There's been a lot of controversy lately over the proposed purchase of F-35 fighters by Canada, mainly due to the way the government has been accounting for operating costs (and thus "hiding" $10 billion of the purchase price ( Read more... )

Some people I know are going to find this interesting, and others are going to be horrified, but the 4th Fighter Wing of the US Air Force recently conducted a training exercise in which 70 F-15E fighters hit a thousand targets in one mission ( Read more... )

The Segway "Personal Transporter" has been a bit of a mystery since it was first announced back in 2001. While the inventor predicted that cities would be designed around it, so far its main uses have been for tour groups and cops (of both the mall and beat varieties). Some cities have even banned them, or put severe restrictions on their use ( Read more... )

US Marines serving in Afghanistan are being instructed not to fart, because it's "culturally offensive".

Poll Dishonour or free speech?

Hot on the heels of the news of Osama bin Laden's killing by US Special Forces operatives, there's a new conspiracy theory which basically says that the US is lying. This is bullsh*t ( Read more... )

Down in the US, Rep. Peter King (R-NY, Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee) has introducted H.R. 607, the “Broadband for First Responders Act of 2011.” This would allocate a nation-wide "Public Safety broadband network" in the 700MHz range for use by first-responders (police, fire, EMS). Sounds like a good idea? Yeah, it probably is ( Read more... )

The Stuxnet virus (of which I've mentioned a time or two previously) has apparently set back the Iranian nuclear program by up to two years, which would mean it was about as effective as sending in the stealth bombers or the TLAM's, but without a commensurate loss of life ( Read more... )

A report has emerged that a soldier coming back from Afghanistan had his nail clippers seized at Indianapolis Airport during a stopover. What moves this from everyday annoyance to "What the HELL were they thinking??" is that this soldier, and the ~230 others on the plane, all had their personal weapons (M-4s and pistols, mostly, but with a few M- ( Read more... )

Looks like it's fun and games over in the Canadian Forces, where they just placed an order for about 500 copies of various video games, including Gears Of War, Call Of Duty, and Rock Band, among others.