The Rise of Killing Machines: Pentagon Promises A Human Will Decide Life and Death Decisions of Combat Robots

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2239163/Pentagon-issues-promise-head-fears-machine-apocalypse.html A human will always decide when a robot kills you: Pentagon’s ‘reassurance’ over fears of machine apocalypse  Department of Defense policy directive calls for autonomous weapons to be designed so they always need human authorisation to open fire Promise comes after Human Rights Watch report warned that killer robots could be deployed on the […]

Pentagon’s 30,000lb ‘super bomb’ is now ready for use – ideal for destroying the sort of deep bunkers housing Iran’s nuclear programme

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2179925/Pentagon-s-30-000lb-super-bomb-ready-use–ideal-destroying-sort-deep-bunkers-housing-Iran-s-nuclear-programme.html The Massive Ordnance Penetrator is the biggest conventional bomb ever made The Pentagon has spent $330 million on the weapon The bomb is designed to destroy underground targets and can blast through up to 200 feet of concret The announcement comes as revelations that Iran is working on a secret nuclear weapon in an […]

Pentagon releases results of 13,000-mph test flight over Pacific

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-darpa-hypersonic-missile-20120420,0,4564567.story By W.J. HenniganApril 20, 2012, 5:45 p.m An artist’s rendering of the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2. (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency / April 20, 2012) The results are in from last summer’s attempt to test new technology that would provide the Pentagon with a lightning-fast vehicle, capable of delivering a military strike anywhere […]

U.S. troops to have ‘super vision’ as Pentagon orders electric contact lenses that let them ‘see’ through drones flying overhead

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2129261/U-S-troops-super-vision-Pentagon-orders-electric-contact-lenses-pipe-target-information-direct-eyes.html Lenses can let troops see through ‘eyes’ of drones flying above Can ‘layer’ target information over view of world Contact lenses don’t impede fighter’s vision Equivalent to a 240-inch 3D television from 10 feet By Rob Waugh UPDATED: 06:43 EST, 13 April 2012 Google wowed the world this week with its Project Glass computer […]

Leon Panetta’s weekly commute from California costs taxpayers $100,000 per MONTH (but at least Defense Secretary pays 2% of the bill himself)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126436/Leon-Panettas-weekly-commute-California-costs-taxpayers-100-000-MONTH-Defense-Secretary-pays-just-2-himself.html By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 23:43 EST, 6 April 2012 | UPDATED: 00:22 EST, 7 April 2012 It’s turning out to be a costly commute home for Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. The Pentagon chief has traveled on military aircraft to his home in northern California more than two dozen times since he took the […]

Google Adds (Even More) Links to the Pentagon

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/pentagon-google/?intcid=story_ribbon By Noah Shachtman Email Author March 14, 2012 | 6:30 am | Categories: Info War Barack Obama speaking at Google HQ in 2007. Photo: Jeff Chiu/AP On Monday, the Defense Department’s best-known geek announced that she was leaving the Pentagon for a job at Google. It was an unexpected move: Washington and Mountain View don’t trade […]

Pentagon developing more powerful bunker buster bomb to target Iran’s ‘hidden nuclear weapons’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093371/Pentagon-developing-powerful-bunker-buster-bomb.html By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 10:23 AM on 29th January 2012 The Pentagon has made a secret request to develop its largest bomb because officials believe it is not capable of destroying Iran’s fortified underground facilities. The 13.6 ton Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) is the deepest penetrating ‘bunker buster’ currently in the […]

Didn’t they realise what it looks like? U.S. ‘sperm spy plane’ designers left red-faced over aircraft’s rather embarrassing shape

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092532/Argus-One-Pentagon-Flying-Sperm-US-spy-plane-designers-left-red-faced.html By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:48 AM on 27th January 2012 It’s called Argus One; the Pentagon’s newest unmanned spy plane. But cheeky observers are already calling it the ‘Flying Sperm’. It has the capacity to carry 30 pounds of high tech sensors and cameras and the ability to hover over remote […]

The Pentagon to Send US Troops to Israel. Iran is the Unspoken Target

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28494 Blacked-out news story in America… Global Research, January 4, 2012 whiteoutpress.com January 2, 2012. Jerusalem. In one of the most blacked-out stories in America right now, the US military is preparing to send thousands of US troops, along with US Naval anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel, to Israel. It took forever to find […]

New Pentagon strategy stresses Asia, cyber, drones

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-usa-military-obama-idUSTRE8031Z020120106?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&rpc=22&sp=true By David Alexander and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON | Thu Jan 5, 2012 9:10pm EST (Reuters) – President Barack Obama unveiled a defense strategy on Thursday that would expand the U.S. military presence in Asia but shrink the overall size of the force as the Pentagon seeks to slash spending by nearly half a trillion […]