Revision Military. This is Revision. Destiny Cosplayer Looks Like An Actual Robot. Life-Saving Boot Insert Detects Landmines Within 6.5 Feet. It is estimated that more than 110 million active landmines are scattered across 70 countries around the world.
An equal number of landmines are stockpiled, waiting to be planted. These landmines remain active for decades and kill thousands of people each month … most of them women and children. Colombia has a major landmine problem Colombia is at constant war due to anti-government rebellions and, as a result, a lot of the area is infested with landmines. According to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), Colombia is the second-most mined country in the world after Afghanistan. THE SYSTEMPUNKT. In Blitzkrieg warfare, the point of greatest emphasis is called a schwerpunkt.
It is the point, often identified by lower level commanders, where the enemy line may be pierced by an explosive combination of multiple weapon systems. Once the line is pierced, armored forces dive deep into enemy territory to disrupt command, control, and logistics systems. Once these systems are disrupted, the top-heavy military units they support collapse in confusion. Transparent Sea: The Unstealthy Future Of Submarines. WASHINGTON: Submarines have been America’s invisible advantage since World War II.
Russia's Universal Combat Platform Is Based On This Shadowy Super Tank. - Revealed: Saudi Arabia's 'Great Wall' to keep out Isil. Much of the area on the Iraqi side is now controlled by Isil, which regards the ultimate capture of Saudi Arabia, home to the “Two Holy Mosques” of Mecca and Medina, as a key goal.
The proposal had been discussed since 2006, at the height of the Iraqi civil war, but work began in September last year after Isil’s charge through much of the west and north of the country gave it a substantial land border with the Kingdom to the south. The border zone now includes five layers of fencing with watch towers, night-vision cameras and radar cameras. Riyadh also sent an extra 30,000 troops to the area. It is not the only fence with which Saudi Arabia has chosen to surround itself. The US, GLOBALIZATION and the RED QUEEN. Here's something useful to those of thinking about the future of conflict and society.
Hopefully, this gets you thinking. The Red Queen's Trap. The Red Queen's Trap is a paradox torn from the pages of Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass.
" How 3D printing could revolutionize war and foreign policy. With key patents running out this year, new printers that use metal, wood and fabric are set to become much more widely available – putting the engineering world on the cusp of major historical change A visitor looks at a 3D printer printing an object, during 'Inside 3D Printing' conference and exhibition in New York, April 22, 2013.
Emmanuel Dunand/AFP PARIS, France – 3D printing will revolutionize war and foreign policy, say experts, not only by making possible incredible new designs but by turning the defense industry – and possibly the entire global economy – on its head. Minovo wang. What’s So Scary About A Nuclear-Armed Drone?
Analysis: World at war is good news for Kalashnikov and its new gun - Comment. Nearer death, however, he was to reflect: “I am sad that it is used by terrorists.
I would prefer to have invented a machine that people like farmers could use, like a lawnmower.” ‘Kalashnikov: promoting peace and calm’ – notorious gun gets a makeover. Equipped with a shiny new logo, shrugging off US sanctions and claiming its guns are “protecting peace”, the Russian weapons manufacturer Kalashnikov launched a major rebranding drive in Moscow on Tuesday.
Kalashnikov Concern, a new overarching brand that includes the famed assault rifles as well as hunting and sports weaponry, paid a leading Russian agency to design a new brand and renew its worldwide image, even as US sanctions against Russia have stopped orders of the rifles from the US and Canada. Rebranding Kalashnikov: would you? It's been hailed as a design classic, and blamed for the deaths of millions.
Now Kalashnikov and its parent company has announced a rebrand and an ambition to become as big as Apple. Would you help them? The new CK: Kalashnikov unveils new brands, fashion range. Ballistic Nutcracker.
Oops! Google maps out one of India’s top secret military base, including its exact location for everyone to see online. Oops! Pathankot military base was “top secret” apparently! Click image for enlarged view. A Google sponsored contest may have revealed the existence of one of India’s top secret military bases, according to reports. Now the authorities are investigating this. India’s equivalent of the FBI, The Central Bureau of Investigation , launched the investigation into a California company after a mapping contest sponsored by Google allegedly revealed the locations of sensitive military installations, Newsweek reported.
Weapon fashion. Supernatural Counterinsurgency in the Congo. Supernatural Counterinsurgency in the Congo This unusual document, "Witchcraft, Sorcery, Magic, and Other Psychological Phenomena, and Their Implications on Military and Paramilitary Operations in the Congo," was prepared for the U.S. Army in 1964. The report is a treatise on paranormal combat, discussing "counter-magic" tactics to suppress rebels who are backed by witch-doctors, charms, and magic potions. [ cover page image file ] SPECIAL OPERATIONS RESEARCH OFFICE The American University COUNTERINSURGENCY INFORMATION ANALYSIS CENTER 5010 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. Oshkosh’s RoboTruck Vs. IEDs. An unmanned TerraMax mine-clearing vehicle, followed by a mixed of manned and unmanned cargo trucks.
The future of military robotics may not look much like a robot. It may just be a truck that drives itself. That’s the simple, pragmatic approach pursued by Oshkosh — a company better known for trucks than Terminators — with its TerraMax Unmanned Ground Vehicle. Amazing Military Infographics — The Message. Some nights I like to get the kids to bed, pour a drink, and search the web for military-produced PDFs in order to look at the amazing graphics within them. I’d thought I was the only person with this hobby, but a few weeks ago my friend Finn Smith told me that he, too, likes military PDF graphics. The Internet is wonderful at bringing people together. DARPA to Set Sea-based Electronic Ambushes for Enemies.
U.S. military researchers are moving forward with a program to hide ruggedized electronic devices at the bottom of the world's oceans that when called on will float to the surface to jam, disrupt, and spy on enemy forces. Officials of the U.S. Social media helping destabilize world, strategist says at War College. <div id="others"><ul><li><a href="/media/339444/"><img src=" width="150" alt="World instability" /></a><div class="title" style = "font-weight:bold;"></div><div class="caption">Security forces from Provincial Reconstruction Team Ghazni secure a landing zone while Polish medics arrive to provide medical care in Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Poles and militaries from other Eastern European countries participated in Iraq and Afghanistan with the hope that someday when they need military assistance, the U.S. would provide it, said Robert D.
Kevin Spacey to star in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Bio identity warfare. Geographical imaginations. Endless War: On the database structure of armed conflict. Can we Avoid an an Automated Arms Race? It is a profound irony that so much military innovation has been directed towards reprogramming young men to ignore their humanity when charging into battle, yet as we stand within reach of realizing the perfect warrior in the form of fully-automated killer drones we find ourselves scrambling to keep a last shred of humanity behind the trigger.
The war-chant, the war-drum, cultures of courage, symbols, flags, military regimentation, propaganda, and even sports can all be seen as a line of innovation specifically aimed at enhancing the ability of young men to act against their immediate interests, ignore emotions like fear or compassion, and become like killing machines. Revealed: the MoD's secret cyberwarfare programme. Watch a man get stunned by the Chaotic Unmanned Personal Intercept Drone (stun copter!)
Chinese Red Army. David Kilcullen: "Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla" US Army co creation and open source weapons. The bots of war. China’s Mystery Satellite Could Be a Dangerous New Weapon — War is Boring. On July 29, a Chinese Long March-4C rocket blasted into space from the northern Taiyuan Space Center carrying three secretive, experimental satellites. DRONES. 4th generation warfare & proxy wars. 5th generation warfare. Space battlefield. CyberWar. Stuxnet.
High tech warfare. Open Source Warfare.