Russia has flown a nuclear-arm-capable cruise missile propelled by a nuclear engine. In a televised conference chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin the 15-hour flight of the 9M730 Burevestnik (NATO name SSC-X-9 Skyfall) was confirmed. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Cruise missile, Nuclear, Russia| Technology
The soldier of tomorrow seems to have arrived a bit early as Anduril shows off its new AI-powered helmet system. It not only protects soldiers but gives them super senses while turning them into nodes in an advanced data communications network. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Anduril, Artificial Intelligence| Technology
It seems like autonomous aircraft makers are indulging in a bit of oneupsmanship as Shield AI rolls out its X-BAT VTOL Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) that combines the ability to land and take off without a runway with long-range endurance. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:drones, VTOL, Aircraft| Technology
Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky is blurring the line between helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft with its new Nomad family of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) that combine the versatility of a helicopter with the speed and endurance of a fixed-wing aircraft. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin, DARPA, Aircraft, drones, VTOL| Technology
Wisconsin-based Oshkosh Defense is upgrading its lauded Palletized Load System (PLS) vehicles for transporting cargo across battlefields with the ability to drive themselves – providing a critical advantage to troops moving supplies to where they're needed most during conflicts. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Army, Oshkosh, Autonomous Vehicles| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has taken the next logical step in making a Black Hawk helicopter autonomous by not only installing the gear needed for self-flying, but by yanking out the entire cockpit and replacing it with cargo doors. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Sikorsky, Lockheed Martin, Helicopter, Autonomous flight| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
Aerospace and defense company Inversion is showing off its solution to getting emergency supplies anywhere on Earth in under an hour. It's a constellation of the company's Arc orbital supply craft, fully stocked and ready to drop at a moment's notice. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Spaceplane, Emergency, Spacecraft| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
Star Wars becomes more than a film franchise title as the British government moves to protect the country's satellites from laser attacks. The £500,000 (US$670,000) investment for new sensor systems is part of a broader strategic realignment. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:U.K. Ministry of Defence, Laser weapon, Satellite| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
Boeing's Loyal Wingman is now officially the "MQ-28A Ghost Bat." The new military designator and name that will be used by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) for the autonomous combat drone was announced during a ceremony at the Amberley Royal Australian Air Force Base in Queensland today.| New Atlas
BAE Systems has teamed up with Forterra to develop a new autonomous Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) prototype that has been fast tracked for live demonstrations next year as part of a program to enhance the US Army's Armored Brigade Combat Team. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Army, BAE Systems, Autonomous Vehicles| Technology
Small consumer-grade drones offer some pretty frightening opportunities for terrorists; indeed, while they've been used in some assassination attempts, and explored by ISIL as a way to remotely attack opponents in Syria, it's really quite remarkable that we haven't seen a lot more of it.| New Atlas
The Australian Department of Defence has demonstrated what is not only the country's first laser weapon, but what is billed as the world’s most powerful portable high-energy laser, capable of taking down drones with ground-breaking precision.| New Atlas
It may resemble a minimalist aluminum catamaran with Cybertruck overtones, but BlackSea Technologies’ Modular Attack Surface Craft (MASC), being offered to the US Navy as a multi-mission autonomous warship, has more to it than meets the eye. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Ships, Autonomous Vehicles, UAV| Military
In a demonstration not so much of marksmanship but more of the advantages of microwaves, an Epirus Leonidas directed energy, high-power microwave (HPM) anti-drone weapon has knocked 49 Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAV) out of the air with one shot. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:drones, microwave, Directed Energy Weapon, xxViral or high CTR| Military
What will the Royal Navy's amphibious strike force of the future look like? Design consultancy BMT Group has its own answer as it unveils Ellida Strike concept multi-role strike vessel designed to put combat troops ashore without port facilities. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Royal Navy, Ships| Military
What has zero moving parts, yet can blast an aerial vehicle to velocities beyond Mach 5? The answer is the recently flight-tested Atmospheric Test of Launched Airbreathing System (ATLAS) powered by a new solid-fueled ramjet built by GE Aerospace. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:GE Aerospace, Aircraft, Hypersonic| Military
A super-secret Lockheed Martin Skunk Works project is no longer a secret after the company revealed its Vectis Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) – an autonomous stealth fighter drone developed entirely in-house with company funds. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Lockheed Martin, drones, Skunk Works, Aircraft| Military
The US Air Force's second B-21 Raider nuclear bomber has taken to the skies for the first time. The second of a planned fleet of 100, the sixth-gen aircraft took off from Northrop Grumman's Palmdale, California facility on September 11 at 8:00 am. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Air Force, B-21 Raider, Aircraft, Northrop Grumman| Military
Australian defense company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) has unveiled its Apollo High Energy Laser Weapon (HELW) that pumps out up to 150 kW of power yet can take out 200 medium-sized drones running on its own internal power supply. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Laser weapon, Weapons, Bangers, xxViral or high CTR| Military
The RAAF's MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone has completed public flight trials to demonstrate its operational capabilities. Performed for select journalists, the flight of the Boeing Loyal Wingman took place at RAAF Base Tindal in the Northern Territory.| New Atlas
The escalating drone arms race has taken a new turn with Saab's introduction of its Project Nimbrix Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) missile – a low-cost fire-and-forget anti-small-drone and drone swarm weapon with a modest footprint.| New Atlas
In August, we saw Northrop Grumman unveil (slightly) its contender for the US Navy's F/A-XX competition. Now, Boeing is stepping in with a misty rendering of its entry for the sixth-gen carrier-based fighter plane to replace the aged F/A-18 Super Hornet. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Navy, Aircraft, Fighter, Boeing| Military
In a meeting of the cutting-edge and the mundane, the US Air Force has awarded a contract to purchase Reliable Robotics' autonomous flight technology and integrate it into an ordinary Cessna 208B Caravan utility aircraft for uncrewed cargo missions.| New Atlas
In a presentation long on stagecraft and short on hard facts, Northrop Grumman has revealed the US Air Force's long-anticipated B-21 Raider stealth nuclear strategic bomber, which will replace all other heavy bombers in the American inventory.| New Atlas
Leidos has unveiled its Sea Dagger autonomous Commando Insertion Craft (CIC) concept developed as part of a modernization program that aims to provide 24 advanced surface craft for deploying UK Command Force (UKCF) strike teams.| New Atlas
One of the US Air Force's first official combat drones has taken to the air after only a year of building and development. General Atomics's YFQ-42A is currently undergoing flight testing in anticipation of a future fleet of 1,000 autonomous planes| New Atlas
Air and space were linked together in a recent flight test by General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) and Kepler Communications where a laser system was used to communicate between a standard aircraft and a low-Earth orbit satellite.| New Atlas
A US Army quadcopter engaged and destroyed a winged drone during an exercise at Fort Rucker, Alabama. These days, that's not such a rare occurrence, but this one is different – it's the first that used a Claymore landmine strapped to the quad. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Army, drones, Explosives| Military
The US Navy's secretive F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter plane is a bit less secret after program competitor Northrop Grumman unveiled a new concept image of its version of the carrier-based warplane, giving us a few design clues. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Northrop Grumman, Fighter, Aircraft| Military
The prototype Royal Navy robotic submarine XV-Excalibur has provided a glimpse of the fleet of the future by patrolling the waters at HMNB Devonport in Plymouth, England while controlled from a command center in Australia 10,000 miles (16,000 km) away. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Autonomous Vehicles, Royal Navy, Submarine, Australia| Military
DARPA's autonomous Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV), the USX-1 Defiant, took a major step toward operational status as a bottle of spirits was broken over its bow at the Everett Ship Repair in Everett, Washington on August 11, 2025. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:DARPA, Autonomous, USVs, US Navy| Military
The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has taken hydrogen tactical, by adapting fuel cell technology for US Marine Corps field units to replace the heavy batteries and generators now used by soldiers to provide electricity. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Marines, Fuel Cell, Hydrogen| Military
The US Air Force celebrated the 70th anniversary of the famous U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane on July 31, 2025 – not with a cake but by setting new endurance records for the class of aircraft on the first long-duration flight of the U-2 in 11 years.| New Atlas
A new directed energy weapon is being rolled out to bolster British defense capabilities. And, at 13 cents a shot, it's just as effective, but a lot cheaper than the multi-million dollar missiles it's designed to replace.| New Atlas
Two major US defense initiatives recently came together as a US Air Force F-35A Lightning II dropped a mock refurbished B61-12 nuclear bomb for the first time. The test, which took place over Sandia National Laboratories' Tonopah Test Range in Nevada on August 25, saw the 5th-generation fighter…| New Atlas
One of the world's first sixth-generation fighters has moved closer to its first flight, as BAE Systems unveils the prototype Combat Air Flying Demonstrator, now under construction for the Global Combat Air Programme by Britain, Italy, and Japan.| New Atlas
When is a laser weapon not a weapon? When it's the ASELSAN YILDIRIM 100 Directed Infrared Countermeasure (DIRCM) System that doesn't actually destroy incoming infrared missiles, but instead blinds them before they have a chance to lock on target. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Laser weapon, Missile Defense, Aircraft| Military
Bell's revolutionary X-plane rotorcraft has received the green light to progress to the building and testing of a demonstrator aircraft. DARPA has down-selected the craft to move to Phase 2 of the agency's Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) program. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Tiltrotor, Bell Helicopter, DARPA| Military
Literally shining a new light on aircraft maintenance, the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is using a new laser tool to remove paint, grime, and corrosion from vintage airplanes in days instead of months and with much less hazard to health. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Aircraft, RAAF, Laser, Cleaning| Military
If you've been hoping for a long-range, low-cost, heavy-lift seaplane using Wing-In-Ground effect (WIG), you'll have to be patient because DARPA has confirmed that it has cancelled its US$98-million Liberty Lifter project.| New Atlas
Why settle for a robot when you can have a robot coyote? That seems to be the thinking of the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), which is developing a cybernetic prairie predator to keep airfields clear of hazardous wildlife.| New Atlas
In an effort to supercharge the development of military drones, DARPA will this year fast track flight testing of five advanced Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) prototypes as part of the agency's Early VTOL Aircraft Demonstration (EVADE) project. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:DARPA, drones| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
In a major milestone for modular nuclear power on the way to the mainstream, the US Department of the Air Force has issued a Notice of Intent to Award (NOITA) to Oklo that may lead to the construction and operation of a military reactor in Fairbanks, Alaska. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Air Force, Small Modular Nuclear Reactor, Nuclear| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
The US Navy has tidied up after itself by, for the first time, launching and recovering a Yellow Moray Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) through the standard torpedo tube of a Virginia class nuclear attack submarine. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Underwater drones, Submarine, US Navy| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
Looking forward to a future where laser beams replace power lines, DAPRA's Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program has set new records for transmitting more power wirelessly over longer distances. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Energy, Laser, DARPA, Wireless Power Transmission| New Atlas - New Technology & Science News
America's latest nuclear-armed delivery platform breaks cover as the US Air Force releases a rendering of its cutting-edge AGM-181A Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile. The missile that has recently undergone flight testing is set to replace its Cold War predecessor.| New Atlas
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
Autonomous warships have moved into the large fast-attack league as Eureka Naval Craft announces what it describes as the most advanced autonomous naval attack vessel in the world. It can carry 40 tonnes and reach speeds of up to 50 knots (57 mph, 92 km/h). Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Autonomous, Robotics, Marine Innovations, Ships| 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
We think we know what someone means when they call something "airplane-shaped," but real-world aircraft come in a surprising variety of forms. Two particular oddities were so far out on the bell curve that they were known as the "Flying Flapjacks." Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Navy, Aircraft, VTOL| Military
The US Space Force has a contract worth up to US$60 million to develop and fly a kind-of aircraft carrier in space. No, it's not the result of a major typo. It's intended as a way to station space vehicles to quickly counter orbital threats. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Space Force, Satellite| Military
Britain has laid the keel for the Royal Navy's largest-ever submarine. At BAE Systems's Barrow-in-Furness facility, the ceremony marked the "birth" of the nuclear-powered and armed HMS Dreadnought, one of the most advanced submarines to date. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Royal Navy, Submarine, BAE Systems| Military
The US Air Force has announced that it will go ahead with the production of the F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) fighter. Expected to enter service by the end of the decade, it will replace the F-22 Raptor as America's air supremacy fighter. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:US Air Force, Boeing, Fighter, F-47, Lockheed Martin| Military
Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky has successfully flown an electric-powered, 115-lb (52-kg) autonomous drone that uses what it calls a "rotor blown wing" to fly like both a helicopter and an airplane and can be scaled for larger airframes. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Lockheed Martin, Sikorsky, Autonomous flight| Military
The age of the piloted fighter aircraft may not be over but the US Air Force has shown that it may be time to start collecting the coats, as it has designated two prototype combat drones as official combat aircraft. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:Anduril, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, US Air Force, Autonomous flight| Military
DARPA has launched a new prototype warship for the US Navy that not only won't need any sailors, it can't even accommodate them. The 180-ft (55-m), 240-tonne No Manning Required Ship (NOMARS) put to sea last month ahead of sea trials. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:DARPA, US Navy, Ships, Autonomous| Military
Looking like something out of a science fiction thriller, Diehl Defence is showing off its CICADA eMissile, which is the centerpiece of the company's Sky Sphere system for defending against Class 1 and 2 small drones with minimal collateral damage. Continue Reading Category:Military, Technology Tags:drones| Military
At the Air, Space, and Cyber Conference in Washington, DC, the US Air Force and prime contractor Northrop Grumman have released the first video of its B-21 Raider nuclear bomber in flight, along with an update on the B-21 program.| New Atlas
Three of America's leading AI companies have now signed up to share their technology with the US defence forces and military contractors, even after initially insisting they wouldn't – and the age of autonomous warfare now seems close at hand.| New Atlas
German defense technology company, Helsing, has just unveiled its first AI-powered, munitions-deploying strike drone, the HX-2, though its core components are already battle-hardened.| New Atlas
Anduril Industries has just announced the Bolt and Bolt-M drone. These aren't your average hobbyist drones either, as the M stands for "munitions," packing up to a 3 lb (1.4 kg) payload of your favorite tactical ordnance.| New Atlas
In response to the return to large-scale peer-to-peer warfare, Anduril has unveiled its new Barracuda family of autonomous cruise missiles, which can be built to "hyper-scale" for intelligent swarm attacks against hardened targets.| New Atlas
In a newly declassified video, the UK's £100 million (US$127 million) DragonFire laser weapon can be seen going through its paces as it blasted test bench and field targets, including drones and mortar rounds.| New Atlas
The US Air Force's XQ-67A Loyal Wingman combat drone has taken to the air for the first time. Built by General Atomics using automotive design techniques, it promises to be a cheaper, more flexible alternative to other UAVs.| New Atlas
Bell has released a video showing off its High-Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing (HSVTOL) technology in action. The two-minute video shows a ground test of the nacelle system used to lift and land a VTOL X-plane before converting to jet flight.| New Atlas
