Articles tagged "Navy"

The ship ran aground on January 17th, and it wasn't until March 29 that salvage teams finally were able to remove the 223-foot ship after sectioning it on the reef.

The Navy's stayed vague about what exactly these aqua-drones will do, but common sense suggests it could be something violent.

Wait a minute, rewind. Killer Ukrainian Dolphins? Yes.

Bomb-sniffing dolphins are headed the way of the dodo.

The Cold War is over, but Russia's not acting like it.

In a test of human limits, the U.S. Navy blasted men in the face with high speed winds.

Remember _The Hunt for the Red October_, that terrific movie from the 1990s starring Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery running around on submarines? The Red October was this new Soviet super sub that was virtually undetectable by radar and rigged up with…

The U.S. Navy wasn't kidding when they said they wanted to transition their fleet on to a more sustainable fuel model. The announcement came earlier this summer when top brass finally came to the realization that it didn't make great sense to continu…

After a private memorial, Neil Armstrong will be buried at sea in an intricate military ceremony.

The lifeblood of a modern military is oil. Even the Navy, with all of its nuclear-powered vessels, still needs prodigious quantities of dino juice to power the multitudes of support ships and aircraft that make up the bulk of our fleet. Now, top bras…

When you look at it from the front, the new Navy X-47B sort of stares back like like a 14-ton cyclops from an alien world. The thing is so uncanny that when they shipped it across the country to its testing grounds in Maryland on the back of a truck

Every month, over 40,000 applications are made with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. About half that number of actual patents are granted monthly—usually after several years of review and refinement. (Legit patent applications are published 18 m…

The vast majority of technological progress effects our above-ground environs. Which makes sense, because that's where we live. And the great bulk of tech innovation these days is a mad dash to improve our relationship with the environment we routine…

If the most powerful armed force in history isn’t winning in reality, it certainly is on the big screen. And like so many problematic aspects of late capitalism, the military-Hollywood complex has a grimly understandable logic. For example, consider…

Transformers, the concept, is the defining ontological challenge of our time. Clue, the film, is a definitive text of the American avant-garde. So the problem is not, as various troglodytes might claim, a toy-based movie in the abstract. No, Battlesh…

With all of the press coverage afforded to struggles to uncover our government's secrets -- like high-profile Freedom of Information Act requests for torture docs -- t's sometimes easy to forget that, occasionally, top secret stuff gets released thro…

Normally I tend to ignore anything happening with military technology advancement, first of all because the fact that some of the most cutting edge scientific research goes towards creating better and more efficient human killing machines is terrifyi…

Yikes! The Navy has issued "a proposal":http://www.dodsbir.net/solicitation/sttr11A/navy11A.htm for U.S. nerds to build it “a coordinated and distributed swarm of micro-robots” capable of manufacturing “novel materials and structures." How useful, ro…