Japan seeks leverage in joint development with own stealth jet

The X-2 takes off from Nagoya Airport on its maiden flight.

TOKYO -- Japan's first homegrown stealth fighter embodies the country's desire to raise its status in international collaboration on defense technology development.
     An X-2 demonstrator built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries took its roughly 25-minute maiden flight Friday morning from Aichi Prefecture to Gifu Prefecture, going through basic maneuvers that included ascending and descending. The jet clocked in at about 400kph. Japan became the fourth country to fly a manned stealth aircraft, after the U.S., Russia and China.

Philippines recorded fastest growth in Asia in Q1

Workers transport crates containing bananas on a wooden cart at a food market in the mountain resort of Baguio city in northern Philippines. 

DAVAO, Philippines -- The Philippines has outpaced China to become Asia's fastest growing economy, as election spending helped push gross domestic product in the first quarter to a better-than-expected 6.9% expansion.

Here’s The Gun The U.S. Government Uses To Blast Drones

You may have heard of Johnny Dronehunter and his legion of privacy-defending patriots who use shotguns to clear the skies of meddling drones, but when the United States federal government casts off drones, they would rather use non-lethal jammer guns.

Study: Everyone Lies But No One Calls Themself A Liar

Pretty much everyone lies and cheats sometimes—but pretty much identifies themselves as a liar or a cheater. We consider our indiscretions the exception, not the rule, and desist from calling ourselves crooks even if that’s exactly what we are.

Now, a new study in PNAS attempts to explain this nearly universal delusion with what researchers are calling “unethical amnesia”—the theory that we remember our good deeds better than our ethical lapses, allowing us to continue acting unethically without much remorse. 

Coming To Monitor You: A Tiny Flying Drone That Can Land Anywhere

Most people don’t love bugs, but the military does—bug-like drones, that is. In recent years, tiny bots have gotten a lot of attention as tools that could navigate tight spaces (including indoors), survey damage during a disaster, or provide undetectable surveillance.

Returning To A Syrian War Zone, To See A Dentist

Syrian doctors can't get licenses to practice in Turkey, leaving millions of new refugees fighting to find care

 

Hundreds of Syrians line up every evening at 5:30pm on a sidewalk in Istanbul’s Fatih district, spilling onto the street and causing a traffic jam. Most are mothers toting children, hoping to see a doctor at one of the city’s only clinics that offers them medical care. Every evening since last November, Bezmialem Foundation University Fatih clinic transforms into a facility for Syrians, where seven Syrian doctors and a handful of nurses treat more than 300 patients a day.  

Charly Boy had 7 kids from away matches

Social media titan Babalola Osogbiye dug out the dead bones in an interview with wife of the latest Marriage counselor “Charly Boy”. An enlightening interview that reveals the ups and the downs of the marriage life of the couple and how they have been able to pull through 38 years without being a subject of media. Words are not enough to give details of the interview, read more after the cut...