bombs
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Accused Teen Bomber Detects Wireless Signal From FBI Surveillance Van, Shrugs It Off
You know that 17-year old who was arrested and accused of plotting a massacre that would rival Columbine. He stockpiled bomb-making materials and planned to blow up the local high school on the first day of school.
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A Toy Truck Saved The Lives Of Six Soldiers
Staff Sgt Christopher Fessenden is alive right now thanks to a toy truck. Seriously. The toy truck was always sent ahead of him in Afghanistan to look for roadside bombs. Last week, it ran into a tripwire and exploded.
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Wanna Learn How To Defuse Real Bombs? Play Video Games
Or at least the modded version of the US Army’s greatest recruitment game, America’s Army. Military software engineers have managed to recreate real-life bomb threats in the game, and, with an actual robot controller, soldiers can operate a virtual robot to realistically defuse it.
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Army Uses Radar To Spot Suicide Bombers From 100 Yards
The security at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel wasn’t nearly enough to stop nine suicide bombers from setting the place ablaze and killing 12 people last month. But the US military thinks it can do better – by spotting treacherous individuals before they get close enough to cause serious harm. Meet the CounterBomber.