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Firefights Like This Are Why US Troops Never Leave Home Without A 'SAW'
Everyone carries stuff with them to work. Some of it we can forget and go without; other things like a cellphone, we go back for, because we just can't go through the day without it. What troops on...
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Boeing Now Has A Missile That Destroys Only Electronics And Leaves All Else...
While the U.S. geared up for the second presidential debate last Tuesday, a building sat pulsing with computers, electronic surveillance, and security systems in the Utah high desert. The unoccupied...
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The USS Gerald Ford Is The Single Most Expensive Piece Of Military Hardware...
The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive weapon ever created and will run about $11.5 billion, with three ships costing about $40.2 billion. Even given these generous estimates, the Navy figures...
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Paul Rieckhoff Is Building The Most Necessary Veteran Organization In America
From the cosmic bustle of Grand Central Station, to the aloof expanse of Madison Ave and the not diminutive security guard running our IDs in the lobby of his building, getting to Paul Rieckhoff...
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The Boeing Mach-5 Waverider Is Getting One More Shot At Unlocking Scramjet...
When DARPA, the Air Force, NASA, Boeing, and Pratt & Whitney got together to unscramble the the riddle behind scramjet technology, it's unlikely they ever considered failure, until now. The five...
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This Attack Plan For Iran Is So Extensive There's No Way The US Could Go It...
With Britain questioning the legality of a strike on Iran, denying the U.S. access to pivotal airbases, and the U.S. presidential election just days away, we wanted to re-examine how extensive an...
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The World Never Came Closer To Nuclear War Than On January 25, 1995
In the 67 years since the first nuclear weapon was used, there is only one time the so-called nuclear briefcases were broken out and opened up, and on January 25, 1995 they nearly launched Russia's...
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This Plane May Have Saved More US Troops Than Any Other In The World
When you're hunkered down behind a thin sliver of cover taking heavy fire, there is no more reassuring sound than the twin engines of the A-10 Thunderbolt screaming in from the distance. Check out the...
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A Look At Iran's Growing Military Arsenal
Iran's military has 545,000 active personnel and some of the most advanced military technology of anyone out there. The thing is, the United States gave them a lot of it. See the weapons > Granted,...
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Micro-Drones Combined With DNA Hacking Could Create A Very Scary Weapon
Sightings of insect-sized micro drones have been occurring for years, but combined with the direction of genome sequencing outlined in this Atlantic piece — the pair make for a deadly possible mix....
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The Manhattan Veterans Hospital Is Evacuating All Of Its Patients
Anticipating Hurricane Sandy's arrival the Manhattan Campus of the VA NY Harbor Healthcare System has ordered all its patients evacuated from the facility at 423 East 23rd Street. In addition, all NY...
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Army Training Presentation Slams President George W. Bush
When the Artillery School of Practice founded in 1824 at Ft. Monroe, Va. grew inadequate for the expanding nation's needs, the United States Army Command and General Staff College was built in Ft....
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The HMS Bounty Went Down In Hurricane Sandy, And Two Crew Members Are Still...
One of the world's most famous ships, the HMS Bounty is a victim of Hurricane Sandy. Initially the ship was reported to be "intact and upright" but subsequent reports say it has sunk. The Bounty...
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Everything Else In D.C. May Be Shut Down, But Not The Tomb Of The Unknown...
To serve as a Sentinel at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery is considered one of the greatest honors in the military. The tomb itself has been under continuous guard, every...
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Incredible Pictures Of Storm Damage In New York City
Superstorm Sandy had a devastating impact on New York City. (For coverage of storm damage from Jamaica to Canada, click here >) At least 10 New Yorkers died, with more fatalities expected. New...
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Tour Sandy's Damage On New York's Upper West Side
After spending the day watching Sandy on the news yesterday, most of us here in Manhattan's West 70s were left feeling fortunate. Aside from a few gusts of wind, and a smattering of rain, we didn't...
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80 Tons Of Metal are Still Dangling 1,000 Feet Over Manhattan
With Sandy gone, and the worst of the damage assessed, all eyes are looking up to the twisted crane atop One57 — 1,000 feet above the ground. Mayor Bloomberg in his press conference yesterday promised...
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A Night In Manhattan's 'Dark Zone' [PHOTOS]
Last night we sent two reporters, Robert Johnson and Dan Goodman, into the darkness of lower Manhattan to see the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Around 220,000 homes and businesses are without power in...
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New Jersey Is Running Out Of Gasoline And Police Are On Hand
Once free of the confines of storm stricken Manhattan, it doesn't take long to realize that traveling through New Jersey presents its own daunting set of problems. The first line of cars stretched...
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The Contrasts In A Recovering New Jersey Are Staggering
With New Jersey slowly starting to pull itself back together, life there remains far from normal. Damages to businesses could reach $30 billion and over 2 million New Jersey homes and business remain...
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