In the non-metaphorical field of battle, the position of your military assets is often the difference maker between victory and defeat– and in the grander scheme of things, life and death. It stands to good reason that keeping your personnel equipped with the most advanced tracking technology only improves the chances troops will emerge with [...]
Last week, the military went through a massive signal blackout, rendering all their GPS based equipment useless. The signal was only lost for about 10 minutes, but this begs the question: how vulnerable were we for those 10 minutes? The military is in possession of over 10,000 GPS receivers, which they use on almost all [...]
This past Wednesday, at approximately 4:30 A.M, NATO forces accidentally called in an air strike on their allied Afghan soldiers, mistaking them for dangerous enemy militants. Five soldiers died as a result of these bombings, which left many more injured in need of serious medical treatment. This tragic event could seemingly have been prevented if [...]
Developed in 2004, the Joint Precision Airdrop System has been used by the military to manually drop ammo and bombs onto battlefields with knife-cutting accuracy. Only recently, however, have they started dropping something else of great importance: blood. By as early as 2011, the Armed Service Blood Program will be teaming up with the US [...]
