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Government Report: Military Drone Pilots Don’t Get Enough Training

The U.S military is increasingly making use of drones rather than manned aircraft. But a new report from the Government Accountability Office suggest that many drone pilots don’t get enough training. The report suggests that pilots in both the Air Force and Army struggle to keep their flight training up-to-date. It explains that “most pilots…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 18

This Rural County Is Getting Rich Manufacturing Drones for the Military

Los Angeles is ground zero for movies, San Francisco for tech. And it looks like Klickitat County, Washington is the country’s hub for unmanned aerial vehicles. According to Quartz, median income in the outdoorsy pear-growing county rose 23% between 2010 and 2013, thanks to the drone industry. Only five other counties saw faster growth, all…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin May 15

BAE’s New Goggles Roll Together Night Vision and Thermal Imaging

In the dark, soldiers have two options if they’re to see: night vision or thermal imaging. Both have their advantages and disadvantages—but now, BAE’s new goggles mean there’s no need to choose. Usually night vision goggles are used to understand the immediate environment—they amplify the small amounts of available light—while thermal imaging is used to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe May 5

What It Feels Like to Shoot With the Military’s Experimental Smart Scope

You’ve probably never fired an M4 carbine. Until a couple weeks ago, I hadn’t either. But at a recent DARPA demo day, I loaded a magazine (also a first for me), snuggled up to the deadly assault rifle, and looked through one of the most technologically advanced smart scopes ever built. Then I pulled the…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes Apr 28

Watch DARPA’s Scary Self-Guided Bullets Swerve to Hit Moving Objects

Military researchers at DARPA have been developing ammunition which can change its path in mid-air to ensure it always hits its target. Now, it can even correct itself mid-flight to hit a moving target. The Department’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) is a .50 caliber bullet that maneuvers itself as it travels through the air.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe Apr 28

Bold profile photo of the F-35 makes it look like a future space fighter

The F-35 Lightning II is a comically expensive fighter jet with a host of problems but one thing you can’t deny: it can sure look badass. Like badass in the being able to see a glimpse of the future today badass. Like badass as in this flying killer machine totally looks like it’s from a…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 27

Paratroopers fill the sky in awesome photo

Here’s a really cool photo showing US Army and British paratroopers jumping out of C-130J Super Hercules airplanes in a line at Fort Bragg. It was the largest jump exercise in 20 years at Fort Bragg and there are so many paratroopers filling the sky that it looks like a floating human wall (okay, a…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 24

Awesome video shows unmanned X-47B drone refueling in the air

Earlier this week, the badass X-47B drone became the first ever unmanned aircraft to refuel while in the air. Think about how cool this is, the drone has to meet the KC-707 tanker plane in the air, position itself perfectly to snatch onto the fuel line and then gas itself up with no one on…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 24

Cool photo of a paratrooper makes it look like he’s surfing an airplane

The angle of this photo of a paratrooper making a jump off a C-130 airplane is so perfect that it makes it seem like the soldier is using the Hercules aircraft as a surfboard of sorts. Obviously, he’s not standing on the plane (it’s just our perspective fooling us, or just me) but man, riding…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 23

The Army’s Testing a Ray Gun to Kill Electronics in Battle

The Army’s M4 assault rifle usually has a singular, deadly purpose: sending 5.56mm chunks of copper at things you don’t like very much. But according to Defense One, the Army is working on an attachment for the M4 that would pretty much turn it into a ray gun. The device, nicknamed ‘Burke’s Pulsar’ after its…

Tech News Chris Mills Apr 23

I can hear the sound of artillery firing in this photo of a Howitzer

I’m not a gun nut but I love badass machines and this photo of US Marines firing a howling M777 Howitzer is mechanical awesomeness dripping with badassery. I can almost hear the thumping blast of the Howitzer firing from just looking at the picture. It’s, yep, pretty badass. US Marines: Marines with 1st Battalion, 11th…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 22

China Is Turning a Remote Reef Into an Artificial Island With a Runway

A remote archipelago in the South China Sea has come under an extraordinary amount of scrutiny lately. Here, China is building up small reefs and atolls into whole artificial islands—all in hotly disputed territory. In the clearest sign yet of its military intentions, one of those islands now has an airstrip. Satellite images taken on…

Tech News Sarah Zhang Apr 21

Peaceful shot of a MV-22 Osprey overlooking the Sun on top a mountain

The US Marines says this photo shows a MV-22B Osprey preparing to take off on top of a mountain in New Mexico. I think the picture is fantastic, the rear shot makes it look like the Osprey is being contemplative and its rotors are splitting the Sun at the perfect angle. Everything almost looks peaceful.…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 21

US Marines leaving a Super Stallion helicopter looks like a movie scene

Yup, real life is cooler than the movies. Especially when that life is of a US Marine. Here are five Marines walking away from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter in the desert in a training exercise. It looks more badass and perfectly picturesque than any still from a Hollywood military movie. The US Marines write:…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 20

Watching fighter jets burn through the night is pure awesome

I can pretty much watch these fighter jets rip through the runway at night forever. I mean, what is more awesome than seeing city lights blur and afterburners shoot out fiery power? This footage comes from The Aviationist and includes all kind of fighter jets burning rubber at the Nellis Air Force Base near Las…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 16

Slow motion video of firing a RPG shows the massive back blast off

Here’s footage from Vickers Tactical showing what firing a RPG-7 looks like in slow motion. It’s like a rocket launch, only turned horizontal. The back blast off is so huge that it might be just as bad to stand directly behind the RPG as it would be to stand it front of it. Okay, maybe…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 13

The Army’s Developing a Crash Test Dummy to Measure Explosive Shockwaves

The automotive industry has developed some of the most sophisticated crash test dummies in the world for testing and improving a vehicle’s ability to protect its passengers in the event of an accident. However, when that vehicle is designed to protect its passengers from explosions, the U.S. Military decided it needed a crash test dummy…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Apr 13

Awesome photo of the V-22 Osprey at night makes it look so eerie

Man, this is such a cool shot of the awesome tilt-rotor aircraft, the V-22 Osprey. The crazy flying machine is on a US Navy ship at night and the way it’s illuminated and glowing in the dark makes me think it’s about to dive into some sort of dark underworld mission inspired from The Grid…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 10

Crazy angle of a US Navy helicopter on a guided-missile cruiser

The horizon in this picture is totally straight and normal but the helicopter and the USS Anzio ship are, well, totally angled and not. That makes for a really cool picture that makes it look like the world is bent all out of order. But it’s just another day in the life of the US…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 9

This photo of flying F-16s looks so perfect I can’t believe it’s real

What a perfect picture. The timing is perfect, the angle is perfect, the sky is perfect, the F-16 Fighting Falcons are perfect. I mean, the photo is so perfect that it almost doesn’t feel real. Like they’ve been CGI’d to look like that. Or that they’re toy models strung in the air. But nope, they’re…

Sploid Casey Chan Apr 6

Government Report: Military Drone Pilots Don’t Get Enough Training

This Rural County Is Getting Rich Manufacturing Drones for the Military

BAE’s New Goggles Roll Together Night Vision and Thermal Imaging

What It Feels Like to Shoot With the Military’s Experimental Smart Scope

Watch DARPA’s Scary Self-Guided Bullets Swerve to Hit Moving Objects

Bold profile photo of the F-35 makes it look like a future space fighter

Paratroopers fill the sky in awesome photo

Awesome video shows unmanned X-47B drone refueling in the air

Cool photo of a paratrooper makes it look like he’s surfing an airplane

The Army’s Testing a Ray Gun to Kill Electronics in Battle

I can hear the sound of artillery firing in this photo of a Howitzer

China Is Turning a Remote Reef Into an Artificial Island With a Runway

Peaceful shot of a MV-22 Osprey overlooking the Sun on top a mountain

US Marines leaving a Super Stallion helicopter looks like a movie scene

Watching fighter jets burn through the night is pure awesome

Slow motion video of firing a RPG shows the massive back blast off

The Army’s Developing a Crash Test Dummy to Measure Explosive Shockwaves

Awesome photo of the V-22 Osprey at night makes it look so eerie

Crazy angle of a US Navy helicopter on a guided-missile cruiser

This photo of flying F-16s looks so perfect I can’t believe it’s real

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