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Military Bits & Pieces

It’s in the nature of the business for the world’s military forces to be at the forefront of technological advancements. And by that, we don’t mean only weaponry but also technologies developed for military use that eventually come to revolutionize the civilian world – a number of them allow you to read this on your gadget right now. So, for all you people with a passion for hardware that goes bang or wears camo for purposes other than tricking spy photographers, here’s a new section on our website dedicated to all things military.

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F-15EX Fighter Jet Gets Inducted into Service, Flying from Eglin Air Force Base
F-15EX Fighter Jet Gets Inducted into Service, Flying from Eglin Air Force Base

11 Apr 2021, 09:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The first of two F-15EX fighter jets to be delivered for testing purposes to the Eglin Air Force Base was officially inducted into service

 
This 1941 DeHavilland Is a Double-Winged Metal Tiger Moth
This 1941 DeHavilland Is a Double-Winged Metal Tiger Moth

11 Apr 2021, 08:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This 1941 DeHavilland Tiger Moth comes in the colors of the Royal Canadian Air Force, is going for $79,500 with some 4,300 total time since new

 
Hand-Launched Puma 3 Unmanned Aircraft Systems Enlisted by NATO
Hand-Launched Puma 3 Unmanned Aircraft Systems Enlisted by NATO

10 Apr 2021, 17:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An order worth $11 million was placed to AeroVironment by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA), deliveries begin this summer

 
This 1956 Piaggio P.149 Costs as Much as a Long Range Tesla Model S
This 1956 Piaggio P.149 Costs as Much as a Long Range Tesla Model S

10 Apr 2021, 06:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This 1956 Piaggio P.149 is located in California, is one of the few such machines that were made starting with the 1950s.

 
Someone Surrendered a Pink Tank Under Ongoing Weapons Amnesty Program
Someone Surrendered a Pink Tank Under Ongoing Weapons Amnesty Program

9 Apr 2021, 04:35 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The Czech police are running a nationwide program that allows holders of illegal weapons and ammunition to surrender or legalize them, without impunity

 
Spot Robot Goes Fighting as French Army Deploys It During Exercise
Spot Robot Goes Fighting as French Army Deploys It During Exercise

8 Apr 2021, 12:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A Spot robot has been tested in battle scenarios by the French Army, alongside several other nightmarish pieces of hardware

 
F-16 Fighters to Be Protected by the Next-Generation Viper Shield
F-16 Fighters to Be Protected by the Next-Generation Viper Shield

4 Apr 2021, 14:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Viper Shield will be deployed on F-16 Block 70/72 aircraft configurations which are generally fielded by allied countries in the Middle East, Asia and Europe

 
Bell V-280 Valor Is a Game Changing Military Aircraft, Testing Continues
Bell V-280 Valor Is a Game Changing Military Aircraft, Testing Continues

4 Apr 2021, 07:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Bell V-280 is part of the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program meant to renew America military's air fleet.

 
1939 Bucker Bu 131 Jungmann Trained Pilots of the Other Side, Still Impressive
1939 Bucker Bu 131 Jungmann Trained Pilots of the Other Side, Still Impressive

4 Apr 2021, 07:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 1939 Bucker Bu 131 Jungmann is a biplane that was extensively used before and during the Second World War to train Germany's pilots

 
DARPA’s NOMARS Is an Autonomous Ship That Couldn’t Care Less About Humans
DARPA’s NOMARS Is an Autonomous Ship That Couldn’t Care Less About Humans

3 Apr 2021, 07:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American defense contractor L3Harris joined DARPA's No Manning Required Ship project, which aims to create an autonomous vessel

 
This 1942 Vultee BT-13 Valiant Once Trained America’s War Pilots
This 1942 Vultee BT-13 Valiant Once Trained America’s War Pilots

3 Apr 2021, 06:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Vultee BT-13 first entered service in 1940 and it was used as a trainer for the pilots of the American Air Force and their allies

 
U.S. Navy Getting More Boeing P-8 Poseidon Submarine Hunters
U.S. Navy Getting More Boeing P-8 Poseidon Submarine Hunters

2 Apr 2021, 09:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The U.S. Navy places $1.6 billion order with Boeing for the delivery of 11 more P-8 Poseidon submarine hunters, world fleet grows to 128 units

 
Flying Car Does Fit Inside a C-130J Super Hercules, Air Force Proved It
Flying Car Does Fit Inside a C-130J Super Hercules, Air Force Proved It

1 Apr 2021, 15:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A C-130J Super Hercules transported a Lift Hexa eVTOL from Ohio to Texas as the Air Force is trying to find possible uses for the technology

 
American Soldiers to Field Microsoft HoloLens-Based Goggles, See Through Objects
American Soldiers to Field Microsoft HoloLens-Based Goggles, See Through Objects

1 Apr 2021, 12:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The soldiers of the Close Combat Force (CCF) will be equipped over the next ten years with Microsoft HoloLens HUDs that could allow them to see through objects

 
British Dreadnought Submarines to Use Aircraft-Proven Fly-by-Wire Controls
British Dreadnought Submarines to Use Aircraft-Proven Fly-by-Wire Controls

30 Mar 2021, 15:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The British Royal Navy will get a new class of submarines by the end of the decade, the most advanced it ever deployed under the sea

 
Boeing Shows Why the H-47 Chinook Is Awesome, the King of Pinnacle Landings
Boeing Shows Why the H-47 Chinook Is Awesome, the King of Pinnacle Landings

30 Mar 2021, 12:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Boeing releases a short video as a sort of tribute to the decades-old H-47 Chinook, one of the best tandem rotor aircraft out there

 
Royal Navy Starts Testing Autonomous Madfox Vessel
Royal Navy Starts Testing Autonomous Madfox Vessel

29 Mar 2021, 13:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the British Royal Navy's specialized research divisions got hold of the Maritime Demonstrator For Operational eXperimentation vessel (Madfox) to test it

 
U.S. Army’s Raven Hand-Launched Drone Fleet Getting Millions Worth of Upgrades
U.S. Army’s Raven Hand-Launched Drone Fleet Getting Millions Worth of Upgrades

29 Mar 2021, 11:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The fleet of AeroVironment Raven drones fielded by the U.S. Army will be upgraded for improvements of avionics and data link

 
DoD Wants a Mobile Nuclear Reactor, They Call It Project Pele
DoD Wants a Mobile Nuclear Reactor, They Call It Project Pele

28 Mar 2021, 10:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Department of Defense, NASA, and a bunch of other organizations are looking to create an one to five Megawatts mobile nuclear reactor

 
This 1955 de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk Would Have Been Great in the War
This 1955 de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk Would Have Been Great in the War

28 Mar 2021, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / 1955 de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk made under license in Portugal is one of the few of its kind still capable of flight, selling for $131,000