Sixty-five years after it vanished, a Japanese midget submarine that sank an Australian warship in Sydney harbour during the Second World War has yielded up its secrets.The two-man submarine was one of three midgets that sneaked into the harbour in May 1942 to attack the American battle cruiser USS Chicago. Two were damaged and scuttled [...]
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Who ever stated that the Internet was taking over for the view public was speaking right. We’ve already watched videos on YouTube and chuckled. But most are not very good video quality. But I was pleasantly surprised at a slideshow/video done by Kodak. The quality reminds me of watching a special on the History channel, [...]
Season Premiere: Friday March 16th at 10pm/9C!
Mail Call on History Channel
Mail Call : Military Sidearms/Glock Handguns/MG42/WWII British Commando Weapons/Gun Truck Alley: #61. Airs on Friday March 16 12:30 PM
R. Lee Ermey discusses the future of the military sidearm while squeezing in a little trigger time with some Glock handguns. Next, the Gunny sets [...]
When you think DARPA you think high tech military toys. Futuristic stuff for weapons and perhaps exoskeletons and such. I never really thought of human sciences. I thought that the drug testing and similar that was big in the military had died down, and DARPA was more high technology any ways. [...]
What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered just over a mile across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their [...]
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Three Somali police speedboats and a U.S. military vessel were headed Monday toward a U.N.-chartered cargo ship hijacked by pirates, a senior police official said.
Somali pirates boarded the MV Rozen — which had just delivered a total of 1,800 metric tons (1,884 US tons) of food aid in northern Somalia — on Sunday, taking the [...]
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An American senior citizen killed an alleged mugger with his bare hands, and his traveling companions aboard a tour bus fended off two other assailants in the Atlantic coast city of Limon, police said.The American, who is about 70 years old and retired from the military, put the 20-year-old in a head lock and broke [...]
When you absolutely, positively need that data to survive a nuclear attack. The Military takes certain things seriously, and specs are one of them. They have a spec sheet (or book) on just about anything you can think of. So when a request gets sent out the manufacturer does their best to [...]
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[...] Jerry Lundegaard had a cunning plan. After reading on Newsvine (a popular Social News Web Site) that Michelle Manhart - an Air Force Drill Sergeant was recently removed from active duty for appearing nude in Playboy — he called the Minnesota Star Tribune with a proposal.
And yesterday, 2,600 Minnesota Guardsmen [...]
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