Venezuelan guard recounts horrific effects of mystery sonic weapon used by US forces during raid that captured Nicolás Maduro, leaving soldiers bleeding from nose and vomiting blood.

The alleged use of sonic weaponry in the Maduro raid represents a significant escalation in demonstrated US military technology

Moneymaker said Locust has had a “significant” number of successful engagements in which it has burned drones out of the sky. “Not in the onesies, twosies,” he said.

U.S. warships defending cargo vessels from attacks by Yemen’s Houthi militants over the past six months have used $2 million missiles to shoot down $2,000 drones.

if we show that these systems can work against the current threats we're facing in the Middle East, it could move the conversation in the Pentago

In our games, when we fight Russia and China,” “blue [the color traditionally representing the US in the games] gets its ass handed to it.” This is because the massive increase in military spending has transformed China’s military. China’s military power in the region is such that within the next 5-10 years Beijing may feel confident it could win in a regional conflict with the US. While its military buildup makes a tactical victory possible, in the larger strategic sense China faces an unprecedented demographic cliff, the country is dependent on trade with the rest of the world, and geography has left the country boxed in.