Articles tagged "weapons"

What the late sci-fi master had to say about the ultimate weapon.

Why did a stencil of Grumpy Cat on a bomb almost rip the Internet apart yesterday?

Come to think of it, a used rocket launcher would make an excellent potato gun.

A New Zealand filmmaker stumbled onto some old WWII military documents showing that the US and New Zealand partnered on a tsunami-inducing weapon that would be used to wipe out coastal towns.

If the Syrian rebels have SAMs, the conflict just got a lot hotter.

Good news for everybody out there who's been paralyzed by fear of a robot takeover in the not too distant future. You know that last resort weapon in _The Matrix_, the one that Keanu Reeves or whoever activates when those stingray-looking robots are

If the design virtues of rocket-propelled grenade launchers prove time and again to be ""cheap killer[s] of technology"":http://changeobserver.designobserver.com/feature/on-the-shoulders-of-rebels/26108/ riding, durably, on the shoulders of rebels an…

Two weeks ago James Holmes, an allegedly fully-grown adult, attempted to emulate his favorite comic book villain by mercilessly shooting 70 people in a movie theater near Denver, killing 12. It was a sad, horrifying, and shameful reminder that no one…

"I got a couple of New Year's Eve photos that were way off the charts. They'd probably give PETA a heart attack," Will Zweigart recalls. "Literally just like, huge lines of coke and the cat's near them with bottles of champagne in the background

It was the second day of the Special Operation Forces Exhibition in Amman, Jordan, and the temperature outside the convention center was around 80 degrees Fahrenheit, with a typical chance of rain of zero. Drones of various sizes hovered in the hot b…

Spencer Ackerman's description to CNN of the feeling of being hit in the body by the Defense Department's "Active Denial System," dubbed "the pain ray," may be the first instance of someone quoting classic gangster rap group Mobb Deep on a cable news…

If the thought of landmines evokes images of war-torn death-scapes (or the haunting boxes of a Windows 3.1 computer game) Brett Van Ort has some photographs you should see.

A decade on and no one knows for certain what the awful, persistent sickness was that followed home the veterans of our last major combat operation.

Since the early 1960s, the rocket propelled grenade launcher has served around the world as "either the sling of David against totalitarian Goliaths or the terrorist’s Saturday night special," "writes design critic Phil Patton":http://changeobserver…