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Dabney B. on
Friday, November 16th, 2012
“We’ve gotta head out at zero-dark-thirty just so we can hurry up and wait. Hopefully it won’t be that long before we haul off to the sandbox.”
Huh?
That’s a good example of military lingo. “Zero-dark-thirty” is what warfighters call the period ...
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Dabney B. on
Thursday, November 15th, 2012
Technology is progressing at a break-neck pace. Engineers are trying to figure out how to equip battleships with lasers, remote-controlled drones are buzzing around the skies, and cyber warfare has become the new big thing in 2012.
With all of this ...
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Dabney B. on
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
If you had to compile a list of the most successful aircraft in US military history, then the line of AC-130 gunships and the C-130 Hercules that they were based on would both be near the top of the list. These massive ...
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Dabney B. on
Tuesday, November 13th, 2012
For thousands of years, the best way to figure out which side would win a war was to determine who had the biggest army and the strongest weapons. That’s largely still true today – you’ll never see a hundred people ...
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Dabney B. on
Monday, November 12th, 2012
The United States' Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency isn’t trying to reinvent the wing, but it is trying to reinvent how we manufacture wings. DARPA wants to tear down the existing military manufacturing process and rebuild the whole thing with a ...
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