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7 Ingenious Weapons From History That Should Never Have Worked
Human ingenuity has a way of triumphing over basic logic, and weapons design is one area where impractical ideas and designs have actually worked out.A recent Quora thread posed the question of "what...
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10 American Black Hawk Helicopters Were Accidentally Blanketed In Fire...
A contractor accidentally triggered a fire suppression system, filling a hangar and a nearby flight line at the Oklahoma National Guard Guard aviation facility in Tulsa with foam, Dan Lamothe reported...
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ISIS Used A Miniature Surveillance Drone In Its Biggest Syria Victory Yet
Recently, video emerged that showed Islamic militants in Syria had acquired a surveillance drone. It marked the first time such technology has been used by the burgeoning terrorist organization, a RAND...
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Russia Is Following A Playbook In Ukraine That It Has Used In Conflicts Since...
We've been here before. Most of the world just wasn't paying attention.When Russian-backed separatists seized control of Georgia's Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions in the early 1990s, it didn't make...
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Pilot Of Crashed F-15 Fighter Jet Found Dead In Virginia
(Reuters) - The pilot of a Massachusetts Air National Guard F-15C fighter that crashed in mountainous western Virginia was found dead on Thursday, officials said.The plane went down on Wednesday in the...
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Here Are Putin's Five Most Likely Battlefield Objectives In Ukraine
I suspect that yesterday will go down as the day that a war to suppress separatists in eastern Ukraine became the first “Russo-Ukrainian War.” It is now clear that regular Russian military units are...
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Over 3 Decades, North Korea Paid Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars For...
From 1969 to 1997, the North Korean leadership purchased expensive full-page ad space in the most prominent western newspapers, Benjamin R. Young reports for NK News. The ads, which cost anywhere from...
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Russia's Increasingly Brazen Moves In Ukraine Are Still Part Of A Stealthy Game
Not long ago, it seemed that pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine were fighting a losing war – but recent events have changed the status quo dramatically.Russia’s delivery of reinforcements to anti-Kiev...
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Russian-Backed Rebels Are Pushing Toward A Major Ukrainian City On The Way To...
Their tanks bearing the flag of their would-be state, Russian-backed separatists held control Friday over this coastal town on the new front in the Ukraine conflict and announced their intention to...
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Here's The Epic Tribute Video For A Police Dog Killed In The Line Of Duty
An Oklahoma City K-9 police dog was laid to rest on August 28 with full honors after being stabbed to death by a burglary suspect on August 24. Kye was three-years-old. The funeral was open to the...
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Two California Cities Are Giving Up The Mine-Resistant Vehicles Their Police...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two Northern California cities have made plans to rid themselves of armored vehicles built to withstand roadside bombs that their police got for free from the U.S. Defense...
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Here's How The Rules Of Engagement Save Lives In Combat
On a day that marks the 150th anniversary of the signing of the first Geneva Convention, it is worth remembering that even warfare has limits. Signed in August 1864, the Geneva Convention was the first...
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This Video Of An Unmanned F-16 Fighter Dodging A Missile Is A Glimpse Into...
The military plane of the future is not likely to have anyone actually inside the aircraft, and a new video released from Boeing gives us a glimpse into what that could look like.Boeing and the U.S....
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White House Denies Report Obama 'Hesitated' On James Foley Rescue Mission
The White House is pushing back on a report in the Sunday Times earlier this week that said Obama "took too long" to authorize the mission to rescue James Foley and other American hostages held by ISIS...
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25 US Marines And Sailors Survive Helicopter Crash In Gulf Of Aden
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy says a Marine Corps helicopter with 25 aboard has crashed in the Gulf of Aden, but all aboard have been rescued.The 17 Marines and eight Navy sailors were recovered and are...
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Why The Kurds Initially Failed Against ISIS In Iraq
The Kurdish peshmerga have enjoyed a reputation as the strongest and fiercest fighting force within Iraq.However, the recent advances by ISIS against Kurdish positions has highlighted some of the key...
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Here's How Putin Might Use The Nuclear Weapons He Keeps Talking About
I don’t miss the Cold War, but apparently Russian President Vladimir Putin does. Either that, or he’s now clinically insane.There aren’t a lot of other explanations for Putin’s nuclear chest-thumping...
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Here's How Heroic Irish Troops Rescued UN Peacekeepers Hunted By Syrian Rebels
Over the weekend, Irish peacekeepers operating in the Golan Heights rescued Filipino troops who were being held captive by the al Qaeda linked group Jabhat Al-Nusra, Garreth MacNamee of the Irish...
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Estonian President Asks NATO To Establish A Permanent Military Base In...
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves says his country wants NATO to set up permanent bases on its territory to protect it against potential threats from Russia.Ilves said on September 2, "We should...
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ISIS Has A Deeply Troubling Campaign To Indoctrinate Children Under Their Rule
One of the many striking differences between the so-called "Islamic State" (IS; formerly ISIS) and its ideological brethren and predecessors in the Salafist-jihadist movement is the unusual degree of...
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