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US Air Force Needs A Harder Massive Penetrator For Iran

1:30PM January 31, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

The 13,607kg GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator is not hard enough to take on Iran’s current nuclear facilities, said Pentagon sources to the Wall Street Journal. More »


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US Military Replacing Humans With Drone Surge

12:30PM January 27, 2012 | Sam Biddle

The Pentagon has to cut a lot of costs. Humans are expensive. Humans need to eat and sometimes they get sick. But drones? They can fly and kill for hours — so the military’s ordering a ton to replace flesh. More »


Science

Pentagon’s Newest Spy Aircraft Is A Flying Sperm

2:00PM January 25, 2012 | Jesus Diaz

This is Argus One, the Pentagon’s newest unmanned aerial spy. It can carry 14kg of high-tech sensors and it just happens to be shaped like a sperm because this shape is better at handling turbulences at high altitudes. More »


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The Future Of The US Military: Drones, Computer Viruses, Outer Space

4:30PM January 6, 2012 | Sam Biddle

Now that we’re both out of Iraq and money, the US government has to make some very important decision about how it’ll kill its enemies in the future. Obama and his generals have weighed in: cheap war is getting techier. More »


News

Pentagon Kills Big Airborne Laser In Favour Of Small Laser Drones

4:00AM December 23, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

The Boeing 747 Airborne Laser project has been mothballed despite successfully destroying a ballistic missile and other targets. But don’t dispair, pew-pew destruction fans: the US Missile defence Command now wants to use small high altitude drones armed with lasers. More »


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The Pentagon Tells Gizmodo It Has No Osama Raid Evidence

10:50AM December 16, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Months ago, I asked the Pentagon for its visual records of Osama bin Laden’s sea burial under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I received a thick packet of No — a complete denial that any records exist. Read it. More »


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$US7.4b Spent On Upgrading The Never-Used F-22

3:28AM November 23, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The F-22, America’s favourite multi-multi-multi-billion dollar gun with no trigger, is getting a new paint job! TIME’s Mark Thompson reports the fleet of unused warplanes will get one hell of an upgrade. Too bad we never use it. More »


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US Army Tests Secret Supersonic Attack Vehicle

8:00PM November 18, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The good old days of threatening the world with a jillion nuclear ICBMs are over. Drones work great, but are relatively sluggish. So what if we need to blow something up in a hurry? The US Army’s got a new toy. More »


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The Sad Odyssey Of The F-22: America’s Big Broken Toy

5:00AM October 28, 2011 | Sam Biddle

The F-22 has been okayed to fly again, after being grounded, cleared, grounded, then cleared once more — all within a year. And yet, the Air Force hasn’t fixed the plane’s life threatening flaw. It doesn’t seem like it cares. More »


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The F-22 Is Back, Baby!

10:45AM October 26, 2011 | Sam Biddle

That was quick! With zero explanation, The World’s Most Expensive Plane™ is back in the air, despite a persistent, possibly deadly oxygen deprivation problem. How long will the $US24,000,000,000,000 fleet stay operational? Who knows! [AFP] More »