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Smartee Perkenalkan Solusi "Facial Convexity" dan "Facial Deviation" di VietnamThe P-8 Poseidon stands out from other maritime patrol aircraft (MPAs) thanks to its long list of features like, state-of-the-art ISR systems, exceptional operational efficiency, modular architecture and hard-points for weapons. Developed by Boeing for the US Navy , the Poseidon was specifically created to fulfill the anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW), and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR). The Poseidon was crafted with years of expert knowledge to be the best in class. Owing to its numerous advances over its predecessors and competitors, the P-8 Poseidon has earned a reputation as the most outstanding big-wing jet in Navy history. Poseidon tech Unlike most conventional maritime patrol aircraft, the P-8 Poseidon incorporates a number of innovative technologies. One of its primary systems is a powerful search radar, which can identify surface ships and submarines at great range. As for tracking submarines and other underwater threats, the Poseidon is equipped with sophisticated acoustic sensors. The big jet can drop sono-buoys into the ocean to observe the subsurface environment with sonar. The Poseidon is a very useful tool in ASW missions because of its sensors and radar, which allow it to cover a large operational area. The P-8 can easily coordinate with other military assets thanks to these sensors and a variety of onboard systems built for real-time communication and data sharing. The Poseidon's cutting-edge, military-grade avionics suite is based on the Boeing 737. A proven and widely used commercial airliner that flies for many civilian fleets around the world. The Navy took the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) philosophy all the way to the airframe and then built up from there with military modifications until they arrived at a premier patrol craft. Designed to be the ultimate advantage in surveillance missions, the P-8 has a highly advanced mission system that combines surveillance, radar, and sonar information into the data network between US and joint platforms. This combined data, from the P-8 and other platforms, works to build a complete picture of the battlespace. Its sensors have been specifically engineered to detect, classify, and track multiple targets at once, empowering mission operators to achieve the best real-time situational awareness possible for the US and its allies. P-8 Tech Combining the Boeing 737 's well-proven structure with the latest and greatest military sensors make it an extremely powerful platform for maritime ops. The P-9 can stay in the air for extended missions on station, all while carrying anti-ship or anti-submarine weapons along with its surveillance equipment. Specifications of the Boeing P-8: Length: 39.5 m/129 ft 6 in Wingspan: 37.6 m/123 ft 2 in Height: 12.8 m/42 ft 2 in Maximum Takeoff Weight: 85,820 kg/189,200 lbs Cruise Speed: 903 kmh/560 mph Range: 2,225+ km/1,200+ nm Service Ceiling: 41,000 ft/12,497 m They can operate in almost any weather condition and deploy from austere airfields. Their long-range and aerial refueling (AR) capabilities grant them virtually unlimited staying power to remain on mission as needed. Their high ceiling allows them to remain out of reach of many conventional anti-air systems. These features enable the P-8 Poseidon to conduct its range of mission profiles over the vast expanses of open ocean. Armed patrol Another important factor in the P-8 Poseidon's future-proofed and highly versatile design is the range of weaponry it is capable of carrying. The Poseidon’s predecessor was much more limited to its aged design—Lockheed Martin built the P-3 Orion in the Cold War, a propeller-driven aircraft far smaller compared to the P-8. A range of modern torpedoes, high-tech missiles, and depth charges are all in the Poseidon’s arsenal. As reported by PlaneHistoria , the Poseidon is equipped with Harpoon anti-ship missiles, torpedoes, and other weapons that make it an all-in-one platform for anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare. The ability to carry more modern weapons and a larger payload of them as well, coupled with the Poseidon’s advanced targeting and sensor systems, allow it to conduct complex missions. The P-8 can deploy many of its weapons at long ranges, granting it a stand-off buffer where the enemy is unable to target the P-8. The Poseidon is a truly formidable asset in both defensive and offensive maritime operations. The P-8 Poseidon plays a critical role in maritime patrol and combating enemy surface and submarine fleets. Range and endurance The P-8 Poseidon's endurance and range enable it to conduct extended patrols across vast expanses of water, a powerful tool not only for military but also humanitarian operations. The Poseidon can cover large regions in a single mission or stay on station to provide search and rescue or surveillance for maritime security operations like counter-trafficking. As Business Insider noted, the Poseidon is designed to fly for long durations without needing to return to base, which provides it with the operational flexibility to support diverse mission types. With the ability to stay airborne for more than 10 hours on a single sortie, the P-8 Poseidon can operate efficiently even if tanker support is unavailable. With its distinct advantages in technology, weapons, range, and endurance, the P-8 Poseidon stands apart from all other maritime patrol aircraft. It is a vital component of contemporary maritime operations thanks to its sophisticated sensor suite, as well as, its deadly arsenal of ASW and ASuW weapons. The P-8 also has a major operational advantage from using the airframe of one of the most prolific commercial airliners flying today. The Navy will put the Poseidon to the test as time goes on, but to be sure, the P-8 is ready for whatever the future may throw at it. Reviewing the countries flying and about to fly the Boeing P-8A Poseidon.
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Axios CEO Jim VandeHei got fired up over Elon Musk ’s claims that users on Twitter-turned-X are replacing legacy media. While delivering a fervent speech at the National Press Club last Thursday, VandeHei slammed the tech billionaire for suggesting that social media users who aren’t professional journalists can provide news coverage without formal training. “Everything we do is under fire. Elon Musk sits on Twitter every day — or X today — saying like, ‘We are the media,’ ‘You are the media,’” VandeHei, a former political reporter for The Washington Post and co-founder of Politico, said at the time. “My message to Elon Musk is: Bullshit. You are not the media.” VandeHei added, “You having a blue checkmark, a Twitter handle and 300 words of cleverness doesn’t make you a reporter. ... You don’t do that by popping off on Twitter. You don’t do that by having an opinion. You do it by doing the hard work.” In the clip, MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough cosigned VandeHei’s speech, noting it “needed to be said.” On Monday, Musk publicly disagreed with VandeHei’s response in a post on X , the platform he purchased in 2022 . “Yeah, whatever lmao. You are the media now. And legacy media know it,” the Tesla CEO wrote alongside a clip of VandeHei’s speech. Musk has ramped up his use of the phrase “you are the media” since Donald Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. “The reality of this election was plain to see on X, while most legacy media lied relentlessly to the public,” Musk posted days after the election. “You are the media now.” Trump tasked Musk to co-head his proposed “Department of Government Efficiency” alongside biotech entrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy . “Please encourage more citizen journalism! You can do live video easily from your phone,” the SpaceX founder wrote in a separate post on X in September 2023. “More on-the-ground reporting from regular citizens will change the world.” Don't let this be the end of the free press. The free press is under attack — and America's future hangs in the balance. As other newsrooms bow to political pressure, HuffPost is not backing down. Would you help us keep our news free for all? We can't do it without you. Can't afford to contribute? Support HuffPost by creating a free account and log in while you read. You've supported HuffPost before, and we'll be honest — we could use your help again . We view our mission to provide free, fair news as critically important in this crucial moment, and we can't do it without you. Whether you give once or many more times, we appreciate your contribution to keeping our journalism free for all. You've supported HuffPost before, and we'll be honest — we could use your help again . We view our mission to provide free, fair news as critically important in this crucial moment, and we can't do it without you. Whether you give just one more time or sign up again to contribute regularly, we appreciate you playing a part in keeping our journalism free for all. Already contributed? Log in to hide these messages. In a clip uploaded to X on Nov. 2, Musk claimed “citizen journalism” is “better than conventional journalism” because “you’ve got real-time aggregation of the collective wisdom of tens of millions of people.” Watch a clip of VandeHei’s speech below. Related From Our PartnerCanada condemns China's steps against Canadian institutions over Uyghurs, Tibet
By JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was “stupid” not to put his own name on pandemic relief checks in 2021, noting that Donald Trump had done so in 2020 and likely got credit for helping people out through this simple, effective act of branding. Biden did the second-guessing as he delivered a speech at the Brookings Institution defending his economic record and challenging Trump to preserve Democratic policy ideas when he returns to the White House next month. Related Articles National Politics | Trump names Andrew Ferguson as head of Federal Trade Commission to replace Lina Khan National Politics | Donald Trump is returning to the world stage. So is his trolling National Politics | Biden issues veto threat on bill expanding federal judiciary as partisan split emerges National Politics | Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors National Politics | After withdrawing as attorney general nominee, Matt Gaetz lands a talk show on OANN television As Biden focused on his legacy with his term ending, he suggested Trump should keep the Democrats’ momentum going and ignore the policies of his allies. The president laid out favorable recent economic data but acknowledged his rare public regret that he had not been more self-promotional in advertising the financial support provided by his administration as the country emerged from the pandemic. “I signed the American Rescue Plan, the most significant economic recovery package in our history, and also learned something from Donald Trump,” Biden said at the Washington-based think tank. “He signed checks for people for 7,400 bucks ... and I didn’t. Stupid.” The decision by the former reality TV star and real estate developer to add his name to the checks sent by the U.S. Treasury to millions of Americans struggling during the coronavirus marked the first time a president’s name appeared on any IRS payments. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris , who replaced him as the Democratic nominee , largely failed to convince the American public of the strength of the economy. The addition of 16 million jobs, funding for infrastructure, new factories and investments in renewable energy were not enough to overcome public exhaustion over inflation, which spiked in 2022 and left many households coping with elevated grocery, gasoline and housing costs. More than 6 in 10 voters in November’s election described the economy as “poor” or “not so good,” according to AP VoteCast, an extensive survey of the electorate. Trump won nearly 7 in 10 of the voters who felt the economy was in bad shape, paving the way for a second term as president after his 2020 loss to Biden. Biden used his speech to argue that Trump was inheriting a strong economy that is the envy of the world. The inflation rate fell without a recession that many economists had viewed as inevitable, while the unemployment rate is a healthy 4.2% and applications to start new businesses are at record levels. Biden called the numbers under his watch “a new set of benchmarks to measure against the next four years.” “President-elect Trump is receiving the strongest economy in modern history,” said Biden, who warned that Trump’s planned tax cuts could lead to massive deficits or deep spending cuts. He also said that Trump’s promise of broad tariffs on foreign imports would be a mistake, part of a broader push Tuesday by the administration to warn against Trump’s threatened action. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also issued a word of caution about them at a summit of The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council. “I think the imposition of broad based tariffs, at least of the type that have been discussed, almost all economists agree this would raise prices on American consumers,” she said. Biden was also critical of Trump allies who have pushed Project 2025 , a policy blueprint from the Heritage Foundation that calls for a complete overhaul of the federal government. Trump has disavowed participation in it, though parts were written by his allies and overlap with his stated views on economics, immigration, education policy and civil rights. “I pray to God the president-elect throws away Project 2025,” Biden said. “I think it would be an economic disaster.” Associated Press writer Fatima Hussein in Washington contributed to this report.FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump promised on Tuesday to “vigorously pursue” capital punishment after President Joe Biden commuted the sentences of most people on federal death row partly to stop Trump from pushing forward their executions. Trump criticized Biden’s decision on Monday to change the sentences of 37 of the 40 condemned people to life in prison without parole, arguing that it was senseless and insulted the families of their victims. Biden said converting their punishments to life imprisonment was consistent with the moratorium imposed on federal executions in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder. “Joe Biden just commuted the Death Sentence on 37 of the worst killers in our Country,” he wrote on his social media site. “When you hear the acts of each, you won’t believe that he did this. Makes no sense. Relatives and friends are further devastated. They can’t believe this is happening!” Presidents historically have no involvement in dictating or recommending the punishments that federal prosecutors seek for defendants in criminal cases, though Trump has long sought more direct control over the Justice Department's operations. The president-elect wrote that he would direct the department to pursue the death penalty “as soon as I am inaugurated,” but was vague on what specific actions he may take and said they would be in cases of “violent rapists, murderers, and monsters.” He highlighted the cases of two men who were on federal death row for slaying a woman and a girl, had admitted to killing more and had their sentences commuted by Biden. Is it a plan in motion or more rhetoric? On the campaign trail, Trump often called for expanding the federal death penalty — including for those who kill police officers, those convicted of drug and human trafficking, and migrants who kill U.S. citizens. “Trump has been fairly consistent in wanting to sort of say that he thinks the death penalty is an important tool and he wants to use it,” said Douglas Berman, an expert on sentencing at Ohio State University’s law school. “But whether practically any of that can happen, either under existing law or other laws, is a heavy lift.” Berman said Trump’s statement at this point seems to be just a response to Biden’s commutation. “I’m inclined to think it’s still in sort of more the rhetoric phase. Just, ‘don’t worry. The new sheriff is coming. I like the death penalty,’” he said. Most Americans have historically supported the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to decades of annual polling by Gallup, but support has declined over the past few decades. About half of Americans were in favor in an October poll, while roughly 7 in 10 Americans backed capital punishment for murderers in 2007. Death row inmates are mostly sentenced by states Before Biden's commutation, there were 40 federal death row inmates compared with more than 2,000 who have been sentenced to death by states. “The reality is all of these crimes are typically handled by the states,” Berman said. A question is whether the Trump administration would try to take over some state murder cases, such as those related to drug trafficking or smuggling. He could also attempt to take cases from states that have abolished the death penalty. Could rape now be punishable by death? Berman said Trump's statement, along with some recent actions by states, may present an effort to get the Supreme Court to reconsider a precedent that considers the death penalty disproportionate punishment for rape. “That would literally take decades to unfold. It’s not something that is going to happen overnight,” Berman said. Before one of Trump's rallies on Aug. 20, his prepared remarks released to the media said he would announce he would ask for the death penalty for child rapists and child traffickers. But Trump never delivered the line. What were the cases highlighted by Trump? One of the men Trump highlighted on Tuesday was ex-Marine Jorge Avila Torrez, who was sentenced to death for killing a sailor in Virginia and later pleaded guilty to the fatal stabbing of an 8-year-old and a 9-year-old girl in a suburban Chicago park several years before. The other man, Thomas Steven Sanders, was sentenced to death for the kidnapping and slaying of a 12-year-old girl in Louisiana, days after shooting the girl's mother in a wildlife park in Arizona. Court records show he admitted to both killings. Some families of victims expressed anger with Biden's decision, but the president had faced pressure from advocacy groups urging him to make it more difficult for Trump to increase the use of capital punishment for federal inmates. The ACLU and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were some of the groups that applauded the decision. Biden left three federal inmates to face execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018 , the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. _______ Associated Press writers Jill Colvin, Michelle L. Price and Eric Tucker contributed to this report.