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The World’s Smallest Guided Missile
Through the Navy, the Pentagon has developed the world’s smallest guided missile, the Spike. It weighs a mere five pounds, is only 25 inches long and could allow the military to reduce collateral damage without degrading defensive capabilities. Expect to see these loaded on drones taking off from the decks of aircraft carriers to combat […]
Sikorsky Looking to Supersize its X2 Technology
Scale is everything in rotorcraft: What works at one size might not at another, because of complex interactions between aerodynamics, propulsion, structures and control. That is why the U.S. Army plans to fly competing high-speed rotorcraft demonstrators before deciding which direction to take in replacing its utility and attack helicopters beginning in the mid-2030s. There […]
New Solara Drone Has 5 Year Flight Endurance
In Washington D.C., at the AUVSI show, Titan Aerospace unveiled the SOLARA atmospheric satellite, a High Altitude Long Endurance solar atmospheric satellite capable of carrying telecom, reconnaissance, atmospheric sensors and other payloads. It has a 164 ft / 50 m wingspan and thousands of high efficiency solar cells, the SOLARA is capable of staying aloft for […]
Star Trek Tricorder to Stop I.E.D’s?
Improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, are homemade bombs that can both injure and kill civilians and service members. For the Department of Defense, one solution to the problem of IEDs is to find them before they explode by detecting the chemicals used in the explosives. Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have developed […]
Laser Weapons Approaching Battlefield Readiness
Boeing’s Thin Disk Laser system has just surpassed the Department of Defense’s Robust Electric Laser Initiative (RELI) program requirements. The high power, solid-state laser system’s output reached more than 30 kilowatts. That’s nearly 30 percent more power than
GHOST: U.S. Navy’s Stealth Surface Vessel
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Common Control System – Blueprint for Controlling All Military Unmanned Systems
ARLINGTON, Va.—The holy grail of home entertainment systems always has been a master remote control for separate components of differing brands, and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has developed something similar for military ground, air and undersea unmanned systems that will work across the services, as outlined in a new video released May 1.
Can The X-47B Technology Save U.S. Air Superiority?
Will the future of America’s air defense depend on an all-drone fighter force based on the technological advances developed for the X-47B? It’s too early to tell. But with the emergence of China as a military superpower, how do we prepare to defend ourselves before it’s too late?
Empire Challenge 2011
Source: American Forces Press Service, By Donna Miles WASHINGTON, May 27, 2011 – A handheld device that would give new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities to warfighters and an airframe equipped with “plug and play” sensors are among new technologies being tested during U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Empire Challenge 2011 demonstration. The demonstration kicked off […]