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Wow, so it looks like we’re seeing the first of the upcoming budget cuts for the Air Force trickle out. The AP is reporting that the Air Force is cancelling the RQ-4 Global Hawk high-altitude spy drone opting instead to keep the legendary U-2 Dragon Lady in service (for now, anyway)! Yup, the 50-year old [...]
Adios Global Hawk, U-2 Will Stick Around
John Reed
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:56:35 GMT
When you are as important as Lewis Hamilton driving cars clearly takes precedence over the Course of Justice.
From the BBC
Lewis Hamilton is not available on the day he has been asked to testify in the trial of Adrian Sutil.
Hamilton cannot make Sutil trial
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:10:52 GMT
Toyota started the trend to interactive passenger windows with its Window on the World
Now the General’s Future Lab has a crack (no pun intended) at it too.
Sounds more like Spooks than SEAL Team 6
Are we really up to covert operations in foreign countries? It must have come as quite a shock to realise that Arabs could tell that Chinooks weren’t theirs.
Inside story of the UK's secret mission to beat Gaddafi
Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:56:09 GMT From the BBC
What a fabulous use of Licence Fee payer’s/taxpayer’s money…is this the first of a new style on Top Gear? What’s next? Depth charging wales? Shooting down airliners? Fortunately they’re not very goods shots.
And I’ll have some of theses too please.
The latest tech comes to town at CES 2012 in Las Vegas
New technologies unleashed at CES
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:41:58 GMT
It will in Dunblane which manages only 3 MB per second on a good day.
But LTE will be of no use however until Dunblane gets a decent mobile phone signal.
From rural outposts to high-speed cities, Dan Simmons reports on 4G's promise of super-fast broadband everywhere.
VIDEO: Will 4G be faster than home broadband?
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:19:25 GMT
I wonder who this little boy’s hero is – someone Russian I think. Unfortunately his toys may include nuclear weapons which is worrying. Would he be satisfied with a new Play Station? Regrettably I doubt it.
Filed under: Government/Legal
There's been no lack of dubious claims for us to raise our eyebrows at over the years, whether it's about some fantastical car reaching the market on schedule and on budget, the veracity of a concept car's space-age powertrain, or reports of a blogger actually stepping outside and into the sunlight. But this one, like all glorious claims of the past - may their memory bring honor to their country for a thousand years to come - takes the proverbial cake.
In an ongoing and largely futile effort to show their recently and rapidly promoted supreme leader as the experienced governor and all-around superhuman mastermind the rest of the world doubts he is, the so-called Democratic People's Republic of Korea is painting one heck of a picture of Kim Jong Eun. According to North Korea, the scion of the late dictator Kim Jong Il was already driving a car at age 3. Impressive, but what's more is that he could apparently speed down a dirt road - rally-style - at speeds up to 75 mph by age 8.
It may be too early to tell if Eun has achieved anything of consequence in between having mastered driving while still in diapers and assuming control of a totalitarian nuclear power, but we can tell you this won't be the last dubious claim that we'll hear from his office in the near future.North Korea claims Kim Jong Eun mastered driving at age 3 originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Report: North Korea claims Kim Jong Eun mastered driving at age 3
Noah Joseph
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:04:00 GMT
At last…a Porsche that looks half decent! Must be using Italian designers!
Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Convertible, Performance, Porsche, Design/Style, Luxury
The Motor City has been blessed with unseasonably warm weather and mostly clear skies this week, so consider it fortuitous that Porsche has gifted the Detroit Auto Show with the global premiere of its 911 Carrera Cabriolet.
This topless 911 carries with it a unique top mechanism that comes off like a particularly snug-fitting canvas lid that follows the roofline of the coupe beautifully - Porsche says it carries rigid panels like a folding hardtop along with its fabric top. The goal? Increased security and noise abatement along with improved styling. The new power retract cap can be raised or lowered at speeds up to 31 miles per hour and also includes a novel power wind deflector that can deploy in seconds.
The 3.4-liter Carrera reaches 62 miles per hour in 5.0 seconds with the seven-speed manual (4.8 seconds with the PDK and 4.6 seconds with the optional Sport Chrono) thanks to its 350-horsepower 3.4-liter flat six. Like the coupe, the Carrera S gets a displacement bump to 3.8 liters and a commensurate rise in power to 400 horsepower. 0-62 mph is dispatched in 4.7 seconds with the seven-speed manual and as little as 4.3 seconds with the PDK Sport Chrono. Check out some rolling footage of the Cabrio after the jump and the official press release.Continue reading 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet brings warm weather to Detroit [w/video]
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Detroit: 2012 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet brings warm weather to Detroit [w/video]
Chris Paukert
Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:58:00 GMT
Is this mean or is this mean?
Filed under: Motorsports, Chevrolet
Hans Reiter, the chap you might know from Reiter Engineering and its winning Lamborghini racecars, started a company called Sareni United for one purpose: to build a Chevrolet Camaro GT3 race car. The resulting silver shockwave is powered by a 7.9-liter Katech V8 rated at up to 650 horsepower and 627 pound-feet, and the racer's lead engineer says it has lap times "similar to the Lamborghini Gallardo" but that there is still a lot of work to do.
More importantly, the plan wasn't to simply make a race-worthy Camaro, the brief was to make one one that was cost efficient enough to lure new entrants into the racing game. Planned overhauls for the engine and gearbox are at 5,000 kilometers and other parts at 10,000 km.
The Camaro GT3 has been homologated by the FIA, Reiter says two cars are already planned for use in Germany's ADAC GT Masters series and that other inquiries have been made about GT4 and touring cars. It is priced at €195,000 + VAT ($253,056 U.S.).Sareni United's Chevrolet Camaro GT turns pony car into thoroughbred originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Exclusive: Sareni United's Chevrolet Camaro GT turns pony car into thoroughbred
Jonathon Ramsey
Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:29:00 GMT
