An excellent video of a WW2 soldier recounting his experiences on the beaches of Normandy and his decision to play his trumpet to the German snipers
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An F-15E Strike Eagle and P-51 Mustang perform a heritage flight Aug 15, 2010, during the Abbotsford International Air Show in British Columbia The F-15E is assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, NC US Air Force photo/Staff Sgt Larry E Reid Jr
What will fighter aircraft look like in another 70 years This might be the last generation of aircraft that has humans in it
A British tennis-playing socialite became the only woman in the French Foreign Legion, leading a daring, wartime, desert escape She would have been 100 this week and her story remains inspirational, writes biographer and friend Wendy Holden
When I first met Susan Travers in a Paris nursing home in 1999, she was a papery-skinned 90-year-old who spoke with a cut-glass English accent Unable to walk, she insisted that before we began I wheel her to a local restaurant for lunch
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The Brigade is located in Naro-Fominsk, in Moscow's region and the fight is between Russians and Dagestanis
This happened in late July and was covered up by military until this leaked video Dagestanis had previous small scuffles with Russian rangers prior to this fight
One source says that a Dagestani gave an order to another Russian who did not comply, which eventually led to 7 Dagestanis jumping some Russians and causing others from both sides to jump into this fight
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The US Army recently qualified a new explosive that has the same lethality as traditional TNT, but is far less likely to explode if dropped, shot at or hit by a roadside bomb during transport
The new formula, called IMX-101 Insensitive Munitions Explosive 101, is proven to be safer and more stable than TNT, which ultimately eases the warfighter’s job when it comes to transporting, storing and loading ammunition containing the new explosive
“It allows us to meet the lethality of TNT,
Imagine being out in the forest and finding an intact and untouched WW2 Focke-Wolfe where it crashed 45 years earlier
This Focke-Wolfe came from Russia, where it had lain for decades, upright and relatively undamaged, in a remote forest east of Leningrad St Petersburg today The yellow markings on fuselage and bottom rudder indicates this plane was located on the Russian Front
What was an airplane doing deep in a forest The answer, deduced from the damage to the leading edges of
A photo shoot for a newspaper goes wrong for one police woman when she is caught posing with the magazine of her M16 is the wrong way around
Researchers say that these types of vehicles are lighter-than-air, blimp-style craft of the US military's making Likely powered by "electrokinetic" drive, the lifting body-shaped airships have been skirting the skies since perhaps the early to mid-1980s
NIDS has followed up on their study of last year that correlated sightings of large triangular or delta-shaped objects with Air Force Materiel Command and Air Mobility Command bases throughout the United States Matches were made sugg
An amazing story of how a lucky marine, blown up in the air by an IED came back to earth whole and undamaged A great read
SOUTHERN SHORSURAK, HELMAND PROVINCE, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan — Cpl Matt Garst should be dead
Few people survive stepping on an improvised explosive device Even fewer walk away the same day after directly absorbing the force of the blast, but Garst did just that
A squad leader with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, Garst was leading his squad on a pa
Ex-USS New Orleans served in the United States Navy between 1968 and 1997 The ship was used for high end multi-national target practice during Exercise RIMPAC 2010, being fired upon by Harpoon missiles, laser guided bombs and finally a barrage of naval gun fire from eight ships
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The US Army Natick Soldier Center awarded US$11 million for the testing and evaluation of Lockheed Martin HULC advanced robotic exoskeleton, designed to augment Soldiers’ strength and endurance, as well as reduce load carriage injuries Dismounted Soldiers often carry heavy combat loads that increase stress on the body, leading to injuries and exhaustion
HULC is designed to transfer the weight from heavy loads to the ground through the robotic legs of the lower-body exoskeleton, taking t
The UK Ministry of Defence revealed an advanced unmanned combat aircraft prototype Named after the Celtic god of thunder, Taranis will be used to help British engineers develop a fully-functioning, autonomous stealthy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle UCAV capable of precisely striking targets at long-range [quote]Taranis has been three and a half years in the making and is the product of more than a million man-hours It represents a significant step forward in this country's fast-jet capability
The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory worked closely with Virginia Tech and TORC to develop the four GUSS vehicles The GUSS vehicles can carry up to 1,800 pounds and move at the speed of a troop on foot, or about five miles per hour
The multi-purpose systems are designed to operate on off-road terrain, day or night in all weather conditions, and will support dismounted troops with point-to-point resupply, thereby reducing the loads manually carried by Marines and providing a means for i
Recently North Korea revealed a top secret project they have been working on, airdropped traffic girls A military spokesperson stated that: [quote] We developed traffic control platforms that can be airdropped to any location we choose First the platforms are loaded onto a military cargo airplane Then the Traffic Girl is installed on the platform When we reach the target area platforms are pushed out of the aircraft [/quote] The spokesperson went on to explain the intricacies of the new
Power lines crisscross the skies, delivering electricity with the flip of a switch But what happens when a soldier is outside, away from an electrical outlet, and unable to access electricity to power equipment or recharge batteries
An engineer at an Air Force research lab in Dayton, Ohio, has figured out how to harness electricity from power lines via a system called RAPS RAPS is a connecting device that’s attached to the end of a long cable When the device is thrown over a power line,
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