Authorities say a man already on probation has admitted killing a woman whose body was found in a suitcase on a New York City street. He claimed she attacked him first.
Hassan Malik was held without bail after his arraignment Tuesday on a murder charge.
Police say a passer-by found 28-year-old Betty Williams' body in a suitcase Wednesday in East Harlem.
A court complaint says Malik told police he returned to his apartment to find Williams dead. The papers say Malik said he choked Williams with an electric cord after she wound it around his neck and hit him with a frying pan.
Prosecutors say forensic evidence will contradict him.
His lawyer says the 55-year-old Malik was about to start a job as a drug counsellor.
An Oklahoma City man jailed on a murder complaint told police he and his wife were playing a fantasy sex game when he accidentally shot her to death. And Rex Ryan thought he had problems...
Rebecca Sedille, 50, was found with a gunshot wound to the head at 1304 Fleetwood Drive about 9 p.m. Dec. 21. She was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police arrested her husband, Arthur John Sedille, 23. The bride is 50 and hubby's 23. See any possible motive here, Muldoon?
I'll run it through the computer, sarge.
A probable cause arrest affidavit filed in Canadian County states Arthur Sedille told investigators he and his wife often engaged in sexual fantasy involving a gun. Prisoner and the warden's wife?
Arthur Sedille told police he took a handgun from a shelf beside the bed and racked the slide back causing the gun to cock, the affidavit states. He said he placed the gun to her head and the gun discharged. He said he did not realize the gun was loaded, according to the affidavit Funny how that always seems to happen...
I doubt that will buy him much in the way of a defense. I thought maybe this was going to be one of those stories where he shot her five times accidently.
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Idiot, I was taught gun safety by my father
(Army Colonel) and the number one lesson is' Always treat any gun as LOADED unless YOU personaly unloaded it.
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Guys sometimes have their 'gun' go off prematurely....
And you should always assume your 'gun' is loaded....
(KUNA) -- The European Police Office, Europol, announced on Tuesday that an estimated five billion euro was lost in 2010 due to VAT-fraud in the EU Emission Trading System (ETS). Carbon credits fraud? Who'da ever expected such a thing?
Law enforcement authorities around Europe continue to fight the criminal networks involved in the fraud, said Europol which is based in the Dutch city of the Hague, in a statement Tuesday. And in the Hague, too! My mind just boggled.
In operations during 2010, several hundred offices all over Europe were raided and more than 100 people arrested. "What're y'in for?"
"Murder."
"Rape."
"Carbon credits fraud!"
"Jailer! I need to move to a different cell!"
"Yeah! Me, too!"
In the latest operation on 17 December, Italian authorities carried out raids on about 150 companies in eight regions of Italy.
These operations happened just a few weeks after the Italian Power Exchange (G.M.E) halted all trading in carbon credits due to a high number of abnormal transactions. Earlier this year, authorities in France, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom and other countries conducted numerous operations against criminal networks involved in carbon credit fraud.
Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Latvia, the Netherlands, the Slovak Republic and Portugal are all among the countries trying to identify the network of criminals behind this massive fraud, a fraud with links to criminal networks operating outside the EU and in other continents, like the Middle East, said Europol. Rob Wainwright, Director of Europol, commented that, "organised VAT fraud remains a significant criminal activity in Europe. It is responsible for draining huge resources from central government revenues and undermining the objective of transforming Europe into a competitive and greener economy." The Emissions Trading Scheme was created as a cap-and-trade system to control pollution by providing economic incentives to companies for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants.
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Seems to me the whole concept of trading carbon credits (whatever that is supposed to mean) is a fraud, so this story comes as no surprise. They should have raided even the "legitimate" traders.
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A 23-year-old man was hit by a sport utility vehicle this week after intentionally stepping out into traffic while he was playing a game.
Clemson Police Chief Jimmy Dixon is withholding the mans name, saying that he does not want to cause any more discord for the 23-year-old or for the woman who was driving the SUV that hit him.
The man was hit Monday night around 9 p.m., and is expected to be released from AnMed Health Medical Center in Anderson later this afternoon .
Dixon said the man lives in the city but is not a student at Clemson University.
The man was hit at U.S. 76 and College Avenue in Clemson.
Before he was hit, the man and two of his friends had been discussing a game known as Frogger. The arcade game was released in the early 1980s, and in it, players try to move frogs through a busy road and a dangerous river.
During the discussion of the game, the man yelled, Go, and then started darting into the highway with oncoming traffic.
He was hit by a white 2010 Lexus SUV.
No charges are anticipated against the driver of the SUV, Dixon said.
Dixon said alcohol is suspected to have been a factor in the mans decision to step out in front of traffic. No kidding But the chief cannot confirm that, he said, because there are no blood-alcohol test results available yet.
Ive never heard of anything like this, Dixon said. I had to ask questions to even find out what Frogger is.
It's OK. His amygdala is probably a bit thicker than it should be. Once he gets past this, he'll have a bright future in politics promoting the death "inheritance" tax.
A man has been arrested after FBI and TSA officials said his luggage contained volatile gun parts, which caused his bag to explode Tuesday just before it was about to be loaded on a plane.
The unidentified 37-year-old man had 500 to 700 bullet primers in his luggage.
The bag had already been carried on one flight from Boston earlier in the day before a Miami baggage handler set it on the ground, triggering an explosion.
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I reload, yes Primers MUST be handled carefully
My reloading manual(s)all state that they MUST remain in their protective individual holders (Like a miniature egg crate) until ready to install, and be very careful of any drop, impact, or rough handling.
After all their entire purpose is to explode.
Having said that, the baggage handler must have "Dropped" the bag very roughly, serves him right.
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Jim, are there restrictions on carrying primers in your checked luggage? If not, why was the man arrested? Other than terminal stupidity for carrying 500-700 primers.
Of course, if terminal stupidity were a crime, most of congress would be under arrest.
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Jim, are there restrictions on carrying primers in your checked luggage?
Rambler, according to the article guns and ammunition are ok in checked baggage, but primers and percussion caps (whatever those are) are illegal.
The article has been updated, and the gentleman in question is identified as Orville Braham, headed for Jamaica. His bags also contained a disassembled ammunition loading press. How much space would that many bullet primers take up? Is it the kind of thing one might put in a suitcase to hide from young offspring, then not notice when packing later for a trip? (Mr. Braham's eventual claim.)
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percussion caps (whatever those are)
Hi, just to let you know, percussion caps are, I believe, used with blackpowder guns. The rifled muskets of the Civil War, for instance, used them to ignite their gunpowder. This replaced the flintlock ignition system.
Rifle308
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Braham was arrested on Oct. 31 after he attempted to steal four flat-screen televisions from a truck at BJs Wholesale Club in Stoughton, about 20 miles south of Boston. Police who searched him found an unlicensed .22-caliber gun in his waistband. He was charged with illegal possession of a firearm and larceny of more than $250. MyFox Boston.
A regular model citizen he is was. Investigators, please continue to dig. I think we might eventually find a very disappointed customer in the Islands.
[An Nahar] A mob attacked a United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society convoy in Ivory Coast's main city Abidjan on Tuesday, injuring one peacekeeper with a machete and setting a vehicle alight, the U.N. said.
"A convoy of three vehicles of the U.N. operation in Ivory Coast (ONUCI) carrying 22 peacekeepers was attacked Tuesday," the U.N. said in a statement.
"A large crowd encircled the convoy, wounding a soldier's arm with a machete and setting fire to one of the three vehicles," it said.
The U.N. "strongly condemns this attack and reiterates its determination to continue its work for the Ivorian people," the statement said.
The attack happened when the convoy travelled through the Yopougon neighborhood of Abidjan, home to supporters of Laurent Gbagbo, on its way back from the interior of the West African country.
The U.N. mission added the situation had "returned to normal" thanks to intervention by the army chief of staff loyal to Gbagbo.
ONUCI leader Choi Young-jin last week accused troops loyal to Gbagbo of increasing "hostile acts" against the U.N. mission.
Gbagbo has demanded U.N. troops pull out of the country, saying they are supporting former rebels loyal to his rival Alassane Ouattara.
Gbagbo is under heavy pressure to step aside after refusing to cede power in the wake of November 28 elections.
A great majority of the international community recognized Ouattara as the winner, but he is confined in an Abidjan luxury resort under U.N. protection while Gbagbo remains in control of the city.
A trio of West African leaders held talks with Gbagbo in a bid to encourage him to step down, and threatened the use of force.
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(KUNA) -- The French government confirmed Tuesday that it would accept the credentials of a new ambassador from Ivory Coast to replace the current envoy allied with former President Laurent Gbagbo.
The new envoy has been designated by the President-elect of Ivory Coast, Alhassane Ouattara, who has been recognized by almost the entire international community.
"Mr. Outtara, the legitimate president recognized by all the international community, has named a new Ambassador for whom the credential procedure is ongoing," the French Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Gbagbo, the former leader in Ivory Coast, rejects the election of Ouattara and has warned of civil war in the African country if UN or African Union forces enter the country to support the new President.
On Monday, Ouattara supporters occupied the Ivory Coast embassy in Gay Paree to pave the way for the new envoy.
La Belle France has 15,000 nationals living in Ivory Coast and has said it will use its troops based there to protect them if they are threatened.
The Frenchies, along with some Europeans, have been advised to temporarily leave the country while the crisis endures.
French forces in the country number 900 but there are also several thousand UN troops that are currently protecting Outtara from attack by the Gbagbo camp, which still has substantial support within the army and some arms of government.
A delegation from the African Union is in Ivory Coast Tuesday to try to mediate a solution to the crisis.
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[Pak Daily Times] The government of Ivory Coast's incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo rebuffed on Tuesday a call for him to step down or face removal by force, before three West African presidents had even delivered the ultimatum.
Regional and world powers want Gbagbo to cede power to rival presidential claimant Alassane Ouattara after elections last month provoked a dispute that has killed more than 170 people and threatens to tip the country back into civil war.
The three presidents -- Benin's Boni Yayi, Sierra Leone's Ernest Bai Koroma and Pedro Pires of Cape Verde -- arrived in Abidjan on Tuesday to hand over the call from the West African bloc ECOWAS to resign or face military intervention.
Gbagbo's government originally said it would welcome the emissaries 'as brothers and friends and listen to the message they have to convey'. But shortly before they were expected to meet Gbagbo at about 1300 GMT, his government warned it would not tolerate any meddling in its affairs, nor would it heed any call to make way for Ouattara.
"Let's avoid political delinquency. No international institution has the right to intervene by force to impose a president in a sovereign state," government front man Ahoua Don Melo told BBC in an interview when asked if Gbagbo would leave.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that nearly 20,000 Ivorians have decamped to eastern Liberia to escape post-election violence which they feared would lead to civil war.
"To date, UNHCR and the local authorities have recorded a total of 15,120 refugees from villages between Danane and Guiglo in western Cote d'Ivoire, while a further 4,000 arrivals have been reported," said the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Fatoumata Lejeune-Kaba, a UNHCR spokeswoman, said that while the agency has yet to register the 4,000 other refugees, it had been notified of their arrival by Liberian authorities.
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Not only would I expel the ambassador, if I was president, I would put Venezuela on the terrorist country list and immediately bar all trade with the nation. If more Iranian missiles start coming, initiate a blockade (quarantine) and then start taking the government and military apart.
Enough with this Chavez loser and his poisoning influence.
China is preparing for conflict 'in every direction', the defence minister said on Wednesday in remarks that threaten to overshadow a visit to Beijing by his US counterpart next month.
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They better start something soon. With their male population becoming "herbs" in astounding numbers, they may not have a chance in mere 15 years to pull it off.
(Corrects percentage cut in quotas in headline, first paragraph and amount in first half of 2010 in second paragraph in story published Dec. 28.)
China cut its export quotas for rare earths by 35 percent in the first round of permits for 2011, threatening to extend a global shortage of the minerals needed for smartphones, hybrid cars and guided missiles.
The government allotted 14,446 metric tons of rare earth exports split among 31 domestic and foreign-invested companies, the Ministry of Commerce said today in a statement. That compares with the first round this year of 22,282 tons and the second round of 7,976 tons, according to previous ministry statements. The government usually issues two rounds of export quotas every year.
[Arab News] Corporate profits are up. Stock prices are up. So why isn't anyone hiring? Actually, many American companies are -- just maybe not in your town. They're hiring overseas, where sales are surging and the pipeline of orders is fat.
More than half of the 15,000 people that Caterpillar Inc. has hired this year were outside the US. UPS is also hiring at a faster clip overseas. For both companies, sales in international markets are growing at least twice as fast as domestically.
The trend helps explain why unemployment remains high in the United States, edging up to 9.8 percent last month, even though companies are performing well: All but 4 percent of the top 500 US corporations reported profits this year, and the stock market is close to its highest point since the 2008 financial meltdown.
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ION GUAMPDN > EUROPEAN ANARCHISTS BECOME MORE VILENT, COORDINATED.
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Who would have thought that in countries with Progressive taxation i.e. increasing high fines for being productive that people would hire people who are fined a lower amount.
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He exhorted business leaders to find a way to link growth with job creation at home.
The only goal most business leaders have is their personal profit. It doesn't matter if their companies or shareholders profit or are just left holding the bag of stinking debts & lousy business practices, as should be obvious to anyone who's been following business news for the last 20 years or so. If business leaders could make more for themselves by firing all their employees & never hiring again, they would do that too.
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Dodging Repatriation Tax Lets Companies Bring Home Cash illustrates another aspect of this issue. Companies may try to expatriate jobs, but the profits they generate have to go somewhere, and all the money in the world really won't do much to change the view outside your limousine driving the streets of Kolkata. (The views tend to be much nicer in the USA.)
US Air Force researchers have created the Defense Departments largest interactive supercomputer, the 35th fastest in the world, from 1,760 Song PlayStation 3s.
The amalgamation of consoles, nicknamed the Condor Cluster, will be used to process high-resolution satellite images and boost surveillance capabilities. It will allow scientists to monitor a 15.5 square mile area in real time.
The director of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio said that the computer is also capable of reading 20 pages per second with up to 30 percent of the characters removed and recovering all the words without error.
The Condor Cluster is energy efficient and at $2 million, has a price tag well below that of traditional computing equipment. It can achieve about 1.5 GigaFLOPS, floating point operations per second, the unit by which supercomputing power is measured, per watt of computing power, about fifteen times more powerful than a typical supercomputer.
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About six months after the PS3 came out, the community was recruited to support Folding at Home, a program to run sims of proteins in an investigation of medical issues hosted through Stanford. It's one of the largest distributed processing networks. It's running at about 850 teraflops, not peak value.
Wonder how this is done now that Sony has removed Linux from the PS3?
Only if you updated their OS which killed the ability. If you kept the OS to the prior version, you can still do Linux and retain backward compatibility on the original 60gb model.
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P2K, can you elaborate please? I have one of the ps3's that can play ps2 games. I allow it to be updated over the internet, but wasn't aware that this might replace the base OS. Have I misunderstood you?
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P2kontheroad:
All new PS3 units have the newer firmware. So, either you buy special units from Sony or you downgrade the firmware to reintroduce "Other OS". The latter violates Sony's terms of service and the DMCA. So, back to my question. Did they get special units or just start this project long enough ago and decline the updates? If that's the case, then this is perhaps the last such project we'll see using the PS3.
The US Navy, continuing its quest for a hypervelocity cannon which might restore the big-gun dreadnought to its lost dominion over the seas, has carried out a new and record-breaking railgun test.
This latest trial firing pushed muzzle energy to a blistering 33 megajoules (MJ). The muzzle velocity, as in the previous 10 MJ test in 2008, was still approximately Mach 7.5, but the heavier projectile used this time carried much more kinetic energy: approximately enough to strike targets 100 miles away in an operational weapon, according to the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
The ONR wants to achieve lab trials at 64 MJ, potentially offering 200 mile range with projectiles striking at Mach 5, before trying to build an actual weapon.
A railgun works by passing vast amounts of electricity from one rail to the other via an armature linking the two: this generates a huge force driving the armature down the rails and out of the end of the gun. The armature can be the projectile itself, attached to it, or may be a sabot which will drop away once the slug is flying free.
The technical challenges of building railguns are many. Not least among these is the generation of very brief pulses of extremely high electrical power (the armature's run along the rails, even if they are quite long, is necessarily over very quickly so the gun hasn't got long to put poke behind it). Then there's the matter of making rails that won't be destroyed by the armature screaming along them, which is yet to be properly sorted out (at the moment, the ONR only trusts its railguns to survive two or three shots before being knackered).
Assuming that the various issues of building a railgun can be solved, one must then deploy it to war and find power for it. About the only mobile platform able to supply the vast amounts of electricity required for a combat railgun is a warship, so it's no surprise to find the navy rather than the air force or army looking into this.
Not only would a 64 MJ railgun permit a warship to pound targets far away below the horizon with unstoppable Mach 5 hypersonic hammer blows, lesser hypersonic cannon might also sweep the skies of pesky, merely-supersonic aircraft and missiles.
Ever since the Battle of Midway, sailors have reluctantly been forced to accept that it is aircraft (and nowadays missiles) which win battles at sea, not ships: generally speaking it is also aircraft which permit navies to directly influence events ashore. The aircraft carrier long ago supplanted the mighty big-gun battleship as top naval dog.
But railgun warships might put an end to this, swatting down ship killer missiles or attacking aircraft from afar with ease and splattering targets ashore quickly and responsively no need to keep aircraft on station or wait endless tens of minutes for a subsonic cruise missile to cover the distance. The only way to deal with a railgun dreadnought just as in the days of old when the first armoured all-big-gun battle wagons appeared would be by using a ship just like it. Surface warships and surface-fleet officers, once again, would rule the seas and the naval roost.
Apart from all that, another major advantage would be on offer for navy logistics. Rather than troublesome missiles or shells crammed with explosive warheads and propellants, the supply chain would only need to handle inert projectiles and some extra supplies of fuel for the ships' engines. Railgun warships would be less prone to blowing up when hit in combat, too.
So it's all good, from a naval point of view. But the ONR has many hills to climb yet before their new technology is an actual functioning weapon rather than a one-off laboratory test rig.
The new Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers, the first warship class to use electric transmission for main full-speed propulsion, can supply a bit more than 40 megawatts of electricity. If fitted with one of the US ONR's desired 64-MJ railguns, they could recharge it for another shot in a little over a second and a half, though this rate of firing would leave little juice for propulsion.
At the other end of the spectrum, a US Navy Nimitz-class supercarrier has twin 550-megawatt nuclear reactors (though it doesn't use electric transmission and so can't deliver this in the form of 'leccy). A railgun dreadnought built to the same outrageous scale would be able to ripple off 15 irresistible Mach-7 thunderbolts every second and still maintain steerage way.
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Just how do you armor a ship against a 64MJ round? Or will everyone be building new versions of HMS Hood...
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"MOTHERSHIP" CONCEPT + IMO indics or infers that in future, DIFFERENTIATED MAJOR WARSHIP CLASSES WILL HAD MERGED INTO ONE, which in turn could be deemed as the GRANDDADDY/GODZILLA OF ALL "SUPER-ARSENAL SHIP" DESIGNS.
I suspect the above is the real, hush-hush reason for the UK'S "QUEEN ELIZABETH"-CLASS CVF HAVING TWO ISLANDS [Fwd, Aft], + WHY TO BUILD TWO CVFS BUT MOTHBALL ONE OF SAME.
IOW, CVFS = notsomuch an [avant-garde]AIRCRAFT CARRIER AS AN "UN-IMPROVED" FUTURE ARSENAL SHIP = ALL PURPOSE/SYS MOTHERSHIP.
The only thing it can't do is SUBMERGE like a Submarine ... ... ... OR DOES IT???
[DAS BOOT Movie here].
We should also the UK's present serious lack of cash, which lends to the dev of COST, MISSION-EFFECTIVE CONSOLIDATED DESIGNS.
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Just how do you armor a ship against a 64MJ round?
Build it out of the equivalent of paper mache.
I say bring back the Iowa class battleships if you want to sling really large projectiles. Retrofit them with nuclear reactors. You'll need something massive to not be tipped over by the reactionary forces involved.
You could make some awe-inspiring area-effect weapons with this that would work great against incoming missiles, swarm attacks, and pirates.
Even if you just shot it into the water right in front of the target.
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Let's presume we have a M5 proje weighing half a ton impacting in a terrain of dirt and a few rocks. Is a solid shot as good for anti-personnel/anti-armor as HE or dispersing submunitions?
Second, can HE or submunis survive the accel of a M5 or M7 railgun?
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Gorb.
Could you hit a moving target, such as a tank, with a solid shot from an M5 gun forty miles away?
No? Then we're talking about hitting ships at a distance and aircraft closer in. Troop support is not included.
Not that it's a bad thing to be able to hit targets vulnerable to solid shot. But even something like a hardened Excalibur round wouldn't work. So accuracy without mid-course guidance or homing...?
What, exactly, could you plan on hitting?
Curiouser and curioser.
Extremely high velocity rounds taking less and less time to target reduce the chance of missing by reducing the time available for aiming inaccuracy to multiply to a miss. But that means being on target the first time.
Anti-aircraft, maybe.
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Let's presume we have a M5 proje weighing half a ton impacting in a terrain of dirt and a few rocks. Is a solid shot as good for anti-personnel/anti-armor as HE or dispersing submunitions?
At that speed, everything near it becomes anti-personnel and anti-armor. Basically you have a meteor impacting at those speeds and everything near it gets vaporized by the heat/shockwave or a little farther away gets shredded by the debris.
Second, can HE or submunis survive the accel of a M5 or M7 railgun?
Depends on how much shock the HE is subjected to and how much heat is generated. But, as shown above a HE version really isn't needed at those speeds.
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IIRC, the intent is to have a weapon that shoots dumb, solid projectiles - they rely on kinetic energy alone for their destructive power. They are also primarily intended for shore bombardment of fixed targets, rather than moving targets like tanks. The idea of shooting down airplanes and missiles seems like a stretch, too. The railgun itself will be fairly massive, and not too easy to aim at a fast moving target.
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I don't think its so much the impact (which I guess is impressive) but the rate of fire. One every 2 seconds - even one every 5 would be devastating. What was the rate for those big guns on the Iowa class battleships? What is the rate-of-fire for a missle launcher?
I wonder if you could put one of these on a sub...
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Could you hit a moving target, such as a tank, with a solid shot from an M5 gun forty miles away?
No?
That's correct.
Then we're talking about hitting ships at a distance and aircraft closer in.
Occasionally.
Troop support is not included.
With a 200 mile range, troop support will become important I feel.
Not that it's a bad thing to be able to hit targets vulnerable to solid shot. But even something like a hardened Excalibur round wouldn't work. So accuracy without mid-course guidance or homing...?
What, exactly, could you plan on hitting?
Curiouser and curioser.
Incoming missiles, swarm attacks (by torpedo boats over water), and pirates are part of it. But you could use it on troop and equipment concentrations on land as well as fixed targets.
Extremely high velocity rounds taking less and less time to target reduce the chance of missing by reducing the time available for aiming inaccuracy to multiply to a miss. But that means being on target the first time.
Anti-aircraft, maybe.
Yeah. I'm thinking flak kind of stuff. Rail shotguns are the only thing I can think of that might be made to disperse reliably.
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"Or will everyone be building new versions of HMS Hood..."Christ, I hope not. The wreckage on the bottom of the Davis Straight ought to get that idea out of a lot of heads. Seriously I can see this going hand and hand with the Navy's continued interst in non-Tokamak style fusion reators
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None of this matters when all the computers on your ship stop working in the middle of combat due to a virus designed in at the factory. That's the future of armed conflict, not sci-fi superguns.
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None of this matters when all the computers on your ship stop working in the middle of combat due to a virus designed in at the factory. That's the future of armed conflict, not sci-fi superguns.
It is both, actually gromky. In fact, a jamming swarm of small robots coming at your ship and broadcasting to overwhelm the firewall and WIFI systems and insert their malicious code is also a very workable weapon. A sub coming under a ship and quietly planting a hub spike to do the same thing is also an option.
Blowing the hell out of something with a sci-fi gun and taking over computers are both in the future.
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Imagine a shotgun type load instead of a sabot. You wouldnteven need super exact aim just straddle the target. You might not kill the target but a single hit, even a smaller round, is gonna hurt.
The Massachusetts Parole Board is under scrutiny after a local police officer was killed by a career criminal who was released despite serving a term of three concurrent life sentences.
Dominic Cinelli was serving time for shooting a security guard during an armed robbery to feed his heroin addiction when he told the board in November 2008 that he was a changed man, the Boston Globe reported.
Four months later the board unanimously voted to free Cinelli, but police say the 57-year-old returned to his ugly ways Sunday, fatally shooting Woburn police officer John Maguire, 60, while robbing a Kohl's department store. Cinelli also died in the shootout.
But critics say Cinelli isn't the only person to blame for Maguire's death.
"I don't know how any member of the Parole Board justifies that," Laurie Myers, president of Community Voices, a Chelmsford-based nonprofit that advocates on behalf of crime victims, told the Globe. "He shouldn't have been out, and now there's another person dead."
Cinelli had a lengthy rap sheet filled with armed robberies, assaults and other offenses, had been serving three life sentences since 1976, and had chronic disciplinary problems while in prison including two escapes during which he committed crimes, the Globe reported.
Still, he won the board over by saying the deaths in the family, including his mother's, and drug counseling changed him, the paper reported.
Parole boards need to be held accountable for the people they release. If they release someone like him, especially when he has been a problem in prison, then they need to be held criminally liable for the deaths/destruction these goblins cause.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(KUNA) -- The French government confirmed Tuesday that it would accept the credentials of a new ambassador from Ivory Coast to replace the current envoy allied with former President Laurent Gbagbo.
The Massachusetts Parole Board is under scrutiny after a local police officer was killed by a career criminal who was released despite serving a term of three concurrent life sentences.
