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The Military Wants to Create Synthetic LifeOn battlefields of the future, the environment itself could spy on America’s enemies.
Airplanes armed with laser weapons will finally be a reality.
After decades of promise and failure, a new plasma weapon emerges.
X literally marks the spot for U.S.-made Patriot missile batteries.
Sure, C-130s are cool, but this is the cutting-edge tech that makes "contingency operation" missions possible.
How the need to reverse the effects on augmented soldiers might drive the future of military tech.
AI weapons could soon execute military strikes on their own. Some think that's a bad idea.
Letting robots do construction jobs on the battlefield frees Marines to fight.
The EZRaider looks like a cross between a jetski and a giant skateboard.
The camouflage will turn Russian soldiers, armored vehicles into chameleons.
Inspired by the hagfish, the synthetic slime can stop enemy boats in the water and become a powerful weapon.
DARPA chooses the Silent Falcon as its drone of choice for the laser recharging experiment.
Russia and the former Soviet Union promised lots of things. Not all of them became reality.
The fighter exists only in mockup for now, and is expected to enter service in 2035.
The water-repellent coating should make submarines and other ships more fuel efficient, faster, and quieter.
The latest threat: swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles designed to overwhelm their under-equipped target.
Bis-oxadiazole could replace TNT and other explosives in military ordnance.
No, the Nazis did not get to space.