Feb 26
From self-aiming sniper rifles to bionic power suits
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Feb 24
Different cultures, different food. Different folks, different strokes. Different armies, same soul evaporating packaged foods for army rations. Okay, that’s not exactly fair. Some countries obviously have it better than others (I’m looking at you France) but at the end of the day, most armies around the world are eating out of pouches and cans and what looks like condom wrappings.
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Feb 20
The Incredible Flying Tanks of WWII
Posted in: Today's Chili
Given how devastatingly effective both newly-invented tank and airplane technologies proved during World War I, it was only a matter of time before enterprising military designers on both sides of the Atlantic thought to combine them into a flying Reece’s Peanut Butter Cup of armored mayhem. And they almost succeeded. Well, at least the Soviets did.
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Feb 20
DefenseTech has a good summary of a recent 60 Minutes segment on the F-35, America’s most expensive combat airplane yet. The Pentagon talks about how it uses "Star Wars-level technology." The pilots, however, aren’t so enthusiastic.
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Feb 20
When it comes to war, innovation is key and WWII saw more insane ideas and weapons of war developed than perhaps any before it. One of the more surreal was the Antonov A-40, colloquially known as the tank that could fly!
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Feb 19
When you think about military drones, chances are your mind conjures up the image of a grey airplane-shaped object with a windowless cockpit. But actually, combat drones come in all shapes and sizes—including some very futuristic ones.
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Feb 19
During the Cold War, the British military proposed placing nuclear land mines throughout the North German Plain to ensnare Soviet troops if they invaded. But how could they keep the bombs at the right temperature underground? Enter the idea of live chickens, which, if supplied with feed, could warm mines for about a week at a time. The project was scrapped—but the proposal was very real.
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Feb 19
Mortars have been a battlefield staple for quite some time already, and it does not seem as though this situation is going to change anytime soon. In fact, defense company ST Kinetics has thought up of a way to change the way mortars are used in the future. In fact, there is enough room inside a 40-millimeter mortar shell that will be able to store its fair share of electronics, so that this SPARCS mortar round will pop open its shell at the apex of its trajectory. This would cause a camera that has a parachute deployed to pop out, where it will then get to work by feeding live images of the enemy’s position so that the troops who fired it will be able to have a better idea on just where the enemies are in order to get a more accurate shot the next time around. All images snapped as it falls can be compiled into a solitary large image that can then be zoomed in and out for greater detail, as well as shared with central command.
Smart Mortars Send Live Feed Images To Command Center original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 18
Shocking video of a US Army infantry outpost hit the web today, showing an airstrike gone awry. The soldiers are waiting for the strike to take out a group of Taliban soldiers, when a 500-pound bomb explodes just a few feet from their outpost. A 500-pound American bomb.
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Feb 18
In the early, angst-filled days of the Cold War, miners starting carving the insides out of a hill between Dallas and Austin, Texas. The workers didn’t know what they were building, but—at 7,000 acres—it was huge. At that point in time, it was only known as "Project 76."
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