{"id":24948,"date":"2016-04-24T22:47:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T05:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/air-force-research-lab-roadmaps-for-game-changing-hypersonic-vehicles-directed-energy-weapons-and-drones"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:20:53","slug":"air-force-research-lab-roadmaps-for-game-changing-hypersonic-vehicles-directed-energy-weapons-and-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/air-force-research-lab-roadmaps-for-game-changing-hypersonic-vehicles-directed-energy-weapons-and-drones","title":{"rendered":"Air force research lab roadmaps for game changing hypersonic vehicles, directed energy weapons and drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-force-research-lab-roadmaps-for-game-changing-hypersonic-vehicles-directed-energy-weapons-and-drones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/ndia\/2015SET\/TuesBlackhurst.pdf\" target=\"blank\">Air Force Research Laboratory is working on key technologies in hypersonic air vehicles, directed-energy weapons<\/a> and autonomy, or human-machine teaming, that will be \u201cgame-changers\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Air Force Research Laboratory scientists and engineers have developed an unarmed \u201ccruise missile-like vehicle\u201d that reached five times the speed of sound in tests, and have explored pairing drones with combat fighters in latest realm of technological advances.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon futurists envision a third-offset strategy to leapfrog U.S. technological capabilities to stay ahead of Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/04\/air-force-research-lab-roadmaps-for.html\">http:\/\/nextbigfuture.com\/2016\/04\/air-force-research-lab-roadmaps-for.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force Research Laboratory is working on key technologies in hypersonic air vehicles, directed-energy weapons and autonomy, or human-machine teaming, that will be \u201cgame-changers\u201d Air Force Research Laboratory scientists and engineers have developed an unarmed \u201ccruise missile-like vehicle\u201d that reached five times the speed of sound in tests, and have explored pairing drones with combat [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1497,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-energy","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56566,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24948\/revisions\/56566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}