Military

America wants to have laser-equipped fighter jets by 2020

With the new Star Wars movie having finally been unleashed upon the world, this is the perfect time to be talking...
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China has a trio of death-dealing attack robots to fight global terror

While the Japanese are busy building robots that assist the elderly, and the Swedes are busy building robots that help tourists...
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The Army has found a way to read people’s brain waves

A cognitive neuroscientist by the name of Anthony Ries, working for a United States Army research facility, has just developed an automated program...
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Russia might be preparing to sever undersea Internet cables

Forget about the usual death and destruction that war brings, we should be worrying about Russia severing our Internet connections in...
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The Army will begin testing smart grenade launchers next year

Don’t you hate it when you wanna blow somebody up with your grenade launcher but they’re hiding behind cover? The United States...
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DARPA is working on drones that disappear after delivering supplies

Delivering supplies to troops in remote areas isn’t all that difficult by itself, but when you need to do it stealthily, things become...
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The Air Force is planning to start using laser weapons before 2020

Laser weapons have been synonymous with sci-fi entertainment for decades, but only is the technology for these weapons available to us...
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America and China are setting ground rules for cyberwarfare

Back when Russia and the United States were the top dogs, both countries were afraid of the devastation that a nuclear attack...
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Boeing has a drone-killing laser canon that uses an Xbox 360 controller

Rednecks have proven that shotguns are an excellent way to shoot down commercial drones, but what about military drones? I can’t...
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The Pentagon wants Apple’s help developing military wearables

Apple and Boeing are two companies that I never imagined working together, but when the American military is involved, I suppose...
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The F-35 has finally been declared ready for combat

With half a TRILLION dollars poured into the F-35’s development over the past decade or so, it’s exciting to hear that...
Avatar of Brian Molidor Brian Molidor
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America may start retaliating against Chinese cyberattacks

When tens of millions of Americans had their information stolen from the Office of Personnel Management’s database last month, China was widely...
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The Army wants to launch a dozen nanosatellites into space

Communication is crucial in everything from relationships, to work, to military operations. That’s why the United States Army is currently testing...
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This exoskeleton could help teach soldiers how to shoot guns

Anyone who’s trained with guns will tell you how movies make using firearms look WAY easier than it actually is. There...
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This hypersonic jet could travel anywhere in the world within four hours

People used to spend months travelling from one side of the United States to the other, and now the American military...
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The US Navy’s Warfare Systems are still running on Windows XP

Microsoft has repeatedly warned users who have devices that still run on Windows XP to upgrade to a newer version of...
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