Space targets
As you know, breaking is not building. However, this example of popular wisdom is not a universal truth. In any case, it is not at all easier to disable a spacecraft than to build ...
Future Technologies - Liquid Armor
The first attempts to protect personnel from bullets and shrapnel were made during the First World War and continued during the Second. So during the Second World War, many fighters of elite units ...
Earlier than shot
The sniper, of course, is the most terrible of enemies, because he can kill at a great distance. Existing methods of protection from snipers depend on the type or sound of the first shot, that is, ...
Americans will send a "smart" airship to Afghanistan
October 15 US Army will send a supercomputer to Afghanistan, but it will be installed not on a well-guarded base or in an underground bunker, but on a huge dirigible that can fly for a week on ...
Military equipment will receive electronic ink camouflage adapting to the environment
The British defense company BAE Systems promises that in five years it will change the face of ground military equipment. Mainly we are talking about tanks. The armored car will be dressed in new camouflage, ...
Who needs such weapons?
Article: May 2006, Popular Mechanics. In the near future, the Pentagon plans to deploy a whole family of the latest exotic weapons systems. Skeptics argue that the lion's share ...
The US Army has tested the technology of turning garbage into fuel
The US Army has tested technology that allows it to recycle waste into energy under field conditions. The delivery of fuel and the removal of waste from the battlefield are extremely expensive and dangerous operations. For her ...
The Pentagon will endow the soldiers with the "eyes of the terminator"
Attached to the protective helmet device created by the military, allows you to see the three-dimensional image, which is transmitted from digital cameras, as well as mark objects. Project Soldier Centric ...
Killer 2010 development
Defense technology has always propelled mainstream science forward. The most original and incredible military innovations of the outgoing year make up the final ranking. Flying "Mace" Long-awaited ...
Seismic Web and Tarantula
Special equipment in the service of the military. Modern war is characterized by high dynamic actions and extremely wide use of special operations forces. The task of timely detection and accurate ...
NASA presented the project of "shooting" spacecraft
US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) engineers have developed a vehicle launching mechanism that includes acceleration using a “rail gun” and a set of ...
Russian paratroopers will grow wings
Jumping without a parachute, it seems, will be in the near future, paratroopers. Employees of the aeromechanics and flying equipment department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have begun to create ...
The newest weapon of the XXI century
The most powerful railgun (electromagnetic gun) in the world was created in the research laboratory of the US Navy in Dalgren. In December, 2010 specialists conducted a successful test of a railgun with a power ...
Computer program "Land Warrior" in the service in the army
At the beginning of 90-s, almost all countries of the world began to introduce new computer technologies in the management of armies. The main goal of such introductions was to increase the combat effectiveness of the armed forces ...
Railgun - the weapon of the future
December 10 US Navy tested the railgun - an electromagnetic gun, in which the acceleration of the projectile give electromagnetic pulses. The development of this weapon is not the first year, it is expected ...
In the United States successfully conducted tests of railgun
The US Navy conducted a test of the railgun - a gun, the acceleration of a projectile in which is imparted by electrical impulses, reports Lenta.ru citing Defense News. 10 December tests 2010 ...
About modern developments of highly protected infantry vehicles
The end of the Cold War, instead of simplifying it, made the development of BMPs even more difficult, more contradictory requirements appeared than ever before. The embodiment of new requirements in the design led to ...
War or peace - computers decide
Declaration of war or peace - the solution of such crucial issues is going to be entrusted to machines. In the UK, developing a computer system, in essence similar to that known to all ...
Russia is developing a nuclear engine for spacecraft
The Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) on Tuesday announced that next year it plans to begin work on creating standardized modules of atomic power plants for space ...
The Pentagon will test the space super-weapon
Designers of the US Department of Defense are preparing to test a secret aircraft, capable of 20 times the speed of sound. As it became known, in the near future should ...
Armor will be stronger thanks to nanotubes
The new company TorTech Nano Fibers will begin to produce carbon-based nanotube fibers in Israel, which will be used to enhance the protective properties of body armor and armor ...
Shot in the sky
Instead of launching satellites with rockets, isn't it easier to shoot them with a heavy-duty cannon? This approach was almost implemented in practice by the developers of the HARP project, and after ...
Against Fear and Fatigue: Stimulation of the Brain of Soldiers
Stimulation of the human brain has recently been the subject of a study by the defense agency DARPA. In the future, on the basis of these studies, it is planned to create an instrument, the use of which will provide ...
Destroying the US is easier than many people think.
As it turned out, the country that has accumulated mountains of nuclear and conventional weapons is absolutely not ready for cyber war. The American nonprofit organization Bipartisan Policy Center conducted an experiment and tried ...