by Robert Beckhusen and Noah Shachtman | Aug 15, 2012 | Monitor
The Air Force’s X-51A Waverider hypersonic missile attached to the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress. Photo: USAF Updated 2:39 p.m. ET A crucial test for the Air Force’s experimental Mach 5 missile has ended in failure, according to the Air Force....
by Noah Shachtman | Aug 13, 2012 | Monitor
The Air Force’s X-51A Waverider. Photo: USAF On Tuesday, an Air Force B-52 bomber is scheduled to take off from Edwards Air Force Base in California. Under its wing will be the closest thing in the world to a hypersonic missile. The plane will soar over the...
by Robert Beckhusen | Aug 3, 2012 | Monitor
Snipers from the 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade prepare to fire during an exercise above Logar Province, Afghanistan, on Jan. 26, 2012. Photo: Army Consider this scenario. A sniper guarding the Olympic Stadium spots a man pulling out a gun. In less than a minute, the...
by Robert Beckhusen | Jul 26, 2012 | Monitor
The military wants to boost vaccine production for the deadly flu, and do so with tobacco plants like these, pictured at a Medicago greenhouse in North Carolina in May 2012. Photo: Darpa In the event of a global and highly lethal flu pandemic, we’ll need to...
by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | Jul 18, 2012 | Monitor
Computerized model of the ParaFoil, a propeller-driven drone that could transport up to 3,000 pounds of goods to disaster-stricken areas. The U.S. military wants to help out during a humanitarian crisis. And it wants paraglider drones and robotic cranes to do it....
