https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/richard-blumenthal-donald-trump-jr-jail-subpoena/2019/05/09/id/915316/

Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said Donald Trump Jr. should be jailed if he does not comply with a subpoena to appear in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, The Hill is reporting.

"The subpoena should be enforced," he said. "If he refuses to obey it, he should be locked up. There are no [executive] privileges for Donald Trump Jr. The son of the president doesn't have any of those privileges."

Blumenthal maintained Trump Jr.'s testimony to the Judiciary Committee in September 2017 appears to conflict with some findings in the report by special counsel Robert Mueller.

https://defence-blog.com/news/boeing-ready-to-support-u-s-navy-with-silent-strike-weapon-system.html

Boeing announced on Twitter yesterday that the company is ready to support U.S. Navy with modern Compact Laser Weapon System, commonly known as the silent strike.

U.S. defense contractor announced on its Twitter account that: “We are ready to support U.S. Navy with our Compact Laser Weapon System. It is mobile, modular and ready to disable small boats at sea and defeat unmanned aerial systems.”

The Compact Laser Weapon Systems, or CLWS, is a portable laser system and can stand alone or pair with weapon platforms on vehicles or ships.

According to AFCEA International, for ground-based applications, the weapon can be placed on a tripod and on top of its corresponding military container, which houses the electric power and cooling subsystems.

The Silent Strike uses a 2 kW laser. The full laser weapon system, including the command-and-control and fire control components, are packed into a small shipping container. The total weight of a single CLWS system, including the container, is 2,267.96 kg.

The CLWS is already part of the Army’s Mobile Expeditionary High Energy Laser program. It’s deployed

on Stryker vehicle in Europe and has been used in field experiments.

https://www.vcstar.com/story/news/local/2019/05/09/unarmed-missile-launched-test-vandenberg-air-force-base/1153956001/

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE — A flare lit up the sky early Thursday as the Air Force launched an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile from Santa Barbara County amid a round of missile launches by North Korea.

The U.S. test missile launch was the second this month from Vandenberg Air Force Base, with the Minuteman 3 roaring out of a silo at 12:40 a.m., carrying a test re-entry vehicle.

The Global Strike Command said in a news release that the re-entry vehicle traveled 4,200 miles over the Pacific to the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands.