Wednesday, February 25, 2009 - 12:48pm
I guess the Navy is too good for Ebay. Instead, the US aquatic fighting force is trying to find a new home for its top secret stealth ship, the Sea Shadow, and the barge that housed it and kept it...
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Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 1:37pm
The Med-Evacuation Aerial Vehicle, also known as the "flying stretcher," is a product of Israel, and is designed to aid the nation's military in quickly recovering soldiers and ferrying them out of harm's way. Its enclosed fan allows for a...
Monday, December 15, 2008 - 1:44pm
Boy howdy, these LightSpeed Binoculars by Torrey Pines Logic seem to be able to do anything. They act as binoculars, but also as short-range communication devices for sharing information covertly. Using infrared LEDs, two people looking at one another...
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Friday, December 5, 2008 - 12:41pm
The motorcycle nuts at ICON Motorsports make an interesting observation about their Warthog bike, inspired by the USAF's A-10 ground-attack fighter that shares the same nickname: "Obviously the first thing that grabs one's attention is the 800-watt MTX audio...
Friday, November 21, 2008 - 4:12am
The ROMP, or Remotely Operated Mobile Platform, is a remote-controlled unit designed to be cheap and versatile. Designer Chris Rogers built it to be able to carry out reconnaissance, bomb investigation and remote detonation, and combat missions — and...
Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 9:53am
Flying cars? We love 'em. As they get to be more real with Terrafugia and others gearing up their upcoming craft, the Pentagon and its research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), wants to get in on...
Monday, October 20, 2008 - 4:23am
The threat of a serious robot uprising is ever-present. Well, in books and movies and all of that, anyway. But one British company will help you not only detect and monitor robotic threats, but destroy them, too. Hmm. Called...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 4:21am
The military wants to develop better headgear that will help us better understand head wounds and traumatic brain injury (or TBI), a condition that's effecting more and more of America's troops deployed overseas. It should come as no surprise that...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 - 4:02am
When the dust of the presidential election settles, whoever claims the throne big chair in the White House will get briefed on all kinds of stuff. Said stuff includes a report titled Global Trends 2025 — put together by...
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 5:34am
Badass as they are, military snipers are sometimes humbled by heat haze, which can make a clear target look like murky soup. If the boys at DARPA have their way, though, a new kind of sniper scope could turn...
