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This Air-To-Air Missile For Sale On Ebay Was Once Britain's Most Prized Weapon

The great thing about eBay is that it has a little bit of everything, but this De Haviland Firestreak missile may be a first.The De Haviland was employed for 31 years by the UK, Kuwait, and Saudi...

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Every Jet Fighter In The US Today Is A Result Of The Navy's FJ Fury [PHOTOS]

Aircraft consume a huge portion of the money spent every year on defense by Washington, everything from hand launched drones to immense transport planes, but nothing costs more than a new fighter...

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The US Military's 'Bath Salts' Prevention Video Is Completely Terrifying

Bath Salts have been making headlines the last couple years. From face eating zombies (later blamed on marijuana) to completely hallucinated police raids, the designer drug has prompted reactions on...

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The US And New Zealand Secretly Tested The First Tsunami Bomb

It's not often that news of a massive military breakthrough comes out of New Zealand, but local author Ray Waru has changed that for good.Waru wrote in his new book "Secrets and Treasures" that the...

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One Chart Shows How The 'Gun Control' Debate Vanished From National Attention

We all know American media is a fickle beast, but a few charts out of Politico today show that fickleness bordering on the worst of attention deficit disorder — it may even cross into a total lack of...

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Missteps By CIA's Shadowy Military Wing Highlight The Agency's Troubling...

In the years since the Afghanistan invasion, the CIA, long a covert intelligence gathering body, entered a phase of growing militancy that has rendered headline after headline in U.S. mainstream media...

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2012's Last Military Death Shows Pitfall Of Long Term Conflict

Army PFC. Markie T. Sims wasn't even 10 years old when agents from the CIA and Army special operators touched down in Northern Afghanistan.The year was 2001.Ostensibly the American units were there to...

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The World's Largest Naval Station Is Packed Tight For Christmas

The Navy does its best to get troops home for the holidays when it can, but this display at Norfolk Naval base is still more the exception than the rule.Nine "Flattops," five aircraft carriers, and...

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A Message From The Warrior Class To Senator Feinstein On Her Gun Control Bill

The U.S. is awash in well-trained warriors, fresh from comba,t while it also faces off on gun control issues.That includes more than 5 million Post 9/11 vets who may not take lightly any new...

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This Combat Vet's Story Will Make You Feel So Good You Almost Have To Read It

Washington Stationed for 13 months along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in 2007 and 2008, Brian Thompson had a lot of time to wonder what could come next for him.In charge of a mortar squad with the...

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Venezuelans Are Really Freaked Out About Cancer-Stricken Chávez's Prognosis

CARACAS, Venezuela -- Minerva Nuñez watches Venezuela's state television hours each day, waiting for the latest news about cancer-stricken President Hugo Chávez.The updates are often delivered by Vice...

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‘Alice in Wonderland’ Ruling Allows Obama Administration To Keep Drone...

In the latest sign that President Obama's targeted killing program may be forever shrouded in secrecy, U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon has denied a Freedom of Information Request from the American...

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How Obama's 'Disposition Matrix' Decides The Fate Of 'Terrorists'

Over the past two years, the Obama administration has begun to formalize a so-called "disposition matrix" for suspected terrorists abroad: a continuously evolving database that spells out the...

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Volatile Venezuela Braces Itself For A Dead President

Speculation is growing that Hugo Chavez, long time (and recently re-elected) president of Venezuela, may be losing his long battle with cancer.According to an ABC News report, Dr. Rafael Marquina, a...

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The US Wants Google Exec Eric Schmidt To Cancel Plans To Visit North Korea

The State Department said on Thursday the time was not right for Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and former diplomat Bill Richardson to visit North Korea, which drew international criticism...

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Turkish Web Authenticators Briefly Fake Google Inc.

An agency of the Turkish government deployed a deceptive version of some Google Inc web pages, possibly to monitor activity by its employees, major Internet companies said on Thursday.The reports are...

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Anwar al-Awlaki May Have Bought Hijackers Pre-9/11 Tickets

The FBI suspected that US-born Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, killed in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen, could have bought air tickets for three of the 9/11 hijackers before the attacks, a transparency...

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Pakistani Girl Shot By Taliban Leaves UK Hospital

Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot in the head by the Taliban, has been discharged from the Birmingham hospital where she was being treated.The Queen Elizabeth hospital said...

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The Iraqi Government Has A Problem With Fat Cops

Ihsan Ghaidan, a policeman in one of Iraq's most volatile provinces, admits he stands little chance of promotion and notes his performance is increasingly under the microscope, for one simple reason --...

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The Blimp That Could Change How The World Travels Is Ready To Fly [PHOTOS]

When we first wrote about the Aeroscraft ML866 in October it was still being built, but the airship has finished testing and is preparing for its first flight.Check out the Aeroscraft >Built by...

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