DARPA's Robotic Ghost Ships Will Stalk Submarines
Ships that appear in perfect working order except for a missing human crew would normally raise
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US Troops In Afghanistan to Get Sensors That See Through Walls
As if aerial robots and bionic limbs didn't make the Army seem futuristic enough, it looks
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Bayonet Skills to be Omitted from Basic Training for Modern Soldiers
General wants to reshape U.S. Army's basic training to reflect the demands of modern warfare
A general in command of U.S. Army training says that a new generation
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Smart Virtual Minefield Offers Tactical Coverage Without the Ugly Unexploded Ordnance
From a tactical military standpoint, land mines have a certain set-it-and-forget-it
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To Solve Cyber Crimes, DARPA Wants a "Cyber Genome Program"
Digital times mean digital crimes. But catching and convicting
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Video: Boeing's Truck-Mounted Laser Neatly Picks Off 50 IEDs in a Row
Boeing's laser weapons have already shown the power to blast aerial drones from the sky, but may find even more immediate use in detonating roadside bombs, which are a top killer of soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. A newly unveiled video shows the company's
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Navy Pledges Green Strike Group by 2012
Militaries have a tough, often messy job to do, and as such
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Lockheed's HULC Super-Soldier Exoskeleton Gets More Juice
HULC want longer-lasting batteries!
Even the finest super-soldier suit can end up as expensive
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U.S. Air Force Urgently Seeks Alternatives to GPS
GPS may now reside in everything from our cars to our smart phones, but it once all began as a military application. So it's perhaps ironic, if not entirely shocking,
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Electromagnetic Pulse Cannon Could Demo Car-Stopping Power Next Month
U.S. Marines could deploy the non-lethal weapon if it proves viable
Stopping a speeding
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U.S. Military Terminates Several Robotic Warriors
Budget cuts focus attention on smaller, more flexible drones and bots
Judgment Day has come for
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U.S. Army in Afghanistan Takes Delivery of New Bacterial Bioreactors to Clean Wastewater
Bacteria have deployed to Afghanistan to help the U.S. Army clean polluted wastewater. The microbes
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Smart Armor Knows Its Own Strength, As Well As The Enemy's
While weapons continue to grow smarter and smarter, the U.S. Army is developing armor
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UK Calls For a Transforming, Laser-Toting Stealth UAV
In February, the Ministry of Defense (MOD) in Great Britain
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Israel Developing Semi-Lethal Sonic Cannon To Control Rioters
A desert people have developed a new weapon that uses sound instead of bullets. But this time, it
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Overwhelmed with Data Feeds, Military Turns to NFL Broadcast Tricks for Highlighting Drone Targets
War is no game, but it could learn a trick or two from football
A growing swarm of drones
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US Troops In Afghanistan to Get Sensors That See Through Walls
As if aerial robots and bionic limbs didn't make the Army seem futuristic enough, it looks
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Polish Soldiers in Afghanistan Given Faulty GPS Units That Say They're Still In Poland, Or Maybe Africa
In Afghanistan, perhaps more so than in a small Polish town, it's important to know exactly where you're going. So you can imagine the frustration felt by Polish troops serving in Afghanistan when faulty
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Intelligent Smelling Sensor Networks Can Pick Would-Be Terrorists Out of a Crowd, and Follow Them
Given the events occurring above Detroit on Christmas Day, public
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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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In Demonstration, Laser-Powered UAV Charged From the Ground Stays Aloft For Hours
An unmanned aerial surveillance drone is only as good as its power source, and as such many technologies are being considered that could drastically extend the duration of drone missions - for instance, DARPA's Vulture program has helped develop a giant solar plane
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Video: Military's New Water Guns Can Rip Through Steel, Disabling IEDs
Need to disarm an IED? Make sure you've got your Super Soaker handy. Sorry, make that your "Fluid Blade Disablement Tool."
The Stingray, the military's newest bomb-fighting tech, is a small water gun developed
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In New Attempt to Build a Practical Military Laser Weapon, Lockheed Inverts a Prism
Lasers can be powerful weapons - they can take down an aircraft at long ranges and in unstable conditions,
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New Nanospheres are the Stiffest Biological Materials Ever Created, Surpassing Kevlar
Protein tougher than metal could be used to print out body armor
Printable body armor, better bulletproof glass, and tougher steel are just a few of the applications for a new materials technology developed by Israeli researchers. A team of scientists there have developed
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ALTB FAIL: Airborne Laser Weapon Fails Second Test Firing in a Row
The Missile Defense Agency's airborne laser weapon is supposed to save us all from imminent nuclear demise, but after yesterday's botched test firing - the second failure
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Plan for Celebrity-Stalking Paparazzi Drone Reveals New Roles for Unmanned Civilian Aircraft
Anyone following the news out of America's Af/Pak engagement knows that drones are being used increasingly - some say alarmingly so - to ferret out and eliminate militants along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. But if drones can track militants hiding in the Pakistani
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Air Force Seeks Neuroweapons To Enhance US Airmen's Minds and Confuse Foes
Intelligent advanced aircraft is one thing, but if the Air Force wants to be in prime warfighting condition, its pilots had better come with advanced weaponry, too. That's why the
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The Navy's Free Electron Laser System Will be More Than Just a Death Ray
But don't worry, it will still be partly a death ray
The Navy has been seeking its "Holy Grail" free electron laser (FEL) weapon for a while now, but it would rather you think of it more as a multipurpose
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New Gamma-Ray Nuke Detector Could Sniff Out Dirty Bombs Without Opening Cargo Containers
Keeping tabs on nuclear material is both increasingly important and increasingly difficult these days, but researchers at the University of Maryland have devised a mechanism that may make it a lot easier to ensure unchecked radioactive materials don't make it illicitly
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Carnegie Mellon Gets $1 Million To Build Autonomous Flying Capability For Darpa's Dream Car
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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