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US Navy Pirated 585K Copies of VR Software
When it comes to software pirates, they tend to download the latest games or even some episodes of Game of Thrones but now it would seem that even the US Navy has started becoming pirates, not the kind that travels the seas with eye patches and parrots but instead they…
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Navy Looking to Deploy Railgun on Destroyer
Railguns used to a work of fiction, propelling weapons on mecha suits and spaceships to fight aliens and space pirates. This changed several years ago now when BAE systems revealed a working railgun, and even more recently people started working on handheld railguns. With the original plan to mount a test railgun…
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US Navy Renews Support with Microsoft
Windows XP reached end of life a year ago, I just turned off the last PC on our network running XP last week. It’s been a hard OS to replace as the Navy have found out. This, rather amusingly, is still generating Microsoft some serious revenue as large corporations are…
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U.S. Navy Doesn’t Trust Lenovo With Their Weapon Systems
You don’t trust anyone with the control of your weapon systems and it looks like the U.S. Navy isn’t too pleased with Lenovo’s recent purchase of the IBM Server division. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Navy is looking at dropping the IBM servers from some weapon systems after…
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US Navy’s Tiny Spy Drones Can Listen In to Enemy
At the Department of Defense’s “Lab Day” last week at the Pentagon, scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory unveiled the newest iteration to spy drones, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand. US military scientists have invented a miniature drone to glide in the enemy’s airspace and listen in to…
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Watch a Laser Cannon Shoot Down a Drone
The US Navy has a big new toy – the USS Ponce with its massive laser cannon. This giant cannon can shoot objects from great distance, moving at speed and with incredible accuracy. In one of their tests in the video bellow, they fire at an object aboard a boat, alongside a dummy…
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American Navy Still Using XP, Will Get Custom Patches From MS
If the reason you were intending to leave XP behind was because it just isn’t cool enough, then think again. According to a report the United States navy is one of the government bodies in America still using Windows XP as its primary operating system. Since Microsoft has withdrawn official…
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U.S. Navy’s Railgun Blowing Stuff Up
Ever watch BattleTech as a child? Well if you haven’t you’re missing out, but if you have then you’re hopes and dreams of being able to see a railgun being fired are about to be realized. The United States Navy is set to release it’s electromagnetic railgun on a single…
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U.S. Navy Testing Pilotless Helicopters
The Naval Research Labratory has been testing pilotless helicopters for some time now. In fact, they’ve been using them in Afghanistan already but due to their inefficiencies in operating the technology it isn’t being used to its full potential. Marines primarily use the unmanned helicopters for the delivery of items…
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U.S. Navy Testing Oculus Rift & Other 3D Tech
New research from the Office of Navel Research is looking for what ship controls might look like in the not too distant future. Project BlueShark is currently testing out the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset which allows the captain / pilot of a craft to look around their environment and…
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