Video: Dutch Marine's Helmetcam Delivers Thrilling First-Person-Shooter View of Raid on Pirate-Seized Ship
Does this herald a future where commanders get real-time intel from their warfighters' helmets?
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Seeking Troop Longevity, Indian Military Taps a Holy Man on a Supposed 70-Year Fast
India Seeks Super Soldiers
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A Cheap, Thin Film Gives Portable Night Vision to Cell Phones and Eyeglasses
…made possible by OLED technology
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Memristors to Be Used by Military to Create Simulated Brains
The stated goal is a brain that works "at the cat level" and fits in a two-litre bottle
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Sound Bullets Inspired By Newton's Cradle Could Sink Subs, Destroy Tumours
Image: skapiratin via flickr
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Navy Submarine Runs Eternally on Thermal Power from Ocean Currents
Image: NASA/JPL/U.S. Navy/Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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Video: Navy Helicopter Drone Makes First Coke Bust on the High Seas
What you gonna do when they come for you? Image: U.S. Navy/Alan Gragg
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In Safety Study, Sheep on Meth Are Shocked With Tasers
The study aimed to test whether Taser devices have caused heart-related problems or death in meth-addled suspects. Image: From Black Sheep
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Video: Apocalypse-Fearing Folk Can Seek Shelter in Futuristic US$10 Million Doomsday Bunker
Image: Vivos
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Air Force Calls for Airborne Electric Lasers That Can Target Land and Air
Compact lasers to take out targets
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Video gamers and warfighters alike will appreciate this stunning first-person-shooter view of a Dutch marine boarding team taking back a German merchant ship from Somali pirates. It's not hard to imagine many more soldiers of the future equipped with cameras so that commanders can have multiple
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India's Defense Research Development Organization thinks it may have found a new secret weapon: an 82-year-old holy man named Prahlad Jani. His tactical advantage: longevity. Jani claims via the UK's Telegraph
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What we regularly refer to as "night vision goggles" are actually less like goggles and more like heavy, bulky (and outrageously expensive) pieces of machinery. But DARPA-funded research at the University of Florida in the US has adapted technology regularly found in flat-screen
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DARPA's ardent desire to realise every sci-fi concept ever dreamed of continues with a biologically-inspired computer project which aims for feline brain functionality. But this time it's pinning its hopes on memristor devices which can simulate the behaviour of biological synapses in the brain.
Memristors
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Inspiration comes from the strangest places. A falling apple supposedly inspired Newton’s laws, and now a desktop ornament bearing Newton’s name has inspired a new acoustic weapon that both militaries and hospitals can keep in their arsenals: sub-sinking, tumor killing “sound
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A Navy-funded thermal engine bobbing off the coast of Hawaii is accomplishing a rare feat -- it produces more energy than it consumes. Though it's not quite a perpetual motion machine, it could provide scientists or the Navy with a perpetual presence on the seas. The engine is attached to an
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Drug runners and pirates beware: a US Navy helicopter drone made its first official drug bust on April 3. The US Navy Fire Scout stealthily tailed a "go-fast" boat suspected of carrying narcotics for three hours, and captured video of the boat's refuelling rendezvous with a fishing vessel.
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Cocaine is a hell of a drug, but getting shocked with a Taser while riding high on methamphetamines probably beats any white-knuckled cocaine experience hands down. And that's exactly what happened to some lucky sheep in a new study that tested the effects of Tasers on meth-addled targets,
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A doomsday bunker envisioned by California company Vivos can offer you, your family, and 4,000 other people the chance to escape the end of the world in a network of 20 underground shelters. Surely even the sceptics can't resist the allure of scary music played over scenes of comfortable underground
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The challenge is packing the power of a chemical laser into an electric laser's smaller, more portable package Skyborne chemical lasers have successfully shown off their potential killing power, and so the Air Force has now turned toward putting a more compact electric laser aboard its
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Collecting fingerprints and other biometric data has long allowed law enforcement and the military alike to track down wanted individuals, solve cases, or just keep tabs on people. Now what was a U.S. government task force under the U.S. Army has officially become a full-scale national
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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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If those new airport X-ray scanners offend your modest sensibilities, you may not want to read this. A new terahertz remote sensor may soon be able to
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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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DARPA's Transformer - sometimes referred to as the flying Humvee - seems to be moving right along, even if only on paper at this point. The DoD's out-there tech incubator has awarded Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute $988,000 to develop an autonomous
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Just as DARPA pushes the wackier Pentagon ideas and ARPA-E backs next-gen energy projects,
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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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Ships that appear in perfect working order except for a missing human crew would normally raise
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HULC want longer-lasting batteries!
Even the finest super-soldier suit can end up as expensive
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Washington insiders recently sweated out a real-time war game where a cyberattack crippled
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