{"id":26083,"date":"2016-05-26T20:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/these-stealth-motorcycles-darpa-commissioned-could-run-on-nearly-any-fuel"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:19:56","slug":"these-stealth-motorcycles-darpa-commissioned-could-run-on-nearly-any-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/these-stealth-motorcycles-darpa-commissioned-could-run-on-nearly-any-fuel","title":{"rendered":"These \u2018stealth motorcycles\u2019 DARPA commissioned could run on nearly any fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/these-stealth-motorcycles-darpa-commissioned-could-run-on-nearly-any-fuel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Say this for DARPA, it\u2019s not shy about picking ominous names for its projects. Or, in this case, not worried when the partners it works with choose them. Pictured above: the \u201cNightmare\u201d a \u201cstealth bike\u201d developed by LSA Autonomy for DARPA that has just been moved on to the second stage of development, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/technology\/2016\/05\/look-militarys-new-stealth-bikes\/128577\/\">Defense One<\/a>. DARPA commissioned both it and another bike from Logos Technologies to meet some specific goals: run quietly on electric power, but also run on whatever fuel a soldier in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Dzwill of Logos told <i>Defense One<\/i> that its bike, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logostech.net\/logos-technologies-wins-second-darpa-award-to-continue-development-of-hybrid-electric-military-motorcycle-in-partnership-with-alta-motors\/\">SilentHawk<\/a>, could run on anything from gasoline to propane to jet fuel:\u201d It will figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/5\/26\/11794154\/stealth-motorcycles-darpa-nightmare-silenthawk\">http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/5\/26\/11794154\/stealth-motorcycl...silenthawk<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say this for DARPA, it\u2019s not shy about picking ominous names for its projects. Or, in this case, not worried when the partners it works with choose them. Pictured above: the \u201cNightmare\u201d a \u201cstealth bike\u201d developed by LSA Autonomy for DARPA that has just been moved on to the second stage of development, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26083","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61723,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26083\/revisions\/61723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}