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Have US Navy SEALs used tomahawk axes as weapons?
I read the first paragraph of an article in The New York Times today. It said of US Navy SEAL Team 6:
On clandestine raids in the dead of the night, their weapons of choice have ranged from customized carbines to primeval tomahawks.
Is this true,…
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Did the US military pay $600 for a hammer?
I have heard this story for years now, about how the US military paid $600 per hammer for everyday garden-variety hammers.
Today, for the first time, I saw an article debunking the story.
But that article is hardly on a credible site. So, did the…
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Did the Liberator pistol take longer to reload than to manufacture?
It is said the the Liberator pistol made bay the U.S. in WWII took longer to reload than it did to manufacture the gun, is this true?
The Liberator was a single-shot pistol stamped out of sheet metal for
dropping behind enemy lines into the hands…
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Were there army experiments to give humans infrared vision?
Disclaimer: Infrared is maybe the wrong term, I took it to mean anything that we do not currently perceive with a longer wavelength than what we see as red. I don't think in the following they refer to "seeing any light with long wavelengths".
I…
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Did Pakistan supply an F-16 fighter jet to China for reverse engineering?
According to Bharat Karnad, in an opinion published in the Hindustan Times in 2017:
PAF long ago passed on an F-16 to China for its aircraft designers to study and to reverse engineer many of its technologies. So this plane is an open book for…
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Do US Military personnel have to observe Ramadan while Gideon volunteers are banned from bases?
The website The Gateway Pundit claims "Military Bans Bibles But Forces Soldiers to Adhere to Ramadan Rules" :
The US Air Force kicked Christian Gideon’s volunteers off base in March.
The Bibles were too offensive and violated the separation of…
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Is Switzerland vulnerable to aerial threats outside office hours?
From http://rt.com/news/swiss-fighters-office-hours-514/ on a recent emergency:
The Swiss airforce is only available during office hours. These are
reported to be from 8am until noon, then 1:30 to 5pm.
So, if planning an aerial invasion of…
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Did the newly elected pope, Jorge Bergoglio (Francis), play any role in the 1976-1983 military regime in Argentina?
Now that the head of the Catholic Church has been announced to be Jorge Bergoglio, ex-Archbishop of Buenos Aires, the word has been spreading that he played a significant role in the National Reorganization Process also known as the Last Military…
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Was US Marine Corps recruits' training debrutalized as a result of the publication of the movie Full Metal Jacket?
The claim comes from Quora.com. One of the answer to the question "How accurate is the portrayal of the Marine Corps boot camp in Full Metal Jacket?" reads as follows:
Full Metal Jacket opened in the United States on June 26, 1987. A
Marine…
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Did Canadian company HyperStealth invent an invisibility cloak?
This seemingly legitimate camouflage design company says it invented an invisibility cloak called Quantum Stealth that works by bending light "without cameras, batteries, lights or mirrors."
http://www.hyperstealth.com/Quantum-Stealth/index.html
But…
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Do Elite US military units use Kalashnikov weapons?
From Spiegel:
This automatic weapon [Kalashnikov], known in Russian simply as an "avtomat," even receives the highest praise from Americans, Rogozin reported. Elite US military units use it, he added, even though the US Congress generally prefers…
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Did Pakistan military and allies rape 200-400 thousand women during the 1971 war?
A 2016 article from the Indian Express, When raped women and war babies paid the price of a new nation, refers to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 and states:
An official estimate of 200,000 to 400,000 women were raped by the Pakistani military and…
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Is Russia generations ahead in hypersonic missile development?
According to a news article on Russia Today, Russia is leading the US in hypersonic missile development by generations:
The bottom line is that Russia – in terms of hypersonic missile development – is about four generations ahead of the US, if we…
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Can dolphins accidentally detonate naval mines?
According to animal rights activists, U.S. Navy's usage of dolphins to locate naval mines is questionable, as they may cause mine to explode:
The ethics behind using these mammals during war is still in question
though, as they are reportedly…
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Did the German navy use UV lights for communication from submarines?
An article about vision anomalies claims that the increased sensitivity to UV light in aphakia sufferers has been put to use to detect UV signal lamps from German submarines in World War II.
"Let the light shine in", The Guardian,…
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