You’ve seen it in ever war movie ever: soldiers trying desperately to get in touch with command. Well soon they’ll hardly have to phone home at all, at least if DARPA has any say in it. They’ll get all their data the same way pirates do. Torrents, basically.
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When it comes to advancements in the world of science, I guess we definitely have to hand it to nature for being the undisputed king of inspiration. One of the best camouflage exponents in the natural world would be the nimble squid, who is so notorious for blending into their surroundings (not to mention having an arsenal of defenses to boot), that they make a chameleon look like an amateur. A research team over at the University of California was successful in producing reflectin, which has been described as “a structural protein essential in the squid’s ability to change color and reflect light”. This allowed them to churn out tiny encasings on bacteria which mimicked the squid’s changeable skin.
The very same research team also performed experiments with other substances that reacted with the engineered “skin”, and they were pretty happy with the results although it goes without saying that a whole lot more work needed to be done in order to provide soldiers of the future with a real smart uniform or clothing that lets them blend in with their natural surroundings in the future. I do wonder, however, will such highly advanced clothing also result in the increase of friendly fire incidents? After all, you might not realize it is your team mate hiding behind that rock due to the uniform’s coloration.
Squids Could Inspire New Camouflage Clothing For Soldiers original content from Ubergizmo. 
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When the Soviet Tupolev Tu-4 bomber made its debut in 1949, it was more than a big deal. This reverse-engineered Boeing B-29 Superfortress gave the Russians intercontinental strategic strike capabilities that the existing US fleet of F-61 Black Widows and F-82 Twin Mustangs simply couldn’t compete with. The American response: Build a better interceptor. Enter the F-94 Starfire.
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Wow. Just wow. You can almost hear the corporate execs at the screening of this, Northrop Grumman’s official music video for the MQ-4C Triton
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15,000 to 20,000 people—predominantly women, children, and the elderly—die from landmines every year. These explosive man-traps have been used in every major military conflict since 1938 and some 110 million mines are still spread over 78 countries worldwide. What’s more, they remain functional decades after a conflict has ended and civilians return to the area. The results are dismemberment if you’re lucky, death if you’re not.
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The new fifth-generation Silent Eagle has finally cleared export restrictions meaning it may soon be the new face of South Korea’s aerial fleet. That’s good news for an unsteady place.
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The Syrian Electronic Army has struck again. It has been been in the news numerous times over the past few months as it took down various high profile Twitter accounts, such as those belonging to the Associated Press, Thomson Reuters and CBS. It also claimed to have hacked into Viber’s database. Today the SEA hacked and defaced the marines.com website. It left a message for US Marines, “refuse your orders,” it said as speculation about possible U.S. military intervention against Syria mounts.
It has been acknowledged in a statement that the Marines website had suffered an attack, but it is said that “the site itself was not hacked.” The statement released claims that visitors were actually redirected away from the real website. The website is now operating normally and the Marines are keeping an eye out to prevent any further attacks. The attack might have been provoked by the positioning of a U.S. Navy ship carrying Marines in the Eastern Mediterranean, however U.S. officials say that Marines won’t be inserted into Syria if the country goes ahead with military intervention. The message that was left behind contains pictures of picture wearing U.S. military uniforms, holding up signs in front of their faces, venting dissent. [Image via WSJ]
Marines Website Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army original content from Ubergizmo. 
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That hovercraft caught invading a popular Russian beach
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Forget secret NSA spying, the National Guard up and dropped an inert practice bomb into a Maryland bar parking lot Thursday night.
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Earlier this week, Buzzfeed reported that a computer security flaw in has left Army computers vulnerable for at least two years; today, the Army confirmed to Buzzfeed that this was, in fact the case. And that they have no plans to do anything to fix it.
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