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This Is What It Looks Like When Fighters Fly Directly At You in Anger [Image Cache]
For much of the world, the Falklands War seems like a historical blip—but not if you were part of this insanely daring (or insane) attack against the HMS Broadsword, where two A-4 Skyhawks made a shockingly low run.More »
This Insanely-Detailed Model Used to Plot Bin Laden's Death Took Six Weeks to Build [Osama Bin Laden]
This is the once-classified model of Osama Bin Laden's compound—the one used to plan the Navy SEAL raid against the terrorist leader. From a distance, this model could be a piece you'd see in a museum, but in the details, you'll see the painstaking work that went into this tool which helped...
How a Single Bolt Sidelined a Submarine for Three Months [Submarines]
If you heard an ominous sound coming from your car's engine, what would you do? Most people probably wouldn't continue to gun the engine, trying different gears until the problem went away. But if you were the crew of the guided missile-equipped USS Georgia and you heard some clunking coming from...
The New Do-It-All Airbus Tanker Transport Will Keep the RAF Flying High [Video]
As the Royal Air Force's fleet of heavy transport and tanker jets come to the end of their operational service lives, the RAF is faced with replacing a lot of planes. Luckily, the new Airbus A330 Multi Role Tanker Transport is a union jack of all trades.More »
The Navy's Super Expensive New Boat Gets a Big Fat F- [War]
The Littoral combat ship system is the F-22 of the skies. It can't detect mines, it's literally (litorally?) dissolving into the ocean, and now, upon inspection, has completely failed every test of seaworthiness. Cost to you? Well over $600 million.More »
Hot Missile Porn: Hawaiian ICBM Blowed the Hell Up [Video]
American missile defense often fails spectacularly—but in one of these occasional interception wins, it looks pretty spectacular. Enjoy the slow motion flames and fanfare while it lasts, courtesy of the Navy's newest toy.More »
ASTAMIDS Fly-By Mine Detectors Save US Lives and Limbs [Monster Machines]
IEDs are far and away the greatest threat to our armed forces in Afghanistan, having killed nearly 700 soldiers since 2001 and accounting for roughly half of all US troop deaths in the region since 2008. The newly developed ASTAMIDS system aims to find these booby traps before our ground forces d...
Sat Photos May Show Iran Hiding Nuke Gear [Military]
To the naked eye, the photo above doesn't seem to show anything more than a couple of bland houses against a deary landscape. But a prominent nuclear-weapons researcher thinks it might display the concealment of Iran's nuclear program. All this over a few water stains.[top]More »
Why Building the Death Star Is a Bad Investment [Video]
I wish to address the most important policy question of the millenium: should we build a Death Star?More »
London's Rooftop Missile Sites Could Have Been Designed by Tony Stark [Video]
Those surface-to-air missile batteries that are being installed around Olympic Stadium must have been invented by Stark Industries. Each high-speed missile houses a trio of smaller projectiles—like a troika doll of fiery, explosive death.More »
