policy, such as whether to ban the group altogether in Britain or greatly reduce visas to members wanting to enter the country.

Like France and Belgium, Britain is home to disruptive groups of Muslims. The government recently adopted a plan to combat extremism, and its options include closing mosques and deporting radical clerics.

“The Muslim Brotherhood’s foundational texts call for the progressive moral purification of individuals and Muslim societies and their eventual political unification in a caliphate under Shariah law,” the prime minister said. “To this day, the Muslim Brotherhood characterizes Western societies and liberal Muslims as decadent and immoral.”

The Brotherhood’s English-language website condemned the report Dec. 17, the day Mr. Cameron delivered the findings to Parliament.

Amr Darrag, a member of the executive board of Egypt’s Brotherhood-created Freedom and Justice Party, stated: “The Prime Minister’s statement that membership of, association with, or influence by the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered a possible indicator of extremism unfairly condemns millions of Muslims and non-Muslims across the world, many of whom are British citizens. This is to fundamentally misinterpret the Middle East’s largest democratic organization and misunderstand what is needed to bring democratic, peaceful and stable governance to the Middle East.”

The White House has defended outreach to Brotherhood-linked leaders as part of a broader effort to stem extremism and bring Muslims into mainstream America.

The White House press office did not respond to a query seeking comment.

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Britain’s Terror Chief Warns Of Likely Islamic State Terror Attacks

Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer has warned that further “spectacular” attacks by the Islamic State group are likely as the Islamic extremist group propaganda refers to targetting the “Western lifestyle”.

London Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley revealed police and security forces had carried out a record number of counter-terrorism arrests in Britain last year. Warning that the Islamist group had broadened its focus from military and police targets, as was shown by the Paris attacks in November last year when Muslim terrorists attacked bars, a concert hall and a stadium, killing 130 people.

"In recent months we’ve seen a broadening of that, much more plans to attack Western lifestyle, and obviously the Paris attacks in November," Rowley told reporters. "Going from that narrow focus on police and military as symbols of the state to something much broader. And you see a terrorist group which has big ambitions for enormous and spectacular attacks, not just the types that we’ve seen foiled to date."

It must be said this increased risk is the result of spineless British and European leaders resorting to appeasement policies as a means of reducing the terror threat in response to pressure from the left wing enemies of European culkture and values as well as the hyperbolic rhetoric of Islamist preachers. Lack of testicular fortitude when responding to bullying and blackmail always results in bigger threats and more demands.

Across Britain, police made a record 339 arrests related to counter-terrorism in 2015, around half of which resulted in charges being brought.

Rowley said Britain had some advantages over other Western countries in fighting terrorism, notably its experience with dealing with paramilitary groups linked to the conflict in Northern Ireland and gun control law that made it difficult to obtain firearms.We should exploit that advantage by closing our borders to undocumented travellers, rounding up illegal immigrants and setting them to work on pig farms. That would sort out the one who pose a threat from the ones who might be some use.

We should also round up the lefties (i.e. dole bludgers, schoolteachers, public sector workers and other tax eaters) who sympathise with terrorists and Muslim extremists, charge them with sedition and set them to work at tasks involving hard physical labour. The message that needs to be broadcast is, if you don't like British society do not expect British taxpayers to give you and easy life.


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