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plastic coyotes on robots
Army

US Army deploys plastic coyotes attached to mini four-wheelers

By Mack DeGeurin

General Phil Sheridan Memorial Civil War Statue Sheridan Circle Embassy Row Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC. Bronze statue dedicated in 1908; sculptor is Gutzon Borglum. Public monument owned by the National Park Service. Statue depicts Sheridan riding his horse Rienzi to rally his troops at the Battle of Cedar Creek in 1864.
Army

The US Army is selling their horses

By Andrew Paul

Shipwreck bow covered in sea life underwater
Navy

Shipwreck fragment linked to one of WWII’s strangest rescue tales

By Andrew Paul

Masked boobies on Johnston Atoll
Air Force

Pacific island wildlife refuge spared from SpaceX rocket project

By Andrew Paul

Black and white portrait of Albert Einstein
Weapons

Einstein’s letter to Japan about atomic bomb fails to sell at auction

By Andrew Paul

a vechile in a field
Military

This ‘dual-use’ electric tractor can sow fields and run guns 

By Mack DeGeurin

Side view of a two-seat, Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter fighter plane on an airfield during World War I, mid to late 1910s. (Photo by Interim Archives/Getty Images)
Military

Volunteers spent 25 years building a WWI replica plane. It just took flight.

By Margherita Bassi

a blimp attached to a bus with a person holding a rope
Navy

19 vintage Goodyear Blimp photos on its 100th anniversary

By Popular Science Team

Photogrammetric reconstruction of the submarine USS F-1 on the seafloor west of San Diego, California.
Military

108-year-old submarine wreck seen in stunning detail in new footage

By Margherita Bassi

Boeing Super Hornet taking off from the deck of an aircraft carrier
Navy

US Navy loses $60 million fighter jet after it falls into Red Sea

By Andrew Paul

World War II jeep found at site of underwater shipwreck
Navy

NOAA needs help identifying car found in WWII shipwreck

By Andrew Paul

Bridge over water in Rio Vista, California
Navy

Billionaire utopian city launches new shipyard plan

By Andrew Paul

Photograph of HMS Tuberose aka RMS Mauretania enters New York harbour in full dazzle, carrying returning troops after the end of the Great War. Dated 1918. (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Navy

The illusory reality of WWI dazzle camouflage, re-examined

By Mack DeGeurin

Takeshi Ebisawa holding rocket launcher
Weapons

Yakuza boss tried to traffic nuclear weapons-grade plutonium

By Andrew Paul

planes and astronauts collage
Military

5 aerospace breakthroughs of 2024

By Popular Science Team

a variety of products on a banner reading 'best of what's new 2024'
Military

The 50 greatest innovations of 2024

By Popular Science Team

Image of aircraft wing over Greenland ice sheet with radar image of Camp Century underneath it
Military

NASA radar picks up frozen, buried Cold War base Camp Century

By Andrew Paul

Close up of C-17 cargo plane
Air Force

Boeing allegedly overcharged the military 8,000% for airplane soap dispensers

By Andrew Paul

HMS Trooper submarine wreckage
Navy

WWII submarine discovered 81 years after vanishing on a secret mission

By Andrew Paul

Concept art depicting the X-37B space plane aerobraking above Earth
Military

Space Force’s mysterious X-37B is testing its ‘aerobraking’

By Andrew Paul