MOSCOW — A Russian court on Monday sentenced an American businessman to 16 years in prison on spying charges, a sentence that he and his brother rejected as being political. The Moscow City Court read out the conviction of Paul Whelan on charges of espionage and sentenced him to 16 years in a maximum security prison colony. The trial was
The U.S. military’s small, but growing, arsenal of armed robots has a new addition. Bot-maker Foster-Miller has shipped the first of its new killer machines to the Defense Department’s Combatting Terrorism Technology Support Office. The 350-pound MAARS (Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System) machine can carry a 40mm grenade launcher or a M240B medium machine gun. Or, if the robot’s operators want their killer
“Policeman in full gear, Warsaw’s State Police (Policja Panstwowa m.st. Warszawy) Warsaw 1934. Photo Willem van de Poll Last week I had posted an image of a very fine c.1935 FB Radom wz.30 Nagant revolver (the Polish Nagant) and as a follow up, I thought I would post this most excellent and very steampunk image of a Polish State Police (PP) officer using a