by David Hambling | May 15, 2016 | Latest Posts
A quadrotor developed by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is can start fires by dropping incendiary “dragon balls” the size of Ping-Pong balls. The aim is to makes it easier to carry out “prescribed burns”, fires which are started...
by David Hambling | Apr 8, 2016 | Latest Posts
Soldier is the official magazine of the British Army; this month there is a short review of Swarm Troopers, with the conclusion: “Military readers the world over should find this a highly relevant title.” Soldier magazine’s website can be found...
by David Hambling | Apr 8, 2016 | Latest Posts
Aqua Quad is a new drone being developed at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. It is am amphibious quad-rotor than can land on water, lower a sonar sensor to detect underwater objects, and then take off again. It combines several features that together...
by David Hambling | Apr 6, 2016 | Latest Posts
The ARS – “the British Army’s busiest and best online community” – is an unofficial but very well-informed and informative site which covers everything related to the British Army. They review all sorts of equipment, as well as relevant...
by David Hambling | Mar 30, 2016 | Latest Posts
During the Cold War, NATO underwater sensors meant that every single Russian ballistic missile submarine could be located and then quietly followed by a hunter-killer sub ready to torpedo it if war broke out…could swarms of underwater drones mean that our...
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