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0	The Navy Is Kitting Its Ships Out With 4G Networks [Military] Bandwidth on Navy ships is a scarce, expensive commodity. For sailors using non-essential systems, like recreational computers? Dial-up speeds - if they're lucky. But by the end of the year, for the first ... 0 Published 20 hours ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Dropping Explosives From a Quadrotor Puts Tom Clancy to Shame [Video] To a casual observer, this video might look like dropping high explosives from an RC helicopter. Which would be cool enough on its own. But the real case is so, so much better: This is the future of dropp... 0 Published 1 day ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
3	Noncomformity Through The Ages Beggin’ your pardon sir, but if we’re all dressed differently, exactly why is it called a uniform? LoL by: CharelzPicture by: Unknown 0 Published 3 days ago in Historic LOL - Captioned Portraits of Yore: Profile, Details
3	OK OK I may have slept with your wives. LoL by: ThatguythatsayshiPicture by: Unknown 0 Published 4 days ago in Historic LOL - Captioned Portraits of Yore: Profile, Details
0	Congressional Quarrel of the Day A few days ago, the GOP-led House passed a military budget with a hefty $642 billion price tag — $8 billion more than what President Obama and the Pentagon had agreed on with Congress. With the defense budget skyrocketing, cuts a... 0 Published 5 days ago in The Daily What: Profile, Details
0	Watch How Video Game Special Ops Tech Works in Real Life [Video] Video games like Ghost Recon and Modern Warfare are stuffed full of awesome future tech. But how much of it can actually be replicated in the field today, and what does it actually look like? Richard Ryan... 0 Published 8 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Watch Might Have Saved Someone's Life in Vietnam [Watches] Luxury watch makers seem to be caught up in an arms race to include the most exotic materials in their timepieces. From genuine volcanic ash, to metal from the Titanic, to a face stamped from the bodywork ... 0 Published 9 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Why Building the Death Star Is a Bad Investment [Video] I wish to address the most important policy question of the millenium: should we build a Death Star? More » 0 Published 16 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Commandos Now Play Digital Brain Games as War Prep [Video] U.S. special operations forces carry out some the military's toughest, most high-stakes missions. To pull them off, the commandos need speed, agility and swift perception skills akin to those of top-tier ... 0 Published 17 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Pentagon Quit The Avengers Because of Its 'Unreality' [Avengers] The Pentagon halted its cooperation with Marvel Studios' blockbuster movie The Avengers because the Defense Department didn't think a movie about superheroes, Norse Gods and intergalactic invasions was suf... 0 Published 17 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
3	Well… We’re Boned These are the new recruits, sir. A homeless man, an old man, and a girly man… yeah, we’re gonna lose. LoL by: KyleTheSarcasticPicture by: Unknown 0 Published 20 days ago in Historic LOL - Captioned Portraits of Yore: Profile, Details
0	E-Mail Confused Osama, and 5 Other Revelations From the Bin Laden Files [Osama Bin Laden] Osama bin Laden may have been the evil mastermind behind the world's most successful terrorist group. But in his final days, he sounded more and more like your great aunt Henrietta: nagging his subordinate... 0 Published 21 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Supporting Our Troops of the Day Oregon Ducks head football coach Chip Kelly has made honoring the military a tradition at the annual spring game, and this year was no different. To the cheers of 44,129 fans, the team welcomed 100 military personnel onto the field, where Du... 0 Published 21 days ago in The Daily What: Profile, Details
0	Here’s the Plan to Fly Missile-Packed Blimps Over Your Home [Weapons] Upstart Virginia aerospace firm Mav6 is offering to install guided missiles on the massive, robotic spy blimp it's building for the Air Force. The idea would only be slightly terrifying, if the massive air... 0 Published 22 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	F-22 Pilots Don't Want to Fly the F-22 [F-22] Not exactly a grand gesture of confidence: some of the US Air Force's airmen, the world's most elite, want nothing to do with the Air Force's "elite" new fighter. Why? Because the only people it's threaten... 0 Published 24 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Flying Your Own Military Drone: A User Manual [Drones] When was the last time you read the instruction manual that came with anything? Maybe never—they're usually worth tossing. Unless, of course, you're going to pilot and kill someone with a Predator dr... 0 Published 25 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Residential Buildings in London Will House Surface-to-Air Missiles During the Olympics [Wtf] Large-scale, international events like the Olympics are often considered as targets for terrorist attacks. The UK's Ministry of Defence is taking that extremely seriously: it's placing surface-to-air missi... 0 Published 25 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Are Afghans Unable to Beat the Taliban Because of Clinical Depression? [War] Maybe the reason that the Afghan counterinsurgency has been such a flop is that the people there are too traumatized and depressed to make nation-building work. More » ... 0 Published 25 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	New Navy Uniform Could Monitor Sailors' Pee for Signs of Nuclear Attack [Military] The military's uniforms will probably never be runway ready. But in the future, a soldier's threads might very well be quite a bit sharper. More » 0 Published 28 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Navy Grounds Drone Copters, Then Spends Quarter-Billion to Buy More [Drones] Just weeks after the Navy grounded its favorite fleet of unmanned spy copters, the admirals announced that they're spending another quarter-billion dollars to buy even more of the drones. More &raq... 0 Published 29 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
5	Didn’t Ask, Didn’t Tell Submitted by: ntxc8ed 0 Published 30 days ago in This is Photobomb: Profile, Details
2	Never Trust the Crowd “Do a barrel roll,” they said. “It will be quite enjoyable,” they said. Submitted by: the_priceman 0 Published 34 days ago in Historic LOL - Captioned Portraits of Yore: Profile, Details
0	The World's First Bionic Foot Mimics Flexion to Aid Gait [Video] Using traditional lower leg and foot prosthetics is like walking in sand. Since the user can't push off with that foot, there's no muscle for power or an Achilles tendon to pull against. The BiOM prostheti... 0 Published 35 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Dud Missile FAIL Submitted by: Unknown 0 Published 35 days ago in Probably Bad News - FAIL Nation - Just...: Profile, Details
0	Upgraded Killer Drone May Fly for Two Days Straight [Drones] The Air Force's premier killer drone could get a lot more dangerous, if the flying branch agrees to upgrades proposed by the robot's manufacturer. California drone-maker General Atomics has figured out way... 0 Published 35 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How a Photo of a Random Ensign Hung in the Pentagon Alongside Famous Generals For Almost a Year [Pranks] In the hallowed halls of the Pentagon, next to photos of military greats like Patton, Eisenhower, and Nimitz, once hung a portrait of a Ensign Chuck Hord, a man who, as the plaque on the gilded frame reads... 0 Published 37 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The 7 Most Badass Photos CENTCOM Has Pinned on Pinterest [Image Cache] Many have assumed that Pinterest merely serves as an online stomping ground for wedding planning. As the U.S. Central Command's presence on the social network shows, that assumption is patently false. In f... 0 Published 37 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	China Now Tops US in Space Launches [Military] For the first time ever, China has launched more rockets into orbit in a year than the U.S. In 2011, the Chinese sent 19 rockets into space. The U.S. sent just 18. Russia, the Walmart of space launches, fi... 0 Published 38 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Navy Looks for New Jet, on Top of Its Trillion-Dollar Model [Airplanes] On Friday, the Navy quietly released a "market survey" asking the big defense contractors for their "candidate[s]" for "strike fighter aircraft" in the decades to come. Which is a little weird, considering... 0 Published 38 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	One-Armed Afghan War Vet to Climb Everest with Badass Prosthetic Ice-Pick [Everest] Losing an arm in Afghanistan isn't stopping Private Jaco Van Gass from climbing the highest mountain in the world. The 25-year-old South African soldier is testing a prosthetic ice axe of his own design, w... 0 Published 39 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Early Bird Special Three years after a rocket-propelled grenade blew off Private Jaco van Gass’s left arm while he was serving in Afghanistan, the 25-year-old South African is busy testing an invention of his own design — a prosthetic ice axe ... 0 Published 39 days ago in The Daily What: Profile, Details
13	RULES FOR A GUNFIGHT RULES FOR A GUNFIGHT 1. bring a gun. Preferably, bring at least two guns. bring all of your friends who have guns. Submitted by: Unknown 0 Published 39 days ago in Very Demotivational - The Demotivational...: Profile, Details
0	CIA's Secret Fear: High-Tech Border Checks Will Blow Spies' Cover [Video] When Tom Cruise had to break into police headquarters in Minority Report, the futuristic crime thriller, he got past the iris scanners with ease: He just swapped out his eyeballs. More » ... 0 Published 43 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	US Coasts Could Be Guarded by Unmanned Piranha Drone Boats [Video] UAV's are old hat nowadays—they've been overhead for nearly a decade. The next frontier in unmanned vehicles isn't in the air. It's on the waves. The Piranha Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) could revo... 0 Published 44 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	North Korea Is Lying About Its Rocket Launch, Sat-Watchers Show [North Korea] North Korea claims that its impending satellite launch, scheduled for this week, is merely a mission to study the country's "distribution of forests" and weather patterns. But after analyzing the satellite... 0 Published 44 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Hundreds of Warbots Will Join Cops' Ranks [Video] The war in Iraq is (mostly) over. The war in Afghanistan is (slowly, incompletely) ending. And yet the new battlefield robots produced by a decade of war are having an easier transition to peacetime than ... 0 Published 45 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	What's the Marines New "Highly Classified" Secret Weapon? [Weapons] The Marines are about to arm their tactical drone, the AAI RQ-7B Shadow. They were going to use an off-the-shelf precision-guided killer missile but they mysteriously changed their mind at the last minute.... 0 Published 48 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Navy Built Its Own Private Indoor Desert and Jungle [Video] What do you do when your budget is slashed, but you still need to test out weapons of the future for fighting across deserts and jungles? Build your own desert and jungle. Artificial sandstorms and monsoo... 0 Published 49 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Your Phone Will Magically Charge in Your Pocket Thanks to This New Fabric [Military] Imagine having jeans that charge your phone just by putting it in your pocket. That's what this material—developed for the British Army—does. The fabric is made of yarn that conducts electricit... 0 Published 52 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The DHS Is Using Wartime Mega-Cameras to Study the Southern Arizona Border [Military] One legacy of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has arrived on the southern border of the United States. The Department of Homeland Security recently completed tests of a powerful camera, one that cut its teet... 0 Published 53 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Image of a Soldier Walking On Air Is Simply Awesome [Image Cache] I really like this image of a soldier jumping out of a USAF HC-130P/N King cargo aircraft. He really seems to be walking on air, like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff while chasing the Roadrunner. Mor... 0 Published 54 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Tooth Tattoo Diagnoses Illness and Alerts Doctors [Science] Scientists at Princeton University have developed a sensor that could be tattooed onto your tooth, diagnose an infection, and transmit that information to medical professionals. More » ... 0 Published 56 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	This Remote Controlled Car Can Jump 30 Feet Up In the Air [Video] There is a new version of Sand Flea, the amazing 11-pound radio-controlled car beast that can race and jump over buildings. More » 0 Published 58 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Ooohhh I’m Soooooo Scared! Ooooohh! Please don’t shoot me Mr. Nazi Submitted by: Unknown 0 Published 59 days ago in Historic LOL - Captioned Portraits of Yore: Profile, Details
18	THREE LAWS THREE LAWS proudly violated daily Submitted by: CorpCommander 0 Published 62 days ago in Very Demotivational - The Demotivational...: Profile, Details
0	The Secret Nuclear Drone Tech Our Government Hid [Drones] Sandia National Laboratories cooks up some of the craziest new technologies you'll ever see—and some you'll never see. That's the fate of a secret method for driving drones with nuclear power, abando... 0 Published 63 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	Pentagon: Trillion-Dollar Jet on Brink of Budgetary Disaster [Military] The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the supposed backbone of the Pentagon's future air arsenal, could need additional years of work and billions of dollars in unplanned fixes, the Air Force and the Government A... 0 Published 64 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	The Ancient Airlifter That Makes Daredevil Drops Over Afghanistan [Video] The Caribou airlifter flies so low through the mountains and valleys of eastern Afghanistan that it's invisible from the ground … until it's right on top of you. The Vietnam-era, twin-engine cargo plane w... 0 Published 65 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	How to Kill China's 'Carrier-Killer' Missile: Jam, Spoof and Shoot [Military] China has developed a missile that would turn an aircraft carrier into a two-billion-dollar hulk of twisted metal, flame, and dead sailors. Publicly, the U.S. Navy downplays its importance. Privately, the ... 0 Published 69 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details
0	America's Killer Drones... Of the Vietnam War [Video] The armed drone has become a symbol of modern war. Who needs people? We have cheap(ish) robots that can spy and kill for us—and they do, around the world. But before UAVs were rocketing Afghanistan,... 0 Published 71 days ago in Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide: Profile, Details

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