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Military Equipment

Patriot missiles readied at Kadena air base on Japan's southern island of Okinawa

  Barrett M107 .50 Caliber sniper rifle

US to give Israel amazing x-band FBX-T radar system

fbx-t radar

Video of the new F-35 BF-01 Lightning II during Ground Testing

South Korea's new XK-2 MBT submersible tank

korean submersible tank

Military shotgun - AA-12 - World's deadliest

military shotgun

frag 12 shotgun shell

M38865 Recoilless Nuclear Rifle from 1962 - portable Armageddon

 M65 Recoiless Nuclear Rifle from 1962 - portable Armageddon

Dramatic Antarctic rocket assisted take off

JATO herc takeoff antarctica

A chemical weapons disposal suit

chemical weapons disposal suit

Military developing awesome rail gun

US lost track of 190,000 weapons given to Iraqi forces

Presidential military protection SUV video

SUV weapon system

Russian made armor piercing grenades in Iraq

Armor piercing grenades Iraq

How about this for a gun - M-32 Multiple shot Grenade Launcher

Canadian Leopard Tanks in Afghanistan

Pictures of Nuclear subs being refitted

HMS Astute is the largest and deadliest hunter-killer submarine ever built

Top secret NOSS anti terrorism sea tracking satellites launched

Heavily armed robotic frisbees of death

Cornershot - Gun Shoots around Corners  (with Youtube videos)

US military pain weapon being developed.

Military invent giant walking spiders...

The Sheriff - LAV mounted Microwave systems sent to Iraq

Sniper rifle shoots GPS chips into people

New military Smart Truck

USA purchases Russian "UFOS"

Is the stryker a dud?

Apache choppers suck, but warthogs rule!

New Line-of-Sight Antitank gun on HumVee

New Spy sub - Jimmy-carter launched

Welcome to the phaser

Bomb jamming software developed

High energy bolts to be used against Iraq

Recent Military Posts

WW2 Vet talks about playing his trumpet during D Day to German snipers - video
An excellent video of a WW2 soldier recounting his experiences on the beaches of Normandy and his decision to play his trumpet to the German snipers. http://www.liveleak.com/e/2e2_1283181674
Portable full body scan machines in vans used to scan passing vehicles - video
A truck mounted backscatter x-ray scanner can scan vehicles it passes for dangerous goods anonymously. There are 500 of these vehicles now in the USA. ... American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold U.S. ...
F-15 and Mustang at airshow - photo
An F-15E Strike Eagle and P-51 Mustang perform a heritage flight Aug. 15, 2010, during the Abbotsford International Air Show in British Columbia. The F-15E is assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C. (U.S. Air Force......
The only woman ever to be in the French Foreign Legion
A British tennis-playing socialite became the only woman in the French Foreign Legion, leading a daring, wartime, desert escape. She would have been 100 this week and her story remains inspirational, writes biographer and friend Wendy Holden. ... Whe...
Parade ground riot leaves many injured in Russia - video
The Brigade is located in Naro-Fominsk, in Moscow\'s region and the fight is between Russians and Dagestanis. ... This happened in late July and was covered up by military until this leaked video. Dagestanis had previous small scuffles with Russian r...
61 trucks with 300 tons of explosives go missing in India only 4 found - empty
Some 61 trucks loaded with over 300 tons of explosives have gone missing in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, a senior police official said Friday. ... \"The trucks were sent from a state-owned factory, Rajasthan Explosives and Chemicals Li...
New military explosive safer for storage and less dangerous - IMX-101
The U.S. Army recently qualified a new explosive that has the same lethality as traditional TNT, but is far less likely to explode if dropped, shot at or hit by a roadside bomb during transport. ... The new formula, called IMX-101 (Insensitive Muniti...
Untouched crashed Focke-Wolfe 190 WW2 fighter found in forest
Imagine being out in the forest and finding an intact and untouched WW2 Focke-Wolfe where it crashed 45 years earlier. ... This Focke-Wolfe came from Russia, where it had lain for decades, upright and relatively undamaged, in a remote forest east of...
Nothing short of nuclear weapons will beat Iran
When Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking American officer, was asked recently on NBC\'s Meet The Press show whether the United States has a military plan for an attack on Iran, he replied simply: \"We do...
Police officer has M16 mag in the wrong way - picture
A photo shoot for a newspaper goes wrong for one police woman when she is caught posing with the magazine of her M16 is the wrong way around. ...
Big black flying triangles ... military blimps or US spy planes?
Researchers say that these types of vehicles are lighter-than-air, blimp-style craft of the U.S. military\'s making. Likely powered by \"electrokinetic\" drive, the lifting body-shaped airships have been skirting the skies since perhaps the early to....
Israel and Lebanon in battle over a tree 4 dead - video
Israeli soldiers were performing routine operations in a border-area enclave within Israeli territory when they were ambushed by Lebanese troops. During the incident, which took place mid-day Tuesday, Lebanese soldiers ambushed an Israeli Engineering...
Lucky Marine walks away from direct IED attack
An amazing story of how a lucky marine, blown up in the air by an IED came back to earth whole and undamaged. A great read ... SOUTHERN SHORSURAK, HELMAND PROVINCE, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan — Cpl. Matt Garst should be dead. Few people surv...
USS New Orleans Sunk by Harpoon missiles laser guided bombs and finally a barrage of naval gun fire - images
Ex-USS New Orleans served in the United States Navy between 1968 and 1997. The ship was used for high end multi-national target practice during Exercise RIMPAC 2010, being fired upon by Harpoon missiles, laser guided bombs and finally a barrage of......
US Military moving forward with exoskeleton for troops - video
The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Center awarded US$1.1 million for the testing and evaluation of Lockheed Martin HULC advanced robotic exoskeleton, designed to augment Soldiers’ strength and endurance, as well as reduce load carriage injuries. Dismounted...
British Defence industry reveal unmanned combat aircraft
The UK Ministry of Defence revealed an advanced unmanned combat aircraft prototype. Named after the Celtic god of thunder, Taranis will be used to help British engineers develop a fully-functioning, autonomous stealthy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle ......
The Palestinian rubbish truck missile carrier - picture
Check out this nice innocent garbage truck, once the tray is elevated it becomes a deadly rocket launcher able to fire 9 Kasem rockets and then drive off undetected. ... The note pasted on the drivers door says In case of traffic violations, please c...
Marines trial autonomous support vehicles - video
The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory worked closely with Virginia Tech and TORC to develop the four GUSS vehicles. The GUSS vehicles can carry up to 1,800 pounds and move at the speed of a troop on foot, or about five miles per hour. ... The mult...
North Korea reveals Top Secret military tech - airborne traffic platforms
Recently North Korea revealed a top secret project they have been working on, airdropped traffic girls. A military spokesperson stated that: We developed traffic control platforms that can be airdropped to any location we choose. First the......
Military create tool to hijack power from power lines
Power lines crisscross the skies, delivering electricity with the flip of a switch. But what happens when a soldier is outside, away from an electrical outlet, and unable to access electricity to power equipment or recharge batteries? ... An engineer...
Iran refuses to take part in getting its ass kicked by Israel
Iran will not send a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza as it had planned to do on Thursday, according to a report from the official news agency of Iran. ... The Islamic Republic News Agency quoted Hossein Sheikholeslam, secretary-general of the ...
Cute kids look forward to dying as martyrs in choir song
Palestinian children sing about how nice it will be to be martyrs. The source is an Islamic satellite channel for children called \"Birds of Paradise\" which broadcasts from Bahrain and aired in Gaza. The children\'s choir is also called \"Birds of....
Russian Special Forces show off their military prowess - video
Blowing up buses, dragging people behind vehicles, running up the front of moving vehicles, lying on broken glass, beating each other up. The Russian Special Forces put on a show. I would be more impressed with the pole breaking if they were far... ...
Hamas video tells people not to use evil facebook or the Internet as it will lead to them getting hung
Here is a public-service advertisement being aired by Hamas in Gaza. ... It shows a man about to be hung, and flashbacks on the crimes that caused him to get to this point - looking at porn on the Internet and using Facebook, which leads him into ...
Secret Service Counter Snipers - Video
The Counter sniper Support Unit was created in 1971, to provide specialized protective support to defend against long-range threats to Secret Service protectees. Today CS is an operational element of the Presidential Protective Division. This video.....
Iraqi soldiers use magic wands to detect explosives - US military say its a dangerous hoax - Update: Iraq still using them
Iraq is STILL using the fake bomb detecting wands! ... A bomb-detector long exposed as useless continues to be used by the Iraqi Army and police at hundreds of checkpoints in Baghdad as their chief method of finding out if vehicles contain explosives...
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress survives direct hit in WW2 returns home
The nose of the B-17 Fortress was a scene of utter destruction. It was as though some giant aerial can opener had peeled the nose like an orange, relocating shreds of metal, plexiglass, wires and tubes on the cockpit windshield and even up to the top...
Taliban hang 7 year old boy as a spy
Suspected Taliban militants publicly hanged a 7-year-old boy for spying in the militant stronghold of Helmand province. The child was placed on trial by the Islamic extremist group and later found guilty of working for Afghan President Hamid Karzai\....
Corruption dooms Russian military renewal to failure
Russia\'s new plan to modernize their military is only repeating failed promises made in 2007. Corruption in the military takes up to 50% of the total costs making a mockery of the Russian military\'s ability to keep to a plan. ... At a meeting on s...
Lost battlefield found in Papa New Guinea - untouched since WW2
An Australian trekker has uncovered the site of a World War II battle in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, with the bodies of at least three Japanese soldiers still lying where they fell in 1942. ... Former army captain Brian Freeman, an expert on the...
Harrier crash lands in Kandahar after engine failure - video
Looks like the pilot came in too hard and too fast. He stays with the plane until the cockpit caches fire then ejects to safety. Apparently the pilot had engine failure on approach to Kandahar. I am surprised that the weapons didn\'t explode. ... A...
Military scramjet test hits Mach 5 - with no moving parts
An X-51A Waverider flight test vehicle successfully made the longest ever supersonic ramjet-powered flight today off the Southern California coast. The engine, called a scramjet, operates hypersonically at speeds greater than mach 5 and has no moving...
Military parachute drop goes wrong - jumper just hangs around for a while - video
It seems that a jumper on a military parachute run gets hooked up in the cables and remains outside the plane, until they managed to cut him free. Must have been a shock for the jumper. ... Comments on the video ... These are UK troops doing...
X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle's secret mission discovered
As the Space Shuttle flies into its last launches, the US military are about to undertake a test flight of its new unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. ... The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle in the encapsulation cell at the Astrotech facility in April 20...
Oops ... Military Tank accidents...
Series of photos and videos of some military accidents mostly accidents with tanks :) Fascinating.

Military articles, pictures and videos

British navy cutbacks mean self-defence missiles on two Royal Navy destroyers get left at home

RPG solider panics and throws away weapon - funny video

French military collapsing

Al Qaeda admits to losing in Iraq

US soldiers operating from military Harley Davidson motorcycles

£10 million unmanned Reaper spy plane crashed in Afghanistan

Reporter on mounted night patrol in Iraq videos firefight

British Army's Land Rover replacement - Jackal

AK-47 blows up on a security contractor at a range in Fallujah - Iraq

Chinook heli hovering in the sea so SEALs can run their Zodiac boat right inside- video

Camouflage at work in Afghanistan

Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle gets hit by IED

Dramatic Antarctic rocket assisted take off

JATO herc takeoff antarctica

Military cargo drops that go wrong - video

military cargo drop video

Death from the sky - Apache attack video

Point-Of-View Carrier Landing - video

video of plane landing on carrier

Massive bomb demolishes building in Iraq - video

Do the Chinese control the worlds military through Chinese made chips?

When you bury your IED too deep - Iraq explosion video

IED explosion video

Exploding ordnance in Iraq

Old ordnance explosion

Robot anti aircraft gun goes berserk kills 9 and wounds 11

The secret war on the Iran border - SAS vrs gun smugglers

Death from the sky - Apache attack video

Israeli drone captures dramatic fighting video

Amazing military exoskeleton close to operational - video

Soldiers create bullet proof face shield for Humvee turret gunners

Gripping article on the ambush of Marines in Samarra

Boeing unveils Humvee mounted laser system success

F35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter helmet

Ongoing news about the Israeli strike on the Syrian Nuclear facilities

New Zealand is running out of soldiers, have only 1 Battalion worth.

Chinese sub gatecrashes American war games

Helmet mounted display

Bizarre military death - navigator falls out of plane 

Canadian Sniper in Afghanistan - video

canadian sniper video

The US Army defends against Taliban attack at Peach River in Afghanistan - video

Gripping article on the ambush of Marines in Samarra

In Egypt WW2 mines still kill

WW2 P32 fighter found after 65 years

WW2 fighter found

What are these? - bombs? - Sea mines?

Strange bombs

New Zealand down to one military Hercules

Ongoing news about the Israeli strike on the Syrian Nuclear facilities

The Turkish Kurdish conflict pictures

Massive weapons haul found in Iraq - pictures

 massive weapons find in Iraq

One marine and one ship survived to change the war in the pacific

Low flying B52 planes

B54 low flying

Australian Bushmaster vehicles get hit by IEDs - pictures

How not to test body armor

Canadian Leopard Tanks in Afghanistan

British forces using bayonets in Iraq

British Marine commandos get stuck in the mud

marines get stuck in the mud

RAF Afghanistan - Apaches in action video

Wounded Australian private security operator 'left for dead by Americans'

When you go to war first pack your spoon

IDF soldier falls asleep on military operation gets left behind

Canadian Troops Storm The Enemy in Early Morning battle

Predator kill of insurgent rocket team

F16 strafe an escaping truck after IED explosion

Captured terrorists confess their deeds on video

Lone South African sub outwits NATO forces in war game - sinks all the NATO ships.

Massive truck bomb explosion in Iraq - video

Massive Iraqi truck bomb

British Marine commandos get stuck in the mud

marines get stuck in the mud

Oops ... military Tank accidents...

 barell explodes on tank

Iraqi police worked with Iranians in US base invasion that killed 5

When you bury your IED too deep - Iraq explosion video

IED explosion video

 British SAS get a pay rise to stop attrition

Video of automatic Glock 17 pistol

Military want to control the weather

Military videos

Transparent aluminum armor

Amazing tank accidents

Mini unmanned Helicopter thinks for Itself

British marines Vrs the Taleban

Navy FTM-10 Ballistic Missile Defense Video from June 22 2006

Taliban funeral spy drone picture released

Are Americas carriers sitting ducks? - Russian missile is unstoppable. Navy adopt head in sand approach.

British army spends more feeding its dogs than soldiers.

British forces using bayonets in Iraq

Russian T34 tank pulled from lake, after 56 years. Still runs.

Ma look what we dug up! Two fully working WW2 Russian tanks found in bog

Russian tank found in bog

Map of military armaments around Russia

RAF Afghanistan - Apaches in action video

When you go to war first pack your spoon

Road in Afghanistan

How not to test body amour

Truck convoy gets hit in Iraq, soldiers flee leaving the drivers. One driver films the attack and sees two other drivers executed.

Combat video from the unreported war in Afghanistan

3 Para Terry Taliban video in Afghanistan (Youtube military video)

Jeremy Clarkson and why the RAF is crap

Are subs obsolete?

The Arms race has begun with Nth Korea, and its winning...

Israel's constant eye in the sky...

How America won the war

The rise of the machines in war

Does America have Anti Gravity?

US lost track of 190,000 weapons given to Iraqi forces