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13 February 2025 at 05:00

Rezvani Motors, an innovative American automotive manufacturer, has redefined the luxury SUV market with its extraordinary Vengeance. 

This vehicle represents a groundbreaking fusion of military-inspired design and high-end luxury transportation. 

Designed by digital artist Milen Ivanov, known for his work in video game vehicle design, the Vengeance breaks conventional automotive boundaries with its aggressive styling and comprehensive security features.

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The Vengeance represents a unique fusion of a luxury SUV and military-grade transportation. This remarkable machine is built on GM's T1 platform, sharing fundamental architecture with the Cadillac Escalade. It measures an imposing 18 feet long and weighs approximately 6,200 pounds. Potential owners can choose between two powerful engine configurations. 

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The gasoline variant delivers 420 horsepower from a 6.2L V8 engine. The diesel option provides a robust 277 horsepower through a Duramax 3.0L Turbo-Diesel engine. Standard amenities include a sophisticated 19-speaker audio system. The vehicle offers tri-zone climate control for maximum passenger comfort. NFC phone pairing comes standard in the base model. Magnetic ride control ensures a smooth driving experience across various terrains.

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The Vengeance offers an unprecedented level of personal security through its comprehensive Military Package. Bulletproof glass and B6-rated armor provide significant protection against potential threats. Two military-grade gas masks are included to protect against chemical warfare, tear gas and other potential airborne threats. 

The package also provides two bulletproof vests designed to meet professional security standards. A matching bulletproof helmet accompanies the protective gear, ensuring complete personal safety. Rezvani further enhances the package with a professional-grade first aid kit and a specialized hypothermia prevention kit. Optional features include smoke screens, thermal night-vision and electromagnetic pulse protection. Buyers can even add pepper spray dispensers and electrified door handles.

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The Vengeance targets ultra-high-net-worth individuals and those requiring exceptional personal security. Diplomats in volatile regions might find particular value in its defensive capabilities. Celebrities seeking maximum protection will appreciate its comprehensive security features.

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The base model starts at $285,000, with fully equipped versions approaching $750,000. This pricing positions the Vengeance as an exclusive statement of luxury and preparedness. The vehicle represents more than transportation; it's a comprehensive personal security solution.

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The Rezvani Vengeance transcends traditional automotive boundaries. It combines luxury, performance and unparalleled security in a single extraordinary package. While most buyers may never utilize its full defensive capabilities, the Vengeance remains an impressive technological vehicle that will definitely have you ready for just about anything.

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REBECCA GRANT: America has a drone problem, and no one is in charge

14 December 2024 at 15:20

President-elect Donald Trump wants to create an Iron Dome missile shield over the United States.

But what about the drones flying underneath it? "Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge. I don’t think so! Let the public know, and now. Otherwise, shoot them down!!!" he wrote Friday on Truth Social.

Couldn’t agree more, except please don’t get your shotgun out of the closet and start rooting around for a box of shells. It’s illegal to interfere with any aircraft in flight, manned or unmanned.  Maybe its deer season where you live, but alas, it is never drone season. Right now, statutes limit even the military’s ability to intercept drones in the U.S.

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America’s got a drone problem.  Some are actually airplanes. Some drones are legal and no threat to you and me. Some are flown by drug cartels dropping off fentanyl in San Diego. Gen. Greg Guillot, Commander, U.S. Northern Command, told the Senate more than 1,000 drones per month cross the southern border. Other drones belong to the police, or to the military. Don’t forget the NYPD has 110 drone operators qualified by the FAA. I also expect some of the drone sightings connect to military experiments and operations.

But without question, the U.S. is vulnerable to a national security threat from drones in a way we’ve never experienced before. While many U.S. military installations have anti-drone systems, the rest of the country doesn’t. A new plan for countering drones in U.S. airspace should be top priority for President-elect Trump’s incoming Cabinet: Homeland Security, Defense, and Transportation, with the FAA.  Find a conference table at Mar-a-Lago and get key Cabinet nominees Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy started now. 

What worries me is the pattern emerging of sightings of multiple drones, operating at low altitude, with persistent and coordinated overwatch, near military bases and critical infrastructure. Of course, New Jersey has a lot of cool stuff: the aircraft carrier electromagnetic catapult test infrastructure, Picatinny Arsenal, Naval Weapons Site Earle, which stores and loads munitions for the Navy’s Atlantic fleet. 

While the New Jersey sightings date from Nov. 20, drone incidents started years ago. Back in 2017, an Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter encountered a drone over the runway while landing at Langley AFB in Virginia. Yeah, I can see why the Chinese might want a close-up view of the engine intakes and stealth panel seals on that. In California, drones regularly drop inside the fences at the sprawling factories in Palmdale that build top secret military planes like the B-21 stealth bomber.  It’s a stew of attempted surveillance – whether by military aircraft aficionados or the Chinese or somebody else. 

"Some of it, I’m pretty sure, is our adversaries. Why wouldn’t they?" Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., commented to Breaking Defense at the Reagan National Defense Forum Dec. 7.

Here are my four biggest concerns. 

The White House can’t be trusted. It doesn’t feel like this last-gasp Biden White House is working the problem. Ever since the Chinese spy balloon traipsed from Montana to South Carolina in 2023, Americans have realized that our skies are not always safe.  

We are a low-trust society. The lack of transparency is almost worse than the drones.

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America’s skies are not defended against internal threats. At the heart of the drone mystery is a very disturbing problem: We do not defend the interior airspace of our vast nation. That was apparent on 9/11, when it took 175 Air Force fighter jets launched all over the nation with their air refueling tankers to patch together linked interior radar coverage and communications. Many improvements have been made, but the 2023 spy balloon intercept took effort, and the drone challenge is a whole new chapter.

No one is in charge. This is a job for NORTHCOM but "at this time, NORTHCOM does not have a formal role in defending against UAS," Guillot said in March. He’s "making proposals to see if there is an increased role in the UAS fight." Mind you, NORTHCOM is busy with defending against China and Russia in the High North and upgrading West Coast missile defense. The Pentagon signed off on a counter-UAS strategy on Dec. 2 and the defense bill for Fiscal Year 2025 helps, but a lot of that is focused on overseas operations.  

Putin may be involved. On Friday, German officials confirmed drone operations around the U.S. airbase at Ramstein. In Britain, drones were sighted over Royal Air Force bases, where the U.S. stations F-35s and keeps nuclear weapons storage sites. Villagers at Beck Row, Suffolk, had the same shocked reaction as New Jersey. "They were really noisy and had lights. They looked official to be honest," villager Casseem Campbell told the BBC on Nov. 29.  "You get more information off Facebook than you do the base," griped another resident. Both German and British officials suspect the drones may be part of an ongoing Russian espionage and disruption campaign to weaken NATO support for Ukraine.  

I don’t want any of Putin’s drones here. Time for the Trump team to figure this out.

Fortunately, the U.S. is awash in counter-drone systems. The Coyote is a counter-drone rocket launched from a tube on a truck or helicopter. The DroneHunter throws a net over drones weighing several hundred pounds, and has been tried out in Ukraine. U.S. Army AH-64 Apache helicopters shot down drones with Hellfire missiles during an exercise in Saudi Arabia this fall. Another great method is electronic disruption of the drone’s flight controls and guidance. The list goes on, but none of it can work without coordinated surveillance and revamped command and control authorities.  

America’s drone problem comes down to this: leadership. Big decisions need to be made within the first few months of Trump’s new term. For as citizens in New Jersey will agree, we are out of time.

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Drone experts rule out US government experiment, unsure of other New Jersey drone phenomenon theories

13 December 2024 at 14:28

Drone experts have little idea what the dozens of drone sightings over New Jersey could be, but have ruled out the possibility that they might be the work of a classified government program. 

They say the lack of a clear image or any residual hardware makes it difficult to make any guesses. 

"Until something is found, it’s really difficult to say," said Brett Velicovich, Fox News contributor and CEO of Expert Drones. "We haven’t seen any clear images."

The drone sightings were first reported nearly a month ago – on Nov. 18 – and have been spotted every night from about dusk until around 11 p.m.

The drones are "six feet in diameter," fly in a coordinated way with their lights off and "appear to avoid detection by traditional methods," according to New Jersey state Rep. Dawn Fantasia, who relayed a briefing given by law enforcement. Reports have ranged from four to 180 sightings per night, throughout New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

With little information on their origin from law enforcement, public speculation has run wild. 

Velicovich poured cold water on the idea that the drones could be part of a classified government test – one theory circulated to explain the lack of information shared with the public. 

"I find it hard to believe," said Velicovich. "Maybe it started that way, and now people think everything they see is a drone . . . . I’ve seen a lot of images that look like planes. 

But he said that when he worked on classified drone projects, the protocol was always to inform local police. 

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"There's a reason why we test stuff in Area 51 or all these remote locations, so that you don't have to cause public hysteria. And then when we would test stuff in cities, we would always, whenever we do secret exercises in cities, we would always inform the local police." 

Stacie Pettyjohn, drone expert with the Center for New American Security, agreed. "They would be doing it on a military base or a testing facility. And you know, they're not overflying sort of sensitive industrial locations, like they have been in New Jersey." 

Both experts agreed that what could have started off as drones may now have developed into a public panic, where everything in the air is assumed to be a drone. They said it could also be photographic drones looking to pick up images of the drone phenomenon, adding to the panic. 

"People are gonna start to see what they expect to see," said Pettyjohn. 

"No one has shown me a clear photograph of a drone," said Velicovich. 

"Either it's just overblown right now, and everything in the air is a drone, or, you've got a lot of planes in the area that are probably trying to pick up, take photographs and detect stuff and see what's really going on."

The FBI, in a statement, suggested that many of the drone sightings had turned out to be planes.

"We have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security  or public safety threat or have a foreign nexus," a joint FBI and Department of Homeland Security statement said Thursday. 

"We are supporting local law enforcement in New Jersey with numerous detection methods but have not corroborated any of the reported visual sightings with electronic detection. To the contrary, upon review of available imagery, it appears that many of the reported sightings are actually manned aircraft, operating lawfully. There are no reported or confirmed drone sightings in any restricted airspace."

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The FBI revealed this week its budget for counter-drone technology is a mere $500,000 per year. 

Earlier this week, Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., said that the drones may be linked to an Iranian "mothership," a theory that prompted the Pentagon to say that it had seen no evidence the drones could have come from a U.S. adversary. 

Velicovich said he "isn’t sold" that the drones are foreign in origin, but U.S. adversaries would have the capability to be behind the occurrences. 

"If we go with the theory that it's foreign, China, Russia, Iran, they all have systems that can travel over large amounts of terrain, over oceans and and carry other drones with it. So that's not the difficult thing that's happening every single day right now in countries like Ukraine." 

Pettyjohn assumed that the drones would need to be operated by someone within the U.S. 

"I would assume that it's someone who's here locally, which may be a spy, which may be a nefarious actor, but that they're they're individuals on the ground, and it's just easier to blend in and difficult to identify who they are and where they are with these rather innocuous systems," she said. 

"They can be in the air probably on the order of, like, five hours or so, or less, and a lot of them, it's way less than that. And that just means that they have to be someone probably physically here, [who] is flying them." 

China expert Gordon Chang mused that the drones could be an adversary merely looking to offer a form of distraction. 

If it were intended as an attack, "you wouldn't put on this big display over the course of days . . . with these very large objects and flashing lights. You're not going to advertise a drone attack on the U.S.," Chang said. 

"I think that they're trying to attract our attention, distract us from something that's happening elsewhere," he said. "So, I worry about what is going on that we're not paying attention to because of the drones."

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