This is a clip of a group of hardcore gamers playing ‘World Of Tanks’ with a custom desk-mounted cannon (and Volkswagen steering wheel). The cannon uses C02 and 2-liter soda bottles for ammunition, and produces some insane kickback when fired, ejecting a smoking shell afterwards. That’s absolutely nuts, and I’ve
Developed by defense contractor Onyx Industries, the United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently testing a quadruped robot with an AI-powered rifle attached to its back capable of bullseyeing womp rats with the precision of Luke Skywalker in his T-16 back home. Will the future of war
Note: Some appropriately colorful language from the people filming. This is a video of a pilot ejecting from an F-35B Lightning II fighter jet at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth in Texas after a failed attempted at a vertical landing. Thankfully, the pilot is fine, but
Because the robotic apocalypse can’t come soon enough, this is a video from Chinese defense contractor Kestrel Defence featuring its Blood-Wing/Red Wing drone deploying a robotic war dog armed with a machine gun. So, if you were wondering what the beginning of the end looks like, this is definitely it.
In loose lips news, this is a video testing the Air Force’s new ‘Quicksink’ missile, capable of splitting even large ships in two and sending them to Davey Jones’s locker in a hurry. Wow! Thank goodness these didn’t exist when I was a pirate! “When were you a pirate?” During
This is a graphic created by Carrie Patrick comparing the weights of various swords to common household objects like cans of chili, loaves of bread, boots, and children. Children thankfully not being that common a household object in my home aside, I learned a lot by looking at the chart.
This is a short video of a tank being loaded onto the back of a flatbed trailer when it decides maybe it’s really a plane and half-heartedly attempts a barrel roll. Obviously, there’s no way Peppy Hare was impressed with that performance. It actually looks like a piece of the
This is a video tour of the functional M249 SAW blowback style machine gun built by Youtuber Patrick Grant Lego, inspired by an earlier model developed by LEGO gun maker Phant0m. It has a 25 rubber band ammo capacity, fires in both semi and full auto modes, and has an