by GABRIEL SILVEIRA — In 1955, the M42 Duster entered service with the Bundeswehr under the name “Flakpanzer M42 Duster.” Germany acquired 500 M42 Duster vehicles for the Bundeswehr.

An excerpt from ‘Drone War: Vietnam’ — The U.S. Navy was a big user of Ryan Aeronautical Q-2C target drones, and Navy carrier battle groups operating in the Gulf of Tonkin borrowed imagery from the U.S. Air Force’s operational Model 147 Lightning Bugs flying from Bien Hoa in South Vietnam. By 1967 the Navy had decided it…

An excerpt from ‘Drone War: Vietnam’ — The U.S. Navy was a big user of Ryan Aeronautical Q-2C target drones, and Navy carrier battle groups operating in the Gulf of Tonkin borrowed imagery from the U.S. Air Force’s operational Model 147 Lightning Bugs flying from Bien Hoa in South Vietnam. By 1967 the Navy had decided it…

An excerpt from ‘Drone War: Vietnam’ — On Dec. 17, 1965, U.S. president Lyndon Johnson met with his advisers in the White House. Johnson wanted to halt the air campaign over Southeast Asia in order to give diplomats a chance to work out some kind of peace agreement that might end the war. Secretary of Defense Bob…

An excerpt from ‘Drone War: Vietnam’ — On Dec. 17, 1965, U.S. president Lyndon Johnson met with his advisers in the White House. Johnson wanted to halt the air campaign over Southeast Asia in order to give diplomats a chance to work out some kind of peace agreement that might end the war. Secretary of Defense Bob…

On Oct. 7, 2001, a U.S. Air Force MQ-1 Predator drone flying over Afghanistan zeroed in on a building CIA analysts suspected of housing Taliban leader Mullah Omar. The Predator launched a Hellfire missile that struck a vehicle, killing several of the mullah’s bodyguards. The Predator strike was hardly the…

Anatomy of terror, on an indie film set — I’ve made several tiny horror movies. But I’ve only shot one scene that actually scared me during production. Now I’m trying to understand why. That way, I can scare my audience, too. It was May 2020. We’d made most of House Monster while socially-distanced. Actors shot their own scenes and…

Prioritizing vaccine-recipients is painful triage for advisory panel — by DAVID AXE Experts advising the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have officially recommended who should be next in line for the growing, but still limited, supply of novel-coronavirus vaccine. The 14-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices wants to protect the most vulnerable Americans — those over the…

by DAVID AXE Rolling out a coronavirus vaccine, which looks closer than ever after promising results from Pfizer were announced this week, was going to be tricky no matter what. The process is in even more trouble under lame-duck, election result-denying Trump. While Democrats and experts have been sounding the…