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Tool or weapon? New research throws light on stone artifacts' use as ancient projectiles
2016-08-18 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A team of psychologists, kinesiologists and archaeologists at Indiana University and elsewhere are throwing new light on a longstanding archaeological mystery: the purpose of a large number of spherical stone artifacts found at a major archaeological site in South Africa. IU Bloomington professor Geoffrey Bingham and colleagues in the United Kingdom and United States contend that the stones — previously thought by some to be used as tools —…
Will the Navys decade-long experiment with railguns yield a useful weapon system?
2016-08-11 15:50:08| Extremetech
The US Navy has been working on railguns for 11 years -- but will they ever see combat?
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US Navys Raytheon-built JSOW C-1 weapon completes operational tests
2016-07-14 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The US Navys new precision-guided C-1 gliding joint standoff weapon (JSOW) is ready for deployment into the fleet and initial operational capability, following successful completion of all operational tests.
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FEATURE-Thai land rights campaigners' most powerful weapon? Access to information
2016-07-13 20:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Trust: Suraphon Songruk, an advisor and coordinator for the Southern Peasant Federation of Thailand, looks on after a meeting with government officials in Klong Sai Pattana, Surat Thani province in southern Thailand, on July 1, 2016. Along a mud road deep inside oil palm and rubber plantations in the southern Thai province of Surat Thani, handwritten signs tag grim evidence of a struggle for land that began two decades ago, and then turned violent and deadly. One sign points to the area illegally used...
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US Navy takes delivery of first Raytheon-built JSOW-C1 weapon system
2016-06-23 01:00:00| Naval Technology
The US Navy has received its first air-to-ground network-enabled joint standoff weapon (JSOW C-1) after it achieved initial operational capability (IOC).
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