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Air Force Enlists ESPN’s Help For Drone Footage Analysis

12/25/2012, The Air Force has enlisted the help of ESPN in order to go through and perform a thorough analysis on the copious amounts of video footage recorded from drone missions. Considering how the total number of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) [...]

Drugged Bears Used By Air Force To Test Supersonic Ejector Seats

12/21/2012, In the 1950s, pototoes weren’t an option. Animals were the only option, particularly bears. It was the reign of the B-58 Hustle, the first operational supersonic jet bomber capable of Mach 2 flight. When the Air Force, together with Convair, [...]

X-37B Plane Launched Again By Air Force

12/11/2012, The Air Force’s Atlas 5 rocket has sent yet another of the X-37B mini-shuttles off on its maiden repeat flight earlier today, which would possibly mark the beginning of a months-long classified mission that is said to facilitate the testing [...]

Mini bombs could take drone warfare to a whole new level

12/02/2011, While the idea of waging war is never a pleasant thought, we have to admit that it’s partly thanks to war and the need to defend ourselves that we have managed to come up with a variety of new and [...]

U.S. drone fleet hit by computer virus

10/07/2011, It looks like as long as there’s software, there will be viruses, and this time the U.S. military’s Predator and Reaper drone fleet have somehow managed to get themselves infected with a virus. Not just any virus, but a key [...]

US Air Force missile disable enemy electronics

09/26/2011, One of the best ways to win a war is to control the flow of information of the enemy – even better if they don’t know that you are eavesdropping on your their “conversations”. Well, apart from that, making sure [...]

Urban Photonic Sandtable Display 3D system makes it fun to be in the army

03/28/2011, The Air Force and Army will soon be able to deploy their fighting forces in a far more effective and efficient manner after receiving new 3D holographic technology that will help assist military leaders when it comes to battle planning [...]

Air Force Uses Falcon to Protect Man-Made Falcons

08/26/2010, Sometimes, nature and technology don’t always mix, and such is the case with airplanes and birds. The U.S. Air Force is using falcons–the real bird–to protect its own Fighting Falcons–the man-made F16 jets–against flying birds near or in airspace needed [...]