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Monster Machines: Wildfires Are No Match For A Vacuum-Powered Tanker Chopper
The faster you can pour water on a forest fire, the faster you can put it out. And this prototype aerial water-bucket system from Spanish designers Inventec sucks up water three times faster than existing systems.
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Monster Machines: China’s New Pain Laser Makes It Feel Like Your Organs Are Boiling
Sure, it looks like somebody strapped a satellite dish to the roof of a box truck and painted it camouflage, but that doesn’t make China’s newest nonlethal weapon any easier to stomach. In fact, take a gut shot from this thing and your stomach will feel worse than a kitten in a microwave. Yet somehow,…
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Monster Machines: This Giant Vacuum Sucks Prairie Dogs Right Out Of Their Holes
For years, prairie dogs have been the bane of cattle ranchers, whose livestock are routinely injured when stepping in prairie dog holes. In response, ranchers have gassed, poisoned, drowned or buried entire colonies alive. But one enterprising pest control company has devised a more humane method of removing the rodents — with a modified sewer…
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Monster Machines: This US Chopper Is Heading Home After A Decade Of War
“We fly like nobody else in the Army,” Col. Michael Musiol, commander of the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, recently told Stars and Stripes. He’s right. The OH-58 Kiowa family of helicopters has been serving on the front lines — both as an advanced scout and emergency evacuator — for nearly 50 years. But as its…