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US Army Set Aside Millions For Gaming Sponsorships to Promote Recruitment!
The US Army has had a long, interesting, and often (predominantly) controversial history when it has come to video games. – It seems pretty clear that they’ve always viewed them as a somewhat decent portal in regard to helping promote recruitment to the armed forces, but they’ve never really struck…
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US Army is Shutting Down its Iconic (and Controversial) Video Game
Released back in 2002, ‘America’s Army’ was arguably one of the most controversial gaming releases of all time. Developed and published by the US Army, the game was, effectively, a recruitment campaign. Basically a means of showing what life in the US armed forces was like with, admittedly, a fair…
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Microsoft Agrees $22BN HoloLens Headset Deal With US Army
While Microsoft’s ‘HoloLens’ augmented reality headset is certainly a very impressive piece of technology, it does come with one pretty major caveat for the general consumer. Namely, that it’s really expensive! – It was, in fact, so expensive that when the original model was released, Microsoft was seemingly more interested…
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US Army Hosting Their Own Street Fighter V eSports Event
US Army Embraces eSports The United States Army has begun hosting their own eSports event over the weekend. It is the first in a series, pitting service men and women head to head in CAPCOM‘s Street Fighter V. Surprisingly, there are no shooting games in the mix, only the popular…
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Lockheed Martin Develops Record Setting 60-kW Laser Weapon for US Army
A little over a year after Lockheed Martin unveiled their ATHENA 30-kW mobile laser weapon, the defense company has announced that their latest efforts have almost doubled that to 58-kW last month but are delivering an even more powerful 60-kW to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces…
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US Army Testing Hydrogen Fuel Cell Stealth Truck
The US Army has revealed that it is testing a new stealth electric road vehicle powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The ZH2 is a modified Chevy Colorado – equipped with a hydrogen fuel cell and an electric drive – which has been supplied by General Motor’s Global Fuel Cell…
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US Army Tests New Drone Swarm
The latest drone test exercise run by the US Army was different to most, in that instead of showcasing a brand new multi-million-dollar aircraft, it instead used a swarm of standard off-the-shelf consumer drones. The objects of these exercises were twofold. Firstly, deploying the drones as a swarm to simulate…
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US Army Developing Robotic Exoskeletons?
Whenever I hear a new piece of tech which is being developed with the aim of blurring the lines of real life and science fiction, I am curious, but it’s then sometimes followed by a groan when you realize it’s for the purposes of war, destruction and general super power…
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The US Army Introduces a New Camouflage Design
After the US Army announced that it had selected a new camouflage uniform, finally selecting the replacement for its pixelated camouflage outfits, known as the Universal Camouflage Pattern. The reason was simple that those outfits did not work and now the replacement uniforms which are a version of older uniforms…
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Army Exoskeleton Makes Gunshots More Accurate
The US Army has developed a revolutionary new exoskeleton that improves a soldier’s aim with a gun. The Mobile Arm Exoskeleton for Firearm Aim Stabilization (MAXFAS) automatically steadies a soldier’s gun arm, cancelling out trembling without locking the limb, leaving it free to point at other targets at will. “Army…
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‘Super Hornet’ Figher Jet to Carry Autonomous Anti-Ship Missile
The US Navy is planning to put Lockheed Martin’s autonomous LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile) on the F/A-18 Super Hornet. This addition will make the jet capable to fire the missile that tracks and wipe out targets mostly or entirely on its own. LRASM does use an autonomous guidance technology designed to allow…
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US Army Invents Virtually Immortal Pizza
I’m sure many of you have eaten a pizza that wasn’t exactly fresh, personally I think my upper limit was around the 46 hour mark and even that it was a decision based on being tired, hungry, drunk and an abundance of left over pizza being available. So can you…
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US Army Working on Autonomous Convoy Project, Courtesy of Lockheed Martin
We expect Google to be the main topic of discussion when it comes to autonomous vehicles, not to mention after the acquisition of Boston Dymamics and DeepMind. But this time we skip Google and go to the US military, where they are developing an autonomous convoy. If proved successful, the…
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Plans For A New Spy Plane In The Works, Codenamed SR-72
Throughout most part of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force turned to the SR-71 Blackbird for many of its most important spy missions. The jet-black jet could fly at more than three times the speed of sound and at altitudes of 85,000 feet, faster and higher than anything adversaries…
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