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Jul 16, 2017

US-Australia had a successful Mach 8 HiFire 4 hypersonic missile test last week

Posted by in categories: military, space

The US-Australia Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HiFIRE) program had at least one successful hypersonic flight at Woomera testing range in South Australia last week. A round of experiments concluded on 12 July, confirmed Australian defense minister Marise Payne.

UQ hypersonics researchers collaborated with the Defence Science and Technology Group (DST Group) and US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Boeing, and BAE Systems for test flights in July 2017. This vehicle is a free-flying hypersonic glider, designed to fly at Mach 8 (8000 km/hr). It is designed to separate from its rocket booster in space and perform controlled manoeuvres as it enters the atmosphere. The test flight was intended to enable learning about how to fly a hypersonic vehicle at high altitude.

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Jul 15, 2017

GA 3 megajoule railgun firing and building new 10 megajoule railgun in 2018

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General Atomics has successful 3 megajoule railgun firing and will complete a 10 megajoule railgun in 2018.

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Jul 15, 2017

Here’s the Future of Warfare Tech. Warning: it’s Not Pretty

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI, virtual reality

Warfare and technology make the perfect partners of destruction. Military innovations from wooden catapults to nuclear bombs have been transforming the way war is waged since prehistoric humans carved arrows from stones some 10,000 years ago.

The visions of futurists don’t always match the experiences of military personnel, but the battlefields of the future will bear little resemblance to the war zones of today.


The future of technology in warfare: From AI robots to VR torture.

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Jul 15, 2017

Very small modular nuclear fission reactors for military and space

Posted by in categories: military, space travel

Transportable very small modular nuclear fission reactors for military and other applications.

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Jul 15, 2017

Biosensors could give soldiers superhuman fighting abilities

Posted by in categories: computing, genetics, military, neuroscience

According to the report, the US Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and other special forces are looking to improve troops’ performance by looking at their bodies at a genetic level (stock)

Earlier this year the AirForce successfully tested a helmet that can monitor brain activity and tell if the pilot is feeling stressed or panicked.

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Jul 15, 2017

Prototype exoskeleton suit would improve Soldiers’ physical, mental performance

Posted by in categories: cyborgs, military, neuroscience

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Thanks to a new “suit” being developed by the DOD-funded Warrior Web program, future Soldiers will be able to march longer, carry heavier gear and improve mental sharpness.

The suit has pulleys and gears designed to prevent and reduce musculoskeletal injuries caused by the dynamic events typically experienced in the Warfighter’s environment.

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Jul 14, 2017

US military reveals ‘Matrix’ projects to plug brains into a computer

Posted by in categories: computing, military, neuroscience

US military reveals $65m funding for ‘Matrix’ projects to plug human brains directly into a computer…


The US military has revealed $65 of funding for a programme to develop a ‘brain chip’ allowing humans to simply plug into a computer.

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Jul 8, 2017

Breakthrough high temperature ceramic for hypersonic vehicles and more

Posted by in categories: energy, military, space

Breakthrough high temperature ceramic for hypersonic vehicles, space, energy and military applications.

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Jul 6, 2017

Long Range Wireless Power Transfer

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, military

Wi-Charge products offer wireless power for the wide range of consumer, industrial, medical and military applications. Wi-Charge’s products are unique in their ability to deliver useful wireless power and seamlessly over long distances efficiently and safely.

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Jun 30, 2017

Hypersonic and anti-hypersonic arms race

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI

Lockheed Martin is using turbine rocket combined cycle (TRCC) to build a mach 6–10 hypersonic plane. The TRCC is an engine that switches between turbofan, ramjet and scramjets for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight. The TRCC engine will be tested on a fighter-sized flight testbed by 2020. They would then try to develop a Mach 6, unmanned spyplane by 2030 that would perform the same role as the old SR-71 Blackbird. The hypersonic spyplane would enter highly contested and defended airspace at altitudes of 18 and 62 miles, using its speed to outrun enemy defenses. Hypersonic planes could fire hypersonic missiles. It would join the B-21 stealth bomber in the US air force future global strike arsenal.

Raytheon is also developing anti-hypersonic missile defenses.

Air-breathing hypersonic weapons and boost glide weapons are very difficult to engage, as both fly depressed trajectories that dispense with the high, arc-like, and most importantly predictable trajectories of traditional ballistic missiles.

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