This Marine unit now has its own tool to blast drones out of the sky
The system replaces a cumbersome legacy platform Marines have long used to defend the skies: The Man-Portable Air Defense System, or MANPADs.
By Todd South
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How the ‘Rad Lab’ helped avert nuclear war
Technology built in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory changed history.
By Todd South
US special ops to get vehicle converter kits for the Arctic by early 2023
Polaris is preparing its Arctic kit for the MRZR Alpha as part of a deal with U.S. Special Operations Command to supply lightweight tactical all-terrain vehicles.
By Jen Judson
Airman killed in ATV rollover was ‘just out joyriding’
A 23-year-old airman who died in an all-terrain utility vehicle accident in Kuwait last fall was the passenger on an unauthorized joyride gone wrong.
The Air Force just received this ‘Mad Max’-like laser dune buggy to shoot down drones
The Air Force’s newest weapon brings the pew-pew of high-energy lasers to a vehicle that looks like it came out of a “Mad Max” movie.
By Kent Miller
These Moon-landing innovations changed life on Earth
We can only wonder what innovations from the effort to send people to other planets will affect earthlings 50 years after the first Marswalk.
By Jean Creighton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee