Weapons

The sound of gunshots, explosions, and blasts at the battlefield don’t just prevent soldiers from hearing their commanding officer, they also reduce their overall...

Research found that when an explosion starts, it requires a reaction speed of 120-150 milliseconds to halt it. After an explosion is detected, gas...

    Weapon systems manufacturer, Raytheon, has revealed that the U.S. Navy has quietly conducted ground tests of a precision-guided projectile usually fired from Army cannons. The...

Thanks to new machine-learning tools, researchers and police departments can use behavioral data to find the earliest signs an officer may be flouting policy...

  A Belarus-based company has announced the development of a mobile Counter Unmanned Aerial Vehicle jammer. The Groza-P2 C-UAV system, developed by KB Radar, will...

  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now testing new chemical sensors that can assist easily detecting nuclear, biological, chemical, radioactive, and explosive...

Today more than ever military forces and opposition groups are using night vision sensors and thermal devices. Detection by thermal imaging is an emerging...

New pistol ammunition has been selected for the U.S. Army’s 9mm Modular Handgun System (MHS), the M17. While the original Request For Proposal (RFP)...

Warfare in subterranean areas can be a perilous challenge. Subterranean settings can be dangerous to explore because of visual, technical, or environmental challenges. Personnel,...

Remote human performance monitoring is the focus of a new development. For athletes or people with health conditions, an immediate physical “status update” would...

  The US Marine Corps is planning to launch a multi-year urban-combat operations experiment this summer. The service is asking defense firms and universities to...

At a time when military forces are preparing for an era of urban warfare, a new technology could fulfil an important capability gap for...

Torpedo-killing torpedoes can be a real option. The absence of radar detection underwater removes the option of computing near-real-time flight paths needed so one...

U.S. Special Operations Command soldiers will soon have new helmets, designed to provide ballistic protection and accommodate the newest hearing protection and head-mounted communications...

The presence of non-metallic unexploded ordnance on U. S. military ranges, including less conductive materials like carbon fiber in the ground, endanger the soldiers...

A Florida-based firm is developing a new technology that assists police and military in differentiating between friendly and enemy forces. The technology is an...

  In the relatively near future, the U.S. Navy intends to deploy a laser weapon system aboard one of its destroyer ships. News.usni.org reports that...

In an effort to increase soldier’s situational awareness on the battlefield, the U.S. Army has been looking for production sources and information for consumer...

One of the bigger physical hardships an infantry soldier deals with is the burden of carrying his heavy gear dozens of miles. Soldiers today...

Kalashnikov, the company best known for creating and manufacturing the famous AK-47, is now stepping into the drones game. Kalashnikov has been developing a...