The Royal Navy is testing how to use robots to seek out and detonate mines and other threats found near vital yet vulnerable undersea cables and pipelines at greater depths than a human diver can safely reach. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Royal Navy, Robots, Underwater drones, mine detection| Military
The seas of tomorrow may see underwater security fundamentally transformed as AI collides with autonomous undersea gliders to produce intelligent fleets of mobile sensors that could redefine naval intelligence as they seek out ocean threats. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:UAS, Surveillance, Artificial Intelligence| Military
The age of laser weapons looks to have officially dawned. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems says that, for the first time in history, a high-energy laser system has been used to destroy multiple drone targets in combat. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Laser weapon, Israel, World's First| Military
The US Air Force is investing in a transport system that could one day deliver 100 tonnes for cargo or personnel by rocket to any spot on Earth in under 90 minutes. Unimaginatively called Rocket Cargo, it may begin preliminary tests next year. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Rocket Lab, US Air Force| Military
Tiberius Aerospace's Sceptre TRBM 155HG 155mm artillery round has a ramjet in its nose that allows it to fly at supersonic speeds and gives it over four times the range of a conventional round. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Artillery, Supersonic, Ramjet| Military
It looks like the age of the robotic warrior is here. The RAF has revealed that a radar-jamming combat drone called StormShroud will be deployed to support Britain's F-35B Lightning II and Typhoon fighters using lessons learned from Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:drones, Royal Air Force, Electric Aircraft, Fighter| Military
The sea of tomorrow might be about as difficult to traverse stealthily as an elephant stomping through a room full of mousetraps thanks to Anduril's Seabed Sentry undersea sensor network that uses AI to autonomously track ocean traffic. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Anduril, Submarine, Underwater drones| Military
Looking like something out of Minecraft, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has released a new image of its latest electromagnetic railgun being developed by the Acquisition, Technology, & Logistics Agency (ATLA) to counter hypersonic missiles. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Japan, JMSDF, Electromagnetic Railgun, Hypersonic| Military
American defense technology company Anduril has rolled out its Copperhead-M – an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) that provides uncrewed subs with the punch of a smart torpedo carrying up to 500 lb (227 kg) of high explosives. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Submarine, Underwater drones| Military
The British Army has successfully tested a Radiofrequency Directed Energy Weapon (RF DEW) that took out multiple swarms of drones simultaneously and near instantaneously using high-frequency radio waves at a cost of 10p (US$0.13) per shot. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:British Army, Directed Energy Weapon, drones| Military
The British Army is testing a new device called the WEEVIL that turns any compatible armored vehicle into a robotic mine-clearing machine that can autonomously plow a minefield into a dirt road while the crew is miles away – and it looks mean doing it. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:British Army, Land Mines| Military
Airbus Defence and Space has taken the wraps off its fighter cockpit of tomorrow that it's helping to develop as part of Europe's Enhanced Pilot Interfaces & Interactions for Fighter Cockpit (EPIIC) project to build interfaces for next-gen warplanes. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Aircraft, Fighter, Airbus| Military
Britain's Ministry of Defence, with the help of the United States, has achieved what is being billed as a major hypersonic propulsion test of a new engine design that could power a cutting-edge hypersonic cruise missile for UK armed forces by 2030. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:U.K. Ministry of Defence, Hypersonic, Weapons| Military
In a major defense milestone, the US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG-91) has successfully completed a simulated engagement with a live hypersonic missile in the waters off the Hawaiian Islands. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Navy, Lockheed Martin, Missile Defense, Hypersonic| Military
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) has shown off the United States' latest nuclear weapon as full production begins seven months ahead of schedule. The B61-13 variable-yield gravity bomb is part of a major program to modernize the American nuclear deterrent. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Department of Energy, US Air Force, Sandia Labs, Nuclear weapons| Military
The military has been a key driver of technology throughout history and the 21st century is no exception. Drones, GPS and the internet itself are just some of the transformative technologies originally developed for the military that have found commercial applications, and the list continues to…| New Atlas