The Air Force Is Retiring the Predator–So Why Doesn’t the Army Take It?
On Aug. 14, 2015, the U.S. Air Force disclosed plans to retire the MQ-1 Predator by the end of 2018, according to report by FlightGlobal. The Pentagon has not announced any plans to send the unmanned...
View ArticleEl RPG-7 es un traficante de la muerte
El RPG-7, el lanzador de granadas contracarro propulsadas por un cohete y estabilizadas con aletas, cambió el curso de la guerra cuando apareció en 1961, cautivó la imaginación de los estudios de...
View ArticleThe Rocket Dog of U.S. Special Forces
America’s Special Operations Command will hold a conference in October and it recently put out the call for white papers. SOCOM is looking for cool future tech such as silenced engines, lightweight...
View ArticleAmerica Is at War With Fire
The American West is burning. An unusually hot and dry summer led to widespread drought and turned the forests and plains into kindling. Now massive wildfires rage from California to as far north as...
View ArticleWe Joined Troops Battling Washington’s Wildfires
The air is hard to breath as we walk up the gravel road. Smoke fills the air, obscuring the trees and mountains in the distance. It’s Aug. 25 and we’re about 10 miles south of Loomis, Wash. — one of...
View ArticleCongrats — You Can Now Be a Woman Marine and Shoot Down Enemy Planes
The U.S. Marine Corps is about to finish training its first women Stinger anti-aircraft missile-shooters. Low Altitude Air Defense Gunner’s Course 3-15 at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona will graduate...
View ArticleThis Army Medic Pulled a Bug Out of a Firefighter’s Head
“The other night, we pulled a moth out of some guy’s ear — that was pretty exciting,” Sgt. Annie Parrish says. Parrish is a medic with the Washington Army National Guard. She’s one of more than a...
View ArticleThe American West Is Burning
America’s western states are suffering from one of the worst wildfire seasons in history. The military has mobilized to aid firefighters battling the blaze. We wanted to see it for ourselves. War Is...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army Wanted to Launch T.V. Cameras From Howitzers
American troops suspect enemies are nearby, so they lob an artillery shell. As the round careens toward its target, a T.V. camera with a parachute ejects from the casing and, tada! You now have a...
View ArticleAmerican Commandos Are Fed Up With Waiting for the Army’s New Pistol
America’s special operators are in a bind. The U.S. Army’s standard-issue handgun, the Beretta M-9, is getting old and the Army wants to replace it. But the process is taking forever, and special...
View ArticleU.S. Special Ops Make Friends With War Criminals
“Africa is a challenging place today and one that, if left unattended, is likely to be the birthplace of many more challenges in the future,” Army Secretary John McHugh said recently. Since 9/11, in...
View ArticleLos comandos estadounidenses están cansados de esperar la llegada de una...
Los operadores especiales estadounidenses se encuentran entre la espada y la pared. La pistola reglamentaria en el Ejército de Tierra, la Beretta M-9, se ha quedado anticuada y el Ejército de Tierra...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army Once Dreamed of a Jetpack Future
Despite movies and T.V. shows repeatedly telling us that personal jetpacks are right around the corner, the actual products have been expensive and impractical. But one company once tried to sell the...
View ArticleThe U.S. Army Has More Than a Dozen Spy Planes in South Korea
While a most news focuses on U.S. Air Force spy planes and drones in East Asia, the U.S. Army has more than a dozen aerial spooks in South Korea. This fleet of relatively small planes can hoover up...
View ArticleGrowing Up With Nerve Gas
This article originally appeared at Motherboard. When the VHS tape dispatched to my family by the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program begins to roll, it simply looks, at first, like a...
View ArticleHand-to-Hand Combat Still Matters
Pvt. 1st Class Marcus Jones threw a flurry of punches at his opponent. The two fighters dodged and kicked with speed and precision. Jones is a soldier assigned to a combat support hospital and his...
View ArticleThe Pentagon Just Got Caught Trying to Spin Cadet Concussions
Concussions are terrible and science is only just beginning to understand the long-term negative health effects of these traumatic brain injuries. The damage caused by repeated concussions is a major...
View ArticleAmerica Still Has a Problem With Unexploded Civil War Bombs
Originally published on May 1, 2015. On April 22, members of the U.S. Army’s 707th Explosive Ordinance Disposal Company left their base on a mission to detonate a very unusual object. Construction...
View ArticleGet a Load of the U.S. Army’s New Pop-Up Base Defenses
In video games such as the Command & Conquer and StarCraft series, players defend their bases by quickly building defenses seemingly out of nowhere. Now, the U.S. Army wants to see about turning...
View ArticleIndian and U.S. Troops Train for War
This is part two of a two-part series. Read part one. Indian troops peppered U.S. Army Sgt. Miguel Andrade with questions. Pvt. Harendra Singh wanted to know what Americans do when they’re trying to...
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