Apache blows up Taliban fighters

A feel good moment from LiveLeak:

Newly released video from Task Force-82. The video shows Afghan militants carrying automatic rifles, rocket propelled grenades, and a mortar fleeing the scene after they attacked an American outpost.
Gun camera view the Apache AH-64 shoots the militants. U.S. troops continue fighting the militants on the ground.The result, 15 militant forces killed.

[via Defensetech.org]

Chemical Combat laser

Boeing Advanced Tactical Laser Fires High-Power Laser in Flight
"During the test, ATL took off from Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., and fired its laser while flying over White Sands Missile Range, N.M., successfully hitting a target board located on the ground. ATL, which Boeing is developing for the U.S. Air Force, is a C-130H aircraft equipped with a chemical laser, a beam control system, sensors and weapon-system consoles."

See the video of how the ATL works and here is the factsheet.

D-Day Tech

Archive Gallery: D-Day Tech Popular Science: "On the 65th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, a look at the military tech of D-Day, as covered in our pages"

(via Instapundit)

Rules of dating a Drill Instructors daughter

Star Trek: A Military Analysis Danger Room Wired.com
"Twenty-third century warfare isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. You’d think that weapons and tactics would have progressed in 200 years. But the new Star Trek movie shows that the United Federation of Planets has a lot to learn about warfare."

Federation has a lot to learn about handrails (Mad Minerva's bad section in the movie review) and seat-belts (my comment) too apparently.