The forums are lively, the blogs are good and there’s some interesting things to find out about how the British Army thinks it’s going with the Army.

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 as was said at the time “the works!” of the machines that were winning the war for us!

http://www.cyber-heritage.co.uk/cutaway/

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 see the other SMAW warheads they sell as well.

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 new rage in armed forces, the all out war scenario is not being ignored.

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 pain threshold that has been demonstrated by AFRL human subject testing to be very effective at repelling people, without burning the skin or causing other secondary effects.

Firing plates at 76000 mph!

Japanese War Holdouts

And they keep on finding them..

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Pimp my Weapon

They found a Japanese one from WWII – and who said it wasn’t possible to fly bombers from submarines?

Is this the future of warfare?

And won’t get high security clearances for sensitive jobs in the military.