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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 ...
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Israel May Be Dropping Spies In Iran Using Secret American Stealth BlackHawk Helicopters [Aircraft]





Former Pentagon senior policy analyst F. Michael Maloof claims that Israel is using the same ultra-secret stealth H-60 Blackhawk helicopter that US Special Forces used to hunt down bin Laden. How is this p...
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How a Single Bolt Sidelined a Submarine for Three Months [Submarines]





If you heard an ominous sound coming from your car's engine, what would you do? Most people probably wouldn't continue to gun the engine, trying different gears until the problem went away. But if you were...
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The Navy's Super Expensive New Boat Gets a Big Fat F- [War]





The Littoral combat ship system is the F-22 of the skies. It can't detect mines, it's literally (litorally?) dissolving into the ocean, and now, upon inspection, has completely failed every test of seawort...
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Hot Missile Porn: Hawaiian ICBM Blowed the Hell Up [Video]





American missile defense often fails spectacularly—but in one of these occasional interception wins, it looks pretty spectacular. Enjoy the slow motion flames and fanfare while it lasts, courtesy of...
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The C-RAM Centurion Tears Up Warheads With a Stream of Hot Lead [Video]





The US Navy's Phalanx Close-In Weapons System (CIWS) is the last line of defense against inbound rocket and missile attacks. When it detects inbound threats, it automatically unleashes a torrent of armor-p...
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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 »



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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...
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This F-35 Formation Is So Impossibly Perfect That It Looks Computer Generated [Airplanes]





You know, the F-35 may have had a lot of problems and it may be overpriced and late and whatever. I don't care. It still looks amazing. This photo of two F-35s flying in formation is so awesome that it is ...
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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...
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CANADIAN NAVY



CANADIAN NAVY
who’s laughing now?
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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...
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The Navy's New Badass Drone Hunts Mines Wherever They Hide [Drones]





The Navy is building a fleet of mine-hunting ships that investigators say aren't all that hot at finding mines. So in the coming years, those ships are going to get drone supplements to dive deep below the...
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Here's How Robots Will Save Our Lives in the Future [Video]





At the Navy's brand, new multi-million dollar LASR complex, researchers are creating problem-solving Siri times a million. It'll understand us! It'll be friendly! And it'll put out our fires by being just...
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The Titanic's First Explorer [Video]





After sinking, the RMS Titanic lay undisturbed beneath 12,000 feet of freezing North Atlantic water for years, but in 1985 its watery tomb was finally breached by another marquee vessel—the crown pri...
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America's Navy Tests Its Missiles in the World's Biggest Potato Gun [Video]





Ballistics testing for the military is an expensive proposition. A potato cannon, popular in at-home ballistics testing, is cheap. A new testing device developed by the Navy—a super-sized version of...
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The Navy's LIDAR-Equipped UAV Helo Hunts Pirates, Not Speeders [Uav]





When it's not busting cocaine smugglers or helping overthrow dictators, the Navy's MQ-8B Fire Scout UAV will soon hunt for pirates. With lasers. More »



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$65 Emergency Clamps Seal Gashes Faster Than Tourniquets [Video]





Dr. Dennis Filips saw his fill of traumatic injury during his tours of Afghanistan with the Canadian Navy. His experiences there has led him to develop the ITClamp, an alternative to conventional tourniqu...
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F-18 Crashes into Apartment Building and Explodes (Updating Live) [Video]





A Navy F-18 fighter just went down between a Virginia Beach grade school and an animal rescue center—and the result is an enormous flaming heap of jet wreckage. More »



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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...
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How Can This Aircraft Supercarrier Be In the Middle of a Desert Storm? [Image Cache]





It looks like an airfield runway in the middle of the desert, but this is actually the deck of the the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson. The ship was navigating across the Arabian Sea on March...
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The Military's Shipwrecking Railgun Just Got Really Real [Video]





It fires a 40-pound metal slug up to 5,600 miles per hour from New York to Philadelphia, slamming into its target with 32 times the force of a "1-ton car being thrust at 100 mph." Railguns aren't sci-fi ...
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Proud to Be Navy!

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The Navy GREMLIN Will Hunt Underground IED's Like an Acoustic Truffle Pig [Monster Machines]





EOD personnel would have a hell of a lot easier time if people would stop burying their IED's. But, since that's obviously not going to happen, Office of Naval Research is funding the development of an ord...
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Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) & American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) Team Up to Increase Renewable Energy

The Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) and American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) have announced “a partnership to explore how renewable energy can help the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) achieve mission objectives, save taxpayer money, and redu...
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Navy's New Minehunter Can't See or Stop Mines [War]





It's bad enough that the Navy's newest ship has had wicked problems with corrosion, missed out on the latest naval wartime missions and is generally something of a Frankenstein's monster. Now the Pentagon'...
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THE NEW NAVY


THE NEW NAVY
a global force for good (times).
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Friday Rewind: Torpedo Launch FAIL



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The Navy's New MAGS System Will Vaporize Marines' Trash with Extreme Predjudice [Video]






The Mr. Fusion Era is nearly upon us! While our garbage can't power our time-travelling DeLoreans just yet, the Marine Corps' forward operating bases—in, say, Iraq or Afghanistan—could soon b...
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Toilet Trouble on Navy Carrier Leaves 5000 Sailors Doing the Pee Pee Dance [Navy]






Remember when your dad would't pull the car over so you could go to the bathroom? Now imagine that your dad is the Navy and that the car is aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush (CVN-77). More »...
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Inside a Top Secret Soviet Nuclear Submarine Underground Base [Video]






The name of this God's forgotten place is Object 825 GTS, a top secret Cold War nuclear submarine underground base located in the Balaklava Bay, Crimea, Ukraine. More »






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How to Stop a Jet Dead in Its Tracks in Two Seconds [Video]






So how does one park a 20,000-pound aircraft travelling 130 knots on the roiling deck of the USS Ronald Reagan? Very careful aim, and the incredible assistance of Mark 7 Mod 3 arresting gear. More ...
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The Navy's Robot Jet Fighter Goes for Its First Cruise [Video]






UAV's are big, but they're not jet big—something the Navy's trying to correct with its X-47B, which aims to replace traditional fighters. Y'know, the ones with humans in them. Watch the drone kille...
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Bomb Patrol Afghanistan: Exclusive Clip From the New Best Thing on TV [Video]






In the first 60 seconds of Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan, you will be hooked. You'll then spend the rest of episode one with an elevated heart rate and your mouth open. It's simply the most compelling thing y...
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How the F/A-18 Hornet Becomes a Blue Angel [Video]






It's Fleet Week here in San Francisco and that means Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron aka The Blue Angels are back in town for the celebration. This is what it takes to convert a battle-ready F/A-18 Hor...
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The F-35 Makes Its First Vertical Landing Ever at Sea [Video]






The only sight more impressive than the F-35B in the air (when it's working) is the F-35 hovering in the sky and plopping down onto the ground. Watch it for the first time, ever. More »
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Navy’s Newest Ship Is the Pick-Up Truck of the Sea [Military]






There's not much inside the Navy's newest ship, and that's exactly how they like it. More »






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The CIA Really Wants to Make Hollywood's Next Blockbuster [Military]






Are you an aspiring filmmaker who wants to produce a spy thriller? Well, you're in luck because the CIA has a pile of script ideas lying around. More »






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Gross! She’s All Naked And Sh*t…


Just gotta pretend to be straight for a few more weeks…
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Navy Commander Fired after Shooting at Innocent Fishing Boat [War]






Hey, everyone screws up at work sometimes. It's natural. It's normal. It's usually not a big deal—unless you're commanding a Navy destroyer, and start lobbing shells at a local fishing boat off the ...
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Did The SEALS Who Shot Bin Laden Have Helmet Cams Or Not? [War]






Remember how Navy SEAL Team Six caught the entire raid on Bin Laden's compound on helmet cams? Yeah, well, that may not have happened. It's just one of multiple unexplained discrepancies from the raid. ...
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Dogs Also Cry (and So Do I) [Video]






Watching this image of Navy SEAL Jon Tumilson's dog guarding his best friend coffin makes me all teary. He's refusing to leave his side, as 1,500 mourners witnessed. More »






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Just Another Training Day


You never know what you’ll see at the beach.
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The Bends: An Excellent Radiohead Album and a Lung-Popping Condition You Do Not Want [Science]






Decompression sickness, also known as the bends, is a bit of a mystery to doctors because it's not easy to study what's happening to human cells at super high pressures far below the sea surface. More&...
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China's First Aircraft Carrier Is Sailing [War]






Well this sure happened sooner than expected: just a couple of weeks after they flipped on the lights for the first time, China's refitted Soviet hulk has made its ocean debut. This is their first claim t...
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Did a New Taliban Weapon Kill a Chopper Full of Navy SEALs? [Video]






The US suffered a tremendous loss Saturday in Afganistan when the downing of a Chinook helicopter took the lives of 31 special forces troops. As Danger Room reports, it may have been an entirely new Talib...
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The Pentagon Spends More Money Fixing Rusty Old Shit than Canada Spends on Its Entire Military [Factoid]






How much is $22.5 billion? Our government could buy over 150 shiny new F-35s. Or it could fund the entire public school system for a quarter of the year. Instead, it spent it repairing rusting-away boats,...
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How the Navy Screwed Up Its Warship of the Future [Military]






The US Navy has the most powerful and technologically advanced fleet in the world. So why is its ultra-modern warship—which was supposed to usher in a new age of naval warfare—such a lamentabl...
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China Claims Nearly-Operational, Weaponized Aircraft Carrier Is for "Scientific Research" [China]






So you want to advance the scientific output of your country—great. What's your next move? Spend a massive amount of cash repairing, refitting, and adding guns to a giant Soviet aircraft carrier? Ye...
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