To Save Soldiers on The Battlefield, Darpa Invests in Suspended Animation
An active battlefield is a really inconvenient place to lose
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An active battlefield is a really inconvenient place to lose
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A U.S. Air Force official provides details on the mysterious aircraft spotted in Afghanistan
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Since April,
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While weapons continue to grow smarter and smarter, the U.S. Army is developing armor
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The gadget would record details of every shot fired to track both weapon and user performance
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Where will the NSA house its secret yottabytes?
We always knew that the National Security Agency
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Worst-case planning never hurt anybody, and certainly not federal water projects
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In February, the Ministry of Defense (MOD) in Great Britain
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Even the Army seems scared of this one
Northrop's heavy-duty hauler CaMEL has been a success, scoring contracts from Israel and serious interest from the U.S. Army. But why haul miscellaneous stuff when you can haul a giant gun instead?
The hauler
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Laser warfare took a big step closer to reality today as Boeing officially selected an Oshkosh Defense
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Batdrones, swarming UAVs, and better radar are in our future
Bat Con 2010 could have been a decidedly depressing science meeting, with days full of papers discussing bat deaths from white-nose
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Even the Army Corps of Engineers is involved in the effort to protect bats
DENVER - Gerald Carter walked over to Dave Dalton's table and paused, listening to a discussion about infrared light. He set down his backpack full of video and audio equipment and smiled. "I
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The gadget would record details of every shot fired to track both weapon and user performance
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Where will the NSA house its secret yottabytes?
We always knew that the National Security Agency
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If it's not the most efficient piece of clothing ever designed, it very well might be the smartest. The ‘DARPA hoodie,' a strangely-designed patchwork garment
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Worst-case planning never hurt anybody, and certainly not federal water projects
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The holidays may be driving video game console sales, but apparently so is the military. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has strung together 1,760 PlayStation 3 gaming systems to create what it's calling the fastest
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Sea creatures like octopus, squid and cuttlefish are among nature's best camouflage artists, changing color to blend into their environments. This is partly because cephalopod skins have some primitive optical abilities - their skin has the same light-sensing proteins
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Just as the AK-47 rifle shifted the balance of power on battlefields the world over during the second half of the last century, the improvised explosive device (IED) has defined 21st-century insurgent warfare, allowing relatively low-tech warriors to inflict major damage
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The official performance results aren't available yet, but General Atomics confirmed this afternoon that it's next-gen aircraft carrier launch system successfully launched an F/A-18E Super Hornet on Saturday, not with steam but with its new
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Further solidifying its reputations for cutting edge battlefield tech and badass acronyms, DARPA has awarded BAE systems $8.4 million to develop its BLADE
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It's unclear which is the bigger news coming out of the Office of Naval Research; the fact that the Navy's Free Electron Laser (FEL) program has demonstrated an
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The Navy's death ray weapon keeps burning through laser records, on its way to the ultimate goal of searing through 2,000 feet of steel per second.
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What do you call an armor-penetrating munition? MAHEM. A smokescreen that instantly closes around a tank? DRAPES. A robot that scavenges and feeds itself? EATR, of course.
At the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the military's mad-science research wing,
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