Category: Military

Have you ever wondered what Oscar-Tango-Mike means? Knowing the NATO Phonetic Alphabet can answer that for you.

The air war over Europe was a bloody affair for Allied pilots flying bombing missions over occupied Europe and Germany. Large bomber formations were savaged by flak and/or German fighters. Losses were so heavy that any crew that survived 25 missions were sent home. Few did. Things would soon change, however, as the P-51 Mustang […]

Joining the military is an honor and an act far greater than yourself, which is why going AWOL or desertion can have grave consequences under military law.

Peanut butter shot sounds so sweet, right? Nope, it’s not sweet. It’s one of the vaccines that soldiers receive while in boot camp.

The U.S. Navy has tested a high-energy laser in the Gulf of Aden putting China and Iran on notice that its hypersonic missile developments may have been a big waste of time and money.

C-Ram Intercepts One Rocket While Another Lands In Civilian Neighborhood Two Katyusha rockets were fired towards the Green Zone where the US embassy is located in Baghdad on Saturday night, according to Iraq’s state-run news service quoting Iraqi security officials. The U.S. Embassy’s C-RAM defense system was activated to intercept the rocket fire. One rocket […]

Taiwan has never been a participant in the U.S. Navy’s largest military exercise, the Rim of the Pacific or RIMPAC. Aggression by Communist China has prompted Congress to tell the Department of Defense to include Taiwan in the next RIMPAC as a show of solidarity with the island nation.

Using a football as an anti-tank grenade? The US Army once attempted to use Nerf balls as anti-tank grenades. Here’s how it turned out.

Israeli F-16s bomb Syria’s largest airport leaving three perfectly spaced craters 600 meters apart on the runway. This is the latest in a series of attacks by Israel on the Iranian presence within Syria.

When an AI-directed weapon does kill the wrong person, it will be very easy to shift the blame to the robot itself saying it got confused or mistook or misunderstood something.  The truth is though that everything that AI program does, or reacts to, or decides to do was programmed by a flawed human.

Mike Wimmer is not your ordinary 13-year-old boy. Let’s have a look into what he’s achieved at such a young age.

The game Call of Duty gives us a glimpse of what it’s like in the warzone minus the consequences… or maybe not.