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Tech NewsGadgetsStealth Jet to Go from Deep Blue to Wild Blue
Lockheed Martin is now testing Cormorant, a stealthy autonomous spy jet that starts and ends its mission 150 feet under water. Launched from Ohio-class submarines, the four-ton aircraft is designed with folding wings that allow it to fit inside a Trident missile tube, which is about 48 feet long but just 7 feet wide. The … Continued
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US Defense Department Finds New Way to Quickly and Quietly Kill People
The United States Department of Defense is working on Stiletto, a ship using what it calls M Hull technology, composed of M-shaped arches that let ships travel at a blistering 50 knots without making waves. There’s an element of stealth at work here, too, where now ships can sneak up on each other, terminating each … Continued
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Admiral Nelson Would Be Proud
Remember when Britain ruled the waves with its mighty navy? Yeah, those days may be long gone, but that has not stopped them from designing formidable warships with iPod chargers installed. What s that? You didn t know that the Royal Navy installed iPod chargers on their ships? Starting with the HMS Daring, an $800 … Continued
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Killer Drone Scrapped for Bomber
The Join Unmanned Combat Air System has been scrapped by the Air Force and Navy. The J-UCAS was set to produce an armed drone that would be capable of knocking out enemy air defense, conduct surveillance, jam enemy radars and conduct some strike missions. This was trashed for a new project that would focus mainly … Continued
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Laser Weapons Still a Long Ways Off
A Space.com article took at look at Doug Beason’s book, The E-Bomb: How America’s New Directed Energy Weapons Will Change the Way Wars Will Be Fought in the Future, shorten the title of that book for sakes. The Space.com article is reporting that the book says that the U.S. is close to deploying a new … Continued
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RL Mechs on the Way
Listen up, you video-game-playing hooligans: DARPA and the U.S. military are at it again, trying to impress us, the video game playing community, with badass mech jobbers like this. This is the Berkeley lower-extremity exoskeleton (Bleex). The Bleex 1 has been in the works for a while and it seems they have begun work on … Continued
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No Hummer Jokes Here, Honest
The Hummer just isn t an obnoxiously big car driven by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Oh, no, it s a highly-capable combat machine when properly outfitted. Since the next generation of Hummers is still being worked on, the US Air Force has commissioned companies in California to outfit consumer-grade Hummers for military exercises. These limo-style Hummers will … Continued
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Mobile Internet for the Troops
Defense Tech is reporting that a new wireless networking system for the troops should be available sooner than expected. The system hooks up with cellular and satellite connections and allows soldiers to connect to the Pentagon’s information networks. I guess that means I will have to enlist—the only reason I haven t yet is because … Continued
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Iraqi Sensor Jammin’
No, this isn t Bob Marley-style jammin’, this is hardcore combat radar jamming. Raytheon received a $15.5 million bid for their IED Countermeasure Equipment (or ICE system, yes, that is an acronym within an acronym, and yes, the universe is going to collapse upon itself). The device, roughly the size of a large gym bag, … Continued
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Suicide Bombing Gadget Gallery
It has to be a slow news day when we are dipping into this risqu category and showing a gallery of various suicide bombing vests. As disgusting as they are, some of these are pretty damn fancy—triggers, complex wiring and shrapnel, while some others are Wile E. Coyote style, consisting of just a bomb in … Continued
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USMC’s Big-Bada-Boom
The Marines have begun using a weapon that is easily capable of turning buildings—and humans—into bits of rubble. This is called the SHAW-NE (shoulder mounted assault weapon novel explosion) and it uses a thermobaric mixture that produces a shockwave in the air easily crushing walls and sending entire buildings collapsing to the ground. Supposedly this … Continued
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The Army Loves Aquaman
The Army always shoots for the moon when it comes to making their soldiers stronger, better, and more efficient. Now the Army has been watching Aquaman one to many times it seems, as they want a “Microfabricated Biomimetic Artificial Gill System based on the subdividing regions of clef, filament, and lamellae found in natural fish … Continued
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Planning Guerilla Warfare? Iran Can Help
Psst. Hey you! Over here in the dark alleyway, check out what I got! All kinds of goods from Iran’s army surplus. Wanna score some? How? Iran Electronic Industries: “Western Performance Eastern Price.” But don’t go looking for missiles and AK-47s from IEI as they specialize in communications, optics, electro optics, and “electronic warefare.” You’ll … Continued
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Athena Prevents Friendly Frags
The Athena Radar-Responsive tagging system is currently being used overseas by our troops. Developed by the Sandia National Laboratories, along with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and Sierra Monolithics, it prevents friendly fire during battles, bombings, and so forth. In a nutshell, it’s like a tagging system for identifying who is who on the field. If … Continued
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Low End Theory
The Army Wants You…To Enjoy Cheap Electonics By Brendan I. Koerner Growing up in Los Angeles, I had few greater pleasures than strolling the aisles at my local Army surplus store—a dank, musty joint called Doughboys. Amidst the shelves filled with thermal undies and canvas tents, you could find all sorts of interesting military flotsam; … Continued
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Military Copy Center
So I I feel like distributing my favorite propaganda far and wide, what do I do? Go to the local copy center and make hundreds of cheap copies to hopefully influence the masses, of course. Now, what the hell am I supposed to do when I am in the middle of nowhere and feel the … Continued
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Mili-Moto: The HC700
Rather timely given the general sense of global chaos, Motorola is dropping a handheld device they claim is up to military specs. The HC700-L is rough and tumble and Jarhead ready, and could certainly come in handy in the event of any of the various disasters that seem to be looming. It rocks an “advanced … Continued
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Eight Legged Freaks: Combat Robots
It only took a couple centuries but the top military dogs in the world have finally taken a hint from good old George Lucas and have begun development of combat robots (or droids, as the Star Wars geeks would say). Some smarty engineers over in Seoul won a bid of $32.4 million to develop these … Continued
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MINI-T Military-Grade PDA
This baby not only keeps track of your next visit to the dentist, but supplies “situational awareness” with a 6.4 inch sunlight-readable touch screen and dual processing with a 200MHz RISC/DSP. The rugged mini-tablet is being shown at this week’s Defence Systems and Equipment International Exhibition in London. The MINI-T will withstand from -22 to … Continued
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Firefly Grenade Camera
Firefly is a disposable camera that is shaped to fit your standard M203 grenade launchers (Now available at CostCo!). Load this thing into a grenade launcher and shoot it wherever surveillance needs to be done. During flight the Firefly captures recon pictures and sends them back to a PDA before hitting the ground and exploding. … Continued