navy
Screens
Navy’s Future Command Center Makes Star Trek A Reality
2:46AM Adam Frucci | The Space and Naval Warfare Systems centre Pacific (SPAWAR) is the Navy’s new command centre designed to create an “unfair advantage” over enemy forces. And I’ll be damned if they didn’t set it up to look like the USS Enterprise. More »
Gadgets
This Is Where Each Of Your 1421 Trillion Dollars Is Going In 2010
12:30PM Jesus Diaz | Want to know where your tax money is going next year? Here’s more than you can handle in the new 2010 edition of the Death and Taxes poster. Zoom in to see how much those F-35 fighters and lasers cost. More »
Vehicles
Montague Paratrooper Tactical Folding Bike Is For Marines And You
3:00AM Jesus Diaz | Can your mountain bike survive this 1000-foot jump? Mine can’t. In fact, I don’t even have a mountain bike. Much less one that is used by the US Marines, folds, and looks as badass as the Montague Paratrooper Tactical Bike. More »
Online
Oprah Skypes with a Sub, Gets Skinny on Life Submerged
12:20PM Wilson Rothman | That Oprah, always using product tie-ins in new and different ways, this time jiving with the commander of the USS Louisville “The Slugger” submarine—which is 60 feet underwater off the coast of Hawaii—via Skype. More »
Random Stuff
Video Of the Navy Capturing a Pirate Mothership
8:00AM Sean Fallon | We already showed you a hijacking from the pirate’s perspective, and now it’s time to turn the tables and see what it’s like to be on a Navy force taking control of a pirate mothership. More »
Random Stuff
West Point Training Hackers
11:30PM Mark Wilson | What happens when you put a hacker in camouflage? He only grows more deadly. More »
Weapons
Boeing Working on Free Electron Lasers for the US Navy
1:30PM Adrian Covert | The US Navy has contracted Boeing to work on a Free Electron Laser, which would provide ships with an ultra-precise weapon capable of striking targets with lethal force, causing minimal nearby damage. More »
Random Stuff
Captured U.S. Freighter Captain Freed During Daring Firefight On the High Seas
5:31AM Jack Loftus | The U.S. Navy has reportedly freed captured U.S. sea Capt. Richard Phillips during what can only be described as a daring, technology aided raid on the high seas.Three of the four pirates are dead. [SFGate] More »
Weapons
