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Air Force’s New Ads Look Like Iron Man
Remember in the first Iron Man movie when Tony Stark had a lot to do with the US Air Force? That was pretty awesome. Seems the Australian Defence Force is now trying to take that lead with a new recruitment drive that looks just as cool.
Batman Is Training Soldiers In Afghanistan
That Batman. What a hero. After solving the crime wave in Gotham City, he has decided to take his skillset where it’s really required: Afghanistan. Watch these hilarious troop training videos right this instant.
Monster Machines: DARPA’s Super Sniper Scope
Snipers are among the most valuable assets a military can deploy in battle and have become a pillar of modern US counterinsurgency tactics. While mile-and-a-half-long shots are possible, they’re not all that common. But with DARPA’s new One Shot XG scope system, any ol’ Killroy will be able to accurately fire an M24 up to a mile.
Monster Machines: US Army Finally Puts A Giant Laser Cannon On A Truck
It’s been 114 years since Orson Welles first described the nefarious “Heat Ray” in The War of the Worlds. And finally — finally — the US military is on the cusp of deploying a mobile high-energy weapon of its very own. Luckily, it’s designed to fry incoming artillery and mortar threats, not the whole of a freshly conquered civilisation.
Monster Machines: Death By Joystick With The M153 CROWS Turret
Manning the turret atop an armoured vehicle is among the most essential and dangerous assignments in a military convoy. Gunners must stand exposed through a hole in the vehicle’s roof while taking cover and engaging targets. To reduce gunner casualties, the US military designed a Common Remotely Operated Weapon Station, a joystick-driven killing machine called the CROWS.
Monster Machines: US Army’s New Mobile Fab Lab Is A Front-Line MacGyver Factory
US Army personnel often face situations during combat that can’t be overcome with readily available equipment, and they rarely have time to wait for the Pentagon’s glacial-paced R&D to devise a solution. But with the army’s new mobile specialty production facility, they won’t have to.
US Army’s Gigantic 90m Drone Blimp Is Alive
The LEMV is a robot blimp the size of a football field, designed to spy across an entire battlefield for weeks at a time. It also looked like military vapourware until now, soaring over the Jersey Shore. You won’t believe how huge it is.
US Army Trades Bayonets For Weird Tomahawks [Updated]
The US Department of Defence officially calls its new invention the Inverted Multi-Purpose Ballistic Tomahawk Bayonet. They seem to be half weapon, half Swiss Army knife. In fact, they are so deadly and useful that they’re replacing bayonets in some special units “currently fighting the war on terror in Afghanistan”.
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