Military

A new technique allows robots to remain resilient when faced with intermittent communication losses on the battlefield. The α-shape, provides an efficient method for...

Exoskeletons (external skeletons) are designed to help soldiers with heavy loads and give their limbs extra movement, strength and endurance. But soldiers often face...

Hensoldt is expanding the performance of its MUSS (Multifunctional Self-Protection System) self-protection system for armored vehicles in order to detect and ward off additional,...

A new navigation device that will enable warfighters to better shoot, move and communicate in a GPS degraded environment, could replace the legacy handheld...

Future AI tools could help human commanders break opponents in real battles. Gamebreaker program by US security research agency DARPA wants to turn the design...

The US Army is preparing for the multi-domain battlefield. This year, the Army’s multi-domain task forces will serve as primary testbeds for the service’s...

The live training environment will be replaced with virtuals. The US Army wishes to trade the decades-old Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System, or MILES,...

Moving towards autonomy, unmanned aerial vehicles rely heavily on advanced collision avoidance systems. A European collision-avoidance project for drones wants to replicate the human...

Drones can now be equipped with cybersecurity powered by artificial intelligence (AI). SkyGrid, a joint venture between Boeing and SparkCognition, has recently announced a...

Over the next decades, the British army may enlist tens of thousands of robotic soldiers. In the face of new emerging technologies and changing...

The US Defense Department is set to trial a full-scale autonomous ocean-going replenishment system. The technology-driven kits transform existing barges into self-moving platforms that...

Artificial intelligence will be an integral part of the future battlefield. AI Technologies will eventually reduce the number of soldiers in harm’s way, however,...

Flight deck crews on aircraft carriers perform carefully coordinated operations to launch and recover planes safely from and to busy aircraft carriers. Their operational...

Future forces will use technologies that have never been seen before on the battlefield, drawing on biotechnology and brain-computer interfaces, augmented reality headsets, adaptive...

While consumer and automotive electronics have been transitioning to lead-free technologies since 2006, defense and aerospace companies have continued to use lead-containing electronics due...

In-vehicle networking protocols are bandwidth-constrained, difficult to scale and lack common security requirements. That makes it difficult to deliver enough bandwidth and compute power...

The metaverse is a hypothetical iteration of the Internet as a single, universal and immersive virtual world that is facilitated by the use of...

Directed microwave energy has emerged as a promising solution against swarms of drones. However, the bulkiness of conventional microwave weapons makes them a pain...

Cybersecurity has been recognized by NATO as a field of operations in recent years. In Europe, ECYSAP (European Platform for Cyber Situational Awareness) is...

The US Department of Defense warns that cybersecurity tests are not tough enough. A lack of operationally-realistic threat testing and inadequately resourced program offices...

The United States, along with Russia and China, are working hard to develop a class of weapons, hypersonic weapons. Unlike ballistic missiles, hypersonic missiles...

Autonomous resupply gliders will take part in a large-scale US Special Operations Command exercise later this year. The Department of Defense needs to supplement...