No Flash, No Noise: A New Kind of Handheld Weapon

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Conventional firearms rely on chemical propellants, producing noise, flash, and visible signatures that can limit their use in certain operational scenarios. In law enforcement...
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A 14,000-KM Drone Built for Undersea Surveillance

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Tracking submarines across vast ocean areas is one of the most resource-intensive missions in naval operations. Traditional platforms, such as crewed ships and aircraft,...

The Race for Mach 6 Just Got a New Contender

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Pushing aircraft and missiles beyond Mach 5 remains one of the most complex challenges in aerospace engineering. Current solutions typically rely on combining multiple...
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The Drone Built to Take Down Other Drones

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The rapid spread of low-cost kamikaze drones is creating a growing challenge for air defense systems. These small, expendable platforms can be deployed in...
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From the Cold War to Now: A Spy Plane Gets Smarter

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High-altitude surveillance aircraft are designed to operate beyond the reach of most threats, but modern air defense systems are steadily closing that gap. Advanced...
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One Aircraft, Two Flight Modes – Now Proven

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Urban air mobility has long faced a technical hurdle: combining vertical takeoff with efficient forward flight in a single, reliable platform. While helicopters can...
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The Anti-Drone Weapon That Drives Itself

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The growing use of drones in both military and civilian environments is creating a new type of threat that traditional air defenses are not...

When Every Second Counts: A New Edge for Battlefield Decisions

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Modern combat platforms are generating more data than ever before, but turning that information into actionable decisions remains a challenge. Sensors, radios, and surveillance...
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Meet the Palm-Sized Drone Built for Zero-Visibility Missions

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Small drones are increasingly used in environments where visibility is limited, such as collapsed buildings, smoke-filled structures, and dense vegetation, but most navigation systems...

Think Ghost Guns Can’t Be Traced? Think Again

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The rise of 3D-printed firearms has created a growing challenge for law enforcement. Blueprints for these weapons are widely available online, and with a...

Looks Like a Box—Fires Like a Weapon: A New Kind of...

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Modern battlefields are becoming increasingly transparent. With drones, satellites, and persistent surveillance systems scanning large areas in real time, traditional missile launchers are easier...

Stay Inside, Stay Safe: Vehicles Turn Into Drone Control Hubs

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Operating drones on the battlefield often requires soldiers to expose themselves outside armored vehicles, even in high-risk environments. While drones provide critical situational awareness,...

Even Half-Blind, It Finds the Target: A New Kind of Sensing...

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Robots designed to detect and track chemical sources, such as gas leaks, explosives, or hazardous materials, typically rely on multiple sensors working in perfect...

A New Way to Stop Drone Threats Before They Get Close

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The rapid spread of small drones is forcing armies to rethink how they defend moving formations. Low-cost UAVs can appear with little warning, overwhelm...

From Camera to Brain: Smarter Drone Vision Takes Flight

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As drones take on a larger role in intelligence and surveillance missions, the demand for faster and more autonomous data processing is growing. Traditional...
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No Battery, No Problem: Wind-Powered Robot Walks Into Harsh Terrain

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Robotic systems designed for remote or extreme environments face a consistent limitation: power. Movement alone can consume a significant portion of a robot’s energy,...
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Print, Fly, Repeat: The Rise of 3D-Printed Tactical Drones

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Small tactical drones have become essential tools on the modern battlefield, but they often come with trade-offs. Many systems are either too expensive to...

From Herding Sheep to Guiding Swarms: A New Playbook for Robotics

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Coordinating large groups of autonomous systems, whether drones, vehicles, or software agents, remains a difficult problem. In real-world conditions, signals are often noisy, incomplete,...
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Robots at Sea: Uncrewed Vessel Launches Underwater Drone on Its Own

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Monitoring activity beneath the ocean surface remains a complex and resource-intensive task. Traditional methods rely heavily on crewed ships to deploy and retrieve underwater...

These Off-Road Vehicles Now Drive Themselves Into Danger Zones

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Ground forces continue to face a familiar challenge: how to move supplies, gather intelligence, and evacuate casualties without exposing personnel to unnecessary risk. In...

Listening Beneath the Waves: A New Era in Subsea Sensing

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Monitoring activity beneath the ocean surface remains one of the most complex challenges in maritime operations. Traditional sonar systems provide valuable acoustic data, but...

Heartbeat Tracking: Innovation or Overreach?

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Locating a person in open terrain, especially in a hostile environment with no continuous communication, remains one of the most complex challenges in search...

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These AI Agents Were Supposed to Follow the Rules—Then They Took...

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AI agents are increasingly being allowed to browse websites, write code and interact with external systems with limited human supervision. That autonomy creates a...