China clones military weapons from the U.S., Russia
Handbags, smartphones, movies, beverages and, now, even military technology — China’s copycat culture has taken itself to new heights if its weapons systems are any indication. China’s growing military assertiveness has now been strengthened by weapons cloned from other countries’ technologies. For instance, U.S. aircraft Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Northrop Grumman X-47B Read More
DARPA implanting computer chips in soldiers’ brains
Melding artificial silicon with breathing tissue is no longer fantasy peddled by science fiction writers. That is at least what New York Times best-selling author and journalist Annie Jacobsen reports. In her new book, The Pentagon’s Brain, Jacobsen argues that DARPA has been secretly implanting computer chips into soldiers’ brains in order to treat trauma Read More
High-powered lasers to become the latest development in drone warfare
(NationalSecurity.news) The United States has been a leader in drone warfare for years, but the Pentagon is about to step it up a notch further by adding high-powered lasers to its most lethal drones. As reported by Defense One, the futuristic-sounding concept may be just two away as developers are already hard at work on Read More
The coming age of assassin kamikaze drones
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… kamikaze drone! In 2008, the air force research laboratory set out to create a machine that could kill two birds with one drone. The kamikaze drone would be programmed to identify and kill a person, self-destructing on impact. Although these killing machines sound like creatures of fiction, Read More
