Illustration of a nuclear weapon blast. As Russia has suffered unexpected battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine, Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage.…
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Hypersonic missiles can change course to avoid detection and anti-missile defenses. Credit: U.S. Air Force On March 18, 2022, Russia launched a hypersonic missile against…
The U.S. has been warning for weeks about the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine, and threatening retaliation if it does. Just eight years after Russia’s…
This U.S. Air Force microwave weapon is designed to knock down drones by frying their electronics. Credit: AFRL Directed Energy Directorate Some of the cases…
In a tragic accident, Alec Baldwin has fatally fired a prop gun on a film set in New Mexico. Credit: Gage Skidmore In a horrendous…
The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate Active Denial System is a counter-personnel, non-lethal, directed energy weapon. Traveling at the speed of light, the…
LLNL-02 can pass through the blood-brain barrier (pictured), making it more effective in protecting the central nervous system. Credit: Liam Krauss/LLNL Scientists at Lawrence Livermore…
Launch of SM-3 Block IB interceptor from guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG 70). Credit: U.S. Navy From engineered pandemics to city-toppling cyber attacks to…
An invention from Purdue University innovators may provide a new option to use directed energy for biomedical and defense applications. The Purdue invention uses composite-based…
This U.S. Air Force microwave weapon is designed to knock down drones by frying their electronics. Credit: AFRL Directed Energy Directorate The mystery ailment that…
Simulations show how fractal structures of increasing complexity dissipate energy from shockwaves. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Additively manufactured fractal structures with closely spaced voids…
The smart protection mechanism of responsive nanotube membranes against environmental threats. The collapse of actuating polymer chains on the contaminated membrane surface prevents nerve agents…
SwRI-developed software Rhodium helps SwRI scientists discover nerve agent antidotes that penetrate the central nervous system. This project is part of a U.S. Department of…
Sgt. Johnny Bonilla, a gunner and cannon crewmember with the173rd Airborne Brigade, wears a combat helmet first fielded in the 1980s. Army researchers explore 3-D…
(Click image for full view.) A French helmet from World War I sits beneath a shock tube to test how well it protects the dummy…
This is a prototype of a working, pocket-sized neutron detector made with a high lithium-containing material. Credit: Northwestern University/Argonne National Laboratory Researchers demonstrate first stable…
[embedded content] This year has had its share of science and technology advances from Army researchers. The U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory, the Army’s…
3D printed flexible armor. Credit: Virginia Tech The motivations for using biology as inspiration to engineering vary based on the project, but for Ling Li,…
A system developed by Carnegie Mellon University uses video from smartphones to help pinpoint the location of shooters. Here, analysis of video from two smartphones…
MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction. How do weapons inspectors verify that a nuclear bomb has been dismantled? An…