Archive for the 'Military' Category
Flying Walrus For The Military
Monday, January 29th, 2007It flies. It’s the size of a football field. And it looks like a huge pickle… kind of.
According to DARPA, the Walrus flies via a combination of aerodynamics, thrust vectoring and gas buoyancy generation and management. I’m guessing that the aerodynamics part deals with drag reduction; the thrust vectoring deals with movement (forwards, backwards, up [...]
Railgun: Smaller Bullets, Bigger Destruction
Monday, October 30th, 2006Guns are all about destroying. It can be used as a symbol of peace - like sticking roses in the muzzle - but guns were ever only invented with one purpose; to destroy. Over the years, the mainstream of gun technology has always been based on the principle of expanding gases (except for [...]
Veratech Phantom Sentinel - The Invisible UAV
Saturday, October 14th, 2006Trust the military to keep coming up with cool technology. This new one is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that is both invisible to radar and to observers!
Everyone pretty much knows how invisibility to radar works: you fly out of the radar’s coverage (usually “under” the coverage) or you are small enough to not [...]
Exoskeleton In The Army
Tuesday, October 10th, 2006The rise of the machines is upon us. Okay, so that statement is a little bit over dramatic but you get the point - at least you will after reading this entry.
Introducing [tag]BLEEX[/tag] - the Berkeley Lower Extremity Exoskeleton. No, it is not a high-tech replacement for viagra! BLEEX is a device [...]
US Air Force PHaSR Weapon
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006This is looks like something straight out of a Japanese anime movie!
Firstly, PHaSR stands for Personnel Halting and Stimulating Response. Personnel Halting sounds just like what a weapon is meant to do but Stimulating Response sounds kinda dodgy, don’tcha think?
The PHaSR was developed for providing a non-lethal method in crowd control and immobilizing attackers. [...]
ESG Personal Flying Wing
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006A [tag]parachute[/tag] system designed to allow the wearer to glide for up to 40 kilometres carrying 100 kilogrammes of equipment. That is what this design, named the Gryphon by ESG, is all about.
The idea behind this piece of equipment is to allow airdrops to be conducted safely away from hostile fire. The deployed [...]
