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Pentagon Creates New Medal for Drone Pilots – Cause Drinking Moutain Dew Miles away from the Combat Zone Deserves a Medal Too

If you enjoy drinking Mountain Dew and are really, really good at playing video games, you may just have a career in the military… and you might even get a medal for your bravery. The Pentagon is creating a new high-level military medal that will recognize drone pilots and, in a controversial twist, giving it

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Lockheed Martin awarded 45.8 Million to finalize the Unmanned Helicopter

It’s like a bizzaro-world Wonder Woman Jet.  Lockheed Martin has been awarded $45.8 million to make the final preparations on the K-MAX unmanned helicopter. The contract given to Lockheed Martin is set to have them create TWO K-MAX vehicles and three remote control ground stations for the Marine Corps to do a “Quick Reaction Assessment.

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1,760 PlayStation 3’s fused to make Air Force Supercomputer

The Blue-ray capabilities may be disabled, but this stack of PlayStation 3’s it the 33rd largest computer in the world. Working directly with Sony and its distributers, all, 1760 consoles have been joined with “168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers” to form what the Air Force is calling “the fastest interactive computer