Carbon 15 Pistol – Bushmaster

The Carbon 15 pistol is a firearm similar in design to an ArmaLite AR-15 or the Colt M4 Carbine. The main differences between the Carbon 15 “pistol” and actual M4 is the absence of the shoulder stock and the fully automatic option. You don’t really want or need full auto though, because the Carbon 15 is not designed for suppressive fire, likewise, the red dot sight fitted on the accessory rail optimizes this weapon for close quarter personal defense-ideal...

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Small Diameter Bomb – GBU-39

The GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb – the future of ultra-surgical air strikes. Since the days of the first Gulf War, when it became clear to the world that precision air strikes would be the “go to” option for the opening rounds of nearly any theater scale military operations, the technology of precision guided munitions has increased rapidly. We have witnessed bombs being guided into their targets by lasers, GPS, and even a human watching through...

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US Army Burns off Final Chem Weapons in Utah

STOCKTON, Utah -- The U.S. Army has destroyed about 90 percent of its aging chemical weapons after it wraps up work this week in Utah, where it has kept its largest stockpile - a witches' brew of toxins, blister and blood agents that accumulated through the Cold War. The Army's Deseret Chemical Depot in Utah's west desert burned its last hard weapons in a 1,500-degree furnace on Wednesday - projectiles that contained mustard agent, which can produce...

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Why Iranian student had radioactive metal in his bag

Ears prick up around the world at any news involving radioactivity and Iran. The most recent story broke on Friday, when Russia's customs service announced that it had stopped an Iranian man bound for the Iranian capital, Tehran, with 18 pieces of radioactive metal packed in steel pencil cases in his luggage. The material had triggered radiation detectors at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. What was the radioactive material in the man's luggage...

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2 Navy Pilots Among Dead in Murder, Suicide

Two Navy pilots and the sister of one of them were among four people killed in an apparent New Years Day murder-suicide on the wealthy island of Coronado off the coast of San Diego, officials say. The two F/A-18 pilots were in training at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the base said. The San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office initially posted on its website that the pilots were both 25-year-old males and that a third male among...

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Iranian Nuclear Scientist Killed in Car bombing in Tehran, Iran

(CNN) -- It's a question many people inside Iran -- and those who watch the country closely around the world -- were asking Wednesday: Who is killing nuclear scientists in Iran? An explosion on Wednesday killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a top official at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, Iranian officials said.   He is the third man identified as a nuclear scientist to be killed in Iran in a mysterious explosion in the past two years. A...

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