Archive for the 'War' Category
U.S. Navy Tests Armed Drone Boat
October 28th, 2012Via: Wired: Killer robots have officially gone out to sea. For the first time, the Navy has fired missiles from a remote-controlled boat, as shown in the video above. The firing came as part of a test off the Maryland coast on Wednesday. Six of Rafael’s anti-armor Spike missiles got fired off a moving inflatable […]
‘Marines, Police Prep for Mock Zombie Invasion’
October 28th, 2012Maybe zombie invasion is supposed to sound better than civil war. Via: AP: Move over vampires, goblins and haunted houses, this kind of Halloween terror aims to shake up even the toughest warriors: An untold number of so-called zombies are coming to a counterterrorism summit attended by hundreds of Marines, Navy special ops, soldiers, police, […]
U.S. Expands Secretive Drone Base for African Shadow War
October 28th, 2012Via: Wired: The Pentagon’s secretive drone and commando base in the Horn of Africa is getting a lot bigger and a lot busier as the U.S. doubles down on its shadowy campaign of air strikes, robot surveillance and Special Operation Forces raids in the terror havens of Yemen and Somalia. Camp Lemonnier, originally a French […]
China Unicom Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns
October 27th, 2012Via: Morning Whistle: China Unicom has replaced Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ.CSCO) in one of the country’s most important backbone networks, citing security reasons, the 21st Century Business Herald reported. The replacement project targets “China169,” Cisco’s backbone network router of Wuxi node, in Jiangsu province. Analysts indicated that the product vulnerability and back door problems are […]
President Romney Can Thank Obama for His Permanent Robotic Death List
October 25th, 2012Via: Wired: It’s a good thing that Mitt Romney endorsed President Obama’s counterterrorism agenda. Should he win the election in two weeks, Romney will inherit an institutionalized, bureaucratic machine for using lethal robots to target and kill suspected terrorists and their allies. Killing Osama bin Laden was a one-time event; this “Disposition Matrix” is Barack […]
DARPA’s Pet-Proto Robot
October 25th, 2012Via: DARPA: In this video, the Pet-Proto, a predecessor to DARPA’s Atlas robot, is confronted with obstacles similar to those robots might face in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC). To maneuver over and around the obstacles, the robot exercises capabilities including autonomous decision-making, dismounted mobility and dexterity.
CHAMP – Lights Out
October 24th, 2012In other news, Panetta warns of “cyber Pearl Harbor”. *wink* Via: Boeing: Cruising fast over the Western Utah Desert, a lone missile makes history at the Utah Test and Training Range. The missile, known as CHAMP, or Counter-electronics High-powered Advanced Missile Project may one day change modern warfare, by defeating electronic targets with little or […]
U.S. Navy: Laser Arsenal Is Just Two Years Away
October 24th, 2012Also, click through for a must-see picture of the BIOSwimmer, which looks like it was invented by SPECTRE. Via: Wired: “On directed energy” — the term for the Navy’s laser cannons, “I’d say two years,” Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, the chief of the Office of Naval Research, told Danger Room in a Monday interview. The […]
Iran Threatens to Halt Crude Exports If Sanctions Intensify
October 23rd, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Iran will suspend all oil exports, pushing global crude prices higher, if the U.S. and Europe tighten sanctions further on the OPEC member’s economy, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi warned. “If you continue to add to the sanctions, we will stop our oil exports to the world,” he said at a news conference in […]
U.S. Mercenaries Drunk, Shooting IV Drugs in Afghanistan
October 18th, 2012Via: ABC News: Cellphone video recorded earlier this year at an operations center of a U.S. defense contractor in Kabul, Afghanistan appears to show key personnel staggeringly drunk or high on narcotics, in what former employees say was a pattern of outrageous behavior that put American lives at risk and went undetected by U.S. military […]
