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Google Cosies Up To The Pentagon
On Monday, the US Defense Department’s best-known geek announced that she was leaving the Pentagon for a job at Google. It was an unexpected move: Washington and Mountain View don’t trade top executives very often. But it shouldn’t come as a complete surprise.
Pentagon Helps New Stealth Fighter Cheat On Key Performance Test
It seemed like a promising step for America’s next stealth fighter: The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter passed a key Pentagon test of its combat capability. But it turns out that the family of jets cleared the mid-February exam only because its proctor agreed to inflate its grade. In essence, the military helped the F-35 cheat on its midterms.
RIP, Raygun: Pentagon’s Laser Plane Laid To Rest
Yes, it sounds completely crazy: a 747 jumbo-jet, embedded with a powerful laser, that can shoot missiles right out of the sky. But for 16 long years, the US military tried to turn that idea — called the Airborne Laser Test Bed — into a reality.
US Air Force Needs A Harder Massive Penetrator For Iran
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.
US Military Replacing Humans With Drone Surge
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.
Pentagon’s Newest Spy Aircraft Is A Flying Sperm
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.
The Future Of The US Military: Drones, Computer Viruses, Outer Space
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.
Pentagon Kills Big Airborne Laser In Favour Of Small Laser Drones
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.
