Tag: Military

  • Double Hand Crank Operated MAK-90 AK Rifles

    This looks pretty cool, and is for sale for $2500 from a guy in Phoenix, AZ:

  • Gas Mask Beer Bong

    This looks creepy, awesome, and uncomfortable all at the same time: I have no idea what type of beer, gas mask, or camouflage that is, so I have no idea what country these guys are from. Anyone know? I wonder if he plugged his nose with something before donning the mask?  Getting beer up your…

  • Segway Sniper Practice

    [youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khoLEzWUtVA[/youtube] Pretty awesome idea to use them for training. You know it’s doing a good job of impersonating a walking human when it looks creepy in action.  I wish there was some range I could go to and give that a shot.  I want every one of those RMP (robotic mobility platform) Segways…

  • Acoustic Weaponry

    Using a modified version of Newton’s cradle, a series of stainless steel balls suspended by fishing wire, scientists from the California Institute of Technology have created a powerful weapon for soldiers and doctors known as a “sound bullet.” Full Story – HERE Luckily the article goes onto say that metamaterials ( which is what they…

  • More Apache Helicopter Reuters Photographer Incident Info

    Yesterday when I reported on the leak of the video footage, for some reason I attached the edited video rather than the full one.  The edited video is more of a “highlights reel”. Here is the full 40 minute unedited video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9sxRfU-ik[/youtube] I stayed out of the discussion on the previous post, and I’m going…

  • WikiLeaks Publishes Disturbing U.S. Military Apache Helicopter Footage

    WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people (July 12, 2007) in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack.…