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New 'One-Shot' Rifle Sight Could Make Snipers Deadlier Than Ever
Snipers are already one of the more deadly anti-personnel assets the U.S. military has, but somehow, they're going to get deadlier. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency just awarded a $6...
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The Army Needs To Brace For Change As The Pentagon Heads To The Pacific
With the war in Afghanistan winding down, the U.S. Army’s senior leadership has started taking deliberate steps to ensure the service’s viability in future conflicts, particularly those in the Pacific...
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Firefights Like This Are Why US Troops Never Leave Home Without A 'SAW'
Everyone carries stuff with them to work. Some of it we can forget and go without; other things like a cellphone, we go back for, because we just can't go through the day without it. What troops on...
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The Army Is Turning A Generation Of Young Wives Into Full Time Caregivers
Army wives stepped forward Tuesday at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual conference to explain the continued struggle they face in rehabilitating their spouses injured in war and the challenges...
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Sudan Threatens Retaliation Over Alleged Israeli Air Strike
Sudan has warned that it has the right to retaliate after accusing Israel of carrying out an air strike on an arms factory, causing a huge explosion that killed two people. Ahmed Belal Osman, the...
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Four Chinese Ships Have Deliberately Entered Japan's Territorial Waters...
Four Chinese government ships entered territorial waters around disputed Tokyo-controlled islands early Thursday, the Japanese coastguard said, sparking a strong protest from Japan. Three maritime...
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South Korea Says The North Is Preparing A Huge Nuclear Weapons Test
North Korea has kept up preparations for a new nuclear test after having carried out previous launches in 2006 and 2009, South Korea's Defense Minister Kim Kwan-Jin told a news conference Wednesday....
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The Boeing Mach-5 Waverider Is Getting One More Shot At Unlocking Scramjet...
When DARPA, the Air Force, NASA, Boeing, and Pratt & Whitney got together to unscramble the the riddle behind scramjet technology, it's unlikely they ever considered failure, until now. The five...
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The 'Gangster-Jihadists' Who Run Northern Mali Built Their Empire Off Ransom...
The Islamists that now control northern Mali built a lucrative economy on ransom payments from the West and a booming drug trade, according to a special report by David Lewis and Adama Diarra of...
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New Reports Show The US Paying Dozens Of Afghan Contractors Loyal To The Taliban
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has found dozens of contractors for the U.S. that are actively supporting the Afghan insurgency, Neil Gordon of the Project On...
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The Military Is Losing More Troops To Suicide Than Combat
A startling statistic was released by the Army on Friday: the number of soldiers who have committed suicide between January 1 and September 30 is 247, while the number killed in combat is 222. In...
View ArticleNew License Plate Covers Block Those Orwellian Red Light Cameras
Everyone's experienced the scare of crossing beneath a yellow light the moment it turns red. Was there a camera? Better hope not — unless you have 'nophoto' technology on your license plate. The...
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A Mathematician Hacked Into Google Because He Thought It Was Part Of A Job...
Zachary Harris didn't think he was cut out for the job, but when Google emailed him an offer he figured he'd give it a wack anyway. Or a hack, rather. Kim Zetter of Wired reports that a strange email...
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UN To Investigate Civilian Deaths From US Drone Strikes
The United Nations is to set up a dedicated investigations unit in Geneva early next year to examine the legality of drone attacks in cases where civilians are killed in so-called "targeted"...
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NYU Scientists Are Seriously Working On A Tractor Beam
A couple New York University researchers just published a paper about the possibility of building a real-life, no joke tractor beam. Yes, like in Star Wars, but no, not like in Star Wars. Not so...
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Slain Lebanese Police Chief Gave A Prophetic Assessment Of The Syrian Civil War
Gen. Wissam al-Hassan, the head of Lebanon’s national police intelligence unit who was killed in a car bombing last week, gave The Washington Post a grim and prophetic assessment of the Syrian civil...
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The Air Force Discharged This Woman For Getting Pregnant And Now Wants Its...
CNN reported today that a single woman who was discharged from the Air Force and asked to pay back her $92,000 ROTC scholarship after she revealed she was pregnant is fighting her dismissal. Rebecca...
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The USS Gerald Ford Is The Single Most Expensive Piece Of Military Hardware...
The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive weapon ever created and will run about $11.5 billion, with three ships costing about $40.2 billion. Even given these generous estimates, the Navy figures...
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Only In NYC Could We Be Offered A $2,100 Apartment Still Rigged With A Grow...
We were in Harlem, looking for an apartment, when we ran headlong into evidence of the New York City drug game. The broker met up with us outside an apartment complex. He had a trainee with him. The...
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Cyber-War Is Raging And The Pentagon Has Prepared For An Electronic Pearl Harbor
Senior Army officials said Tuesday that it is working to develop the service’s offensive cyber warfare capabilities to go along with its cyber security capabilities to allow soldier to launch as well...
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