#defense systems

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

[stone-cold-groove]

An IBM SAGE missile defense system computer promotional film - 1960.

[mixtapefortheapocalypse]

A House of Dynamite: When the Clock Stops and the Questions Begin

The credits rolled, and I sat there in silence. Not the satisfied silence of a story well-told, but the unsettling quiet that comes when a film refuses to let you off the hook. Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite doesn’t end—it suspends. And in that suspension, it asks us to reckon with something far more uncomfortable than a nuclear strike: our own complicity in a world rigged to explode. The…

A House of Dynamite: When the Clock Stops and the Questions Begin

[v-o-i-d]

[internutter]

Challenge #03451-I163: Return to Sender

A Deregger invents a weapon that is as small as a micrometeor, however, as soon as the Hungry Caterpillar system snaps it up, it explodes. While one or two are not, on their own, all that dangerous, he figures hundreds of such tiny explosions will do quite a bit of damage inside those things. -- Anon Guest

Clever people have tried to sabotage the Hungry Caterpillar before. Chiefly, asteroid wranglers who considered supremacy in the deadly art of stopping space rocks before they could cause trouble. They didn't always win and that was where the Hungry Caterpillar was meant to be a stopgap.

They took offense and went on strike. The people with the Hungry Caterpillar Defense System hardly noticed. Those without quickly signed on to get one. By now it is inconceivable not to have it installed as basic equipment. Of course, the rough rock-riders took offense at this and went to the next illogical step - sabotage.

They, like Deregger Nathaniel Morganstern-Drake, made the mistake of thinking that the 'jaws' of the wormlike machines were the operating business end. They were merely the containment.

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[ambient-entropy]

[greatprinceofabraham]

@Moneyoverhistory.5

"#Modernwarfare is no longer just about who has the biggest fleet. It’s about who adapts fastest.

Is the era of the #aircraftcarrier ending? Or can advanced #defensesystems counter the #dronerevolution?"

Is an all out war in the #MiddleEast, between #Shia #Iran, #Yemen, #Iraq & #Hezbollah on one side, and the #US, #Israel, & (if the #oilfields are attacked) #KSA, #UAE and #Qatar on the other, inevitable and survivable? Can #ProjectMeteor defend against #hypersonicmissiles?

https://youtu.be/xylCGxBY-Oc?si=QQH40YwQ2u_9gbHn

[nawapon17]

Kornet-EM upgrade lets one crew run three anti-tank launchers

Russia’s Kornet-EM anti-tank system now allows one crew to control three launchers remotely, boosting firepower. Unveiled at MILEX-2025, it redefines tactics.