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Scrubs' Sam Lloyd William Hughes Yesterday 6:22PM Gizmodo You Should Probably Skip Buying a New Xbox or PlayStation This Year Joanna Nelius Yesterday 6:30PM Earther Shell: OK, We May Actually Be Fucked This Time Brian Kahn Yesterday 1:50PM Popular from Foxtrot Alpha 5 363 210.0K The U.S. Navy's Big Beautiful New Carrier Has Hilariously Messed Up Toilets Michael Ballaban 3/24/20 2:30PM Advertisement 4/19/20 12:01 PM 1 4/19/20 Russia's Giant World War II Victory Parade Has Been Postponed Because Of The Pandemic Max Finkel 105 1 Since the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, Soviet and later Russian troops have massed for massive parades at the major anniversaries of the end of World War II. This year, as Russia and the rest of the world celebrate seventy-five years since the defeat of Nazism, the parade will be postponed over fears surrounding … 3/24/20 2:30 PM 5 Foxtrot Alpha 3/24/20 Foxtrot Alpha 3/24/20 Foxtrot Alpha The U.S. Navy's Big Beautiful New Carrier Has Hilariously Messed Up Toilets Michael Ballaban 363 5 The USS Gerald R. Ford is a technological marvel. Its nuclear reactors can enable it to move for 25 years without re-fueling. It uses powerful electro-magnets to hurl aircraft into the sky. It has toilets designed so incredibly poorly that the entire system needs to be unclogged and flushed out with acid, yes acid , on … 2/8/20 12:05 PM 9 2/8/20 Even The American Military Is Struggling With Right-To-Repair Max Finkel 215 9 Imagine that you’re stationed at an outpost deep in a conflict zone. Your MRAP’s alternator is busted and you’ve got a spare, but your mechanic tells you that she’ll void the warranty if you let her replace it. It’s either tow the whole thing out or let it sit there wasting space. That’s what American servicemember s … 1/8/20 7:00 PM 1 Foxtrot Alpha 1/8/20 Foxtrot Alpha 1/8/20 Foxtrot Alpha How America And Iran Danced To The Brink of War Kyle Mizokami 189 1 Yesterday Iran launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at U.S. forces based in Iraq. No Americans were reported harmed in the attacks. The salvo of missiles was in response to the U.S. assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani , killed in Baghdad by a Reaper drone strike. The two countries stand at the … Advertisement 1/2/20 1:03 PM 3 Foxtrot Alpha 1/2/20 Foxtrot Alpha 1/2/20 Foxtrot Alpha The U.S. Tested A New Missile And We’re All Worse Off Because Of It Kyle Mizokami 241 3 As 2019 rounded to a close, the United States tested a new missile that was up until just a few months ago prohibited by international treaty. The missile blasted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base and splashed down in a patch of the Pacific Ocean, signifying the end of an important arms control treaty signed with the … 12/1/19 2:10 PM 1 12/1/19 How To Steal A Soviet Helicopter Max Finkel 100 1 Deep in the Sahel, as Muammar Qaddafi’s Libya exploited instability in Chad to expand its territory, a daring operation took place to obtain one of the Soviet Union’s most advanced attack helicopters. It was a complex plan involving Chadian rebel groups as well as French and American soldiers and spies, but it worked. 11/27/19 4:30 PM 2 Foxtrot Alpha 11/27/19 Foxtrot Alpha 11/27/19 Foxtrot Alpha Russia Returned Captured Ukrainian Ships With The Toilets Torn Out Kyle Mizokami 55 2 In the on-again, off-again undeclared war between Russia and Ukraine, this has to be the most petty incident yet. Russia recently returned three Ukraine Navy ships captured in 2018, with just one catch. The toilets were missing. Ukraine, at least, appears to be taking it in stride. 11/25/19 3:13 PM 1 Foxtrot Alpha 11/25/19 Foxtrot Alpha 11/25/19 Foxtrot Alpha How The Army’s Use Of TikTok Could Be A National Security Threat Kyle Mizokami 58 1 Last week, Senator Chuck Schumer wrote the U.S. Army to ask it to think twice before using TikTok for recruiting purposes. Schumer cited TikTok’s Chinese origin and laws that required Chinese companies to assist with Chinese intelligence operations. Schumer’s letter dropped just as the U.S. Army was exploring new ways … Advertisement 11/20/19 3:55 PM Save Foxtrot Alpha 11/20/19 Foxtrot Alpha 11/20/19 Foxtrot Alpha The Marines Want To Swarm Beaches With CRABS Kyle Mizokami 58 Save When the robot uprising ends and the beaten remnants of humanity are put on trial, Exhibit A will be the day the Marines invented CRABS. CRABS, or Crawling Remotely-Operated Amphibious Breacher, will be autonomous robots designed to operate in the dangerous surf zone, under hostile fire, dismantling formidable beach … 11/9/19 1:05 PM 2 Foxtrot Alpha 11/9/19 Foxtrot Alpha 11/9/19 Foxtrot Alpha Watch The Future USS John F. Kennedy Float For the First Time Kyle Mizokami 192 2 Carriers are really, really big. Everyone says it, but until you see the whole carrier, sitting high and dry in an empty dry dock for the first time, you really can’t comprehend the true size of the world’s largest warship. 11/8/19 1:10 PM 5 Foxtrot Alpha 11/8/19 Foxtrot Alpha 11/8/19 Foxtrot Alpha The Laser Weapon Is Really, Really Finally Here Kyle Mizokami 512 5 Rejoice if you look towards the dystopia of the Star Wars universe, for laser weapons have finally, at long last, arrived. The laser, a weapon system perpetually “ten or fifteen years away” from operational use, is off the development treadmill and entering the field. In addition to the smug banter of science fiction … 11/1/19 3:00 PM 2 Foxtrot Alpha 11/1/19 Foxtrot Alpha 11/1/19 Foxtrot Alpha The Air Force’s Robotic Spaceplane Returns After Nearly 800 Days in Orbit Kyle Mizokami 50 2 The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B returned to Earth this week after more than two years in orbit. The unmanned space plane keeps breaking records, this time spending 780 days circling the planet before gliding to a stop at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft is a key part of the Pentagon’s plans for space … Advertisement 10/31/19 3:40 PM 5 Foxtrot Alpha 10/31/19 Foxtrot Alpha 10/31/19 Foxtrot Alpha How Nazi Germany Used Stolen American Tanks In World War II Kyle Mizokami 163 5 In the final days of World War II, as U.S. troops advanced into Aschaffenberg, they encountered stiff German resistance in the form of something familiar: a Sherman tank, one of its beutepanzers , aka “loot tanks,” equipment seized in previous battles. In war, the loot can be as dangerous as anything. 10/30/19 7:00 PM 5 Foxtrot Alpha 10/30/19 Foxtrot Alpha 10/30/19 Foxtrot Alpha The Marines Are Testing A 'Lightning Carrier' Kyle Mizokami 177 5 The U.S. Marines are testing loading an amphibious assault ship with a baker’s dozen of F-35B Lightning fighter jets. The result is what the Navy and Marines call a “Lightning Carrier,” and it could be a glimpse into the future of naval aviation. 10/19/19 12:05 PM 2 Foxtrot Alpha 10/19/19 Foxtrot Alpha 10/19/19 Foxtrot Alpha The U.S. Is 'Getting Out of the Mideast' By Sending 3,000 Troops To Saudi Arabia Kyle Mizokami 113 2 The Trump Administration, determined to “get out of the Middle East” and its “endless wars” , is deploying 3,000 troops, including fighter jets and missiles, to Saudi Arabia. This being October 2019, the irony doesn’t stop there: the weapons the Pentagon is sending to protect the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would have … 10/16/19 7:00 PM Save Foxtrot Alpha 10/16/19 Foxtrot Alpha 10/16/19 Foxtrot Alpha China’s Z-20 Helicopter Looks Awfully Familiar Kyle Mizokami 183 Save China’s 70th Anniversary parade, held earlier this month in Beijing, included the debut of one of the People’s Liberation Army’s worst-kept secrets: the Harbin Z-20 helicopter. The Z-20 medium helicopter, dubbed “Copyhawk” by Western observers, is a fam...