Watch a team of robots launch and target a missile

Watch a team of robots launch and target a missile

Post Views: 52 The demonstration was part of a NATO exercise called Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping Augmented by Maritime Unmanned Systems, or REPMUS. The training ran for two weeks, concluding September 24, and was designed to facilitate collaboration between navies and robots from several nations. The REPMUS series of exercises began in 2019, and it…

The Army isn’t getting its fancy Microsoft AR goggles quite yet

The Army isn’t getting its fancy Microsoft AR goggles quite yet

Post Views: 50 The IVAS, or Integrated Visual Augmentation System, is a headset adapted from the Microsoft HoloLens. By integrating processing power, cameras, and a heads-up display, the idea is that any soldier with a headset can perceive more of the world around them. It is a tremendous promise: that high-tech goggles can let soldiers…

General Atomics and Boeing will build a giant laser for the US military

General Atomics and Boeing will build a giant laser for the US military

Post Views: 57 The contract is to deliver a powerful, compact prototype of this laser weapon. General Atomics will build the laser, and defense giant Boeing will incorporate targeting and tracking tools and software, which allow the laser to find and hold focus on a moving target. This is crucial to preventing the laser from…

The Army’s Infantry Squad Vehicle seats 9 and can be dropped from a cargo plane

The Army’s Infantry Squad Vehicle seats 9 and can be dropped from a cargo plane

Post Views: 48 The vehicle seats nine: two in the front, three in the second row, two people facing backwards behind the third row, and one person each facing outwards from the sides on the rear. The sides and seats are all open. Passengers can buckle into place, but there are no doors. This makes…

Inspired by a seed, this rotating drone will make your head spin

Inspired by a seed, this rotating drone will make your head spin

Post Views: 66 Created by a team at the Singapore University of Technology & Design, this new seed-inspired one-wing drone is named F-SAM. It is a type of monocopter, or a helicopter with only one rotating blade. Engineers first developed a monocopter in 1913, with testing in 1915, but a problem arises in trying to…

Poland’s new anti-aircraft system will hit stealth targets at supersonic speeds

Poland’s new anti-aircraft system will hit stealth targets at supersonic speeds

Post Views: 119 “Flying at supersonic speeds, CAMM missiles can destroy modern air threats including stealth aircraft and high-speed missiles,” declared the British government, in a release. “Each CAMM family missile is equipped with an advanced active radar seeker that can see even the smallest, fastest and stealthiest targets through the worst weather and the…

DARPA’s solution to the military’s plastic trash problem? Eat it.

DARPA’s solution to the military’s plastic trash problem? Eat it.

Post Views: 133 This is the goal of DARPA’s ReSource program, which is soon going to be moving onto its second phase. In the first phase, teams from Battelle (a private research company frequently contracted by the government), Iowa State University, MIT, and Michigan Technological University, alongside government partners, studied proofs-of-concept for such waste conversion….

Meet the ‘Spy Stone,’ a Russian robot disguised as a rock

Meet the ‘Spy Stone,’ a Russian robot disguised as a rock

Post Views: 58 Under lightly falling snow, a soldier sets a rock on the ground. A moment later the rock animates, extending first a periscope-like camera, and then lifting the whole of its rocky exterior to reveal a small set of tracks. With mobility now possible, the little robot wheels down the slight embankment of…

This gadget is helping French special forces nail their parachute landings

This gadget is helping French special forces nail their parachute landings

Post Views: 61 That’s the problem addressed by French special forces of the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment, known as the 13th RDP, an army regiment entirely dedicated to gathering human intelligence from any theater in peacetime, wartime, or during other crises. Until recently, the 13th RDP paratroopers were using a ground-detecting system developed over 30…

Why Los Alamos lab is working on the tricky task of creating new plutonium coreswe

Post Views: 55 Inside a nuclear warhead, a plutonium pit is crucial to setting off the sequence of reactions that make a thermonuclear explosion. Inside the pit is a gas, like deuterium/tritium, and around the pit is chemical explosive. When the chemical explosive detonates, it compacts the plutonium around the gas until the core is…