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Archive : Military
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Posted by Naeem on August 22, 2010 · View Comments
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday inaugurated the country’s first domestically built, long-range, unmanned bomber aircraft, calling it an “ambassador of death” to Iran’s enemies.
“The jet, as well as being an ambassador of death for the enemies of humanity, has a main message of peace and friendship,” Mr. Ahmadinejad said, speaking to a group of [...]
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High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
Posted by Naeem on August 19, 2010 · View Comments
The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric weapons technology for weather modification and surveillance purposes (such [...]
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UK Military Adopts Apple iPad for Training Soldiers
Posted by Naeem on August 1, 2010 · View Comments
We have already seen iPad being used by Hollywood directors, installed in the cars, being used in restaurants as menu cards, and how some airlines are thinking about adopting it as an inflight entertainment system for its passengers in the skies. And now besides its entertainment and commercial uses, iPad is slowly creeping into military training arena. At the Royal School of Artillery in Wiltshire, [...]
COM-BAT Mechanical Animal
Posted by Naeem on July 18, 2010 · View Comments
The University of Michigan’s COM-BAT most definitely isn’t the first mechanical animal to get its inspirations from the bat, but it’s probably the best equipped to play a vital role in modern day warfare. A select group of Wolverines have been blessed with a $10 million grant from the US Army in order to concoct a “six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat [that] would [...]
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Review: Motorola Droid X
Posted by Naeem on July 15, 2010 · View Comments
Dipped in clarified cyborg testosterone as it comes off the assembly line, the Droid X is sci-fi machismo congealed into a phone. Yet it’s gelded by steroidal software—a fussy, awkward android with acne the size of asteroids.
Available today, the Motorola Droid X on Verizon for $200 after rebates.
The Droid X is the latest module in a curious outgrowth of smartphone evolution. An industrial [...]
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Tag Heuer’s Squadra Night Vision Glasses
Posted by Naeem on July 15, 2010 · View Comments
Tag Heuer, best known for their fancy, manly watches, also makes fancy, manly eyewear, and the Squadra night vision glasses are their newest pair. They have titanium arms, high-contrast lenses, and make all the other spectacles nearby feel kinda wimpy.
Just look at the Tag Heuer eyewear site. That Flash intro is like a James Bond movie. And the Squadra glasses sound like James Bond glasses, too, [...]
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Navy ray gun shoots down robotic targets
Posted by Naeem on June 8, 2010 · View Comments
If you own an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), here’s piece of advice: don’t fly it near San Nicholas Island, California, or it could be blasted out of the sky – by a laser. Two such vehicles were successfully shot down there on May 24th by a US Navy laser weapon. According to the official press release, this marks “the first detect-thru-engage laser shoot-down of a threat representative [...]
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Awesome photo: massive crane lifts warship out of the water
Posted by Naeem on May 26, 2010 · View Comments
Sheee-yoot, now this one humdinger of a crane. If you look at the tiny silhouettes of the people in rafts around the warship (well, half of the warship), you really get a sense of just how big this thing must be.
The warship, of course, is the Cheonan of the Republic of Korea Navy (or ROKN). The 1,200-ton vessel split in two after being struck by a torpedo fired by a North Korean miniature submarine [...]
Next-gen nanotech spy satellites will count the hairs on your head
Posted by Naeem on May 21, 2010 · View Comments
Satellite cameras can already read license plates, but soon they’ll be able to count the hairs on your head. That’s thanks to the scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who’ve figured out a way to enhance infrared imaging with a series of holes that are each just 1.6 millionths of a meter wide.
Nestled inside each one of those nano-sized holes are quantum dots, ultra-tiny [...]
US Air Force gets a migrane from Sony’s latest PS3 update
Posted by Naeem on May 16, 2010 · View Comments
Don’t you hate it when you install new firmware for some electronic device, and the resulting changes actually make it less functional? Now imagine that you’re the US Air Force, and a Sony firmware update makes the 1,700 PlayStation 3s you hooked up together to form a 500 TeraFLOP processing cluster redundant.
That’s right, rather than going with some ultra overpriced proprietary [...]
