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China and U.S. Develop New Smoke Screens for the Drone Battlefield

Aerosol smoke screens create dense clouds of particles that block, scatter, or weaken visible and infrared signals. This can make it harder for optical...

How U.S.-Funded Research Helped Shape China’s Robot-Dog Industry

Research funded by the U.S. military helped advance technologies later used in China’s growing robot-dog industry. The research dates back years, but the technology...

Ground Robots Put to the Test in California’s Desert

ARX Robotics UK has successfully demonstrated its GEREON unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) during the July 20–29 Project Convergence-Capstone 6 exercise at Fort Irwin, California,...

Amphibious Warfare is Entering a New Era

The War on the Rocks reports that future amphibious assaults are likely to begin with unmanned systems rather than human troops, as precision missiles...

Pentagon’s $469 Million 155mm Artillery Plant Fails to Deliver a Single Part

In its report, "Evaluation of the DoD's Capability and Capacity to Produce 155-Millimeter Artillery Ammunition," the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (OIG)...

Every Military on Earth Is WATCHING: The US Army Reinvents Its Main Battle Tank

The CRS In Focus report IF12495 explains the US Army’s M-1E3 Abrams modernization program, which is intended to replace incremental upgrades of the Abrams...

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