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military
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Be Afraid – Introducing The Most Powerful Militaries In The World
13 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
These are the top 10 military forces in the world. Global Firepower has determined which country has the most powerful military. The company used different statistics gathered about each country and produced a “power index”.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
12 Sep 2012 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
SA military on high alert. Zuckerberg breaks silence over stock. iPhone 5 launches today. Is Kate pregnant? Kristen and Rob back together? Sheryl Crow blames cellphones for cancer.
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Soldiers’ Moving Farewell Haka Goes Viral [VIDEO]
28 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For most of us, the haka is something the All Blacks do before a rugby test, and not much more. In reality though, hakas are performed throughout New Zealand, not only by Maori. This moving, farewell haka performed by a passionate military unit captures the emotional weight of the war cry and has captivated thousands of viewers around the world.
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Soldiers Dance In Streets After Kim Jong-Un Becomes Head Of Military [GALLERY & VIDEO]
19 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Yesterday reports surfaced that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had been given the title of Marshal – the country’s highest military rank. And how did the troops respond? Turns out they were so ecstatic that spontaneous dancing broke out in the streets!
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Thieves Make Off With 70 Grenades
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Police are currently on the hunt for a group of thieves that have made of with a box containing about 70 grenades. The grenades were stolen from a delivery bakkie in Hammanskraal near Pretoria. The explosives were being transported from Cape Town.
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The US Army Has A Laser-Guided Lightning Gun
29 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In more news to terrify you, the US Army has released photographs depicting their new laser-guided lightning gun blowing up a car. They’re calling it the Laser-Induced Plasma Channel (LIPC) because it’s important to make the ability to call down lightning with a laser pointer sound safe.
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Climb Any Wall With This Backpack [VIDEO]
13 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Often the US military needs to send soldiers to places that aren’t exactly “entry-friendly”. So they devised a contest to get the brightest young minds working on their problem, and from beneath all the riffraff came this awesome wall-climbing backpack. Click through to see it in action.
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North Korea Issues “Open Ultimatum” To Blow Up Seoul Media Outlets
04 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the Kim family, apart from a failure to launch. In an unusually detailed statement from the North Korean military, a new threat has been issued against the south following its coverage of a mass children’s event in North Korea, which was highly critical of the unitary-party state.
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This Is The US Military’s Incredibly Creepy Robotic Quadruped [VIDEO]
10 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Thanks to Hollywood and entertainment media when we think of robots we tend to imagine humanoid machines, sometimes so closely resembling their real-life counterparts that the two are almost indiscernible. Because of that, there’s nothing that can really adequately prepare for this headless robotic monstrosity conjured up by the bright minds at DARPA.
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New Report Says The Taliban Will Take Back Afghanistan
01 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A US Military Intelligence Report, known as the “State of the Taliban 2012”, was leaked to the BBC and The Times recently. This report shows that the Taliban, backed by Pakistan, is set to take control of Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US and NATO forces. That’s pretty damn scary.
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Iran Threatens To Take Military Action Against USA
03 Jan 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Iran’s army has warned that it will take action against America if a particular US aircraft carrier, which was moved due to naval exercises, returns to Iranian waters. The threat sounds far from empty, too.
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Naval Officer Convicted For Spanking Female Colleague
13 Dec 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Australia’s military is becoming notorious for its culture of drinking and sexism. Which is probably not much fun if you’re a woman. A senior naval officer has just been convicted of no fewer than seven counts of indecency without consent. He’d been engaging in some pretty questionable behaviour in the workplace, including spanking a female sailor’s bare buttocks to “test her discipline and compliance”.
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Google Earth Finds Chinese Military Test Range in Gobi Desert
15 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Massive unidentified structures have been spotted from space by Google Earth. The weird shapes, one of which contains three jets parked in what looks like a concentric circle, are raising all sorts of concerns. The reasons for this is that they come from the Gobi desert, which is a region that is well known for it’s use by China for testing it’s military, space and nuclear programmes.
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America’s Unmanned Combat Drones Infected With Computer Virus
10 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Well this can only end well. The US Air Force’s unmanned combat drones in the “Predator” and “Reaper” class have been infected with computer viruses that they can’t get rid of, in case you weren’t sufficiently terrified of the world when you woke up this morning.
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AlphaDog: The Latest In Terrifying, Military-Grade Robotics [VIDEO]
03 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Boston Dynamics, a tech company working under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has released the latest in its BigDog project line – Alpha Dog, an SUV-sized, four-legged robot equipped to carry a little under 200kg in gear over a range of 32km, in harsh conditions. It’s a giant, terrifying, military robot dog. Take a look.
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The US Army Wants Their Gear To Be Powered By Android
06 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
‘Nett Warrior,’ the military program that aims to give soldiers the tools for communications and mapping with each has been put on ice. It seems the US army have decided to cut a couple of kilograms in the solider’s kit and go with civilian technology. And they’re going Google.
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Fake Army Recruited In American Immigration Scam
15 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A resident of Temple City, California, is accused of running a fake military recruitment centre, where Chinese would-be-immigrants were made to pay to join a “special forces reserve” unit that would supposedly improve their chances of becoming US citizens. The “unit” is well known in Los Angeles, and was assumed to be genuine.
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