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- noah shachtman (Wired)
Words: drone, weapons, military, laser, army
Topics: WIRED Magazine, Afghanistan, United States, Iraq, The Pentagon
- allison klein (The Washington Post)
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Topics: Iraq, United States, Afghanistan, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Georgia
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Articles Written by: DAVID HAMBLING
As National Defense magazine reports, the difficult part is integrating the electronics with the lens. The process for dealing with this sounds like magic: the device assembles itself. Although they look like a fine white powder, each of the individual ...
From DAVID HAMBLING,
Wired,
23 Nov 2009
Making footage shareable and searchable online has sparked a revolution in the cute animals, stupid human, and delicious tamale communities. New software just might mean a similar upgrade for military video intelligence: think of it as a real-time ...
From DAVID HAMBLING,
Wired,
20 Nov 2009
The American weapon, known officially as the Active Denial System (pictured, above), heats the target’s skin with short microwaves. These only penetrate to about 1/64 of an inch. That’s enough to be extremely painful but (generally) harmless. In ...
From DAVID HAMBLING,
Wired,
13 Nov 2009
Well-being of the target ?
“According to Burgei, much of the project is focusing on the design of the nose, which is likely to crumple or otherwise disperse the impact force.”
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“News Flash! Military ...
From DAVID HAMBLING,
Wired,
12 Nov 2009
“More of this is true than you would believe,” we’re told, just a few minutes into the movie version of The Men Who Stare At Goats, which opens today. But how many of the film’s outlandish military research projects really happened? Turns out there’s ...
From DAVID HAMBLING,
Wired,
6 Nov 2009
Dropping acid to boost the Pentagon’s psychic powers was just the start. The Men Who Stare At Goats, the upcoming movie based on Jon Ronson’s non-fiction book of the same name, has George Clooney and Jeff Bridges in a bizarre military research project ...
From DAVID HAMBLING,
Wired,
5 Nov 2009
Seven years ago this week, Russian Special Forces killed 120 hostages trapped in a Moscow theater, after pumping the place full of a supposedly “non-lethal” knockout gas. Since then, the Kremlin has only expanded its arsenal of these chemical agents, a ...
From DAVID HAMBLING,
Wired,
2 Nov 2009
The combat helmet is one of the oldest pieces of military equipment still used on the battlefield. Now, after years of upgrades, the U.S. Army is planning what may be the most startling one yet: a helmet-mounted radar to give soldiers an all-round ...
From DAVID HAMBLING,
Wired,
27 Oct 2009
The story of geopolymers is worthy of a Dan Brown novel, with an unlikely cast including a maverick French scientist, a secretive caste of ancient stone masons and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. Along the way, the mystery of the pyramids gets ...
From DAVID HAMBLING,
Wired,
22 Oct 2009
Airbags have saved countless lives over the years in car crashes. Now they’re set to save lives in another way: by stopping rocket propelled grenades.
The RPG has been the guerrilla’s weapon of choice for decades. It’s cheap, easy to use and readily ...
From DAVID HAMBLING,
Wired,
20 Oct 2009
