Tag: WEAPON

DARPA (Defense Advance Research Projects Agency) is always looking for the latest and greatest (and most 'Terminator'-like) in military and weapons technology. The creepy, high-tech government branch's latest project, dubbed Persistent Close Air Support (or PCAS), is all about speeding up and simplifying the act of raining death from above. As it stands today, when a soldier on the ground in ...

Taser, maker of the controversial "less-lethal" weapon that zaps people with incapacitating levels of electricity (described as torture by the U.N.), has just released its latest tool for taking out the odd student protester and great-grandmother. The X12 Taser shotgun combines the occasionally lethal fun of electrocuting people with the also occasionally lethal impact of "non-lethal" shotgun ...

Seriously, is there anything a laser can't do? A team of mad scientists in Washington have concocted a system that could essentially eliminate malaria-carrying mosquitoes with lasers, and the whole thing can be built from parts sourced on eBay. The so-called mosquito laser is credited to an idea from Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist who worked with Edward Teller, the "architect of the original plan ...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Trully_the_amarican_dream'; We're trying... we're trying real hard to cling to our pacifist ways. But damn if the fusion of this US Army M110 Sniper Rifle and mounted iPod touch running the BulletFlight external ballistics calculator (available via the App Store) doesn't make us want to kill. Tap in the variables such as weather conditions, ammunition type, ...

When you're caught between the lines of dueling mercenary armies, trapped in a rapidly aging body that doesn't quite react the way it used to, you need a reliable side arm to protect yourself. That was Solid Snake's situation in 'Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots,' his chosen weapon the Silver Wolf pistol, recreated here in as a Japanese fan's stainless steel and rubber band DIY ...

Note: We guarantee there will be no jokes about "freakin' lasers" in this article. Now that we've got that out of the way, word is that the U.S. military will finally get weapons grade lasers by the end of 2008. No joke, the holy grail of a laser-based weaponry is right around the corner, according to Northrop Grumman, a military contractor. Grumman recently tested an electronic laser system ...

We're not quite sure how the pitch session went with this one, but it looks like the US Army was so impressed by toymaker Lund and Company's Hydrogen Fuel Rocket that it decided to recruit the company to build a decidedly more lethal version of it. The new system, dubbed the Variable Velocity Weapon System, will apparently be able to be switched between lethal and non-lethal modes, and be ...

The Israeli government is moving us one step closer to the nightmare future envisioned in 'Terminator' in which completely autonomous weaponry turn against us and put humans on the endangered species list. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel's arms development firm, in conjunction with U.S. defense contractor Raytheon, are developing new interceptor missiles and a targeting system that is ...

Tasers and pepper spray are good for warding off an attacker a few short paces away, but what if you'd prefer to keep assailants at more than an arm's reach? Well, that's where the new (and surpsingly fashionable-looking) Avurt IM 5 Launcher comes in. The weapon launches paint-ball like capsules of pepper spray that explode on impact and cling to your would-be attacker, burning his or her eyes, ...

Non-lethal combat is evolving technologically at a much faster rate than traditional ... deadly combat. Bullets, missiles, grenades, mines and the like have been the same for a while now. But non-lethal weaponry keeps finding new techniques for taking down baddies without having to cause hearts to stop beating. With sound wave guns, radio wave weapons, flashlights and beanbags, there are ...