Why doesn’t the US military have anything even remotely as cool as this?
DARPA’s headless Cheetah robot can run fast
Here’s a video of a headless robot running over 18 mile and hour. Just a reminder, the average running speed of a healthy person is around 10 miles and hour.
UFOs Invades Hollywood
Tuesday night in Hollywood there was mass hysteria over what some people thought was a rash of UFO sightings. Actually, it was just the Navy Seals skydiving over to the premiere of the new movie, “Act Of Valor” on Sunset Blvd. The P.O.V. visual of Hollywood at night is fantastic!
I love watching parachute jumps, that shit gets my blood pumping!
via Bits and Pieces.
Elite Anti-Terror Police Went After Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom
While last month’s shutdown of Megaupload has been well documented, the finer details of the raid on Kim Dotcom’s mansion have only just been revealed. A new and astonishing report features a house tour and in-depth discussion with Dotcom’s bodyguard. He was confronted by dozens of armed police, some from New Zealand’s elite anti-terrorist force, who also demanded of a nanny: “Do you have any bombs?!”
your tax dollars at work people.
via TorrentFreak.
Unmanned drones to invade U.S. airspace in 2015
It’s been a long time coming, but the U.S. Congress just handed two orders to the Federal Aviation Administration: to upgrade its radar system to GPS and to open up manned airspace to unmanned drones
Armed Military UAVs flying over US soil? why not! It’s not like we have a 100% unequivocal rule against military actions within our borders or anything. How soon until these robotic airplanes are dropping teargas on OWS protestors?
via DVICE.
Marines dancing on a helicopter to a Katy Perry song
some yummy marines over there.
YUMMY MARINES.
www.reddit.com/r/katyperry/comments/ogpvo/nothing_like_a_bunch_of_marines_dancing_on_a/
Video: T-90M Tank Vs Land Rover
no idea what the dude is saying, and you have to skip to the 2 minute mark to actually see the race, but there’s some great gun/tank porn on the build up to that point… I need to get me a couple of these tanks.
The Latest in Terminator Tech
As you can see, the Petman, like the DARPA Dog, can balance itself enough to stay upgright and walking even when someone kicks it. The video shows the robot doing push ups and squats.
spooky and awesome, all at the same time. all it needs is a wireless receiver/transmitter and an automatic rifle, and there we go, Drone soldiers.
via Video: The Latest in Terminator Tech | Defense Tech.
Overscoped
Not sure if you’d be using a scope on that rifle anyways?
www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2011/09/27/raytheon-elcan-specterhr-and-specterdr/
Rider on the Storm
Can you name the only guy to take a super ride through a super cell of a super storm?
This story is too crazy to be untrue:
Landcruiser in Libya with remote control machine gun turret
A BBC News team came across an abandoned Toyota Landcruiser in the Libyian city of Sirte which was outfitted with a remote controlled and fully retractable machine gun turret.
If I were a billionaire dictator, you bet that a remote controlled machine gun car would be on my list of things to have. Too bad it wasn’t even remotely enough to protected him from FREEDOM ™
via The Firearm Blog.
Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other war zones.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the US military’s most important weapons system.
That’s it kids, Skynet has made the first move, and soon the UAVs will be coming to eat you and your kids.
via ARS.
TIL the Tupolev TU-119, a nuclear powered Soviet bomber, could stay in the air as long as its pilots could stand the radiation.
The Tupolev Tu-119 (Tu-95LAL) test plane was a modified Tupolev Tu-95 Soviet bomber aircraft which flew from 1961 to 1965. It was intended to see if a nuclear reactor could be used to power an aircraft. Without the need to refuel, the resulting nuclear aircraft would have greatly extended range compared to conventional designs. The design was analogous to the United States’ earlier Convair X-6.
I can only imagine what the fallout would be if this would have crashed in a populated area. Scary thought!
Special Operators’ Holographic Maps
For the last five years, special operators in Iraq and Afghanistan have been equipped with what at first appear to be flat plastic maps. However, as soon as they want to get to know the details of a village or specific building in that village, the map pops out a 3D hologram of the site, allowing them to completely familiarize themselves with the area and, in some cases, go inside the buildings’ electrical systems.
next up, holographic contacts for your eyes, so you can see in 3d!
via Defense Tech
Ouch: Navy Super Hornet Goes Home in a C-5
Well, it might have been a sad day for Navy fighter jocks and a proud day for Air Force cargo haulers. A Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet became the first U.S. fighter jet ever to be flown home from war inside a cargo plane on Aug. 18.
As you can see above, the poor Super Hornet was stripped down and loaded into an Air Force C-5 Galaxy and flown from Kandahar Afghanistan to NAS North Island in San Diego, Calif., nearly six months after a rough landing left the fighter unable to fly.
via Defense Tech.
a new military ride
The look of that vehicle isn’t the only cool thing about it: it’s also the product of a new approach to manufacturing, which has the potential to reduce the overall process by a factor a five. Rather than the usual contracting model that takes several years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (known as “DARPA”) asked a small company in Arizona, Local Motors, to fulfill the challenge in a little over four months. With only four weeks for planning, Local Motors democratized the process by receiving 162 high quality designs from hundreds of entrepeneurs and spent fourteen weeks building the car. The efficiency of the DARPA challenge reveals the potential impact of crowd-sourcing and small businesses on advanced manufacturing at the Department of Defense.
Night Vision Contact Lenses?
I heard a rumor that the Team guys who busted bin Laden might have been wearing “cat vision” contact lenses that literally give the wearer night vision for a limited time without having to wear the bulky, heavy NVGs.
Now, all I’m finding on this is a mention from Popular Science back in 2004.
“The blink powered night vision contact lenses allow a person to see clearly in low– light environments by enhancing ambient light up to 200 per cent. These lenses use plasma technologies to eliminate the cumbersome and expensive image-intensification tubes used in convention night-vision goggles. The advantages of using the contact lenses above night-vision goggles are 1) full peripheral vision, 2) more comfortable interface, 3) a more cost-effective system, and 4) less disorientation with use.”
While one site says this is a hoax, the entry is seven years old. Seems to me this kind of thing — especially in a time of war — might be doable over that amount of time. And since the Tier 1 guys get things like stealth helicopters that no one had ever seen before, why couldn’t they have night vision contacts?
Cyborg warriors from the future!
via Defense Tech.
Paying Money to Murder: Russian Luxury Yachts Offer Pirate Hunting Cruises
The yachts trawl at a deliberately slow speed, hoping to attract pirates. If attacked, the cruise passengers are ready to respond with heavy machinery: machine guns and grenade and rocket launchers. And if they want to tack on an extra $8.00 a day, passengers can hoist their very own AK-47. Ammo, though, costs an extra $11.50.
I think this would be interesting. Not in a “oh, I’m going to go do that” way, but in a “oh wow, wtf are people thinking” way. Just hope they’re not thinking that the military will come in and save their stupid asses when things go sideways.
via Matador Network.
Pakistan to Return Stealth Helo Tail
The tail of the disabled Navy chopper left behind in the Usama bin Laden raid in Pakistan will be handed back to the United States sometime Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John Kerry announced Monday during a trip to Islamabad.
The senator, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Pakistan since the May 2 raid, also issued a joint statement with Pakistani officials saying the two nations have agreed to work together in any future actions against “high value targets” in Pakistan.
via Defense Tech.
British military planned chicken-powered nukes
During the Cold War, the British Military planned to deploy a series of nuclear landmines to protect them from the Soviets in the event of a retreat from Germany. Problem was, the mines tended to freeze up in the winter, rendering them useless. The solution? Chickens. Lots of chickens.
The only reason to post this? The image of course. Also, a chicken heated nuclear weapon is awesome to think about.
via DVICE.
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