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Don’t Speed Up Or You’ll Be Fired By A Goddamn Tank
1:20PM Jesus Diaz | This looks like a road in Sweden, Norway, or Germany. Wherever it is, they use their tanks to fire at speeding cars. Maybe. Whatever it is they do, I know I wouldn’t be messing with these traffic cops. [Thanks David] More »
Toys
The R/C Nerf Tank (Dun Dun Dunnnn)
7:40AM Mark Wilson | When alien archeologists dig up the remains of 2009, they will discover one accomplishment that stands above all others. It won’t be some new iPhone or even the LHC. It will be the Nerf Tank. More »
Vehicles
Weapons Designers Spending Too Much Time Watching Star Wars, Transformers
2:00AM Jesus Diaz | This is the Future Protected Vehicle, a British Army infantry transport/light tank/awesome thingie which has a built-in reconnaissance drone. The drone can be launched to detect enemies and guide missiles to destroy them. [DOD] More »
Toys
USB R/C Tank Missile Launcher Gives You the Ultimate Office Warfare Weapon
12:00PM Sean Fallon | USB missile launchers have been around for a while, but this version is mobile—allowing you to infiltrate your co-worker’s enemy’s cubicle trench and win the battle for office supremacy. More »
Weapons
Ripsaw MS1 Remote Gun Tank Races at 96KPH
3:20AM Jesus Diaz | After drones took over the skies, bots are now taking control over land. And looking at the Ripsaw MS1 gun tank running at 96kph, it looks like war is going to get fierier, scarier, and more convenient than ever. More »
Weapons
Russia’s New Armour-Fooling Rocket Grenade Is An ‘Abrams Killer’ Apparently
12:30AM Kit Eaton | The new rocket-propelled grenade RPG-30 anti-armour weapon recently unveiled in Russia has a sneaky trick to help it get past active defenses—it fires a tiny decoy rocket flying ahead of the main warhead. This is to confuse defensive systems into attacking the decoy, meaning they’re too busy to successfully defeat the real weapon inbound just a tenth of a second or so behind. The RPG then has a 105-mm tandem warhead that is apparently capable of penetrating 650mm of steel armour, and can defeat reactive explosive armour too, earning it the “Abrams killer” label. More »
Weapons
Rocket Grenade Smashed to Bits In Flight By Quick Kill Defence System
9:37PM Kit Eaton | We’ve written about the sci-fi sounding Army’s Future Combat System before, but the Army’s just demonstrated a successful test of one of its components: the Quick Kill vehicle defence system. Check it out: the Raytheon system uses an electronically-scanned radar array to detect an incoming anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade, then vertically launches a countermeasure missile that blows the round to smithereens in mid-flight, saving the RPG’s intended target. It’s a very simple test setup, and, of course the real system will have to deal with complications like vehicles in motion, but it’s an important first step. And it goes boom. [Danger Room] More »
Vehicles
Hummer Tank: Right In Time for Winter/Economic Crisis
5:40AM Mark Wilson | In case gas mileage on your Hummer wasn’t spiting Prius drivers everywhere enough, engineers have pooled their talents to add aftermarket tracked belts in place of the “nothing wrong with ‘em” wheels. Needless to say, MPG and top speed will be greatly diminished on this H2. But the tears shed in the face of its general lack of humanity should be voluminous enough to wash away the world’s pollution one or two times over. [Jalopnik] More »
Vehicles
NASA Moving Forward With Its Mars Nuclear Destroyer Lasertank
8:03PM John Herrman | Following weeks of doubts about the future of the Mars Science Laboratory, the one-ton, nuclear powered, laser-shooting next generation of the waning Mars Phoenix, Lockheed Martin has shipped the vital “backshell” for the landing module, confirming that building is still under way. They also produced a video detailing the amazing landing procedure for the craft, during which a hovering “skycrane” lowers the rover to the ground before dutifully smashing itself into the surface a safe distance away. More »
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