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Nice bit of man portable UAV tech here. The Switchblade drone. The drone and it’s launcher only weighs in at six pounds. Not only can this UAV be used to spot the bad guy taking pot shots at you from the ridge line, it can be used to take him out as well. Faster than [...]
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Meet the M-32. Six rounds, shoulder fired, reported to achieve head shots at 150 meters. Sweet! All six rounds can be put on target in under 3 seconds, for when you needs things blowing up a lot, really fast. Rumored supported rounds include: HELLHOUND rounds with twice the lethal radius of the M433, which will [...]
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The US Army is evaluating forearm mounted full color flexible displays. Besides the direct military use, I see this as an efficient use of tax dollars since this research will result in a faster availability in the private market as well.
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The Third Reich had plans for a Rocket Plane that would be able to drop nuclear bombs on American soil. Multiple V-2 rockets would have launched the “Silver Bird” on a two mile long track, getting high up in the atmosphere before it’s internal rocket engines would have pushed it to Mach 30. It was [...]
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The US Army has it’s own Technology blog.
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When the US Army adopted the ACU (Army Combat Uniform) with a new digital camouflage pattern, the color black was not to be found in the pattern. The argument was the the color black is not found in nature. I’ve talked with members of the military who were on exercises with people wearing both the [...]
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By way of Wired, is this article on SciFi type weapons that exist today. My favorites: The XM-25 grenade launcher Battle field Robots! The Taser Claymore Hummer-mounted Anti-Aircraft laser Just to check up on how predictions have worked, here are some posts made to sci.military back in 1991 about the future of infantry battle systems.
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In this case, it’s a Plasma Knife! According to this Popular Science article, it’s a medical tool, not a battlefield weapon. The knife, whose blade consists of heated, ionized gas, cuts through flesh just as easily a steel scalpel, but also cauterizes the wound. By sealing off the damaged flesh, the plasma knife protects against [...]
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The U.S. Air Forces has dropped the ball on this one. It is reported that GPS satellites could start dropping next year, and the USAF, who maintains the system, may not have replacement satellites ready for launch. This is seriously bad project management on the part of the USAF. This is a vital system that [...]
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Darpa is looking for a device to produce a steady supply of universal donor red blood cells. They want to be able to produce ready-to-be-infused Red Blood Cell packets for use near the battlefield. DARPA has awarded a $1.95 million contract to Arteriocyte, a Cleveland company that’s experimenting with a technology developed at Johns Hopkins that enables the [...]
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