ARTICLES | August 30, 2019
As more systems look toward better electricity storage, a harmless, durable, and non-flammable battery could be the way forward, Stuart Nathan reports. We are living...
Energetics / RMQSI / Weapons SystemsARTICLES | April 15, 2019
Two new autonomous aircraft concepts that promise to redefine the Air Force’s unmanned fleet are moving forward. The latest, Skyborg, is an autonomous drone prototyping...
RMQSI / Weapons SystemsARTICLES | January 14, 2019
Even as drone technology advances, power constraints limit the amount of equipment unmanned systems can carry, as well as the time they can stay in...
EnergeticsARTICLES | December 03, 2018
Concerns are growing throughout the U.S. military about the potential difficulties in rapidly deploying large amounts of personnel and equipment into a theater of operations...
RMQSIARTICLES | December 03, 2018
Concerns are growing throughout the U.S. military about the potential difficulties in rapidly deploying large amounts of personnel and equipment into a theater of operations...
RMQSIARTICLES | December 03, 2018
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) arguably develops some of the most technologically advanced systems known to man, and its latest endeavor certainly continues that...
EnergeticsARTICLES | October 08, 2018
The Missile Defense Agency is rushing to put more solutions in the field and trying to put past failures behind them. One of the smaller...
Weapons SystemsARTICLES | August 07, 2018
San Diego is in the midst of a tech convergence. It is working to build what it calls the nation’s largest smart city network, and...
RMQSIARTICLES | May 21, 2018
The US Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM’s) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has launched a virtual symposium to support industry efforts to identify and enable disruptive...
Energetics / RMQSI / Weapons SystemsARTICLES | May 21, 2018
On display were some of Russia”s most advanced defense systems including Su-30SM, Su-57, MiG-29SMT, and MiG-31K aircraft; Mil Mi-28N attack helicopters; the Korsar strike drone; Kinzhal hypersonic...
Weapons SystemsARTICLES | April 23, 2018
The U.S. Navy is accelerating efforts to place the weapon systems on guided missile destroyers. The U.S. Navy has identified laser weapons as an urgent...
Weapons SystemsARTICLES | April 23, 2018
U.S. Marine Corps operations are demanding. Weapons need to be ruggedized and mobile for quick assaults. And high-energy laser weapons such as those the Navy...
RMQSIARTICLES | April 23, 2018
The Marine Corps is a step closer to getting a large unmanned aircraft that can launch from ships, fly a radius of up to 700...
Weapons SystemsARTICLES | January 01, 2018
China’s Ministry of National Defense (MND) released images on 28 November showing the test-firing in Beijing of what appears to be a new counter-unmanned aircraft...
Weapons SystemsARTICLES | January 01, 2018
The success of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in providing real-time information to military commanders has contributed to both mission effectiveness and protecting personnel. The expansion...
Weapons SystemsARTICLES | December 18, 2017
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) experts at General Atomics are integrating the Raytheon laser-guided small diameter bomb (SDB) on the company”s MQ-9 Reaper mid-size attack UAV...
Weapons SystemsARTICLES | December 05, 2017
One of the best examples of how rapidly advancing technologies can change security requirements is the rise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Relatively unknown to...
RMQSIARTICLES | October 09, 2017
It sounds like something straight out of Call of Duty video game sequel, James Bond movie, or Batman comic. Troops call in an air strike, but instead of...
Energetics / Weapons SystemsARTICLES | September 26, 2017
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has published its plan for a rapidly manufactured “Flying Missile Rail” drone that can be launched off the...
Weapons SystemsARTICLES | September 11, 2017
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is seeking a new high altitude long endurance (HALE) unmanned aerial vehicle with the unique capacity to carry a high...
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