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China Launched and Landed a Secret Reusable Spacecraft While You Weren’t Looking

In recent days, China has quietly launched a secret reusable spacecraft, left it in orbit for two days and safely landed it back on Earth. And although the spacecraft is top secret—we’re not even privy to its design—there are some things that China apparently wants the world to know about it. According to Xinhua, China’s…

Tech News Jody Serrano Sep 7

Report: Here’s How Tom DeLonge’s UFO Research Group Got Those ‘Alien Alloys’

To the Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTSA), the UFO research organization founded by former Blink 182 star Tom DeLonge, entered into a contract with the U.S. Army earlier this year to have the military vet exotic technologies supposedly in its possession—including “samples of of mechanical and EM sensitive metamaterial.” Those are the much-ballyhooed…

Tech News Tom McKay Nov 15

Uh… The Army Just Contracted With Tom DeLonge’s UFO Group to Study Those ‘Alien Alloys’

To the Stars Academy of Arts and Sciences (TTSA)—the UFO research organization founded by former Blink 182 star Tom DeLonge—has struck a research deal with the U.S. Army filled with eye-popping references to exotic technologies. TTSA, whose membership includes former Lockheed Martin Skunk Works exec Steve Justice and former Department of Defense Advanced Aerospace Threat…

Tech News Tom McKay Oct 18

Elon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan’s Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $5 Million

Last year, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk went on YouTube host Joe Rogan’s show and smoked some weed. That was unfortunate, because SpaceX happens to be a U.S. military contractor with security clearances, and the U.S. government does not like marijuana—and in this instance, it disliked it so much it spent $5 million to…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay Oct 16

Naruto Run! Some Guy Who’s Probably Going to Get Himself Killed Is the First ‘Storm Area 51’ Meme

The original “Storm Area 51″ Facebook invitation encouraged people to break into the secret government facility by doing a Naruto run. And now that the event is here (it’s supposed to happen today), it looks like some people are taking the instructions literally. Some random guy was seen on local TV news in Las Vegas…

Tech News Matt Novak Sep 20

The Air Force’s New Robot Can Fly Any Plane and Turn It Into an Autonomous Drone

Unmanned aircraft are the future of military aviation, minimizing the risks to human pilots during dangerous missions and hazardous operations. Autonomous planes have already been put into service but the US Air Force is now testing a robot that can pilot the military’s existing fleet of aircraft, making any plane autonomous with minimal modifications. https://gizmodo.com/were-going-to-mistake-the-drones-of-the-future-for-anno-1835913463…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Aug 22

Air Force Says It Has Successfully Shot Down Multiple Missiles Using a Laser Prototype

The U.S. Air Force announced on Friday that it had successfully used a ground-based surrogate for its laser weapons project, the Self-Protect High-Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD), to shoot down multiple air-launched missiles during a test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The system is designed to eventually be mounted on aircraft, where it…

Tech News Tom McKay May 5

SpaceX Wraps Up 2018 With First National Security Launch for U.S. Government

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its first national security payload for the U.S. government (specifically the Air Force) on Sunday, delivering a roughly $500 million GPS satellite constructed by Lockheed Martin into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral at 8:51 a.m. ET, the Guardian reported. The launch itself was delayed several times over…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay Dec 23

SpaceX Wins $130 Million Falcon Heavy Contract to Launch Classified USAF Satellite in 2020

SpaceX, the Elon Musk-helmed company which earlier this year saw its partially reusable Falcon Heavy officially become the most powerful rocket in the world, has won its first contract to use that system to deliver a classified payload. Per the Verge, the Air Force announced this week the $130 million contract to deliver its AFSPC-52…

Space & Spaceflight Tom McKay Jun 23

The Air Force Would Appreciate Some Help Finding a Box of Grenades That Fell Off a Truck

Hello! Did you happen to be walking down a gravel road in or near Mountrail County, North Dakota and find a big ol’ crate of explosive grenade rounds? The US Air Force meant to fire those somewhere else, and would really like it if you return them. According to the Washington Post, the 91st Missile…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay May 15

US Air Force Chief Warns of Space War ‘in a Matter of Years’

Speaking to an audience of active-duty airmen, US Air Force Chief of Staff General David L. Goldfein predicted it’ll only be a “matter of years” before American forces find themselves “fighting from space.” To prepare for this grim possibility, he said the Air Force needs new tools and a new approach to training leaders. Oh,…

Space & Spaceflight George Dvorsky Feb 26

Watch the US Military Launch a Super Secret Spy Satellite Into Space

The NROL-42 spy satellite was launched atop an Atlas V rocket from California’s Vandenberg Air Force Base early on Sunday morning, Eastern time. And while we don’t know anything about the tech specs or what it will be spying on, it’s a safe bet to say that it’s part of the most advanced spying apparatus…

Space & Spaceflight Matt Novak Sep 25

Super Secret US Air Force Spaceplane Is Going Back Into Orbit This Week

The US Air Force’s secretive X-37B spaceplane returned to Earth back in May after a mysterious two years in orbit. Nobody knows what it was doing up there, since the mission is highly classified, but it’s heading back into orbit in just a couple of days. And this time it’s getting a little help from…

Space & Spaceflight Matt Novak Sep 5

How Nuke-Sniffing Air Force Planes Are Hunting for North Korea’s H-Bomb

Late last night, North Korea said it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, triggering a mini, human-made earthquake near the test site and causing the UN Security Council to call an emergency meeting. Hydrogen bombs are even more destructive than atomic bombs, so it’s very scary—but experts think North Korea’s bluffing. How can we make sure?…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin Jan 6

Painful Failure for First Launch of U.S. Air Force Rocket from Hawaii

During its first trial launch tonight, the U.S. Air Force’s experimental Super Strypi did not make it to space. Instead, it seems to have suffered a ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’ somewhere over Hawaii, which in normal-people speak means the $45 million rocket blew up. The rocket launched around 2245 EST this evening. From the looks ofthis…

Space & Spaceflight Chris Mills Nov 4

Intimidating head on view of an F-16

I wouldn’t want to stand in front of a fighter jet like this or see one in my rear view for fear of soiling my pants. The F-16 is just on the ground and undergoing pre-flight inspection and it still has such a commanding presence. Killer machine birds. SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us…

Sploid Casey Chan Jun 15

US Air Force F-16 Thunderbirds don’t even look like planes in this photo

I never get sick of photos of the USAF Thunderbirds doing their thing because they make real life look way cooler than any sort of movie or video game or fake effects. This picture of four Thunderbirds doing the “Diamond Bottom Up Pass maneuver” is taken at such an angle that they don’t even look…

Sploid Casey Chan May 5

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

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

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China Launched and Landed a Secret Reusable Spacecraft While You Weren’t Looking

Report: Here’s How Tom DeLonge’s UFO Research Group Got Those ‘Alien Alloys’

Uh… The Army Just Contracted With Tom DeLonge’s UFO Group to Study Those ‘Alien Alloys’

Elon Musk Smoking Joe Rogan’s Weed Somehow Ended Up Costing Taxpayers $5 Million

Naruto Run! Some Guy Who’s Probably Going to Get Himself Killed Is the First ‘Storm Area 51’ Meme

The Air Force’s New Robot Can Fly Any Plane and Turn It Into an Autonomous Drone

Air Force Says It Has Successfully Shot Down Multiple Missiles Using a Laser Prototype

SpaceX Wraps Up 2018 With First National Security Launch for U.S. Government

SpaceX Wins $130 Million Falcon Heavy Contract to Launch Classified USAF Satellite in 2020

The Air Force Would Appreciate Some Help Finding a Box of Grenades That Fell Off a Truck

US Air Force Chief Warns of Space War ‘in a Matter of Years’

Watch the US Military Launch a Super Secret Spy Satellite Into Space

Super Secret US Air Force Spaceplane Is Going Back Into Orbit This Week

How Nuke-Sniffing Air Force Planes Are Hunting for North Korea’s H-Bomb

Painful Failure for First Launch of U.S. Air Force Rocket from Hawaii

Intimidating head on view of an F-16

US Air Force F-16 Thunderbirds don’t even look like planes in this photo

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

Paratroopers fill the sky in awesome photo

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

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