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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has flown a UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter without a pilot for the first time ever. CNET reports: DARPA’s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System program was used to fly the helicopter on autopilot over Fo… Continue reading DARPA Flies a Black Hawk Helicopter Without a Pilot For 30 Minutes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Israel is accelerating the roll-out of laser-based interceptors as part of a plan to surround itself with such technologies and reduce the high costs currently incurred when shooting down aerial threats… Continue reading Israel Speeds Roll-Out of Laser Defense System
DARPA has announced a new initiative called the Robust Optical Clock Network (ROCkN) program, which will look to develop a practical, super-accurate optical atomic clock that is robust and small enough to fit inside a military aircraft, warship, or fie… Continue reading DARPA’s ROCKn Program Aims To Make Optical Atomic Clocks Portable
“A race against time is under way for the U.S. Navy to reach one of its downed fighter jets — before the Chinese get there first,” reports the BBC:
The $100m (£74m) F-35C plane came down in the South China Sea after what the Navy describes… Continue reading America Races to Salvage Its Sunken F-35 Warplane – Before China Does
With the right military equipment, a single person can target a plane from three miles away using a heat-seeking missile. While such a nightmare is a rare occurrence, FedEx has applied to the FAA seeking approval to install a laser-based, anti-missile … Continue reading FedEx Asks FAA To Let It Install Anti-Missile Lasers On Its Cargo Planes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Drive: AU.S. Cyber Command task force executed what is being described as its “first offensive cyber effect operation” against real-world cyber threats. While the exact nature of the operation and its target… Continue reading Cyber Command Task Force Conducted Its First Offensive Operation
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Five of the world’s most powerful nations have agreed that “a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought” in a rare joint pledge to reduce the risk of such a conflict ever starting. The ple… Continue reading Five of World’s Most Powerful Nations Pledge To Avoid Nuclear War
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Science: Imagine being able to see the components of a potentially dangerous situation in live 3D and in fine detail without even having to survey the area,’ says Brian Goddin, from the Air Force Install… Continue reading Why the Air Force Wants To Put Lidar On Robot Dogs
David E. Sanger and Julian E. Barnes reporting via the New York Times: In the closing days of 2015, the lights went out across a swath of Ukraine as Russian hackers remotely took over an electric utility’s control center and flipped off one power stati… Continue reading US, Britain Help Ukraine Prepare for Potential Russian Cyberassault
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The detonation of the first nuclear bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 is seared into our collective memory, and the world has been haunted by the prospect of a devastating nuclear ap… Continue reading Revisiting the ‘Tsar Bomba’ Nuclear Test