Various Facts/Info/Notes (Non-specific) In no particular order, about no particular subject... and no, I'm not making any of it up... I know some are truly unbelievable! * A point a book made on using Hellfires on APCs - '... it is a bit like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.' * The AC-130, an aircraft capable of 'putting a bullet in every square inch of a football pitch in under a minute'. * On Saturday 13 December 2003, Saddam Hussein was captured alive by U.S. forces near his home of Tikrit. He was shown on the news the next day, he had longer hair and a long beard, but you could clearly see that THIS WAS HIM. He was found hiding down a hole, with a pistol and $750,000. The hole was guarded by just two Iraqi guards armed with AK-47's. Ladies and gentlemen...WE GOT HIM! * The Ingram, also known as the MAC-10, is dubbed a 'spray and pray' gun. * Oct 2006 - Cloaking devices are in the works for ships, planes and tanks. They deflect electromagnetic waves around the object using copper wires, so that radar does not detect it - making it 'invisible'. Laser weapon systems are also being tested. * The Human-Assisted Neural Devices programme is being funded by the Pentagon's research division, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). Basically, this programme involves development of microchip implants in the human brain to create an army of super-human soldiers, cyborg soldiers even. * Costing more than one billion dollars and capable of a cruising speed of Mach 8, or 5280mph, the 'hypersonic' Aurora is just the latest UFO the US Air Force is keeping tight-lipped about. It is said to be powered by 'pulsed detonation wave engines', theoretically capable of producing speeds of Mach 10 at altitudes of 55 kilometres. Although the US Air Force continues to deny the plane even exists, reports of heavy sonic booms and unusual 'doughnut-chain' contrails over the southwest US suggest something's definitely going on out there. - Thanks to Channel4.com * Future Combat Systems (FCS) - a U.S. project by the Pentagon's Joint Forces Command for robotic soldiers - a 21st-century army. * The National Security Agency is based at Fort Meade, Baltimore. This agency is known as 'Never Say Anything'. * The headquarters of Britain's GCHQ is nicknamed 'The Doughnut' - because it's round in shape. * The Georgia Technical Institute is working on a biogel which could completely cover a wound - keeping out dirt and infection - but at the same time allow the skin to breathe. The same university is making a 'smart shirt' with sensors and fibre optics woven into the material. It can monitor a soldier's heart rate and blood pressure during battle and will automatically send back his exact location if he is wounded. * C4 was first produced for the American military before the Vietnam War as a general-purpose explosive. * Dyneema, the world's toughest fibre, which is 15 times stronger than steel and is used to make bullet-proof vests and mooring ropes for supertankers. * The term 'ack ack' was nothing to do with the sound of the guns. It was the phonetic term used in signalling the letters AA - for anti-aircraft. * There is a covert commando force called 'Task Force 121'. * 'Task Force 20' - a combination of Special Operations and CIA operatives. * 'Grey Fox' - the U.S. Army's most secret unit. * NASA's Advanced Propulsion Project is actively researching ways we might travel faster than light. One of the ideas it is researching is that of 'warping' space time around a spaceship to achieve faster than light travel. The U.S. military has managed to create a very basic replicator, which can be visualised as a 3-D printer which could create any solid object, though by using lasers and a super-strong resin powder rather than subatomic manipulation of raw matter. * U.S. tanks are named after American generals. * S.W.A.T. - Special Weapons And Tactics. * The General Electric Company, who make Minigun's - also make domestic electric light bulbs! Also, Honeywell, who make the IHADSS in the Apache - make gas central heating thermostats! * It costs $2 million a day to run a US aircraft carrier, without the cost of weapons, etc. * The Thompson sub-machine gun - sometimes referred to as the 'Chicago typewriter' or Tommy Gun. * The U.S. made the MRE, 'Meals, Ready to Eat' ration packs. During the Gulf War, these were dubbed by American soldiers as 'Meals Rejected by Everyone', 'Meals Rejected by Ethiopians' and 'Meals, Rarely Edible'. * The SAS were founded in 1940 by David Stirling while in North Africa. At the time they worked along side the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG). * US Navy's Special Warfare Development Group, also known as the SEAL's. * Grumman was responsible for the design and manufacture of the lunar modules. * The American special force Delta Force HQ is at Fort Bragg, North Carolina * The British special force SAS HQ is at Hereford, Wales, UK * The U.S. 101st Airborne Division are nicknamed 'The Screaming Eagles'. * At 3,000 mph you experience 45 G-force. * The British counterpart to the NSA is GCHQ. * U.S. Marine Corps motto - 'Mess With The Best, Die Like The Rest'. * Area 51 is also known as 'Groom Lake' and 'Dreamland'. Source: Newspapers, magazines, books, the internet, word-of-mouth, etc. / posted by Flyboy