Collaborate Disseminate
During World War II, shipboard life in the United States Navy was a gamble. No matter which theater of operations you found yourself in, the enemy was all around on …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: The Deadly Shipmate
The former defense secretary said U.S. Cyber Command needs emergency authority to be able to operate inside the United States.
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Here at Hackaday, our aim is to bring you only the freshest of hacks, which carries the burden of being Johnny-on-the-spot with our source material. So if something of obvious …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: A Closer Look at the VT Proximity Fuze
If you enjoy old military hardware, you probably know that Harris made quite a few heavy-duty pieces of radio gear. [K6YIC] picked up a nice example: the Harris RF-130 URT-23. …read more Continue reading Reactivating a Harris RF-130 URT-23 Transmitter
One of the most expensive weapons ever made ate shit while trying to land and fell into the sea. Continue reading Leaked Video Shows Navy’s $100 Million F-35C Jet Crash on an Aircraft Carrier
Someone has taken control of a powerful warship’s Facebook account and is using it to stream a 20-year-old strategy game. Continue reading Navy Facebook Account Hacked to Stream ‘Age of Empires’
The name Gladys West is probably unfamiliar, but she was part of creating something you probably use often enough: GPS. You wouldn’t think a child who grew up on a …read more Continue reading Gladys West Modelled the Earth So That We Can Have GPS
Aviation history is a bit strange. People tend to remember some firsts but not others and — sometimes — not even firsts. For example, everyone knows Amelia Earhart attempted to …read more Continue reading Who Flew Across the Atlantic First? The Airborne Boats of 1919
This is it; after a relatively short transit time of eight months, the Mars 2020 mission carrying the Perseverance rover has almost reached the Red Planet. The passage has been pretty calm, but that’s all about to end on Thursday …read more
I am a fan of the saying that those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it. After all, humans have been building things for a number of centuries and we should learn from the engineers of the past. While you can learn a lot studying successes, sometimes — …read more
Continue reading The Mark 14 Torpedo — When Just About Everything Goes Wrong, Even the Testing