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The Ray Guns of War: I Fought In a Laser Tag Nerd Platoon
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Everyone's got a notion of how the last century went, in terms of nuclear explosions. There was Hiroshima, then Nagasaki. There were some nuclear tests out in the desert, and the ocean. But would you believe there've been over 2000? More »DARPA's Iron Curtain Detects, Explodes RPGs From a Moving Humvee
DARPA's created what it's calling the Iron Curtain, which is a system that mounts on top of a Humvee and takes out any rockets shot in its direction. It's pretty nuts. More »The Bomb-Sniffing Gadget That's (Definitely Not) Saving Iraq
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We've written about the Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot before, but this shot from Newsweek's "Weapons Porn" gallery was just too tempting. The BEAR lifts 500lbs—enough to get a wounded soldier off a battlefield, or me out of a Shoney's.[Newsweek]BedBunker: Sleep Soundly with WWIII Under Your Pillow
I can't speak for everyone here, but if I could sleep every night atop my 32 rifles or 70 handguns, I'd just worry that the Boogie Man would find a way to arm himself. More »Motivational Music In a Dangerous Land
For every ten stories about Iraq "reductions," there might be one about Afghanistan—and it's definitely not about reductions. That said, I'm glad one of my favorite blogs, The Big Picture, decided to do two posts on Afghanistan this week. More »The North Korea Cyberattack Aftermath: We Are F*cked
Defense Tech has some interesting analysis of what happened with the North Korea's attacks on United States and South Korean government sites. Given Kim Jong Il's pathetic telecommunication infrastructure, their summary is both scary and kind of saddening. More »North Korea Now Attacking US Government Sites, Sources Say
Since North Korea's unreliable "Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles" are still far from hitting the US, Kim Jong Il's hacker hordes are now attacking US government web sites. At least, according to the South Korea Information Security Agency. More »West Point Training Hackers
What happens when you put a hacker in camouflage? He only grows more deadly. More »Boeing Goes The Marvel Route With Naming Of New Stealth Drone
Boeing's experimental unmanned "Phantom Ray" drone is scheduled for testing in 2010. Either Boeing is out of military-sounding code names or it, too, is caught up in the comic book craze that's seized Hollywood. More »Supermap Puts Entire World On Military's Fingertips
This new geospatial information system for the US military mixes maps, 3D, units positioning, UAV video, radar, infrared, and satellite imaging into a single, fully interactive realtime tactical surface. It also blows my mind. More »The Bomb Vase is a Hippie's Secret Weapon
As a statement against war, these Peaceful Bomb Vases were created to hold flowers instead of violence. As someone with an irrational fear for potted plants, it makes me want to hide. [LikeCool via geekologie]93-Year-Old Japanese Man Certified as Double A-Bomb Victim
You have some lousy luck if you're near the site of an A-bomb strike. You have really, really bad luck if, three days later, you get hit with another nuke. More »CMU's Robotic Arm Helps Medics Assist Wounded Soldiers Without Being in the Line of Fire
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a robotic arm that can be controlled remotely and help medics assist wounded soldiers that can't be carried off the battlefield. More »US Soldier Explains Why He Uses a Rifle Stock to Shoot Photographs
When we recently posted a Vietnam-era Bolex camera with a rifle stock attached, we thought the concept was a little nuts. Then Army Reserve Staff Sgt. and wartime photographer Jeffrey Duran set us straight. More »