The budget cuts are coming home to roost, folks: 220 of the British Army's finest infantry soldiers spent Tuesday in the Land Warfare Centre 'training' by having a massive LAN battle. Read More >>
We've all seen the destruction that tsunamis can cause. It doesn't play around. But back in 1944, the US military wanted to play around with tsunamis in hope of creating a man made tsunami bomb—basically setting off 10 large blasts in the ocean to create a 33-foot tsunami that would pulverise and drown a city. Read More >>
It's been 114 years since H.G. Wells first described the nefarious "Heat Ray" in The War of the Worlds. And finally—finally—the US military is on the cusp of deploying a mobile high energy weapon of its very own. Luckily, ours is designed to fry incoming artillery and mortar threats, not the whole of a freshly-conquered civilisation. Read More >>
Suicides are very sad but also, possibly, preventable and hopefully, treatable. The US Army is banking that it can develop a nasal spray that could prevent suicidal thoughts from ever occurring, and it's spending the next few years trying to combat suicide in soldiers with science. Read More >>
Starting next month, US soldiers in Afghanistan will be wearing a Soldier Body Unit, a 1kg pack with four blast sensors, to collect data on concussions and traumatic brain injuries. The data the soldiers collect will help us better protect soldiers in the future. Read More >>
It seems 1960s Britain was very different from today. For some strange reason, the British Army thought it'd be a great idea to see what LSD did to its troops, and filmed the whole thing for you to laugh at 49 years' later. Read More >>
Whereas pixillation is usually very successful at obscuring images otherwise unfit to be seen, the US Army is £3 billion in the hole, with its pixellated camo uniform (introduced in 2004) being dubbed a colossal mistake. Read More >>
Featured comment by warriorscot:
"The green and brown US marine version is pretty ok. Its the choice of colour that really makes the US Army stuff so useless." More »
America is supposed to wind down its war in Afghanistan by 2014. But U.S. forces may continue to track Afghans for years after the conflict is officially done. Palm-sized sensors, developed for the American military, will remain littered across the Afghan countryside -- detecting anyone who moves nearby and reporting their locations back to a remote headquarters. Some of these surveillance tools could be buried in the ground, all-but-unnoticeable by passersby. Others might be disguised as rocks, with wafer-sized, solar-rechargeable batteries that could enable the sensors to operate for perhaps as long as two decades, if their makers are to be believed. Read More >>
Featured comment by tro11:
"Not if the rock is planted by British agents:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-spy-russians?intcmp=239" More »
Swapping ammo types at the press of a button has been a feature of FPS games for years but has never actually made it into real combat. But the US Army thinks that with recent advances in computerised high-speed sorting, flipping between warheads could become nearly automatic. Read More >>
All the military funding in the world won't be able buy fuel when the world's oil supplies are depleted. So the U.S. Army has commissioned a new hybrid electric tank that's not unlike a war-friendly version of the Prius. Read More >>
The US Army's IFAK—Individual First Aid Kit—used to be built into a SAW ammo pouch. This was a terrible solution as the pouch would continually get caught on other equipment—not what you want in a fire-fight. But no longer! The US military has just overhauled this life-saving accessory. Read More >>
Featured comment by Magic Robot:
"Yeah... except for the squinty eyed, boney legged, scaley skinned birdS, often seen in most town centres around chucking out time. And people complain..." More »
Photographer Claire Felicie's Marked project shows the faces of soldiers before, during and after war. The differences are slight but undeniable. Skin is weathered, wrinkles are deeper and eyes are sadder. See for yourself. Read More >>
Featured comment by Josh:
"That's the very nature of photography though, it represents one snapshot in time - sometimes that makes it amazing and other times you get this.
..." More »
After Anonymous had its little on-again, off-again dealings with the Zeta drug cartel, the Mexican army has stepped in to cut the drug lords off-the-air. The Zetas were apparently running their own encrypted communications network -- not your average run of the mill junkies-come-dealers that's for sure. Read More >>
Featured comment by Sam Gibbs:
"That was the previous action taken by the Mexican Navy as mentioned above. This one was the Mexican Army and yes, another secure communications networ..." More »
The military can't beat IEDs. For every way we have of jamming or avoiding them, militants find another crafty way to blow people up. So why not just give and sacrifice remote controlled vehicles? That might be the plan. Read More >>
Featured comment by Sam Gibbs:
"What the US army develops we can often take advantage of. We're suffering just as much from IEDs as the Americans." More »
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