Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Naming weapon systems to give insight into its purpose or the branch’s culture is not new within the U.S. military. (DVIDS) The ...

A little more than a century ago, the US Army Air Service came up with a scheme for naming the military’s multiplying fleet of airplanes. The 1924 aircraft designation code produced memorable names ...

Traditional magnetic separators, however, present a challenge: they generate a magnetic force that is very high near the side of the vessel closest to the magnet and decreases rapidly with distance.