by Allen McDuffee | Mar 20, 2014 | Monitor
With UAVs crowding navigable airspace and plans underway to put giant mega-satellites into orbit, it was just a matter of time before a drone-satellite hybrid was developed to fit between the two spaces. StratoBus, a new project out of France, is conceptualized to do...
by Allen McDuffee | Mar 17, 2014 | Monitor
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) is building technology that will allow the military to capture solar power in orbit and project it back down to Earth.
by Allen McDuffee | Mar 6, 2014 | Monitor
The Pentagon learned in August 2013 — when the U.S. came close to striking Syria over the Assad regime’s use of sarin gas — that it was woefully unprepared to face chemical or biological weapons on the battlefield. Now Darpa thinks it has a solution,...
by Allen McDuffee | Mar 3, 2014 | Monitor
Image: Elbit Systems Israel is finally ready to combat shoulder-launched missiles and they’re going to do it with lasers. Israel’s Ministry of Defense announced Wednesday that SkyShield, developed by Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems, had...
by Allen McDuffee | Feb 28, 2014 | Monitor
The Navy is developing a five-pound, 25-inch mini-munition that it’s calling “the world’s smallest guided missile.”