by David Hambling | Jan 6, 2016 | Latest Posts
I have a piece on military site DefenseTech on new developments in military swarms and how to stop the unstoppable. It’s amusing in the comments how many people think drones can be stopped with shotguns, water cannon or by firing nets at them — if onlky it...
by David Hambling | Jan 6, 2016 | Latest Posts
I talked to John Beattie about Swarm Troopers and the military impact of large numbers of cheap drone on BBC Radio Scotland — it’s in the last ten minutes of his Tuesday show which you can listen to here...
by David Hambling | Jan 4, 2016 | Latest Posts
The MIT project for a small drone capable of flying at high speed through dense forest was impressive as a demonstration of ‘sense-and-avoid’ but it looked too futuristic to be mainstream. For this week’s CES show, Qualcomm are showing that...
by David Hambling | Dec 30, 2015 | Latest Posts
The aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth was the pride of the Royal Navy when she was commissioned in 2020. Britain had not had a carrier since HMS Invincible retired in 2005, and the politicians were eager to show what a difference the new ship would make. Within...
by David Hambling | Dec 28, 2015 | Latest Posts
When Alexander Yakunin, a director of leading Russian arms company Rostec, told the newspaper TASS that his company is building small multicopters armed with flamethrowers, you might have assumed he was joking. The flamethrowing drone is not a practical weapon. ...
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