U.S. Navy Tests Self-Guided Patrol Boats
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 5th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
U.S. Navy Tests Self-Guided Patrol Boats
The U.S. Navy fleet could soon include unmanned, self-guided patrol boats that could leave a warship to swarm attack a potential threat. A goal of the new technology is to help stop attacks like the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole off Yemen. The rigid-hull inflatable patrol boats can fire .50 caliber machine guns, but officials said a human will always be the one to make the decision to use lethal force. Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, chief of naval research, said, “This is something that you might find not only just on our naval vessels, we could certainly see this utilized to protect merchant vessels, to protect ports and harbors, used also to protect offshore oil rigs.”
Video Shows Woman Drinking Toxic Tea
Newly released surveillance video shows the moment a Utah woman was nearly killed when she drank a poisoned cup of tea. Jan Harding, 67, can be seen taking a single sip from a cup of iced tea she got at Dickey’s Barbeque in South Jordan, Utah. The drink was laced with lye, an odorless chemical that looks like sugar and is the active ingredient in Drano. Harding recovered after two weeks in the hospital. She is not suing the restaurant chain. “I don’t know if anything reached my stomach because they said it would have killed me immediately,” she said in August.