{"id":28937,"date":"2016-08-15T03:46:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T10:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/dragonfly-drones-and-lasers-britain-invests-800m-in-next-generation-of-military-technology"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:56:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:56:55","slug":"dragonfly-drones-and-lasers-britain-invests-800m-in-next-generation-of-military-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/dragonfly-drones-and-lasers-britain-invests-800m-in-next-generation-of-military-technology","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly drones and lasers: Britain invests \u00a3800m in next generation of military technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dragonfly-drones-and-lasers-britain-invests-800m-in-next-generation-of-military-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Britain will spend more than \u00a3800million funding next-generation military technology including tiny \u201cdragonfly drones\u201d for gathering intelligence and laser weapons to eliminate missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, will today announce an innovation unit which will encourage individuals and companies to pitch ideas to a panel of experts. The best ideas will be fast-tracked with the support of an \u00a3800million fund over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Projects which will be funded include a \u201cmicro-drone\u201d with tiny flapping wings inspired by the biology of a dragon fly, which could have a \u201chuge impact\u201d on operations in urban environments.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/08\/11\/dragonfly-drones-and-lasers-britain-invests-800m-in-next-generat\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/08\/11\/dragonfly-drones-...t-generat\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain will spend more than \u00a3800million funding next-generation military technology including tiny \u201cdragonfly drones\u201d for gathering intelligence and laser weapons to eliminate missiles. Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, will today announce an innovation unit which will encourage individuals and companies to pitch ideas to a panel of experts. The best ideas will be fast-tracked with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28937","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=28937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50041,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28937\/revisions\/50041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}