A 1990 Gulf War I home video made by RAF fighter boys flying Tornadoes. Tres inspirational. Apparently the full version is around 15 minutes long. On pprune a guy is offering that version for sale on E-Bay with the proceeds going towards the RAF Benevolent Fund.
Not only that, they’re encouraging the practice. They perform PRK instead of Lasik, because they worry that the flap cut during lasik could come loose during high G combat.
From bombs that made soldiers go mad with gay love, to halitosis and making an area an attraction point for wasps and rats, the US Military has pondered non lethal weaponry quite deeply.
After being dropped from the aircraft, using this system paratroopers can zoom about the skies for 200KM. Apparently ze Germans have been using this since 2003 – is this what the air raid warnings are about?
Sensational / Impressive video of a Russian helicopter crashing whilst on excercises with the Chinese. Hope the crew and passengers are OK.
Somewhat like the Army Rumor Network (link somewhere in here) but for pilots. In the military Aircrew forum there’s quite a few RAF types.
Some Royal Marine has a page of video’s flying the SHAR from carriers.
This lucky guy got to fly in the back seat of an F/A-18 and videoed it.
Spending 5 hours in an F-22 Raptor sounds like a good idea. Unless you’re on the ground. And the cockpit won’t open. Eventually you cut it open with a chainsaw. Yay U.S. technology!
On the day before April Fools’ Day, Iran published testresults of a multiple warhead, stealth missle that can’t be seen on radar. Which is why no one saw it of course. But it went off without a hitch! On the day after, they tested their new ship and submarine destroying stealth underwater missle which goes Read more about Iran goes April Fools tastic – USA Bites[…]
It’s called the Cormorant and the initial development has been given to Lockheed Martin’s Skunkworks. Because nuclear subs don’t have much to do in today’s environment they want to modify the launchers to eject these aircraft. This obviously comes with problems… The Skunk Works’s answer is a four-ton airplane with gull wings that hinge around Read more about USN developing plane that launches from submarines[…]
The newest Royal Navy destroyer has been launched and is now having its final touches applied. Super high tech, roomy, liberal and of course dangerous – it has Ipod charging stations, 14 decks, weighs in at 7350 tonnes, 150m long, is the first of 6 projected type 45 destroyers and cost GBP 605 million. Oh Read more about HMS Daring launched[…]
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US servicemen in Iraq make movies. And post them on Grouchymedia!
In the Second World War people at home with loved ones spread far away around the world with the forces were fed a diet, often government backed, of “how it works” or “how we will win” technical information leaflets. Very often these would have contained superb cut away and sectioned diagrams, showing the “insides” or Read more about Unusual technical WWII images[…]
A new hand held laser gun for those non lethal applications where you just want to fry people’s eyes out. In conjunction with that weapon that emits ultrasonics that make you want to get away, you could have endless fun!
USMC has a thermobaric weapon at their disposal which collapses buildings and ignites the air. It’s shoulder carried and they’re being a bit quiet about their useage. The SMAW is a Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon. More info Here. The NE is the Novel Explosive part. The manufacturers site is a bit quiet, but you can Read more about SMAW-NE[…]
Using a collar, release smells in peoples faces and train them to associate the smells with orders. It’s silent, but sounds very doggy to me.
In an interview with the Guardian, Reid, the UK Defence Secretary, indicates that it is time to replace Trident in order to be able to present a credible nuclear capability against the evolving new and potentially rogue nuclear powers (India, Pakistan, N. Korea among others). Which goes to show, allthough jointness and mobility is the Read more about Britain to replace nuclear capability?[…]
It’s an argument that’s been raging in every navy of the world for centuries at least, and here is another new contender for the lots of little ships argument – it looks cool, but didn’t they learn anything from the destroyers in WWII?!
A military jet ingests a bird, tries to recover, doesn’t make it – all from the cockpit cam.
This baby is a good old fashioned Ray Gun (we don’t need no frickin’ lasers!) which heats human skin to unbearable pain within 5 minutes without burning it… ADS systems are a new class of nonlethal weaponry using 95 GHz-millimeter-wave directed energy. This technology is capable of rapidly heating a person’s skin to achieve a Read more about It’s an alien Ray Gun[…]
Firing plates at 76000 mph!
Japanese War Holdouts And they keep on finding them..
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