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...sources revealed exclusive details about the bold air attack on what they said was an Iranian weapons convoy, which was transporting rockets and explosives destined for Gaza, where an Israeli assault was ongoing. They denied earlier news reports that U.S. aircraft had been involved in the attack on the arms convoy as it crossed at night through the Sudanese desert heading for Egypt's poorly guarded border. "The Americans were notified that Israel was going to conduct an air operation in Sudan, but they were not involved," a source said. He denied prior claims by a U.S. television network that...
...Federal Government has stepped up enforcement dramatically since 2006 through a task force led by the air-and-marine branch of the region's CBP agency. Agents patrol the waters in boats and aircraft at all hours and coordinate intelligence and operations with the Coast Guard, border patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
...After you recovered these soldiers, what happened next? We would place the remains in a transfer case, which is sort of like a metal casket, and would drape the flag over it. Then we would load them onto the aircraft for transport. And when we would load them on, we did a little ceremony. The flight crew would be involved, standing in formation on either side of the bay doors, and we would do a little march from our vehicle to the plane and would situate the transfer case into the plane. There's a flag hanging overhead...
...ODIN II is headed to Afghanistan. The system is a combination of piloted aircraft and "Unmanned Aerial Vehicles" (UAVs) equipped with sensors and infra-red cameras in order to help see insurgents planting bombs even at night. With the information relayed via ground stations, the operators of ODIN, working on Panasonic Toughbook laptops, compare incoming images with earlier ones rom the same site, looking for tiny differences that may indicate the work of bomb makers. When they spot an enemy crew in action, they can either alert nearby troops to be on the guard or call Apache helicopters to launch...
...addition to ODIN, the Pentagon is spending millions of dollars more on other drones to track IEDs and their makers. The names are colorful: Yellow Jacket, Copperhead, the Sentinel Hawk. The Yellow Jacket project, which involves an almost self-contained robot aircraft, will cost nearly $10 million...