Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean’s surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.
Four men traveled inside the 50-foot wood and fiberglass craft, breathing through the pipes. The craft sailed along at about 7 mph, just six feet beneath the surface, Security [...]
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The legendary World War II aircraft carrier USS Intrepid got stuck in deep Hudson River mud Monday as powerful tugboats fought to pull it free to tow the floating museum down river for a $60 million overhaul.
The mission was scrubbed at around 10:30 a.m. as the tide went down, said Dan Bender, a Coast Guard [...]
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For so many years, historians and casual observers alike have observed the events of World War II through faded black and white images. What most people do not know is the fact that quite a large portion of the WWII was shot using color film! However, it wasn’t until recently that a lot of [...]
They’re used to war around here. In 1485, Henry VII snatched the Crown just 20 miles away at the Battle of Bosworth. A century and a half later, Oliver Cromwell’s troops destroyed the royalists four miles from here at Naseby. During World War II, this very field was an RAF bombing range.
But even the hedgerows [...]
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It’s an all-too-familiar scene from the war in Iraq: A video shows a convoy of combat vehicles patrolling a dusty causeway. Suddenly, a huge detonation erupts next to one, often followed by a determined ambush. Over time, the guerrillas have steadily upgraded the lethality of their roadside bombs, suicide assaults and surprise attacks. This year, [...]
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Canadian troops fighting Taliban militants in Afghanistan have stumbled across an unexpected and potent enemy — almost impenetrable forests of 10-feet-high marijuana plants.
General Rick Hillier, chief of the Canadian defense staff, said on Thursday that Taliban fighters were using the forests as cover. In response, the crew of at least one armored car had camouflaged [...]
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Sonar Finds What May Be Lost Submarine
Underwater sonar images of a black shape against a background of grainy monochrome are safely stored on two computer hard drives at Bruce Abele’s home in Newton, Mass.
Blurred by odd shadows and striations, the silhouettes are the biggest clues in more than 60 years to the fate of [...]
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Robots to race through traffic for Pentagon prize
The winners of last years Pentagon-sponsored robot race are back to take on another challenge — this time to develop a vehicle that can drive through congested city traffic all by itself.
Stanford University, whose unmanned Volkswagen dubbed Stanley won last years desert race, was among 11 teams [...]
Defense Tech: Area 51: Hype vs. Reality
In the October Popular Science, veteran aviation journo Bill Sweetman writes about secret airplanes he believes might be under development at the Air Force’s remote Groom Lake test facility in Nevada, a.k.a. Area 51. Sweetman describes three demonstrators unveiled in recent years — the Northrop Grumman Tacit Blue and [...]
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Skydiver completes 640 jumps in 24 hours - Yahoo! News
Jay Stokes celebrated his 50th birthday by jumping out of an airplane — 640 times.
The veteran skydiver did it to break his own world record of 534 jumps in a 24-hour period. There was no immediate word when his new record might be confirmed by Guinness [...]
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