The Military Stories for 2011

Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War 969
UK Ministry of Defense Improves War Games For Console Generation 102
What's Wrong With the US Defense R&D Budget? 225
China Begins Using New Global Positioning Satellites 168
What Life Was Like Inside the Hexagon Project 104
Android Approved By Pentagon 160
U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare 206
Troops In Afghanistan Supplied By Robot Helicopter 140
Fatal Problems Continue To Plague F-22 Raptor 379
Tech Forensics Take Center Stage in Manning Pre-Trial 172
Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics 146
The Future of Battle Tech 122
US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing 647
Satellite Spots China's First Aircraft Carrier 449
Iran Wants To Clone Downed US Drone 663
Ask Slashdot: Working As an IT Contractor In a War Zone? 352
Predator Drone Helps Nab Cattle Rustlers 214
Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case 129
TSA Facing Death By a Thousand Cuts 493
Iranian TV Shows Downed US Drone 612
Red Cross Debates If Virtual Killing Violates International Humanitarian Law 516
DARPA Seeks App Developers For War App Store 174
US Air Force Pays SETI To Check Kepler-22b For Alien Life 301
Iran's Military Claims To Have Downed US Surveillance Drone 522
Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network 300
Was Conficker Stuxnet's Trojan? 57
Behind the Government's Rules of Cyber War 117
Battlefield 3 Banned In Iran 248
Palantir, the War On Terror's Secret Weapon 276
Bradley Manning's Court Date Finally Set 523
DARPA Requests Replacement To Antibiotics 193
A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck 60
US Army Completes First Test Flight of Mach 6 Weapon 230
Giant Chinese Desert Mystery Structure Solved 161
Boeing Delivers Massive Ordnance Penetrator 381
Russia's MiG Aircraft Company Develops 3D Flight Simulator 62
China Building Gigantic Structures In the Desert 412
Army Plots Its Smartphone Strategy 125
DARPA Wants To Get Rid of Password Protection 205
With Troop Drawdown, IT Looks To Hire More Vets 212
US Military Trying To Weed Out Counterfeit Parts 264
DARPA Seeks Input On Securing Networks Against Attackers 119
The F-35 Story 509
Hobby Inspired Electric Multicopter Makes Manned Flight 104
Spear Phishing Campaign Hits Dozens of Chemical, Defense Firms 46
First Android Device Certified For DoD Personnel 79
Boston Dynamics' PETMAN Humanoid On Video 70
Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" 151
Paper-Based Explosives Sensor Made Using an Inkjet 44
DARPA: Reconstruct Shredded Docs, Win $50K USD 209
Mitsubishi Hack Stole Nuclear, Defense Data 78
US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled 299
Manufacturing Dreams 114
US Troops To Leave Iraq By End of Year 386
Fat Replaces Oil In F-16s 206
Real 3D Display; 3 Years Out? 191
Air Force Comments On Drone Malware 74
NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS 260
Air Force Network Admins Found Out About Drone Virus Through News Story 161
Boeing Suggests Possible Manned Version of the X-37B Space Plane 87
Incomplete PDF Redaction Leaks Data From UK MoD 171
Predator Drone 'Virus' Could Be Military's Own Monitoring 99
US Drone Fleet Hit By Computer Virus 370
US Military To Field Test "Throwable" Robots 91
Drone Kills Top Al Qaeda Figure 885
Boston Dynamics Unveils AlphaDog Quadruped Robot 140
Man Charged in Model Airplane Plot To Bomb Pentagon 515
US Military Seeks Non-Cooperative Biometric Tracking Technology 98
Cold-War Missile Launches Military Satellite 91
US Military Moving Closer To Automated Killing 472
Japan's Largest Defense Contractor Hacked 96
NRO Declassifies KH-9 Satellite 74
NRO To Declassify Cold-War Spy-Sat Tech 77
North Korea Forced US Reconnaissance Plane To Land 417
Airship Company Gets First Civilian Customer 81
Tanks Test Infrared Camouflage Cloak 309
Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV? 232
Antenna-Clothing Outperforms Regular Antennas 70
Canadian Firm Gave Libyan Rebels Surveillance Drone 165
Chinese Propaganda Accidentally Reveals Cyberwar 286
Anonymous Breaches Another US Defense Contractor 167
GE's World War II Era "Copper Man" Gets His Due 61
DARPA Hypersonic Vehicle Splash Down Confirmed 140
Navy Bomb Squads Get a Solar Power Upgrade 56
Pakistan Lets China View US Stealth Technology 297
DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider 194
Military Working On Laser Powered Drones 95
DARPA Set To Blast Falcon Mach 20 Test Flight 201
US Army Unveils Its Official Cologne 2
DARPA Commits To Funding Useful Hacking Projects 44
Army Gives Robo Jeeps a Go 81
China's 5-Year Cyberwar Met With Western Silence 185
Ground-Based GPS Mimic Is Inch Perfect 140
Blocked Fuel Line Botched Military Satellite Orbit 86
The Code War Arms Race 74
Anonymous Releases Restricted NATO Document 187
A Linux Distro From the US Department of Defense 210
Anonymous Hack One Gigabyte of Data From NATO 304
Top General: Defense Department IT In "Stone Age" 155
Climate Scientists Ask For Help Fighting Somali Pirates 300
Cut Down On Nukes To Shave the Deficit 369
Wired Releases Full Manning/Lamo Chat Logs 307
DoD Lost 24k Files In Attack On Contractor 49
Is the Military Prepared For Cyberwarfare? 147
Wearable Computers and Portable Power 25
UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee 182
Anonymous Releases 90,000 Military E-Mail Accounts 319
Panetta Says Defeat of Al Qaeda 'Within Reach' 249
Ex-NSA Chief Supports Separate Secure Internet 214
Army's Huge SAP Project 'At High Risk' 166
Military and Government E-mails Compromised 132
New Approach For Laser Weapons 188
US Army Spent $2.7 Billion On Crashing Computer 196
Among the Costs of War: $20B In Air Conditioning 409
Where Jules Verne Meets Star Wars: GE's Walking Truck 57
The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland 477
Air Force Drones Hit 1 Million Combat Hours 113
Boeing's Enormous Navy Laser Cannon 291
Electronic Health Records Now In All US Military Hospitals 86
Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' 892
Old Worm Digs New Dirt At Pentagon 26
11 Pathogens Pose Big Security Risk For Research 115
Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys 310
Mexican Cartels Build Mad Max Narco Tanks 343
RSA Admits SecurID Tokens Have Been Compromised 219
Wikileaks Cables Say No Bloodshed Inside Tiananmen Square 235
China Calls US Culprit In Global 'Internet War' 114
North Korea Training "Cyberwarriors" Abroad 128
Pentagon Says Cyberattacks Can Count As Act of War 282
Chinese Military Admits Existence of Cyberwarfare Unit 153
Duplicate RSA Keys Enable Lockheed Martin Network Intrusion 138
DoD Paper Proposes National Security Through a Culture of Restraint (and Stigma) 310
Tunny Code-Breaker Rebuilt At Bletchley Park 47
Under Soviet Satellites, How Area 51 Hid (And Invented) Secret Craft 155
PLA Develops First Person Shooter With US Troops as Targets 395
US Preserves Smallpox For Defense 248
The Cost of US Security 456
Disney Seeks Trademark On 'Seal Team 6' 254
Porn Reportedly Found At Bin Laden Compound 537
German Newscast Confuses Star Trek Terrorists With Navy SEALs 1
New Aircraft Is Pilot Optional 76
US Navy Creates MMO To Fight Somali Pirates 318
Bin Laden Hideout Recreated In Counter-Strike 502
Rocket Blasts Off With Missile-Warning Satellite 60
A New Human-Seeking Drone, Much Cheaper Than a Predator 178
Crashed Helicopter Sparks Concern Over Stealth Secrets 484
Leaked Doc May Have Forced US To Speed Up Bin Laden Raid 632
Air Force Wants Commercial Spacecraft 70
Man Unknowingly Tweets the Osama Raid 354
Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands 1855
Robo-Gunsight System Makes Sniper's Life Easier 265
NASA Fires Up Jet Fuel That Tastes Like Chicken 147
Iran Says It Has Detected Second Cyber Attack 91
Army Develops Android-Based Framework For Battlefield Ops 80
USAF Gets F-35 Flight Simulator 252
MoD's Error Leaks Secrets of UK Nuclear Submarine 248
French Hacker Arrested After Bragging On TV 134
DARPA's New Hi-Tech Telescope 89
FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO 481
US Navy Close To On-Ship Laser Cannons 309
Free DARPA Software Lets Gamers Hunt Submarines 213
MythBuster Developing Light-Weight Vehicle Armor 308
Afghanistan Called First "Robotic War" 288
StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light 431
Amateurs Spy On US Spy Plane 172
Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb 332
MIT Drone Finds Its Way Using Kinect Vision 77
Man Accused of Selling US Military Drones On EBay 182
Surveillance Robot That is Programmed To Hide 148
Air Force Supercomputer Made From PS3's 212
Military Releases Training Materials on Gay Kissing 4
Iran Unveils Flying Saucer Using Old B-Movie Stock Photo 174
Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes 187
UN Intervention Begins In Libya 688
WikiLeaks Cash-For-Votes Exposé Rocks Indian Government 225
US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors 257
US Military Commissions Sock Puppet Program 217
UN Backs Action Against Colonel Gaddafi 501
US Military Blocks Websites To Free Up Bandwidth 164
Australia Creates Cyberwarfare Unit 60
King Wants To Sell Out Ham Radio 309
Cold Warriors Question Nukes 274
HBGary Hack In Depth 65
X-37B Secret Space Plane's Second Launch Today 59
Quadruped CHEETAH Robot To Outrun Any Human 177
UK MOD To Spend 20 Million On Toy Size Spy Drones 44
Iran To 'Remove Fuel' From Bushehr Nuclear Plant 240
Libya SIGINT Jamming Satellites, Towers 463
Army Psy Ops Units Targeted American Senators 391
Aussie Security Forces Testing Apple's iOS 58
DARPA Open-Sources Military Vehicle Design 105
Automatic Life Jacket Detection For Drones 85
Scientists Aim To 'Print' Human Skin 77
US Navy Breaks Laser Record 294
Air Force Wants Hundreds of Fake Online Identities 124
Hummingbird-Size Wing-Flapping Drone Unveiled 108
Pentagon To Spend $500 Million On Cyber Defense 55
On Retirement, Israeli General Takes Credit for Stuxnet Attacks 334
eBay Bans Sale of Harrier Jump Jet 14
Sandia Helps Secure Kazakh Nuclear Material 88
Iran's New Space Program 243
US Has Secret Tools To Force Internet On Dictatorships 282
Pentagon Sets Tone For Future Space Exploration 79
Russia Launches, Loses, Finds Military Satellite 88
Did the Chinese Military Use Top Gun Footage? 226
Has China Already Flown a Space Plane? 176
Want Your Own Bunker Like WikiLeaks Or Pirate Bay? 54
Does the Moon Have Military Value? 332
Chinese Stealth Fighter Jet May Use US Technology 339
Compromised Government and Military Sites For Sale 51
Global Observer's First Hydrogen-Powered Flight 34
New York Times Reports US and Israel Behind Stuxnet 406
Military Aircraft To Get All-Fiber Network Gear 144
WikiLeaks Gives $15k To Bradley Manning Defense 321
Pentagon Credit Union Database Compromised 108
Military Set To Develop Smart, Robotic Cameras 127
First Pictures of Chinese Stealth Fighter 613
US Begins Sophisticated Wireless Jamming Project 157
Gargantuan Airship Hangar Turned Into a Waterpark 2