Marines

News

For Some Reason, Adorable Kids Are Holding Big Ass Guns

11:40AM July 7, 2011 | Casey Chan

During Marine Week 2011 in St Louis, kids get to meet Marines, see what real-life heroes are like, watch some of their drills and… handle real, big-ass weapons. More »


Geek Out

US Marines Use Aussie Segway Robots As Taliban Targets

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11:45AM July 6, 2011 | Danny Allen

Look out, it’s a remote-controlled Segway with a machine gun – shoot it! Australian-based Marathon Robotics recently sold eight of the robot practice targets to the US Marines for a cool $US2 million. Check out this video of them in action: More »


Geek Out

Prepare For The Worst By Deploying The Best

4:30AM April 10, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Members of the U.S. Marines Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) are in country, ready and willing to help the Japanese respond to the still-critical nuclear disaster that threatens their nation. Seen here is a decontamination exercise, currently underway. [SFGate]


News

Marines Using Weather Balloons To Communicate With Fighters

9:40AM March 30, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

What do you do when your fighter jets are out of radio range in enemy territory? Normally, you’d use AWACS aeroplanes to relay communications back and forth. But in the Libyan war, the Marines are using a new method: Weather balloons. More »


Science

US Marine Runs 42km Long Marathon Wearing Gas Mask

1:40AM November 13, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

I’m sure you’ll agree with me that a marathon is tough work as is, but while wearing a gas mask? Which reduces oxygen intake by 30 per cent? It’s obvious Marine Sgt Jeremy Soles is tough as nails. More »


Cars

DARPA Takes A Crack At The Flying Car

7:00AM April 19, 2010 | Jack Loftus

The flying car, a goal of starry-eyed engineers since at least the beginning of the last century, is getting the DARPA treatment. Called Transformer TX, this flying Humvee-like prototype could be airborne by 2015. More »


Cars

Watch A Supersonic Jet Hover With Breathtaking Stillness

8:26AM March 19, 2010 | Brian Barrett

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It looks like a special effect, but it’s not. What you’re watching is an F-35B supersonic stealth jet spend 30 seconds suspended 46m in the air, for the very first time. More »


Gadgets

AR Goggles Give Real-Life +50% Speed Boost To Marine Mechanics

5:20PM October 27, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

It’s like a real-life Starcraft perk for mechanics repairing armoured vehicles: Marine mechanics, assisted by augmented-reality goggles with a heads-up display, repaired light armoured vehicles up to 46 per cent faster. More »


Cars

Boeing Working on Real-Life Colonial Marines Dropship

12:30AM June 13, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

The US Air Force wants a new cargo aircraft, a pressurised aeroplane capable of carrying 30,000 kilos for 1,500 nautical miles without refueling. They call it the Speed Agile Concept Demonstrator—it’s supposed to travel at a minimum Mach .8 at 30,000-feet—but they may as well have called it the UD-4L Dropship, because it looks like the Colonial Marines’ Cheyenne in Aliens. Boeing is going to get a mere US$7.5M to work on it to get the technology ready for 2010—which doesn’t mean having the aeroplane by then, just the pretty drawings for us to post about. [Defense Tech]

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Gadgets

ParaNav GPS Unit For Parachutists Helps Marines Avoid Errors…Like This One

9:30AM February 16, 2008 | Sean Fallon

Rockwell Collins has been selected by the US Marines to deliver 3,000 of its ParaNav GPS units for parachutists. Soldiers plummeting towards earth will soon have the advantage of GPS navigation with a HUD that will help improve landing accuracy and allow for target zones to be easily changed on the fly.

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