There's a certain amount of pride in seeing a country pump out something like the new F-35B Lightning II fighter jet. At $113.5 million per aircraft, it's about as far away from the meaning of the word "inexpensive" as possible. It makes you think, well, if we can afford things like that, why can't...
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Who saw The Hurt Locker? Oh, right: none of you. Even if you didn't you probably are already familiar with the basic concept: a U.S. Army guy whose job it is to disable I.E.D.s sorta goes crazy. That's the gist of it. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense in the UK has unveiled something called...
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Well, there goes Zion. That rave-lovin' excuse for a remnant of humanity would have been taken out in a trice by these Robotic Underground Munitions. And so it will be once the Robocalypse hits. Why are we doing the machines' job for them?
Here, I've got a better name for these bunker-busting subterranean missiles: Drill-based...
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Just so you know, I'm not making light of warfare — it's just that virtual training like this, while valuable, does remind one simultaneously of Modern Warfare and Ender's Game. Of course, as this article notes, the current generation of potential soldiers has grown up in a digital age and expects a little Xbox...
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Here’s something old, but definitely cool and worth showing you. Livejournal user Igor113 posted some pictures from his trip to… somewhere in Russia. He loves to travel and take pictures, and these are some extremely cool photographs of some rusted and cool equipment. Igor did apologize for the quality of his camera though, and...
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