Defense
Battle robots, drown swarms, super soldiers, future battle strategies—this page covers the trends and news that will guide the future of defense.
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https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23875112/us-army-first-weapon-lasers/
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Popular Mechanics
The service is trying to introduce lasers weapons where it makes sense to deploy them--for now.
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https://www.news.com.au/technology/home-entertainment/take-an-interactive-look-at-the-future-of-warfare-from-robosoldiers-through-to-mechanised-men/news-story/04f9a62c2c9ec868e59f2f96caa02f94
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News.com.au
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https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/03/laser-weapons-blueprint-adding-them-force/155700/
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Defense One
Directed energy weapons promise a new advantage — if the U.S. accelerates development of related technologies and doctrine.
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-orbital-space-weapon
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Futurism
The Pentagon is requesting hundreds of millions of dollars to ramp up space-based weaponry including particle beams and space lasers.
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https://www.occupycorporatism.com/2012/09/25/darpa-continues-human-experiments-to-create-military-super-soldiers/
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Occupy Corporatism
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US10144532B2/en
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Patents
A craft using an inertial mass reduction device comprises of an inner resonant cavity wall, an outer resonant cavity, and microwave emitters. The electrically charged outer resonant cavity wall and the electrically insulated inner resonant cavity wall form a resonant cavity. The microwave emitters create high frequency electromagnetic waves throughout the resonant cavity causing the resonant
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https://news.mit.edu/2019/engineers-demonstrate-lighter-flexible-airplane-wing-0401
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MIT News
A new way of making airplane wings, developed by engineers at MIT, NASA, and elsewhere, could lead to novel aircraft designs and lighter, more fuel-efficient planes.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/technology/ransomware-attack-nsa-cyberweapons.html
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New York Times
In May, a so-called ransomware attack hit computers in over 150 countries. But two weeks earlier, one security expert found something a lot worse.
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20520
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https://www.france24.com/en/20190319-us-accuses-russia-china-undermining-space-peace-push
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France24
US accuses Russia, China of undermining space peace push
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https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/05/28/why-african-governments-still-hire-mercenaries
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The Economist
Professional gunmen are cheap, efficient and deniable
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https://tribune.com.pk/story/1605803/1-pakistan-observe-doubling-high-end-flood-risk-2040
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Tribune
Researchers say global warming is likely to unleash more rain, exposing millions of more people to river flooding
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https://futurism.com/the-u-s-military-has-a-space-aggressor-squadron-trained-for-off-world-warfare
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Futurism
The Space Aggressor squadrons train other military troops for war in space and determine how to best keep space assets like satellites secure.
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https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2019/may/how-israel-stopped-syria-from-becoming-a-global-nuclear-nightmare
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CBN News
The inside story of how Israel stopped Syria from becoming a global nuclear nightmare is told in a new book, Shadow Strike, by Yaakov Katz.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/08/us/shannon-kent-military-spy.html
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New York Times
Shannon Kent’s death in a suicide bombing in Syria shows how women have been doing military jobs as dangerous, secretive and specialized as anything men do.
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https://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/09/14/army-eyeing-strategic-cannon-tech-1000-mile-range.html
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Military
Development of long-range precision fires technology is the Army's number one modernization priority.
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http://www.graphene-uses.com/graphene-ship-tech-makes-the-future-dreadnought/
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Graphene
Graphene ship tech make the future dreadnought to increase the strength of ship coating hulls to reduce drag , meaning could sail faster and use less fuel
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https://www.wired.co.uk/article/drone-swarms-change-warfare
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Wired
Prepare to see flocks of self-flying UAVs operating as a unit
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/emp-threat-real-it-shouldnt-keep-you-night
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Stratfor
The resurgence of apocalyptic fears over electromagnetic pulses risks distracting us from more imminent threats to the electrical grid, such as cyberattacks.
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https://futurism.com/exoskeleton-super-soldiers-military
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Futurism
Lockheed Martin is developing a strap-on exoskeleton suit, called ONYX, with the goal of creating "super-soldiers" for the U.S. military.
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/israel-could-expand-its-anti-iran-fight-iraq-and-yemen
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Stratfor
Seeking to roll back the gains of its arch foe, Israel is calculating the risks and rewards of attacking Iranian interests in Iraq and Yemen.
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https://www.dailydot.com/debug/encryption-crypto-war-james-comey-fbi-privacy/
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Daily Dot
The U.S. government wants to stop terrorists and criminals from 'going dark.' But at what cost?
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https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/right-wing-extremist-threat-in-context-external-extremist-actors
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Stratfor
Right-wing extremists operate as lone attackers or members of small cells and often have little in the way of tradecraft, making them vulnerable to detection.