The Magshoe, created by IDO Security in Israel after the events of September 11th is the answer to one of the most problematic areas in security checks: your shoes. Walk through metal detectors today lack the technology to successfully scan below the shin, making it easy for weapons to go...

3 separate views of the first shootdown using the High Energy Laser (HEL) on the airborne laser (ABL). Unfortunately, Robert Gates has cancelled the production of further ABL, so this is now an R&D platform for exploring the technology.

TEL AVIV — Israel has developed a non-lethal weapon meant to simulate cannon fire.
The Israeli Defense Ministry has overseen the development of the Thunder Generator. The device, originally designed to scare birds off farms, employs liquefied natural gas to create a sonic boom that could...

Hizballah and Hamas have drawn up to send five Hizballah brigades sweeping across the border to seize five sectors of Galilee, while also organizing a massive Israeli-Arab uprising against the Jewish state. Hamas would open a second front in the south and in the east. Syria is expected to step...

Well, I will be! They got their first prototype clone of the F-22 off the ground! I have no idea what is being said in the video, but my broken translation goes something like this: "As we have always done, we stole the designs from the US but had to change it up some in order to not be...

Damn this is bad ass looking!

Ground trials are underway for a vectored thrust prototype developed under a £6.5 million ($10.4 million) UK project to develop technologies for an unmanned air vehicle with no conventional control surfaces.

With a first flight planned...

Hitler reacts to Obama and the loss of the long-held democratic senate seat in Massachusetts.

This is funny as hell!

A skydiver friend of mine's brother SOF Master Seargent Robert Horrigan was killed in action in Al Qaim Iraq in 2005.

His brother Daniel is honoring his brother's memory and all other Texas heroes by building a stone wall by hand, hand carving soldier figures and etching the names...

A document has surfaced detailing preparations for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's escape from Iran is causing quite a stir regarding the future of the Islamic regime.

On Wednesday, a letter, on the official stationary of the Islamic republic's National Security Council,...

This Russian documentary has a lot more video of test flights and of the ekronoplan resting in their graveyards.

This design lens itself to so many questions:
How does it turn?
What happens when one wing dips lower and clips the water, does it start flipping?
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The largest Ekranoplan called the KM was built in 1967, it was dubbed the Caspian Sea Monster after the sea it was on when first seen by the west. It was almost twice the length of a Boeing 777-200 but as with all Ground Effect Craft it need only half the wingspan. At over 100 m long, weighing...

The U.S. Navy officially accepted delivery of the future USS Independence (LCS 2) Dec. 18, 2009 at the Austal shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The ship will be commissioned on January 16 and is expected to be ready for 'Sail Away' status by February 2010.

The Independence Class LCS,...

The HMAS Melbourne has demonstrated the navy's updated naval air defense capability with the firing of a Standard Missile (SM-2) off Jervis Bay.
Minister for Defense Personnel, Materiel and Science Greg Combet said in a written statement that the SM-2 would be further enhanced throughout...

BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics robots. It is a rough-terrain robot that walks, runs, climbs and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by an engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog has four legs that are articulated like an animal’s, with compliant elements to...

PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing used by the US Army. Unlike previous suit testers, which had to be supported mechanically and had a limited repertoire of motion, PETMAN will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of...