All the stories categorized with: Military
EXACTO Project Features Guided Bullet Technology
11/30/2008, Imagine a sniper who is able to change the course of the bullet fired in mid-air before it hits its target – that’s what Pentagon is working on, dumping nearly $22 million to Darpa to find out. Dubbed EXACTO (EXtreme [...]
I-Ball Camera Looks Out For Danger
11/19/2008, Want to know what’s around the corner but do not have the stealth skills of Solid Snake? Well, the I-Ball camera that comes in the form of a grenade could help. British researchers have developed a prototyped that enables soldiers [...]
Brand New Non-Flat Tires
11/17/2008, Now here’s a paradigm shift when it comes to your vehicle’s set of wheels courtesy of Resilient Technologies’ non-pneumatic tire (NPT) system which relies on a honeycomb of unspecified polymers that keeps on going even though 30% of the material [...]
Scent Palette Prepare Soliders For War
11/09/2008, It is a well known fact that video games and simulators have been used to help prepare soldiers for life on the battlefield, but Birmingham researchers have gone one up by throwing in smells to the mix. Imagine wearing a [...]
DARPA Uses Ultrasound To Heal Wounds
10/24/2008, The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has worked out a deal with Siemens Healthcare, the University of Washington’s Centre for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound and Texas A&M to work on a project known as the Deep Bleeder Acoustic Coagulation [...]
Pentagon To Build Multi-Robot Pursuit System
10/23/2008, The Pentagon has issued a request to its contractors to develop a new Multi-Robot Pursuit System that is able to “search for and detect a non-cooperative human.” This basically means robots have been built in order to hunt down humans [...]
Thought Helmets For Soldiers
09/21/2008, The US military is working round the clock to develop thought helmets for their troops, where the final end result would be virtual telepathy. Guess the silent communication part on the battlefield is good, but I dread to read the [...]
PISCES Could Win Olympic Gold
09/18/2008, The phenomenon known as Michael Phelps certainly set alight the imagination of many, with his ability to slice through water at a pace that the world has never seen before. This jack of all trades is certainly master of everything [...]
Helicopter Flown Using AI
09/16/2008, History is made as a four-foot-long helicopter relied on artificial intelligence (AI) to fly itself over Stanford University in California yesterday without any pilot. This is groundbreaking news as it shows the possibility of using such technology to scout out [...]
ORCA Tracks Men Overboard
08/19/2008, Tracking people who have been thrown overboard can be quite a headache, but soon all that could change with the Man Overboard Indicator (MOBI) that will be tested aboard 105 US Navy vessels. This nifty device will not oly alert [...]
British Army bomb-dropping UFOs to deploy
08/15/2008, This little UAV is capable of surveillance missions and even drop a (grenade-sized) explosive device into locations like building interiors. Small and without external blades, it could sneak-in via by a window. I suspect that surveillance is going to be [...]
Army To Get MMOG
07/30/2008, I don’t doubt that there are good people in our Army right now who do have a World of Warcraft account, and these are the folk who will take kindly to the suggestion that a senior Army game-designer is mulling [...]
Wildcat Armored Wheeled Vehicle
06/26/2008, Could the Wildcat finally phase out the Hummer that is currently a mainstay military vehicle when it is released? Well, this is a potential candidate for Medium Personnel Carrier (MPC) missons, and here’s a short snippet on the Wildcat’s capabilities. [...]
