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Watch That Tiny $74 1.5GHz Android-Powered Thumb-Puter In Action 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
