Anonymous ID: 6f8792 May 31, 2023, 6:17 a.m. No.18929289   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9296

>>18929274

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/21461/lets-talk-about-that-mysterious-rocket-launch-over-whidbey-island-photo-from-washington

"It is a Canon T3 Rebel set up as a webcam. Images are captured about every 40-45 seconds. 3.5/20 second exposure/ 1600iso. I only run it on clear nights or when there could be severe weather."

"This was actually taken with "Cam4", which is a little wider angle than Cam2 and pointing in the same direction."

Anonymous ID: 6f8792 May 31, 2023, 6:22 a.m. No.18929306   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9320 >>9371

https://www.defensenews.com/cyber/2018/06/08/chinese-hackers-steal-sensitive-navy-program-data/

Chinese hackers steal sensitive Navy program data

Cyberattacks sponsored by the Chinese government infiltrated a U.S. Navy contractor’s computers, allowing digital thieves to access sensitive data related to secret Navy projects on a submarine anti-ship missile.

The information stolen was stored on the contractor’s unclassified network despite being “highly sensitive nature,” according to information obtained by the Washington Post.

According to the report, 614 gigabytes of material on a closely held project known as Sea Dragon were taken. Contracted for the military organization Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Sea Dragon aims to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines.

Cmdr. Bill Speaks, Navy spokesman, confirmed that measures exist which “require companies to notify the government when a ‘cyber incident’ has occurred,” as had occurred in this instance.

Experts have witnessed a recent “reemergence” of China-based hacking groups that had seemed to have “gone dormant for a while,” said Cristiana Brafman Kittner, principal analyst at cybersecurity firm FireEye.

China has increasingly grown not only as an economic cyberthreat, but an online menace to national security as well.

Anonymous ID: 6f8792 May 31, 2023, 6:25 a.m. No.18929320   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9325

>>18929306

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kentucky_(SSBN-737)

 

MK-48 torpedoes

20 × Trident II D-5 ballistic missiles

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/bright-light-in-the-sky-west-coast-2015-11

On 7 November 2015, an unarmed missile launched from Kentucky during a test caused buzz on social media as it was mistaken for a UFO or meteor. The launch was also widely reported by the Southern California broadcast media.

The US military and FAA usually do not disclose the specific nature of such exercises beyond an acknowledgment that it happened, but Reuters reports that airspace over the Pacific was "activated" Friday night for the naval exercise. It's expected to remain off-limits to other aircraft until Thursday.

Anonymous ID: 6f8792 May 31, 2023, 6:27 a.m. No.18929325   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18929320

https://web.archive.org/web/20151108215753/https://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/07/us-california-airport-military-idUSKCN0SW0SN20151107

2015

Military activity forces Los Angeles airport to detour night flights

Nighttime flights into and out of Los Angeles International Airport will avoid passing over the Pacific Ocean just to the west of the airport for the coming week because the U.S. military has activated airspace there, officials said.

The Federal Aviation Administration and the military did not disclose the nature of the activities taking place near the second-busiest U.S. airport.

Airplanes normally fly over the ocean when arriving and departing the coastal Los Angeles International Airport during the night to avoid disturbing nearby residents, airport officials said in a statement.

But the FAA has indicated that military airspace over that patch of ocean was activated beginning on Friday night and continuing through Thursday night, airport officials said.

As a result, the airport will need to deviate from normal flight patterns during the next six nights, the statement said.

An FAA spokesman would not provide details on the activation of the military airspace, and a Pentagon spokeswoman could not immediately comment.

Anonymous ID: 6f8792 May 31, 2023, 6:37 a.m. No.18929357   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9370

Footage of a US Air Force RC-135 being intercepted by a Chinese J-16 fighter on May 26 over the South China Sea.

The Pentagon, in a statement, called the actions of the Chinese pilot "unnecessarily aggressive."

Anonymous ID: 6f8792 May 31, 2023, 6:38 a.m. No.18929361   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>9368

https://www.voanews.com/a/us-sanctions-17-chinese-mexican-targets-over-fentanyl-production/7115410.html

US Sanctions 17 Chinese, Mexican Targets Over Fentanyl Production

The United States hit 17 individuals and entities in China and Mexico with sanctions on Tuesday, accusing them of supplying equipment that Mexican drug cartels use to manufacture fentanyl-spiked fake pills for the U.S. market.

The move by the U.S. Treasury Department, coordinated with the Mexican government, is part of a U.S. crackdown on the flow of fentanyl and other illicit drugs from Mexico that are taking the lives of tens of thousands of Americans.

The nine companies and eight individuals sanctioned on Tuesday are “directly or indirectly” involved in the sale of pill press machines and other equipment used to stamp fake pills with counterfeit markings of legitimate pills, the Treasury Department said in a statement. The pills are often laced with fentanyl and sold online or on the streets to unsuspecting American customers.

“Treasury’s sanctions target every stage of the deadly supply chain fueling the surge in fentanyl poisonings and deaths across the country,” Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson said in a statement. “We remain committed to using all authorities against enablers of illicit drug production to disrupt this deadly global production and counter the threat posed by these drugs.”

The sanctions target seven companies and six people in China and one company and three people in Mexico.

The Chinese list includes Youli Technology Development Co., Ltd, a pill press supplier, and Yason General Machinery Co., Ltd., a vendor of pill press related equipment.

The Treasury Department said the two companies have worked with a Mexico-based pill equipment supplier who previously sold supplies to an individual linked to the Sinaloa cartel, one of two cartels behind the influx of fentanyl to the United States.

The Sinaloa linked person “used the machines to create super labs in Mexico with the capacity to produce millions of fentanyl-laced pills weekly,” Treasury said.

The sanctioned Mexican company was identified as Mexpacking Solutions, a Chihuahua, Mexico-based business that sells pill presses and other equipment.

Treasury said the business is controlled by a Sinaloa Cartel pill press supplier and has been used as cover for an individual involved with making fentanyl-spiked pills and with assisting Mexico-based cartel members with pill press operations.

The sanctioned companies could not be reached for comment.

The sanctions come at a time when the United States is grappling with an opioid overdose crisis that claimed more than 100,000 American lives in the 12-month period ending in August 2022.

Synthetic opioids such as fentanyl caused more than two-thirds of those deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

U.S. officials say the fentanyl sold in the United States is manufactured in Mexico with precursor chemicals imported from China.

Under U.S. pressure, China banned the export of fentanyl to the United States in 2019.

But Beijing has allowed the export of precursor chemicals to Mexico to continue unabated, U.S. officials say.

Last month, the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on two Chinese companies that it accused of selling precursor chemicals to Mexican drug cartels.

China rejects blame for the U.S. fentanyl crisis.

In a statement cited by state-owned Global Times, the Chinese embassy in Mexico said, “it is internationally recognized that the responsibility for preventing the flow of ordinary chemicals into drug production channels lies with the importing country.”

Anonymous ID: 6f8792 May 31, 2023, 6:40 a.m. No.18929368   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18929361

>In a statement cited by state-owned Global Times, the Chinese embassy in Mexico said, “it is internationally recognized that the responsibility for preventing the flow of ordinary chemicals into drug production channels lies with the importing country.”

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202305/1291449.shtml

Accusing China of providing fentanyl precursor chemicals to Mexican cartels a malicious framing: Chinese Embassy in Mexico

It is maliciously framing China to accuse that precursor chemicals used by Mexican cartels to produce the illicit drug fentanyl are sourced from China. The Chinese Embassy in Mexico slammed certain Western media and US officials on Saturday over the baseless accusation, which had been cited by some Mexican media.

The US accusations are groundless and are reversing black and white, the embassy noted in a statement released on its website.

The statement came after US senators Chuck Grassley and Sheldon Whitehouse, the Co-Chairman and Chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on May 4 urged China to take actions to control the flow of precursor chemicals that Mexican cartels use to manufacture illicit fentanyl.

China has been vigorously carrying out international anti-drug law enforcement cooperation under the framework of the United Nations anti-drug convention. It is the first country in the world to formally categorize and control the entire category of fentanyl-related substances, which has played an important role in preventing illegal production, trafficking and abuse of the drug, the embassy said.

At the same time, the Chinese government has always strictly controlled precursor chemicals, and the number of domestic controlled varieties is more extensive than that controlled by the United Nations, the embassy noted.

"The so-called fentanyl precursors mentioned by the US when announcing sanctions on relevant Chinese companies and citizens are just ordinary chemicals, and it is internationally recognized that the responsibility for preventing the flow of ordinary chemicals into drug production channels lies with the importing country," read the statement.

Failing to deal with a domestic drug abuse problem, the US distorts the truth, constantly makes negative and false remarks and tries to interfere in the normal chemical trade between China and other countries. This fully exposes its hegemony and brutality, as well as its contempt and trampling over the spirit of international rule of law, the embassy said, urging the US to reflect on its own domestic problems.

China opposes the US using the fentanyl issue to bully Mexico and supports Mexico in firmly safeguarding its sovereignty and dignity, the embassy noted.

China's firm position on cooperating with countries around the world including Mexico to combat transnational drug crimes has been consistent. The channels for China-Mexico bilateral anti-drug cooperation are well managed, the embassy said. It stressed that relevant authorities on both sides are conducting professional and efficient communication over relevant cases.

The US Treasury Department in April imposed sanctions on two entities based in China, accusing them of supplying precursor chemicals to drug cartels in Mexico for the production of illicit fentanyl intended for sale in the US. China has strongly condemned the sanctions, saying the so-called precursor chemicals are just ordinary chemicals and the move only creates obstacles for China-US cooperation relating to narcotics control.

Anonymous ID: 6f8792 May 31, 2023, 6:41 a.m. No.18929370   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>18929357

https://twitter.com/INDOPACOM/status/1663628853800239104

#USINDOPACOM Statement on #PRC Unprofessional Intercept: "We expect all countries in the Indo-Pacific region to use international airspace safely and in accordance with international law."

 

https://www.pacom.mil/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3410337/usindopacom-statement-on-unprofessional-intercept-of-us-aircraft-over-south-chi/

USINDOPACOM Statement on Unprofessional Intercept of U.S. Aircraft over South China Sea

U.S. Indo-Pacific Command Public Affairs

SOUTH CHINA SEA –

A People's Republic of China J-16 fighter pilot performed an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver during the intercept of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 aircraft, May 26, 2023. The PRC pilot flew directly in front of the nose of the RC-135, forcing the U.S. aircraft to fly through its wake turbulence. The RC-135 was conducting safe and routine operations over the South China Sea in international airspace, in accordance with international law.

The United States will continue to fly, sail, and operate – safely and responsibly – wherever international law allows, and the U.S. Indo-Pacific Joint Force will continue to fly in international airspace with due regard for the safety of all vessels and aircraft under international law. We expect all countries in the Indo-Pacific region to use international airspace safely and in accordance with international law.