Military Tech

It's not difficult to watch a Boston Dynamics video and imagine a dystopian future where bedraggled rebels are hunted down by faceless...

Between DARPA's proposal for an AI that serves as a global threat watchdog and Boston Dynamics' creepy headless robots, the 21st...

The U.S. Army is preparing to equip soldiers with a game-changing piece of technology that will empower individual ground troops with...

In the original 1979 Alien, the crew of the Nostromo is effectively sabotaged by its science officer, Ash, a Hyperdyne Systems...

In the 1983 film War Games, a teenage hacker accesses WOPR (War Operation Plan Response), a military supercomputer programmed to...

We first reported on Richard Browning's Daedalus jet suit in November 2017, when the Gravity founder and Royal Marine Commando (U.K.)...

Because strapping backpacks on bees and making them do our bidding is not enough, DARPA (The Defense Advanced Research Projects...

DARPA already has a reputation as the mad scientist lab of the defense industry (even if they try to deny their work on metahumans...

Now that the Space Corps is gearing up to become an actual branch of the United States military, President Trump ordered the creation...

Looks like the US military is doubling down on its new toys--on the heels of the announcement that Microsoft has won a $480 million...

We've seen some pretty crazy pieces of military hardware over the past few years, from a high-tech 'Boba Fett' helmet used by UK...

Some people like to look at clouds and point out which ones look like a face. Sometimes NASA does the same thing – on a much bigger...

By 1972, the Vietnam War was close to its end, though it would still take three more years for Saigon to fall. In the wake of the...

With all the hype surrounding self-driving cars, self-driving helicopters were inevitable, right? Well, not quite. Though DARPA...

Disappointing news for all the fans of Starship Troopers, Doom, and Warhammer: according to a new, 13-page document created by...

No, you haven't stumbled across a mistakenly syndicated article from The Onion. We're apparently living in a timeline where the...

If you thought the announcement of the first air-to-air drone kill or the unveiling of Russia's new bipedal military mech was cause...

If you went through public school in the last fifteen years, odds are that your math tests included a space for an answer and a...

Los Alamos scientists joked about the Manhattan Project's nuclear bomb test setting the Earth's atmosphere on fire, but it turns out...

Last April, a dogfighting AI pulled off the first kill on a human fighter pilot in a simulation (and boy, was it a shutdown), but now...