Topic: W A R - on April 11, 2007 at 12:00:00 PM CEST
Iranian envoy wounds 'confirmed'
The head of the International Red Cross in Tehran says he saw wounds on an Iranian diplomat who has alleged that US forces in Iraq tortured him.
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Topic: W A R - on April 11, 2007 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
one sniper hunt 3 u.s. soldiers in one attack
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a film shows a group of iraqi resisitance snipe 3 us soldiers while they moving in a routine patrol
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Topic: W A R - on April 11, 2007 at 11:49:00 AM CEST
I laughed so hard I cried.
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Topic: W A R - on February 25, 2007 at 12:46:00 PM CET
Record power for military laser
A laser developed for military use is a few steps away from hitting a power threshold thought necessary to turn it into a battlefield weapon.
The Solid State Heat Capacity Laser (SSHCL) has achieved 67 kilowatts (kW) of average power in the laboratory.
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Topic: W A R - on February 23, 2007 at 12:35:00 PM CET
No "Go Pills"; Air Force Wants Sleep-Fighting Lamps
All kinds of companies sell special lights that supposedly can wake up jet-lagged travelers -- or even cure the "wintertime blues." The Air Force thinks there may be something to the lamps. It's shopping for a "Short-Wavelength Countermeasure for Circadian Desynchrony."
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Topic: W A R - on February 23, 2007 at 12:33:00 PM CET
US killer robots take jobs from flyboys, dolphins
"Team Warrior", a killer robot manufacturing alliance led by General Atomics of San Diego, CA, announced yesterday that its Warrior Extended Range/Multi Purpose Unmanned Aerial Vehicle System (ERMP UAS) would enter production for the US Army, another step in the US forces' ongoing effort to automate most military activities.
The Warrior is based on the design of the existing US Air Force Predator, which is already in action in southwest Asia and has also been used by the CIA for assassination missions.
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Topic: W A R - on February 14, 2007 at 1:41:00 PM CET
Soldiers Like FCS Test Systems So Much, They Don't Want to Return Them
Testing for some of the systems slated for the first "spin out" of the Army's Future Combat Systems program has gone well, except for one minor glitch: the Soldiers testing them don't want to give the prototypes back.
"They won't give me back my stuff," joked Maj. Gen. Charles A. Cartwright, program manager for the Future Combat Systems Brigade Combat Team, as he briefed reporters on the progress of the program at the Pentagon last week
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Topic: W A R - on February 7, 2007 at 1:51:00 PM CET
Hiroshima, the pictures they didn't want us to see
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed about 250.000 people and became the most dreadful slaughter of civilians in modern history. However, for many years there was a curious gap in the photographic records.
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Topic: W A R - on January 25, 2007 at 10:52:00 AM CET
US military unveils heat-ray gun
The US military has given the first public display of what it says is a revolutionary heat-ray weapon to repel enemies or disperse hostile crowds.
The gun - called Silent Guardian - projects an invisible high energy beam that produces a sudden burning feeling, but is actually harmless.
The beam can be fired as far as 500m (550 yards), much further than existing non-lethal weapons like rubber bullets.
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Topic: W A R - on January 23, 2007 at 4:09:00 PM CET
Military Builds Robotic Insects
If you feel something crawling on your neck, it might be a wasp or a bee. Or it might be something much more dangerous.
Israel is developing a robot the size of a hornet to attack terrorists. And although the prototype will not fly for three years, killer Micro Air Vehicles, or MAVs, are much closer than that.
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Topic: W A R - on January 19, 2007 at 4:30:00 PM CET
Chinese Test Anti-Satellite Weapon
U. S. intelligence agencies believe China performed a successful anti-satellite (asat) weapons test at more than 500 mi. altitude Jan. 11 destroying an aging Chinese weather satellite target with a kinetic kill vehicle launched on board a ballistic missile.
The Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, NASA and other government organizations have a full court press underway to obtain data on the alleged test, Aviation Week & Space Technology will report in its Jan. 22 issue.
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Topic: W A R - on January 19, 2007 at 11:33:00 AM CET
The battle to save Iraq's children
The desperate plight of children who are dying in Iraqi hospitals for the lack of simple equipment that in some cases can cost as little as 95p is revealed today in a letter signed by nearly 100 eminent doctors.
They are backed by a group of international lawyers, who say the conditions in hospitals revealed in their letter amount to a breach of the Geneva conventions that require Britain and the US as occupying forces to protect human life.
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