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TOP SECRET DEADLY Weapons of US Military | Full HD
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FUTURE WEAPONS Program Concepts of US Military | Full HD
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UMTAS Missile Launch From Bayraktar TB2 | Part 1/2 Full HD 1080p
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Saturday, June 11, 2016
This Is PAK TA: Future Russian Military Transport Aircraft
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Sunday, May 22, 2016
Amazing! Turkish Bayraktar UCAV Firing UMTAS Missile
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Friday, May 20, 2016
Look What Can A Cluster Bomb Do | U.S. Air Force SFW™ CBU-105 Cluster Bomb
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The SFW CBU-105
Textron Systems’ Sensor Fuzed Weapon, SFW™, is a highly effective air-delivered area weapon designed to defeat a wide range of moving and fixed targets on land, at sea and in littoral environments. One SFW can neutralize many targets and do so nearly real time, leaving no evasion time for the adversary. It’s been integrated onto a number of United States and Allied Forces fighter and bomber platforms.
The SFW CBU-105 D/B system exceeds very tight U.S. Department of Defense policy on munitions systems by regulating unexploded ordnance (UXO) to less than one percent. SFW has demonstrated greater than 99 percent reliability by the verified performance in operational testing. Features of this weapon system, combined with self-destruct and self-neutralization, ensure virtually no UXO.
BLU-108 SUBMUNITION
The SFW composed of 10 BLU-108 Submunitions that each carry four Skeet projectile warheads, while every smart Skeets are equipped with dual-mode passive infrareds (IR) and active laser sensors. The BLU-108 Submunitions is capable of integration into other weapons systems for precise engagements of multiple targets.
Once deployed, each smart Skeet warheads sweeps for targets using the IR sensor to identify a thermal signature, while the laser sensor validates the target profile for improved aim point and lethality. When a valid target is detected, the warhead explodes which is a copper explosive.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Pakistan Building & Exporting Chinese Designed Anti-tank Guided Missiles
A PLA marine fires an HJ-8 anti-tank missile. Internet photo.
With the help of Pakistan, China North Industries Corporation, better known as Norinco, has been able to export its HJ-8 anti-tank missiles to 20 countries around the world, Duowei News, a news outlet operated by overseas Chinese, reported on Oct. 21.
Pakistan produces the HJ-8 under license from China, which helped the South Asian country build an independent production line to manufacture the anti-tank missile.
In the late 1980s, China convinced the Pakistan Army, which had been using the American-built BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile, to purchase the Chinese-made HJ-8.
Pakistan carried out tests pitting the HJ-8 against the TOW system to see which missile was more suited to its ground force. The HJ-8 came out on top by destroying all five targets with five launches, while the TOW only destroyed three, according to the Duowei report.
Nearly 10,000 HJ-8 missiles have since exported to around 20 countries. These include Bangladesh, Bolivia, Egypt, Ecuador, Kenya, Malaysia, Morocco, Peru, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
As Islamabad opens up new overseas markets for China, it also builds trust with Beijing to gain access to the further arms technology in the future, creating a win-win situation for both nations, Duowei said.
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Australia-India Uranium Deal Under Scrutiny For 'Lack of Safeguards'
Australia's uranium deal with India is under scrutiny following the warning of a former chief atomic watchdog that the treaty did not have all the safeguards necessary to prevent India from fuelling its nuclear bombs.
The treaties committee of Parliament was urged to endorse the deal signed by Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott in September before exports of uranium can begin, The Age reported. However, John Carlson, former head of Australia's nuclear safeguards organisation, told the parliament committee that the nuclear weapons programme of India is expanding with complex links to non-government reactors.
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Real-life Iron Man armor to be ready by June – US admiral
In an attempt by fact to imitate fiction, the US military’s “Iron
Man” armor will take an important step towards reality in June, when
multiple prototypes will be revealed and tested.
According to a report by Defense Tech, Navy Admiral William
McRaven said three prototypes of the TALOS – Tactical Assault
Light Operator Suit – are currently being put together in the
hopes that they’ll be ready for testing this summer.
If everything goes according to schedule, McRaven said the TALOS
could become operational by 2018.
“That suit, if done correctly, will yield a revolutionary
improvement in survivability and capability for special
operators,” McRaven said Tuesday at a military conference in
Washington, DC.
Although the prototypes scheduled for June will be unpowered, the military’s wish list of TALOS features is ambitious to say the least. As RT reported last year, the suit is being designed primarily with defense in mind and will likely include liquid armor, a synthetic substance being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This material has the capability to shift from a liquid state to a solid within milliseconds, making the suit’s wearer essentially impervious to gunfire.
Although the prototypes scheduled for June will be unpowered, the military’s wish list of TALOS features is ambitious to say the least. As RT reported last year, the suit is being designed primarily with defense in mind and will likely include liquid armor, a synthetic substance being developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This material has the capability to shift from a liquid state to a solid within milliseconds, making the suit’s wearer essentially impervious to gunfire.
Should an operator suffer an injury anyway, the suit will be
capable of monitoring the individual’s health vitals and other
information using a built-in system that rests against the skin
and provides its own supply of heat, air, and oxygen. There are
additional plans to incorporate a “wound stasis” program that
could stop bleeding by spraying some kind of medical foam onto an
injury.
In addition to boasting new technology that would enhance the
operator’s awareness on the battlefield, TALOS could also be
equipped with offensive capabilities, such as the “full-body
ballistic projections” noted by the military last year.
According to Defense Tech, these Iron Man suits are currently
being developed by a wide range of organizations: about 56
different corporations, 16 government agencies, 13 universities,
and 10 national laboratories.
If successful, McRaven believes TALOS could potentially give the
United States a “huge comparative advantage over our enemies
and give our warriors the protection they need.”
This isn’t the only futuristic suit being developed by defense
companies, though. Lockheed Martin has also been hard at work on
an exoskeleton dubbed HULC (Human Universal Load Carrier), which
grants increased mobility and the ability to transfer up to 200
pounds of weight off the user’s body.
DARPA developing ultimate web search engine to police the internet
The Pentagon’s research arm that fosters futuristic technology for
the military will soon begin working to surpass current abilities of
commercial web search engines. Yet, once it masters the “deep Web,” the
agency doesn’t say much about what comes next.
The Defense Advanced Research (DARPA) said its “Memex”
project will be able to search the far corners of internet
content that is unattainable by modern, mainstream search
engines, offering DARPA “technological superiority in the
area of content indexing and Web search on the Internet.”
DARPA said earlier this month in its solicitation announcement
for Memex proposals that the system will initially be used to
counter human trafficking, which often thrives in web forums,
chat rooms, job postings, hidden services and other websites.
To root out trafficking operations within the invisible corners
of the web, commonly referred to as the “deep web,”
Memex (a melding of "memory" and "index”)
“will address the inherent shortcomings of centralized search
by developing technology for domain-specific indexing of Web
content and domain-specific search capabilities.”
With Memex, DARPA hopes to achieve the ability for decentralized,
automated, topic-precise searches that can leverage image
recognition and natural language technology.
DARPA has asked researchers to develop advanced web-crawler
software to reach sites and resources that have sophisticated
crawler defenses. Memex operators would then be able to access
the indexed domain-relevant content with much greater precision
and ease than is currently possible.
Memex, DARPA says, will be first employed against human
trafficking, which, “especially for the commercial sex trade,
is a line of business with significant Web presence to attract
customers and is relevant to many types of military, law
enforcement, and intelligence investigations.”
DARPA says that dark places online where trafficking occurs
enables “a growing industry of modern slavery” that can
be stopped with Memex capabilities.
“An index curated for the counter trafficking domain,
including labor and sex trafficking, along with configurable
interfaces for search and analysis will enable a new opportunity
for military, law enforcement, legal, and intelligence actions to
be taken against trafficking enterprises,” DARPA’s
solicitation announcement reads.
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| DARPA Internet Search Engine |
Yet while DARPA mentions the usefulness of such technology for
law enforcement and investigative purposes regarding human
trafficking – basically, crimes few are opposed to stopping – it
does not address the myriad other uses Memex would offer the US
military, government intelligence operations, or police actions.
Amid the recent disclosures of government spying via the National
Security Agency’s operations, the topic of complete surveillance
over the entirety of the web is a sore subject. Thus, DARPA says
it is "specifically not interested in proposals for the
following: attributing anonymous services deanonymizing or
attributing identity to servers or IP addresses, or gaining
access to information which is not intended to be publicly
available."
How DARPA would catch traffickers without
“deanonymizing” someone, though, the agency does not
explain. Nor does it address just how far it wants to out anyone
hiding in the deep web for legitimate reasons, whether they are
journalists, whistleblowers, activists, and the like.
The Memex project takes its name from a 1945 article in The
Atlantic titled “As We May Think,” by Dr. Vannevar Bush,
head of the White House Office of Scientific Research and
Development. Bush envisioned a "device” that could be
used for finding and categorizing the world’s information, acting
as a supplement for the human brain.
“In a nutshell, Bush wanted to mimic how the human brain
thinks, learns, and remembers information,” writes
Motherboard. “Which is exactly what artificial intelligence
researchers at the DoD and in Silicon Valley are trying to do
now, to glean better insights from the unruly army of big data
being collected by web giants and the military alike.”
The Memex project is expected to run over the next three years,
with proposals due in April.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
31 Phrases That Only People In The Military Will Understand
Every region of the country has its own unique phrases, but they have nothing on the complex lexicon shared by people in the military.
Aside from the way uniformed folks seem to speak in acronyms — "I was on the FOB when the IDF hit, so I radioed the TOC" — there's also a series of commonly used phrases which deserve some attention.
"15 minutes prior to 15 minutes prior"
Military people are taught that they must show up to everything (especially an official formation) at least 15 minutes early.
The 15 minutes to 15 minutes arises as the order filters down through the ranks. The captain wants everyone to meet at 0600, so the master sergeant wants folks to arrive at 0545, and when it finally hits the corporal people are told to show up at midnight.
"A good piece of gear" (in reference to people)
Only in the service is it OK to refer to one of your coworkers or (worse yet and most frequently) a person working for you in a section you manage as "a good piece of gear."
Phan Shannon Garcia\U.S. Navy Photo"Back on the block"
Refers to the time before service, when a servicemember was a "nasty" civilian. (Nasty in the military generally means unkempt.)
Often used in reference to meeting old friends while on leave, as if a military member is "back on the block."
"Blue falcon"
Phonetic slang for "Buddy F-----."
A Blue Falcon is someone who blatantly throws another Marine/soldier/sailor/airman under the bus.
"Breaking it down Barney-style"
Refers to the kid show "Barney and Friends." When something is broken down "Barney-style," it's being explained as if to a child.
"Days and a wake-up"
A "wake-up" refers to the last day you will be some place (generally while deployed). So, if a servicemember is getting ready for bed on a Sunday, and flying out on a Friday, he'll say "four days and a wake-up."
A "drug deal"
When personnel or materiel are obtained through unofficial channels.
"Embrace the suck"
Military service isn't all fun. In fact, it is mostly suck.
For every five seconds of hanging out of a helicopter, there are countless eternities spent enduring safety briefs and doing mundane tasks (picking up cigarette butts, buffing floors, toilets, etc.). And then there is the unpleasantness of being pinned beneath and unable to escape an ever-present rank structure.
Troops are encouraged to embrace this sad reality.
Wikimedia Commons"Field strip"
Literally refers to taking apart weapons to the extent authorized for routine cleaning, lubrication, and minor repairs while in "the field."
Field stripping can also be used informally to describe taking apart anything.
If a Humvee becomes stuck or broken outside of base, troops will field strip it of anything classified or of value prior to leaving it behind.
If you park your car in a bad part of town, it may be on cinder blocks by the next morning, completely field stripped.
"Full battle-rattle"
This phrase refers to all the gear servicemen and women are required to carry outside the wire. Generally: flak jacket with protective plates, Kevlar, 180 rounds of ammunition, water, rations, rifle.
It's called "battle rattle" because — unless we're talking about Navy SEALs — walking with all this stuff usually makes noise.
"Gear adrift, is a gift"
It's your own fault if you left something unattended and it went missing.
Conversely, someone who takes unattended gear has not stolen it, they've "tactically acquired" it. Needless to say, if they get caught, it's still larceny under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Tactical acquisition is taught in boot camp, where recruits from one platoon will prey on another possibly less-aware platoon in order to get supplies and bragging rights.
"Good initiative, bad judgement"
When a problem needs to be solved but the selected means of solving the problem is itself more problematic.
Generally, it shows "good initiative" because the problem might have been above the pay grade of person trying to solve it.
"Grunt by association"
Said as a compliment: Someone who does not have the official qualification in an infantry field, who has worked on a daily basis with the infantry.
Often said of artillerymen or drivers, usually folks augmented for periods of time deployed with the infantry.
screengrab from Top Gun
"I was inverted.""High speed, low drag"
Literally a reference to aerodynamics, but often used figuratively to describe pairs of sunglasses, cars, or just about any piece of "gear."
Used most frequently by total tool-bags.
"Lance corporal underground"
Another Corps-specific phrase. Refers to the somewhat ill-informed, ubiquitous network of junior Marines. Word seems to spread around this network like viral content and largely reflects what junior personnel really feel about a subject, course of action, or senior leader.
"Mandatory Fun" or "Mandofun"
Office dinner parties or get togethers that are mandatory. Sometimes these are just understood as mandatory, other times the order is given expressly.
"No impact, no idea"
If a shooter on the range is so far off target that spotters don't see an impact. Used loosely to mean that the speaker doesn't understand an idea, or that someone is totally clueless.
Similar to "high and off to the right," which is the military equivalent of "out of left field" — a personality type gone crazy, or an idea that no one saw coming.
LiveLeak Screenshot"Nut to Butt"
Very literally, put your nuts on the butt in front of you — said specifically when space is tight or when a situation dictates close proximity of many bodies.
"Police call"
A police call is when an entire unit lines up and walks across a certain area looking for trash.
"Policing," on the other hand, is when a unit internally checks the behavior of its members, or when an individual is ordered to take care of his or her own outward deficiencies (i.e. "Police that mustache!")
"Pop smoke"
Refers directly to when troops use smoke to signal an incoming helicopter.
In vernacular, it means to "leave in a hurry."
"Pucker factor"
Refers to the anus and a frightening situation.
"Rainbow PT gear"
Rainbow means that the unit is wearing whatever sporty gear they want to wear to do "physical training," that the unit will not be in any matching PT uniform.
screenshot"Secret squirrel"
Intelligence personnel, secret communications, classified ops, or someone with higher classification
"Semper I, (F--- the other guy)"
Marine Corps-specific terminology. Adapted from the phrase Semper Fidelis, the service's motto, which means Always Faithful.
"Semper I" is generally evoked when a Marine is perceived to have taken a course of action that either directly adversely effects a fellow Marine, or does so by omission, while simultaneously benefiting the original Marine.
"Smoking and joking"
Being unproductive, horsing around, or literally smoking and joking.
"Soup sandwich" or a "S--- sandwich"
A person or situation that is incredibly screwed up. If it's a situation, often "everyone has to take a bite" of said soup sandwich.
"Standby to standby" and "hurry up and wait"
Believe it or not, the military is government, and government isn't always efficient.
"Standby" is what's called a "preparatory command." Usually the order to standby alerts a unit that it will be receiving some kind of marching orders — "standby to launch."
Unofficially, it's used to tell junior members to be ready and wait. Often, troops find themselves waiting for long periods of time due to logistics or command indecisiveness.
Said sarcastically, "standby to standby" means that a unit is waiting in order to wait some more.
"Hurry up and wait," also said sarcastically, pokes fun at the military's propensity to perform tasks quickly, and then sit idly for long periods of time (no less) ready to perform another task.
AP Photo/Matt Dunham"Squared away" (or "locked on" or "a hard charger")
Squared away in general means that someone is without reproach, but usually when service people say someone is squared away it is a compliment which indicates exemplary, above average service.
On the flip side, when someone is "unsat," they have performed some action or are themselves well below the required standards.
"Voluntarily Told, Voluntold"
There are two different kinds of voluntold:
A. The gunny walks into the office and says, "Man, wouldn't the floor look nice if somebody buffed it?" Which means,"Buff the floor."
B. "I need two volunteers to stand out in front of Best Buy this Saturday collecting Toys for Tots."
" ... "
"Jones, Smith, you're collecting Toys for Tots this weekend."
"Zero Dark Thirty"
Until the movie came around people largely didn't know what this meant. In specific, it refers to the 24-hour time 0030, or 12:30 a.m.
At times it's used loosely to mean "really early."
Also: "Zero Stupid Thirty" to deride formations deemed unnecessarily early.
Aside from the way uniformed folks seem to speak in acronyms — "I was on the FOB when the IDF hit, so I radioed the TOC" — there's also a series of commonly used phrases which deserve some attention.
"15 minutes prior to 15 minutes prior"
Military people are taught that they must show up to everything (especially an official formation) at least 15 minutes early.
The 15 minutes to 15 minutes arises as the order filters down through the ranks. The captain wants everyone to meet at 0600, so the master sergeant wants folks to arrive at 0545, and when it finally hits the corporal people are told to show up at midnight.
"A good piece of gear" (in reference to people)
Only in the service is it OK to refer to one of your coworkers or (worse yet and most frequently) a person working for you in a section you manage as "a good piece of gear."
Phan Shannon Garcia\U.S. Navy Photo"Back on the block"
Refers to the time before service, when a servicemember was a "nasty" civilian. (Nasty in the military generally means unkempt.)
Often used in reference to meeting old friends while on leave, as if a military member is "back on the block."
"Blue falcon"
Phonetic slang for "Buddy F-----."
A Blue Falcon is someone who blatantly throws another Marine/soldier/sailor/airman under the bus.
"Breaking it down Barney-style"
Refers to the kid show "Barney and Friends." When something is broken down "Barney-style," it's being explained as if to a child.
"Days and a wake-up"
A "wake-up" refers to the last day you will be some place (generally while deployed). So, if a servicemember is getting ready for bed on a Sunday, and flying out on a Friday, he'll say "four days and a wake-up."
A "drug deal"
When personnel or materiel are obtained through unofficial channels.
"Embrace the suck"
Military service isn't all fun. In fact, it is mostly suck.
For every five seconds of hanging out of a helicopter, there are countless eternities spent enduring safety briefs and doing mundane tasks (picking up cigarette butts, buffing floors, toilets, etc.). And then there is the unpleasantness of being pinned beneath and unable to escape an ever-present rank structure.
Troops are encouraged to embrace this sad reality.
Wikimedia Commons"Field strip"
Literally refers to taking apart weapons to the extent authorized for routine cleaning, lubrication, and minor repairs while in "the field."
Field stripping can also be used informally to describe taking apart anything.
If a Humvee becomes stuck or broken outside of base, troops will field strip it of anything classified or of value prior to leaving it behind.
If you park your car in a bad part of town, it may be on cinder blocks by the next morning, completely field stripped.
"Full battle-rattle"
This phrase refers to all the gear servicemen and women are required to carry outside the wire. Generally: flak jacket with protective plates, Kevlar, 180 rounds of ammunition, water, rations, rifle.
It's called "battle rattle" because — unless we're talking about Navy SEALs — walking with all this stuff usually makes noise.
"Gear adrift, is a gift"
It's your own fault if you left something unattended and it went missing.
Conversely, someone who takes unattended gear has not stolen it, they've "tactically acquired" it. Needless to say, if they get caught, it's still larceny under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Tactical acquisition is taught in boot camp, where recruits from one platoon will prey on another possibly less-aware platoon in order to get supplies and bragging rights.
"Good initiative, bad judgement"
When a problem needs to be solved but the selected means of solving the problem is itself more problematic.
Generally, it shows "good initiative" because the problem might have been above the pay grade of person trying to solve it.
"Grunt by association"
Said as a compliment: Someone who does not have the official qualification in an infantry field, who has worked on a daily basis with the infantry.
Often said of artillerymen or drivers, usually folks augmented for periods of time deployed with the infantry.
screengrab from Top Gun
"I was inverted.""High speed, low drag"
Literally a reference to aerodynamics, but often used figuratively to describe pairs of sunglasses, cars, or just about any piece of "gear."
Used most frequently by total tool-bags.
"Lance corporal underground"
Another Corps-specific phrase. Refers to the somewhat ill-informed, ubiquitous network of junior Marines. Word seems to spread around this network like viral content and largely reflects what junior personnel really feel about a subject, course of action, or senior leader.
"Mandatory Fun" or "Mandofun"
Office dinner parties or get togethers that are mandatory. Sometimes these are just understood as mandatory, other times the order is given expressly.
"No impact, no idea"
If a shooter on the range is so far off target that spotters don't see an impact. Used loosely to mean that the speaker doesn't understand an idea, or that someone is totally clueless.
Similar to "high and off to the right," which is the military equivalent of "out of left field" — a personality type gone crazy, or an idea that no one saw coming.
LiveLeak Screenshot"Nut to Butt"
Very literally, put your nuts on the butt in front of you — said specifically when space is tight or when a situation dictates close proximity of many bodies.
"Police call"
A police call is when an entire unit lines up and walks across a certain area looking for trash.
"Policing," on the other hand, is when a unit internally checks the behavior of its members, or when an individual is ordered to take care of his or her own outward deficiencies (i.e. "Police that mustache!")
"Pop smoke"
Refers directly to when troops use smoke to signal an incoming helicopter.
In vernacular, it means to "leave in a hurry."
"Pucker factor"
Refers to the anus and a frightening situation.
"Rainbow PT gear"
Rainbow means that the unit is wearing whatever sporty gear they want to wear to do "physical training," that the unit will not be in any matching PT uniform.
screenshot"Secret squirrel"
Intelligence personnel, secret communications, classified ops, or someone with higher classification
"Semper I, (F--- the other guy)"
Marine Corps-specific terminology. Adapted from the phrase Semper Fidelis, the service's motto, which means Always Faithful.
"Semper I" is generally evoked when a Marine is perceived to have taken a course of action that either directly adversely effects a fellow Marine, or does so by omission, while simultaneously benefiting the original Marine.
"Smoking and joking"
Being unproductive, horsing around, or literally smoking and joking.
"Soup sandwich" or a "S--- sandwich"
A person or situation that is incredibly screwed up. If it's a situation, often "everyone has to take a bite" of said soup sandwich.
"Standby to standby" and "hurry up and wait"
Believe it or not, the military is government, and government isn't always efficient.
"Standby" is what's called a "preparatory command." Usually the order to standby alerts a unit that it will be receiving some kind of marching orders — "standby to launch."
Unofficially, it's used to tell junior members to be ready and wait. Often, troops find themselves waiting for long periods of time due to logistics or command indecisiveness.
Said sarcastically, "standby to standby" means that a unit is waiting in order to wait some more.
"Hurry up and wait," also said sarcastically, pokes fun at the military's propensity to perform tasks quickly, and then sit idly for long periods of time (no less) ready to perform another task.
AP Photo/Matt Dunham"Squared away" (or "locked on" or "a hard charger")
Squared away in general means that someone is without reproach, but usually when service people say someone is squared away it is a compliment which indicates exemplary, above average service.
On the flip side, when someone is "unsat," they have performed some action or are themselves well below the required standards.
"Voluntarily Told, Voluntold"
There are two different kinds of voluntold:
A. The gunny walks into the office and says, "Man, wouldn't the floor look nice if somebody buffed it?" Which means,"Buff the floor."
B. "I need two volunteers to stand out in front of Best Buy this Saturday collecting Toys for Tots."
" ... "
"Jones, Smith, you're collecting Toys for Tots this weekend."
"Zero Dark Thirty"
Until the movie came around people largely didn't know what this meant. In specific, it refers to the 24-hour time 0030, or 12:30 a.m.
At times it's used loosely to mean "really early."
Also: "Zero Stupid Thirty" to deride formations deemed unnecessarily early.
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