Category: War
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Chinese Soldiers Play Live Grenade Hot Potato
Sadly this isn’t some next-gen Chinese robot.. these people are real: I sure hope whatever company that makes those grenade fuses has a very low margin of error. Basically if it detonated a second or two early, there would possibly be 6 people dead. The Chinese especially, seem to love unnecessarily risky stuff like this. I don’t…
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Self Guided Bullets Be All Up In Yo BiznaSs
The bullet is four inches long and has an optical sensor embedded in its nose for the detection of a laser on its target, Sandia said in a release today. The bullet also has built-in guidance and control electronics that receive data from the optical sensor and then manipulate the electromagnetic actuators. And the actuators use that…
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The German – A Short WW2 Related Film With Zero VFX Budget
€70,000 to fund the live action portion of the film. There was no money left for visual effects so the director did them all for free over a 6 month period: A British fighter pilot pursues the german ace that shot down his friend across sky and country… with murder in mind. But he discovers…
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Act Of Valor – Live Fire Behind The Scenes
The fact that this movie was filmed with DSLR cameras AND they used live fire basically puts it at the top of my list of movies to see. I didn’t have time to go to the SHOT show this year, but I should have just flown in to see the advance screening of this movie…
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Deployed Military Dad Reads Book To Daughter
She’s two years old: It’s neat how the fact it was pre-recorded didn’t matter. You can tell the little girl was absolutely thrilled.
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Weapons Of Mass Creation
An interesting poster series: The juxtaposition of creative items with destructive weapons. Source – AngryBlue