December 10, 2009 – 12:41 pm
Talk about a let down!
A mysterious blue spiral visible from Norway had UFO watchers frothing for a few hours today (December 10). But it turns out to be the embarrassing fallout from a failed Russian test of a new, submarine-based intercontinental missile.
The Russian defense ministry says the Bulava missile was launched from a submerged [...]
November 30, 2009 – 9:17 pm
United States Navy marine mammal experts train a sea lion in Italy on November 24.
Gliding through the water to locate mines, handcuff terrorists and take part in surveillance these amazing animals are the real Navy Seals.
Incredible pictures capture one of the latest military demonstrations showing how sea lions and other marine mammals are [...]
November 25, 2009 – 5:13 pm
Some 573 000 lines of messages sent to pagers on September 11, 2001 have been published by a website that posts documents that are “classified, censored or otherwise opaque to the public record.”
Members of the private-sector, governmental and unclassified military pagers were recipients of the message.
The site WikiLeaks explains the disclosures like this:
From 3AM on [...]
October 30, 2009 – 12:44 pm
The National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution has put on display a life-sized oil painting of an army sergeant whose face was badly scarred in a fuel explosion in Iraq.
Among some 49 finalists in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, which recognizes modern portraiture, is Matthew Mitchell’s portrait of Retired Army Sgt. Richard Yarosh.
According to [...]
August 31, 2009 – 2:03 am
The U.S. Navy’s MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff and Landing Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) stands tall after a day of flight operations onboard the USS McInerney (FFG-8).
A state-of-the-art unmanned helicopter is about to begin military service bringing a new remote controlled killing device into the world of warring. The drone chopper — known [...]