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On-The-Fly Ammo Swapping Will Make Tomorrow’s Apaches Even More Deadly

Swapping ammo types at the press of a button has been a feature of FPS games for years but has never actually made it into real combat. But the US Army thinks that with recent advances in computerized high-speed sorting, flipping between warheads could become nearly automatic.


May 2, 2012
News

F-22 Pilots Don’t Want To Fly The F-22

This isn’t exactly a grand gesture of confidence: some of the US Air Force’s airmen, the world’s most elite, want nothing to do with the Air Force’s “elite” new fighter. Why? Because the only people it’s threatening are its own pilots.


May 1, 2012
News

America Admits To Targeted Drone Killing For The First Time Ever

The hunting and killing of particular individuals via drones has been a poorly kept secret for many years now. Not anymore: John Brennan, Obama’s top counterterrorism advisor, just went on the record, admitting targeted robot killing is official US policy.


Science

Are Afghans Unable To Beat The Taliban Because Of Clinical Depression?

Maybe the reason that the Afghan counterinsurgency has been such a flop is that the people there are too traumatised and depressed to make nation-building work. That’s the controversial conclusion of an Air Force colonel who recently spent a year in Afghanistan as the head of a reconstruction team.


April 30, 2012
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This Secret Underground Bunker Is Full Of World War Weapons And Military Vehicles

The world is full of hidden, forgotten treasures, like this gigantic bunker hidden in a forest, buried in secret location. It’s full of weapons from the first World War, as well as modern military vehicles. And mushrooms.


April 27, 2012
News

This Memo Killed Osama Bin Laden

The pen is mightier than the Seal Team 6, or something like that. Read the letter that officially made Bin Laden a dead man, straight off of CIA letterhead.


April 25, 2012
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20 WWII-Era Planes To Be Exhumed From Secret Burmese Location

David Cundall, a British aviation enthusiast, has spent 15 years and about $US200,000 trying to recover a group of 20 WWII-era Spitfire planes that were buried in 1945 in an undisclosed location in Burma, after being dubbed surplus back in 1945.


April 24, 2012
News

Iran Proves That It Has Cracked US Stealth Spy Drone’s Secrets

Iran claims that its engineers have uncovered the secrets of the American stealth spy drone RQ-170 Sentinel that went down in its territory last December. To prove it, it has made public some of the encrypted information stored in the plane. If confirmed, it’s very bad news for the United States.


April 20, 2012
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The Viper Strike Glide Bomb Floats Like A Butterfly, Stings Like A Kilo Of High Explosives

As war moves off the battlefield and into urban areas, carpet bombing becomes decidedly less effective. The Viper Strike glide bomb was built for just such an occasion. It locks on with lasers to take out targets without nixing the whole neighbourhood.


News

India Just Successfully Tested A Missile That Could Hit China

Today, India successfully launched the Agni-V, a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The missile has a range of over 4828km and could potentially reach Beijing or Shanghai, China. This is not good.