Category: Tactical TMZ

The U.S. Navy commissioned the nation’s seventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) – USS Detroit (LCS 7) – on the Detroit River on Saturday. (MaritimeExecutive.com)- USS Detroit, the fourth Freedom-variant in the LCS class, completed acceptance trials in July and was delivered to the U.S. Navy on August 12 by Lockheed Martin. It joins three other […]

While air traffic control systems track, guide and monitor thousands of planes and helicopters every day, one group of sky flyers remains unmonitored: drones. (FOX)- In recent years, small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), such as commercial quadcopters and hobby drones, have become less expensive and easier to fly — adding traffic to airspace that’s already […]

This huge combat tractor is the ultimate multitasker (FOX)- Meet the 32-ton armored combat vehicle that’s the ultimate tractor— albeit one that can punch holes through concrete, fire rockets, and carve safe passage through minefields for soldiers. BAE Systems’ Terrier is affectionately known as the Swiss Army Knife of combat vehicles because there isn’t anything […]

The ‘Sea Wasp’ will be a potent threat to terrorists and their underwater bombs (FOX)- The sea wasp, a kind of jellyfish, can kill people in as little as three minutes by wrapping them in ten-foot-long tentacles and inflicting stings all over the body, injecting them with a potent and extremely painful venom. Saab has […]

Shaun Terry and girlfriend Holly Williamson loved riding dirt bikes. They were doing just that Saturday near Farmington when Terry was about to spring a surprise. CLICK HERE TO DONATE (FOX2)- “I had the ring in my pocket,” Terry said. But before Terry could propose to his girlfriend, she crashed. Williamson was airlifted to Mercy Hospital […]

A Florida man arrested last year after police mistook doughnut glaze in his car for meth is suing the city of Orlando and a drug-testing kit company. (FOX)- The Orlando Sentinel (https://goo.gl/KEoz0S ) reports Daniel Rushing filed a lawsuit last week, claiming negligence by the city and the kit’s manufacturer. Rushing was arrested on drug […]

The Defense Department has identified a U.S. soldier from Illinois and an Army civilian employee from Oklahoma as those killed in an attack this week in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul. (FOX)- The military says in a statement 26-year-old Sgt. Douglas J. Riney of Fairview, Illinois, and 40-year-old Michael G. Sauro of McAlester, Oklahoma, died in […]

General Dynamics created MUTT, aka Multi-Utility Tactical Transport, to help dismounted small units. This is a smart robot designed to help lighten the load for Marines and other warfighters. (FOX)- MUTT looks like a futuristic spin on the sort of quad you might have fun driving around your farm. Rectangular shaped, it is 5 feet […]

Israel is planning to bolster its high-tech arsenal by deploying fully autonomous military vehicles along the country’s dangerous border with Gaza. (FOX)- “This is the future — the border is a very dangerous place,” an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) official told FoxNews.com, citing the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), snipers, anti-tank missiles and terrorist […]

A nearly 34-ton armored fighting vehicle– that swims? Marines will have a new Amphibious Combat Vehicle to storm the beaches in future battles. (FOX)- Unveiled this week at the Modern Day Marine, the Amphibious Combat Vehicle, or the ACV 1.1, was created by BAE Systems and IVECO Defence. The vehicle combines a high degree of […]