USS Los Angeles dirigible over Manhattan, 1932

Amazing Photos Collection #4:

The first human x-ray taken by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1896...

A Cambodian guerrilla is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp - Photo by Vo Anh Khanh

Eiffel Tower Construction Progression In The 1800's

Photo: The Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 - Anchorage Alaska...

The attack on Pearl Harbor taken from one of the attacking Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941.

Filipino man being executed by garrote during the Philippine American War, early 20th century

UNKNOWN RUSSIAN PILOT, WWI.

William Harley and Arthur Davidson.

Passers-by spit on a defaced statue of Josef Stalin, Hungary 1956.

Rakotz Brücke, Germany

USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) pulls into Pier 88 after sailing up the Hudson River to kick off Fleet Week 2002 in New York City, 22 May 2002

Elvis in his car, 1970s

New York City traffic on 42nd Street in 1918

Deep snow banks on a narrow road halt military traffic in the woods of Wallerode, Belgium. 87th Infantry Division, 01-30-1945

Craftsmen making baseball bats in a Louisville Slugger factory (1932)

Montana 1901 - Before The Lawyers Came..

WWII - U.S. soldiers in combat

Yezidi Resistance Fighter Fights Against ISIS

A wrecked Zero on New Georgia, 1943.

Unemployed men outside Al Capone’s soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, (1931) - Colorized

Vintage Photo: Greyhound in 1923...

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Amazing Photos Collection #5
Amazing Photos Collection #6 -or- Surreal picture of a Zeppelin under construction, circa 1935

Canal Street, New Orleans, circa.1910 or Photo Collection #7

Wright Lumber Company fire, West 28th Street, New York, 1928

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The first human x-ray taken by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1896...

A Cambodian guerrilla is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp - Photo by Vo Anh Khanh

Eiffel Tower Construction Progression In The 1800's

Photo: The Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 - Anchorage Alaska...

The attack on Pearl Harbor taken from one of the attacking Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941.

Filipino man being executed by garrote during the Philippine American War, early 20th century

UNKNOWN RUSSIAN PILOT, WWI.

William Harley and Arthur Davidson.

Passers-by spit on a defaced statue of Josef Stalin, Hungary 1956.

Rakotz Brücke, Germany

USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) pulls into Pier 88 after sailing up the Hudson River to kick off Fleet Week 2002 in New York City, 22 May 2002

Elvis in his car, 1970s

New York City traffic on 42nd Street in 1918

Deep snow banks on a narrow road halt military traffic in the woods of Wallerode, Belgium. 87th Infantry Division, 01-30-1945

Craftsmen making baseball bats in a Louisville Slugger factory (1932)

Montana 1901 - Before The Lawyers Came..

WWII - U.S. soldiers in combat

Yezidi Resistance Fighter Fights Against ISIS

A wrecked Zero on New Georgia, 1943.

Unemployed men outside Al Capone’s soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, (1931) - Colorized

Vintage Photo: Greyhound in 1923...

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Canal Street, New Orleans, circa.1910 or Photo Collection #7

War By Robots: Army Looking For Armed Ground Prototype By 2019

The new combat vehicles must be “optimized for fighting in dense urban terrain.” Fighting in narrow streets, in turn, requires smaller vehicles than the massive M1 — and one way to reduce weight is to take the humans out.

After 20 years of cancelled programs, the Army now wants prototypes of all-new robotic and “optionally manned” combat vehicles by 2019 so soldiers can begin field-testing them in 2020. Compared to current vehicles, they’ll be lighter, smaller and optimized for urban combat, said Brig. Gen. David Lesperance, head of the armor school at Fort Benning, Ga. and the hand-picked head of the service’s Cross-Functional Team on future ground vehicles.

Both established defense contractors and non-traditional companies are currently working on concepts, he told me and two other reporters this afternoon, and there’ll be intense experimentation, modeling, and simulation in the next “six to 12 months.”

Army Chief of Staff Mark Milley created the Cross Functional Teams last fall to advance his Big Six modernization priorities. What’s called Next-Generation Combat Vehicle (NGCV) is No. 2, second only to long-range artillery and missiles. Until this week, however, the CFTs have kept quiet. But Gen. Milley promised the Army would seek “radical,” ten-fold improvements in technology on a tight timeline. Lesperance’s proposal would definitely deliver on that promise — if it works.

Risk Factors

The problem is the post-Cold War Army’s track record on new armored fighting vehicles is unblemished by success. (The successful Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicleis essentially a modified Bradley, not an all new design). While continually upgrading and modernizing the 1980s-vintage M1 Abrams tank and the M2 Bradley, the Pentagon has cancelled the M8 Armored Gun System (1997), the Crusader howitzer (2002), the Future Combat Systems (2009), and the Ground Combat Vehicle (2013). FCS in particular is the dead elephant in the room, because it was the Army’s last attempt at this kind of technological great leap forward, specifically including both manned and robotic vehicles.

Milley has said specifically his Big Six modernization program won’t repeat the mistakes of FCS, and there are grounds for hope. First, technology is just better. The private sector has made dramatic advances in computing power, artificial intelligenc and ground robots since FCS was cancelled in 2009, when the iPhone was in its infancy and self-driving cars were a fantasy.

The Army, for its part, is taking care to prototype the new technology before it commits to an acquisition program, unlike FCS. It has also abandoned the cumbersome mega-program approach of FCS, which was a single contract for eight manned vehicles, multiple ground robots and drones, and a mobile network to...

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #181

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

You have been warned.

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #180

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

You have been warned.

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #171

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

You have been warned.

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #170

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

You have been warned.

Castro's Executioner, Che Guevara Killing Women...

Fidel Castro ordered the execution of a peasant guerrilla named Eutimio Guerra who he accused of being an informer for Batista's forces. ... Che - but it is more likely that it was taken in the 1980-92 San / El Salvador civil war and shows the Marxist-Leninist FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front).

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The first human x-ray taken by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1896...

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Photo: The Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 - Anchorage Alaska...

The attack on Pearl Harbor taken from one of the attacking Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941.

Filipino man being executed by garrote during the Philippine American War, early 20th century

UNKNOWN RUSSIAN PILOT, WWI.

William Harley and Arthur Davidson.

Passers-by spit on a defaced statue of Josef Stalin, Hungary 1956.

Rakotz Brücke, Germany

USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) pulls into Pier 88 after sailing up the Hudson River to kick off Fleet Week 2002 in New York City, 22 May 2002

Elvis in his car, 1970s

New York City traffic on 42nd Street in 1918

Deep snow banks on a narrow road halt military traffic in the woods of Wallerode, Belgium. 87th Infantry Division, 01-30-1945

Craftsmen making baseball bats in a Louisville Slugger factory (1932)

Montana 1901 - Before The Lawyers Came..

WWII - U.S. soldiers in combat

Yezidi Resistance Fighter Fights Against ISIS

A wrecked Zero on New Georgia, 1943.

Unemployed men outside Al Capone’s soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, (1931) - Colorized

Vintage Photo: Greyhound in 1923...

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Amazing Photos Collection #5
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Canal Street, New Orleans, circa.1910 or Photo Collection #7

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #152

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #151

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

You have been warned.

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #147

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

You have been warned.

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #145

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

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City Hall during construction in 1927, Los Angeles.

More Amazing Photos:

The first human x-ray taken by Wilhelm Roentgen in 1896...

A Cambodian guerrilla is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp - Photo by Vo Anh Khanh

Eiffel Tower Construction Progression In The 1800's

Photo: The Great Alaskan Earthquake of 1964 - Anchorage Alaska...

The attack on Pearl Harbor taken from one of the attacking Japanese aircraft on December 7, 1941.

Filipino man being executed by garrote during the Philippine American War, early 20th century

UNKNOWN RUSSIAN PILOT, WWI.

William Harley and Arthur Davidson.

Passers-by spit on a defaced statue of Josef Stalin, Hungary 1956.

Rakotz Brücke, Germany

USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) pulls into Pier 88 after sailing up the Hudson River to kick off Fleet Week 2002 in New York City, 22 May 2002

Elvis in his car, 1970s

New York City traffic on 42nd Street in 1918

Deep snow banks on a narrow road halt military traffic in the woods of Wallerode, Belgium. 87th Infantry Division, 01-30-1945

Craftsmen making baseball bats in a Louisville Slugger factory (1932)

Montana 1901 - Before The Lawyers Came..

WWII - U.S. soldiers in combat

Yezidi Resistance Fighter Fights Against ISIS

A wrecked Zero on New Georgia, 1943.

Unemployed men outside Al Capone’s soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression, (1931) - Colorized

Vintage Photo: Greyhound in 1923...

More Incredible Photos:
Amazing Photos Collection #1
Amazing Photos Collection #2
Amazing Photos Collection #3
Amazing Photos Collection #4
Amazing Photos Collection #5
Amazing Photos Collection #6 -or- Surreal picture of a Zeppelin under construction, circa 1935

Canal Street, New Orleans, circa.1910 or Photo Collection #7

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #132

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

You have been warned.

The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #122

You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside? 

It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific, 

from the beautiful to the repugnant, 

from the mysterious to the familiar.

If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed, 

you could be inspired, you could be appalled. 

This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended. 

You have been warned.