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30 Hours in the Sky: This Drone Is Built to Hunt...
Monitoring vast stretches of ocean is a demanding task for maritime security forces. Patrol boats and crewed aircraft can investigate suspicious activity, but covering...
This Solar-Powered Drone Station Can Launch, Recover and Recharge UAVs
Keeping drones operational around the clock requires more than aircraft and trained operators. Batteries must be recharged, drones need to be launched and recovered,...
This New Munition Can Penetrate Concrete Without Losing Its Course
Conventional aircraft bombs can be effective against exposed targets, but fortified structures present a different challenge. Reinforced concrete, hardened shelters and other protective barriers...
Mach 5 on Wheels: This Truck Carries a New Hypersonic Missile
Hypersonic missiles offer the ability to strike targets at extremely high speeds, but their cost and specialized launch infrastructure can limit how many a...
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The Threat Is Invisible—but This F-35 System Can Still Find It
A fighter pilot does not need to see a threat for it to be dangerous. Radar and other electromagnetic emissions can reveal that an...
A Drone That Hunts Drones—Except This One Travels by Sea
Drones are becoming a growing threat to ships, ports and other maritime assets, but detecting small aircraft over open water creates its own challenge....
Future Military Supplies Could Steer Themselves to the Battlefield
Supplying troops becomes considerably harder when roads are damaged, convoys are exposed to attack or units are scattered across remote positions. Aircraft can bypass...
Drones Incoming? This Cannon Doesn’t Need to Stop Moving
Small drones present a difficult challenge for mobile air-defense systems. Their size, speed and unpredictable movements make them hard to track, while vehicles protecting...
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This AI Could Spot an Internet Failure Before Anyone Notices
Internet outages are not always caused by routers going offline or entire networks collapsing. Sometimes, equipment continues operating normally while quietly losing data along...
Switching Phones? Hackers Could Have Been Copying Your Data Too
Moving data from an old smartphone to a new one is supposed to be a simple process. Built-in migration tools can transfer photos, messages,...
Dual-Use Technology
This Humanoid Robot Handles the Bomb While You Stay Far Away
Bomb disposal robots are already used to keep specialists away from explosives, but there are limits to what conventional machines can do. Tracked platforms...
Why Send Soldiers Into Danger When a Robot Mule Can Carry...
Getting ammunition, equipment and medical supplies to frontline troops is often one of the most dangerous parts of military logistics. The final stretch between...
Defense Tech
Drones Incoming? This Cannon Doesn’t Need to Stop Moving
Small drones present a difficult challenge for mobile air-defense systems. Their size, speed and unpredictable movements make them hard to track, while vehicles protecting...
Why Send Soldiers Into Danger When a Robot Mule Can Carry...
Getting ammunition, equipment and medical supplies to frontline troops is often one of the most dangerous parts of military logistics. The final stretch between...
HLS
This New Munition Can Penetrate Concrete Without Losing Its Course
Conventional aircraft bombs can be effective against exposed targets, but fortified structures present a different challenge. Reinforced concrete, hardened shelters and other protective barriers...
Mach 5 on Wheels: This Truck Carries a New Hypersonic Missile
Hypersonic missiles offer the ability to strike targets at extremely high speeds, but their cost and specialized launch infrastructure can limit how many a...
Cyber Security
This AI Could Spot an Internet Failure Before Anyone Notices
Internet outages are not always caused by routers going offline or entire networks collapsing. Sometimes, equipment continues operating normally while quietly losing data along...
Future Military Supplies Could Steer Themselves to the Battlefield
Supplying troops becomes considerably harder when roads are damaged, convoys are exposed to attack or units are scattered across remote positions. Aircraft can bypass...
Artificial Intelligence
This AI Could Spot an Internet Failure Before Anyone Notices
Internet outages are not always caused by routers going offline or entire networks collapsing. Sometimes, equipment continues operating normally while quietly losing data along...
Air Defense Is Looking Up – All the Way to Space
Air-defense systems depend on detecting a threat early enough to identify it, track it and decide how to respond. Ground-based radars and other sensors...
Drones
This Solar-Powered Drone Station Can Launch, Recover and Recharge UAVs
Keeping drones operational around the clock requires more than aircraft and trained operators. Batteries must be recharged, drones need to be launched and recovered,...
One Soldier, a Voice Command and an Entire Swarm of Drones
Armored vehicle crews already have plenty to manage during combat, from navigating difficult terrain and monitoring threats to operating weapons and communicating with other...
Quantum
Quantum Computing Could Keep Military Supplies Moving When Networks Fail
Military logistics becomes considerably more complicated when communications are unreliable. Moving ammunition, equipment and supplies between dispersed units requires constant decisions about routes, resources...
From Kilohertz to Terahertz: One Quantum Sensor Could Hear It All
Detecting radio signals across a wide range of frequencies normally creates a hardware problem. Conventional antennas are closely tied to the wavelength they need...



















































