Military
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Say Goodbye to Lawn Gnomes and Flamingos…<br>You Can Now Buy Full-Size Inflatable Tanks
Some of you probably live in a neighborhood that’s got a small population of lawn gnomes or a colony of flamingos. The only message that those ridiculous, overdone pieces of plastic and resin are going to send your neighbors is that you’re...
DARPA’s Bullet of the Future Follows Its Targets
Welcome to the future, kids. DARPA has just released video of its first actual test of EXACT (Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordinance) 50 caliber bullet. Big deal, right? Read that acronym again. Mainly the part that says ‘Tasked Ordinance’....
Dog Poop Transmitter Used By Millitary in Vietnam!
You’re walking with your buddy in the woods and one of you steps in what you thought was a dog mine only it cracks instead of squishes. During the Vietnam War, what looked like dog dookie could possibly be an Air Force homing beacon in...
Skynet’s Future Soldiers on Display at Fort Benning
Over a weekend at Fort Benning, human inventors of automated robotic war machines showed off the devices that Skynet will probably use against us when it goes live. Sorry ’bout your first rule, Asimov. [Computer World]
Robot Learns to Throw…Humanity Flinches!
Anyone who’s been following the evolution of Boston Dynamics has been creeped out at one point by their BigDog robot. BigDog is a quadraped robot that has learned a lot of tricks since it was a terrifying little puppy of a machine. It...
Real Cloak of Invisibility? Company Develops Stealth Material!
Harry Potter had one. Frodo Baggins had one. Even Max from Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place had one. In fact, just about every single geek on the planet at some point in their life has probably hypothesized about how cool it would...
Mission Accomplished: WWII Carrier Pigeon Finally Delivers Message
We all watch movies like National Treasure and secretly hope that something cool like that might actually be out there in the world or even better that it might, out of some cosmic chance, actually happen to us. David Martin of England had...
DARPA Robot Navigates Obstacles – Strolls Into Your Nightmares!
Remember that weird and completely creepy mule-like, self-stablizing robot that’s been swimming around the internet for a while now called the BigDog from Boston Dynamics? Well BigDog just got out-weirded and out-creeped by DARPA’s newest...
South Korea’s Deadly New Border Weapon!
Because there’s not enough tension already in North and South Korea, a company has now developed what’s being hailed as a ‘super gun’ to help keep an eyeball on the demilitarized zone between the Hatfield/McCoy-style rivalry amongst the...
“Transformers! Roll Out!” Life-Saving, Wind-Powered Landmine Destroyer!
The Mine Kafon (teaser) from Callum Cooper on Vimeo. Looking like a cross between a Transformer sea anemone robot and a giant 1960s-styled light fixture in some swank space-lounge of that era, this strange-looking object is set to save a...
Military Weaponizes Lightning! Hell Yeah!
Here’s your ‘Hell Yeah!’ moment of the week! If you enjoy phrases like “a device that shoots laser bolts” or “50 billion watts of optical power” you may want to continue reading about how the military is weaponizing lightning with a device...
Possible UFO activity on the freeway?
Twitter began buzzing that something straight out of a UFO conspiracy film was taking place late at night on a freeway in Washington D.C. Pictures were being uploaded and retweeted of a large flatbed truck, a military-looking escort and...
Video: The Navy Invented a Flying Segway in 1955
Along with the jet packs we were supposed to be sporting by now and the hover cars easing our commute was the military’s Flying Platform. In 1955 a film was shot showing one of the airborne Seqway-like contraptions in operation. Originally...
Navy Gives the OK to Install Laser Weapons
Oh hell yeah. The most powerful Naval force in the history of the world is about to add the most coveted weapon in science fiction. Laser cannons. Although they won’t fire pulse blasts that explode enemy targets, the weaponized lasers can...
UK Government Might Put a Missile Launcher on Your Roof this Summer
In many apartment buildings throughout big cities around the world, roof access is off limits. But only in London this summer, will it be because they might be firing a missile off of it to destroy an airborne terrorist attack. The British...
[Video] Spy Plane or UFO? Russian Pro-Democracy Protesters Spot Silent Flying Craft
[UFO Casebook]
Google Founders Offer to Save Historic Hangar One if They Can Store Private Jets Fleet There
As of now NASA’s historic Hangar One will be destroyed. Victim of a budget cut. One of the largest free standing structures in the world and historic landmark in the aviation history of this country will be completely demolished and lost...
Torn-Out Tongue, Shattered Skull Peppers 1950’s Radioactive Russian Mystery
A few friends go hiking in the Russian wilderness on an early February night in 1959. The Ural Mountain area is desolate, but not unmanageable for these nine veteran hikers. On a larger scale, the Soviet Union continues to ascend in global...
Rocket Launchers, Contrails, Batman: The Best Mystery Missile Conspiracy Theories
It left a vapor trail as it soared into the sky but the questions have lingered far longer as we ponder “what was that California mystery missle after all?” Predictably, conspiracy theories abound: • We launched an ICBM from a...
Military Pay $9 Million To Develop Flying Humvee
Finally, jerks of 2024, you know what car you’ll be driving. DARPA has awarded $9 million in contracts to develop a flying war time vehicle that can drop supplies and engaged in limited air to ground combat. [LA Times]
Has The Air Force Landed Their Top Secret Space Plane?
Conspiracy nuts, on your mark! The top-secret X-37B space plane has already gone missing once this year (proving the craft to be far more agile than amateur military tech experts predicted) and now it has again disappeared. Many now...
Weapon Maker Marks Successful Military Laser Test With Awesome Quote
Military had a laser. It tried to shoot down a moving drone. It worked. Lasers are awesome. What else is awesome? This quote: Mike Booen of Raytheon gave USA Today the money quote for the day: “The targets came in over the ocean, and it...
Nick Fury’s Dreams Come True, Army Building Real SHIELD Helicarrier
All the best tech comes from Sci Fi and comic books, fact. The United States Army has ordered a huge hybrid airship longer than a football field to watch over battlefields in Afghanistan by the end of 2011, according to the airship’s...
Pentagon Releases Details On LSD, Mind Control Experiments
Not exactly Men Who Stare At Goats, but here is some recently FOIA’d info about how the Pentagon oversaw experiments into forced narcotics dosing and mind control, all in an effort to get an edge on the godless communists in the Cold War....
Top Secret Hypersonic Air Force Glider Goes Missing Minutes After First Test Flight
In case you were tired of running down all the conspiracy angles for the Air Forces’ new X-37B shuttle, here is a fresh new piece of AF intrigue for you to chew on. The Air Force’s Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2—designed to attack...
Military Throws Hat Over The Wall For Flying Car
Want to know one way to not get blown up by Improvised Explosive Devices? Fly around in a totally sweet flying car! The Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has cleared the Transformer (TX) program for takeoff. If it flies, by 2015...
Top Secret Air Force Space Plane Launches, Conspiracy Theorists Start Your Engines!
A space plane designed to demonstrate the sustainability of a reusable, military-operated vehicle designed to orbit the earth will launch soon from Cape Canaveral, Florida. What happens after that is not of your GD business. But whether...