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- Behind the scenes with the men who deploy airstrikes
- Strapped to his chest, Rosner carries a handheld video player. The device reads signals transmitted by the camera pods strapped to the underside of all NATO fighter aircraft. Rosner can see everything a pilot sees, from the pilot's perspective.
- 2010-05-03 to bestof, military, technology, wired by lipi
- Drone pilots have a front-row seat on war, from half a world away
- In a low, tan building in Nevada, Air Force personnel sit in padded chairs and control aircraft over Iraq and Afghanistan. They are 7,500 miles away, yet feel more affected by war than ever.
- 2010-02-21 to bestof, drone, military, psychology, technology, war by lipi
- Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
- The Soviets had taken game theory one step further than Kubrick, Szilard, and everyone else: They built a system to deter themselves.
- 2009-09-22 to apocalypse, bestof, cold war, doomsday, game theory, military, politics by lipi
- The Good Enough Revolution: When Cheap and Simple Is Just Fine
- Entire markets have been transformed by products that trade power or fidelity for low price, flexibility, and convenience.
- 2009-08-31 to bestof, business, healthcare, massmarket, military, mp3, technology by lipi
- Annie Jacobsen: The Road to Area 51
- After decades of denying the facility's existence, five former insiders speak out.
- 2009-04-17 to government, intelligence, military, secret, spy, ufo by soobrosa
- Rob Edwards: How the US forgot how to make Trident missiles
- Inquiry cites loss of files and key staff as reason for $69m repair delay
- 2009-03-15 to bestof, business, data, funnies, knowledge, military, war by soobrosa
- Trojan Dragon: China's Cyber Threat
- How China is using cyber warfare to obtain technology transfer and market dominance, pointing towards a new auxiliary arm of traditional warfare.
- 2008-11-03 to business, china, espionage, hackers, military by lipi
- How to disappear
- Military technology: Advances in camouflage, concealment and deception are revolutionising an age-old art of warfare
- 2008-09-21 to bestof, military, technology, warfare by soobrosa
- Synthetic Pot as a Military Weapon? Meet the Man Who Ran the Secret Program
- Dr. James Ketchum tested a potent form of synthetic marijuana on soldiers to develop a secret weapon in the '60s. Now he's telling the tale.
- 2008-07-28 to bestof, drugs, history, military by bagoly
- Errol Morris: The Most Curious Thing
- We see al-Jamadi’s body, but we don’t see the act that turned him from a human being into a corpse. We don’t understand what the photograph means, nor what it is about.
- 2008-06-17 to bestof, iraq, media, military, story by soobrosa
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