It may sound like sci-fi, but lasers are definitely the future of warfare. As are drones. So what could be better than to see them go up against each other in a blaze of explosive glory? Looks like in the rock-paper-scissors game of modern combat, laser beats drone. Read More >>

Taken in November of 1918, these two photos show the inside of the UB-110 German submarine. The valves were used to control the submarine and the reverse image is of four torpedo tubes used against a merchant ship in July 1918. Soon after the attack the submarine sunk and later was salvaged, but scrapped. Read More >>

There's nothing like a little Photoshop touch-up to make your navy look like more toned, suppled, and fearsome than it ever really could be. First Iran used a little editing magic to put its jets "in the air" and now North Korea is getting in on the fun as well. A recent glamour shot of the nation's recent hovercraft exercise shows a couple of its models looking suspiciously similar. Read More >>

The SAS, famous for their ability to storm embassies and produce crappy writers with equal ferocity, apparently needs bigger bullets. According to the Daily Mail, a report on SAS operations in Afghanistan claims that the 5.56 NATO-standard round is too lightweight for the SAS, and they need something bigger, preferably with an extra testicle and more chest-hair for good measure. Read More >>

Cyber-warfare is all well and civilised when it's confined to a tit-for-tat hacking of banks, but it's got the potential to spiral out of control real fast. To try and prevent that, and save the world from a hacked-WoW-account-induced apocalypse, NATO's comissioned a set of international laws to try and make cyber-warfare more...civilised. Read More >>

You may remember Cody Wilson from our previous coverage of his group's attempts to 3-D-print parts for AR-15 assault rifles. Well, in a slightly confusing move for someone whose aim is to stick it to the man, he's gone and and acquired a federal firearms license. Read More >>

If you've been using a knife to cut birthday cake this whole time, you've been doing it all wrong. When the US Navy cuts a cake, it does it properly — using a digger. Read More >>

According to the Royal Navy, HMS Lancaster "is in the midst of intensive training, readying herself and her ship's company for a deployment in 2013". If this bit of parking is anything to go by, though, they'll be needing the L plates for a bit longer -- while docking at Canary Wharf, the folks in charge managed to crash the £120 million vessel into the dock with a rather resounding crash. Oops. [YouTube via Think Defence] Read More >>

Boston Dynamic's Big Dog was already one of the most advanced — and terrifying! — robots on the planet. Well, it just got scarier, because now it can accurately throw cinder blocks at you while on the march. Read More >>

Our poor Ministry of Defence. Not only is it laying off troops left and right, but now it's being accused on sitting on literally billions of pound's worth of unused equipment by Parliamentary bean-counters. Read More >>

Dubbed the P.1HH HammerHead, this UAV is the result of a collaboration between Piaggio Aero and Selex ES based on the P-180 Avanti II, a twin-engine turboprop. The Avanti II is primarily utilised as a business jet with a 1400 NM range, though a "Special Mission" piloted derivative is also available for both emergency response and military operations. Read More >>

The times when the British Navy ruled the seven seas, killing pirates and upstart colonials is, sadly, gone; that doesn't mean, though, that we can't build impressive little ships to sail around in. The newest and greatest are the two Queen Elizabeth-class carriers, 65,000 tonne supercarriers currently under construction, right here in the not-so-sunny United Kingdom. Read More >>

Drones are the big thing in warfare at the moment, and they're already in use by the British military across both Afghanistan and Iraq -- eyes, ears, and killers in the sky. Unfortunately they keep getting busted, shot down, or just plain lost, and we've apparently gone through around 450 of the things in just five years. Read More >>

With all the talk of Death Stars, X-Wings, and other Star Wars technologies, there's one thing we don't want to see made a reality -- truly crummy battle strategies. The Empire just sucked as a military force, and here's why. Read More >>

You've probably heard about the magical visualisation system in the F-35, the fabled Electro Optical Distributed Aperture System (or DAS) that feeds all kinds of data to pilots using demon helmets. Now it just got a new feature that makes it indistinguishable from a video game: hostile ground fire detection. Check out this cool video. Read More >>