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A Tour Through the US Army’s Largest Simulated Battlefield

How does the Army train soldiers for guerrilla combat in cities and villages they've never visited? By building replicas of those villages, training a force of fake "insurgents," and hiring actors to populate the scenes. Welcome to Fort Irwin, a 1,000-square mile Army Base where many soldiers train before deploying overseas. Read More >>

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Syria Is Completely Cut Off from the Internet Again

As the country has done before, Syria cut off the Internet for all its citizens yesterday. As in all Internet access has completely disappeared. Google's Transparency Report, which shows traffic to Google, reveals that Syria pretty much no longer exists on the Internet. Read More >>

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America Gussies Up Its Biggest Bunker Buster to Nix Iranian Nukes

The GBU-57A-B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is 5,300 pounds of high explosive wrapped in 30,000 pounds of steel, and designed to obliterate fortified positions and underground bunkers from the inside. Developed by the US Air Force with help from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and built by Boeing, the £300 million MOP project is the largest Bunker Buster bomb in the US arsenal by a good 25,000 pounds; capable of burrowing through 60 feet of reinforced concrete. But the MOP may have met its match in Iran's Fordow nuclear enrichment complex. This 300-centrifuge facility isn't just tucked safely underground, it's buried under an entire mountain. Not even an MOP can punch through that much Earth—yet. Read More >>

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Iran’s New Uranium Production Facility: Because the Rest of the World Wasn’t Pissed Off Enough Yet

Taking a page from the North Korean Handbook for Successful International Diplomacy, Iran has recently announced that it is inaugurating a new addition to its Ardakan Yellowcake Production Plant. The facility will handle the processing of the 60 some-odd tons of uranium excavated from the nearby Saghand uranium mine after the latest international round of unsuccessful nuclear negotiations. Because this isn't going to inflame tensions or anything. Read More >>

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Leaked Paper Reveals Wide Reach of America’s Drone Killings

A leaked top-secret Justice Department white paper reveals the true extent of US drone killings—and lays bare the fact that unmanned aircraft are targeting far more than just Al-Qaeda terrorists. Read More >>

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Anonymous to Save World from Nuclear Apocalypse by Attacking North Korea

Some, one, or all of the members of the Anonymous hacking collective have launched an astonishing new offensive, demanding North Korea gives up its nuclear weapons programme and grants its people full internet access, or face the wrath of the angry nerds as part of Operation Free Korea. Read More >>

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North Korea Is Putting Its Rockets on Standby for Fire After the US Made a Show of Force with Stealth Bombers

According to Reuters, North Korea has readied its rockets to attack US military bases in South Korea and the Pacific Ocean after the US made a show of force by flying stealth bombers over South Korea. Kim Jong Un had apparently signed off an order for North Korea's rockets to be "on standby for fire". Read More >>

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NATO-Commissioned Report Says Killing Hackers is Basically OK

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 >>

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Pentagon: Let’s Threaten Nuke Strike Against Hackers

Most of us are content keeping hackers away with a firewall and decent password. But the Pentagon isn't nearly content, and in a new report, insists we should keep our nuclear arsenal ready for Internet retaliation. What could go wrong? Read More >>

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New British Warship Radar Can Detect a Tennis Ball 15 Miles Away

And not just a tennis ball from 15 miles away, but a tennis ball 15 miles away and moving at three times the speed of sound. That's the sort of sensitivity the poor old radar operators on HMS Iron Duke will have to work with when it returns to service next year. Read More >>

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Watch a Chinese Hacker Launch an Invasion in Real Time

Are the Chinese after everyone? According to a new report, yes. Security firm Mandiant has detailed the exploits of a Chinese cyber espionage group it calls APT1. Mandiant claims to have evidence that APT1 has stolen "hundreds of terabytes of data" from 141 American organisations. Evidence that includes this video of an elite Chinese hacker in action. Read More >>

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Britain’s Lost 450 Military Drones In Just Five Years

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 >>

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Why the Battle of Hoth Was a “Spectacular Military Fiasco” For the Empire

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 >>

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Did Bing Maps Capture a Top Secret U.S. Drone Base in Saudi Arabia?

This past week, reports have come out about a top secret US drone base hidden inside Saudi Arabia. The base was built two years ago, had been used for dozens of drone attacks in Yemen, and remained hidden until it was revealed this week. Now, Bing Maps may have found it. Satellite images show a mysterious airfield base in Saudi Arabia that could very well be the same secret US drone base. Read More >>

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Iran Shows Decoded Video from Captured American Drone

If this is what it looks like, this is bad for everyone who isn't Iran: after claiming the capture of a downed, super-advanced American drone in 2011, we now have what looks like decoded video straight from its brain. Read More >>