Sea Faring Laser To Be Tested For Small Boat Threats (Pirates, This Is Gonna...
A U.S. Navy plan to test a high-power laser against the small-boat threat to its warships provides the first real opportunity to transition electric lasers from the laboratory to the field, says...
View ArticleHandgun Deaths In US: 10,000/year. Total Lawn Dart Deaths: 3. Lawn Darts Have...
Just a few statistics, in the US, there are over 10,000 deaths a year due to hand guns; there are over 700,000 injuries a year due to handguns, there approximately 90 guns for every 100 U.S citizens....
View ArticleJoint Direct Attack Munition In Iraq
These videos are a good example of the state of the art of warfare. I have to really search for the videos that don’t have heavy metal or Toby Keith music, because then it becomes an exercise in...
View ArticleThe Scutum
Re-enactments Of Roman Formations Polybius describes the Roman Shield in Histories “The Roman shield is a curved outward surface of which measures two and a half feet in width and four feet in length,...
View ArticleSoon Soldiers Will See Through Walls.
“Soldiers can’t leap tall buildings in a single bound, yet. Seeing through walls — that’s a different story. Later this year, American troops fighting in Afghanistan will begin to get gadgets designed...
View ArticleXM-25 To Be Deployed With Special Forces.
The wingnuts over at DefenseTech are reporting that the new proximity programmable fuse gun, the XM-25, is headed into Afghanistan with Special Forces. It has one great trick, which is the user can...
View ArticleViking Shields.
Viking Shields were mostly wood. Literature tells us that Linden wood was used but archeological evidence suggests fur, alder and poplar were used. These did not split and had fibers that resisted...
View ArticleAttack Of The Killer Robots. Part 1. Imagining Future Combat.
On the 13th of June 1943, the world’s first robot weapon began its lethal arc. The Vergeltunswaffen or Vengeance Weapon, or more commonly the V-1 rocket launched off of a ramp and with a...
View ArticleThe Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight.
The gun didn’t work very well. It had to vent air through the barrels to allow the curves flight which in turn cut down muzzle velocity. Hitler took one look at it and asked that it not be developed...
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