All the stories tagged with: Military
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. [...]
WASP Knife Carries A Lot of Pain
06/16/2008, The WASP Knife certainly lives up to its namesake as the moment it stabs something, 24 grams of compressed gas at 800 PSI will enter the wound, regardless of whether you’re on land or underwater – opening up a whole [...]
WiFi-controlled Telepresence Tank
06/09/2008, Could war end up more and more like video games? Apparently so, with hacked stuff such as the WiFi-controlled Telepresence Tank. This basically allows you to roam around your home while killing time at the office. I’m not too sure [...]
Silynx C4OPS GenNext Headset System
06/09/2008, Talk about an unpronounceable headset name – the Silynx C4OPS GenNext headset system recently went on display at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference in Florida. The C4OPS boasts ob being the first and only combat headset system able to [...]
Nano Air Vehicle Concept
05/29/2008, The Nano Air Vehicle could be the smallest UAV in the world, since it does away with a propeller and engine in favor of moving wings instead. So far, AreoVironment has been endowed with over more than half a million [...]
Dynamic Putty Material To Heal Bones
05/28/2008, DARPA, the Pentagon’s research arm, aims to “develop a dynamic putty-like material” which will definitely come in handy healing shattered bone by offering support to the entire body while the patient heals. Being bio-degradable, it will just disappear with time [...]
Spray-on Explosive Detector
05/27/2008, Man, and I thought that explosive detectors normally came in the form of highly-trained dogs or high-tech gizmos, but scientists at the University of California, San Diego have managed to come up with a spray-on explosive detector. This non-invasive method [...]
