Collaborate Disseminate
Bronze Age swords make for impressive museum displays, but how were they used? To find the answer, scientists teamed up with history enthusiasts to combine laboratory studies with staged experimental fights using replica weapons to generate marks on th… Continue reading Combat experiments reveal fighting techniques of Bronze-Age warriors
It doesn’t take long after getting a cat in your life to learn who’s really in charge. Cats do pretty much what they want to do, when they want to do it, and for exactly as long as it suits them. Any correlation with your wants and needs is strictly …read more
Continue reading Keep Pesky Cats At Bay With A Machine-Learning Turret Gun
A leaked Facebook document gives more detail on the type of firearm parts that the social network does not allow people to sell peer-to-peer. Continue reading Gun Sellers Are Advertising on Instagram and Directing Customers to Encrypted Chat Apps
With a highly publicized test firing and pledge by President Vladimir Putin that it will soon be deployed to frontline units, Russia’s Avangard hypersonic weapon has officially gone from a secretive development program to an inevitability. The first weapon of its type to enter into active service, it’s capable of delivering a payload to any spot on the planet at speeds up to Mach 27 while remaining effectively unstoppable by conventional missile defense systems because of its incredible speed and enhanced maneuverability compared to traditional intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs).
In a statement made after the successful test of Avangard, which …read more
There’s a burgeoning market for robots that deploy robots. Continue reading Weapon Manufacturers Are Making Robots That Deploy Other Robots
By Uzair Amir
Several Critical Vulnerabilities Identified in Major Weapon Systems Being Developed by US DoD. The advanced weapon systems developed by the US Department of Defense with a whopping estimated expenditure of $1.66 trillion are plagued with … Continue reading Major weapon systems developed by US DoD highly vulnerable to cyber attacks
A new government report reveals that it took hackers just one hour to gain access to a weapon system, and the Pentagon didn’t change the default password on “multiple” systems. Continue reading The Pentagon’s Weapons Are ‘Easily Hacked’ With ‘Basic Tools’
The US Government Accounting Office just published a new report: "Weapons Systems Cyber Security: DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities" (summary here). The upshot won’t be a surprise to any of my regular readers: they’re … Continue reading Security Vulnerabilities in US Weapons Systems
The US Government Accounting Office just published a new report: "Weapons Systems Cyber Security: DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities" (summary here). The upshot won’t be a surprise to any of my regular readers: they’re vulnerable. From the summary: Automation and connectivity are fundamental enablers of DOD’s modern military capabilities. However, they make weapon systems more vulnerable… Continue reading Security Vulnerabilities in US Weapons Systems
The US Government Accounting Office just published a new report: "Weapons Systems Cyber Security: DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities" (summary here). The upshot won’t be a surprise to any of my regular readers: they’re … Continue reading Security Vulnerabilities in US Weapons Systems