The US military liked the backpack of a vacuum cleaner
The invention of a group of students - a backpack of a vacuum cleaner - seriously interested the American military, who expressed their readiness to invest one hundred thousand dollars in its further improvement ....
Slow but persistent exoskeleton treads
Half a century after the start of work in the field of exoskeletons, the first samples of this equipment are ready to go to full-fledged work. Lockheed Martin recently boasted that its HULC project ...
Laser imitation battlefield MILES appeared in the Ukrainian armed forces
In the Zhytomyr region during the commanders training sessions, for the first time in the Ukrainian army, a laser imitation system of real combat MILES was tested. These teachings have become truly unique, because ...
Chinese counterfeit for the Pentagon
This story began about a year ago. Then the company Boeing during the maintenance of one of its military aircraft (the exact type was not called) discovered several electronic ...
The fate of domestic electronics
The modern world can not be imagined without electronics. It is this industry that is currently the fastest growing and at the same time almost the main engine ...
Rosatom will have a huge unmanned airship
Rosatom made an order for an unmanned airship lens, the diameter of which is 50 meters. According to the director general of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Dolgoprudnensky Automatics Design Bureau Viktor Golubyatnikov, the construction of ...
QinetiQ Q-Net: Fabric protects against missiles
No grid or net covering a vehicle’s armor provides 100% protection, but even a fifty percent efficiency can save lives. QinetiQ Q-Net suggests using ...
Successes and Problems of the Homing Bullet
Earlier this year, the general public discussed the news from the Sandia American National Laboratory. According to a press release, several years of work and costs in 15 million dollars led to ...
The first Soviet night vision devices
The thirties of the last century was one of the periods of particularly rapid development of electronics. In particular, it was at this time that the first suitable for practical use photoelectron appeared ...
And the stones have ears: a new intelligence tool for the Pentagon
The 2006 scandal of the year with an English intelligence device disguised as a stone has not been forgotten. Some events and statements of the winter of this year once again reminded ...
Rotary wing UAV control center - AH-64D Apache Block III
Combat and reconnaissance UAVs have long been adopted by non-armament of the United States. Today, their number in the performance of a combat mission in the sky can reach several dozen. To provide them ...
Wehrmacht infrared sights
AEG ordered the development of an infrared night vision device in 1936, and already in 39, the first working prototype was ready, which operated in parallel with ...
A new mini-sash, designed for special forces, will be launched from the hand
AeroVironment has developed the original Wasp AE unmanned aerial vehicle. This UAV is specially created for special forces, it can land on any ...
Combat lasers will be even more powerful
In early May, the American military-industrial company Northrop Grumman announced that it had successfully completed the tests of a prototype combat laser of a new generation. Since lasers appeared (this ...
Acoustic Cannon by Richard Vallaushek
Long before the outbreak of World War II, they knew about the danger of ultra-high frequency oscillations that were heard by the ear — ultrasound — and ultra-low — infrasound. However, scientists from Nazi Germany ...
Russian military will have virtual reality helmets
After a couple of years, a helmet with a transparent screen, the feature of which will be the imposition of visual information from other sources on the image of a real ...
Glasses and lenses for augmented reality
A modern soldier must keep many things in mind at the same time during a battle. Some need to be controlled and changed if necessary, others - it is enough to remember. All this is ...
Military-technical incidents of the mid-twentieth century
War and preparation for it always stimulates the development of not only conventional weapons, but also contributes to the creation by military designers of unusual inventions that can in an unexpected way ...
Remotely controlled android to 2020 year
For a long time no one will be surprised industrial robots. This type of technology a few decades ago, firmly entered the production practice. However, there are still a number of industries and areas ...
Individual reconnaissance missions of the “SeeMe” system for combat units
The aircraft, equipped with the “SeeMe” system, rises into the sky, gains the necessary height - it reaches the set point. After that, it launches a carrier rocket with satellites on board, which ...
The return of the American laser?
The new decision of the US military, it seems, can cause many questions. It concerns the program ABL (AirBorne Laser), implying the creation of an aviation complex, armed ...
Created cooling armor
Practical combat experience indicates that only a few can wear a bulletproof vest on hot days, but if someone has such willpower, then run under the scorching sun with ...
Electron ears from Rheinmetall Defense Electronics - ASLS
Rheinmetall Defense Electronics (Germany) is developing advanced acoustic systems to search and protect soldiers from artillery and sniper fire. Military action is often associated with noise, and ...
America needs a UV interference system
The military of the United States had to spend about tens of billions of dollars to create subtle "stealth" airplanes. However, these "invisible" there are vulnerabilities. In particular,...