Feb 23, 2008. The B-2 bomber Spirit of Kansas crashes on take off at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. Both pilots ejected safely but the bomber was destroyed at an estimated loss of $1.4 billion.
….and in other news, apparently video cameras on the most secure US military bases, can’t track fast moving objects very […]
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This is a pretty cool way to get out of the water and get airborne in a hurry. It looks f*cking mad!
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Our pasta, who art in a colander, draining be your noodles.
Thy noodle come, Thy sauce be yum, on top some grated Parmesan.
Give us this day our garlic bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trample on our lawns.
And lead us not into vegetarianism, but deliver us some pizza, for thine is […]
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This is one of the best UFO documentaries ever made.
Directed by Jose Escamilla it includes interviews with some very highly credible people and also features footage that is difficult to explain.
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Here is a clip of contractors in Iraq destroying 100 tons of explosives. Impressive blast and shockwave.
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Here is a vid of a reporter trying out the US military’s new heat ray. We posted about this weapon in January here, basically the beam heats the targets skin to 50C causing pain which only ceases when exposure to the beam ends. It is supposedly non-lethal and an ideal way of dispersing crowds. Personally […]
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The US Defence Department has unveiled a new heat beaming weapon that can be used to control mobs or repel enemies.
The weapon which is called the Active Denial System creates an intense burning sensation, causing people to run for cover but leaves no permanent damage. The system can be mounted on a Humvee and uses […]
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The railgun works by sending electric current along parallel rails. It creates an electromagnetic force so powerful it can fire a metal projectile at tremendous speed.
The US Navy are testing a railgun that could be in operation by the year 2020. Instead of gunpowder the weapon uses electricity to fire a projectile, accelerating it along […]
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Sodium is a highly reactive element which undergoes an exothermic (heat releasing) reaction on contact with water. This is an interesting vid of the disposal of 20,000 pounds of post war surplus sodium in a lake.
I can’t imagine organisations like greenpeace allowing something like this to occur today.
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This picture from “Popular Mechanics” graphically illustrates the differences in explosive force of various nuclear weapons. At the far left of the scale are “bunker buster” bombs designed to destroy underground bunkers. Bunker busters vary in yield from less than a kiloton to just over a megaton. At the other end of the scale is […]
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Brilliant CGI re-enactment of the atomic bomb explosion over Hiroshima in 1945, from the BBC documentary “Hiroshima”
The blast killed an estimated 80,000 people with another 60,000 dying in the following months from radiation poisoning or other injuries. The bomb also destroyed approximately 70% of the city’s buildings.
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Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high […]
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