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  • World-first: Sea drone deploys gun-mounted robot in amphibious military attack

    07/14/2026 10:19:52 AM PDT · by Engraved-on-His-hands · 43 replies
    Interesting Engineering ^ | July 14, 2026 | Atharva Gosavi
    Ukraine has carried out what it described as the first known fully robotic amphibious assault, using a naval drone to transport an armed ground robot into Russian-occupied territory. The operation was announced on Monday by Ukraine’s 123rd Separate Territorial Defense Brigade. According to the brigade, a naval drone was remotely guided across the Black Sea toward the Kinburn Spit, located at the end of Ukraine’s Kinburn Peninsula and directly west of Kherson. Once the maritime drone reached the coast, it deployed an uncrewed ground vehicle fitted with a mounted machine gun.
  • (Odd WWII Relic) This Steampunkish Nazi Belt Buckle Pistol Packs A Deadly Surprise

    09/07/2014 3:08:00 PM PDT · by DogByte6RER · 36 replies
    Foxtrot Alpha ^ | Thursday, September 4, 2014 | Tyler Rogoway
    This Steampunkish Nazi Belt Buckle Pistol Packs A Deadly Surprise The Nazis had some pretty wild engineering ideas, and some of them, like the jet engine, ended up being a vision of things to come. Yet others were just over-engineered, strange, and in some cases, downright creepy. This steampunkish Nazi belt buckle four-shooter is one of those things. The whole idea was to give high-ranking Nazis a way to kill their captors should they be captured on the battlefield. The concept was said to have originated from known German inventor, Louis Marquis, who designed the contraption while he was held...
  • Un-Pimp your ride. VW commercial humor

    02/28/2006 7:16:52 AM PST · by Lx · 108 replies · 5,946+ views
    If anyone hasn't seen the hilarious new VW commercials, here are all three of them. Admin mods, please move if I posted it in the wrong place. http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/02/22/vw-strikes-again-un-pimp-my-ride-videos/