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Meet China’s New Spy Plane (With An Austrian Body)
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Meet China’s New Spy Plane (With An Austrian Body)

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

New DARPA Program Wants You To Turn Hoverboards And BB-8s Into Weapons
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New DARPA Program Wants You To Turn Hoverboards And BB-8s Into Weapons

By Kelsey D. Atherton

China Tiangong spaceship in space
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China’s Answer To The Hubble Telescope

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

Senator Graham Likes Encryption Now That He Understands It
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Senator Graham Likes Encryption Now That He Understands It

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Boeing Will Arm South Africa’s Weird Plane
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Boeing Will Arm South Africa’s Weird Plane

By Kelsey D. Atherton

SkyWall Is A New Anti-Drone Net Bazooka For Police
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SkyWall Is A New Anti-Drone Net Bazooka For Police

By Kelsey D. Atherton

This Estonian Tankette Is A Modular Body For War Robots
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This Estonian Tankette Is A Modular Body For War Robots

By Kelsey D. Atherton

China’s Quantum Satellite Could Change Cryptography Forever
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China’s Quantum Satellite Could Change Cryptography Forever

By Jeffrey Lin, P.W. Singer, and John Costello

Artist Rendering Of New Rocket Engine
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American-Made Rocket Engines Could Launch Air Force Satellites By 2019

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Army Plans To Have Laser Weapon By 2023
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Army Plans To Have Laser Weapon By 2023

By Kelsey D. Atherton

B-21 Concept Art
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Air Force Shows Off Its Next Bomber

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Burn After Shooting: Army Employees Patent Self-Destructing Bullets
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Burn After Shooting: Army Employees Patent Self-Destructing Bullets

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Afghanistan To Fly American Drones Next Month
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Afghanistan To Fly American Drones Next Month

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Watch American Battle Tanks Skid Around In Norwegian Snow
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Watch American Battle Tanks Skid Around In Norwegian Snow

By Kelsey D. Atherton

James Clapper Believes The Earth Is Round And The CIA Is Transparent
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James Clapper Believes The Earth Is Round And The CIA Is Transparent

By Kelsey D. Atherton

America Built A Cyber Weapon To Preempt Nuclear War With Iran
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America Built A Cyber Weapon To Preempt Nuclear War With Iran

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Can The NSA’s Machines Recognize A Terrorist?
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Can The NSA’s Machines Recognize A Terrorist?

By Dave Gershgorn

Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot (SAFFiR) In Testing
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New Sea Legs For A Robot Firefighter

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Coast Guard Vessel Intercepts Smugglers
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Pirates Of The Near Future Will Use Drones

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Unmanned Little Bird Helicopter
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How DARPA Is Prepping For The Next Cyberwar

By Kelsey D. Atherton

DARPA Will Launch A 132-Foot-Long Robot Yacht In April
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DARPA Will Launch A 132-Foot-Long Robot Yacht In April

By Kelsey D. Atherton

The Warship To End All Battles
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The Warship To End All Battles

By Adam Piore

Clapper: America’s Greatest Threat Is The Internet of Things
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Clapper: America’s Greatest Threat Is The Internet of Things

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Israeli Defense Company Unveils Robot Warship
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Israeli Defense Company Unveils Robot Warship

By Kelsey D. Atherton

6th Generation Fighter Concept
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Northrop Grumman Ad Teases 6th-Generation Fighter

By Kelsey D. Atherton

China Y-20 788
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China Builds Power Projection Foundations With New Cargo Plane and Warship

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

China Nigeria Drone
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Watch Nigeria’s First Confirmed Drone Strike — Against Boko Haram

By Kelsey D. Atherton

The 3D-Printed Semi-Automatic Gun Is Almost Here
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The 3D-Printed Semi-Automatic Gun Is Almost Here

By Kelsey D. Atherton

J-20 2101 China Stealth Fighter
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China Stays Ahead in Asian Stealth Race

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

North Korea Plans To Launch A Satellite This Month
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North Korea Plans To Launch A Satellite This Month

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Latest Snowden Revelation Shows NSA Hacked Into Israeli Drone Cameras
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Latest Snowden Revelation Shows NSA Hacked Into Israeli Drone Cameras

By Kelsey D. Atherton

X-47B Hoisted Onto The USS Truman
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How The Next Generation Of Drones Could Reshape Future War

By Kelsey D. Atherton

China To Launch Powerful Civilian Hyperspectral Satellite
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China To Launch Powerful Civilian Hyperspectral Satellite

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

China Type 072A LST H/PJ-17 CIWS
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China rings in new year with a new amphibious Landing ship

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

Russia’s War Robots Are Less Than They Appear
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Russia’s War Robots Are Less Than They Appear

By Kelsey D. Atherton

What Were The U.S. Boats That Iran Captured?
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What Were The U.S. Boats That Iran Captured?

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Special Forces Soldier Plays Pool In Afghanistan
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Software Tool Automatically Identifies Guns In Photos

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Ehang 184 passenger drone China
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The Military Applications Of China’s CES Passenger Drone

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

Air Mule Hovercraft Ambulance Flies Autonomously
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Air Mule Hovercraft Ambulance Flies Autonomously

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Squirrel Power Outages
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Map Shows Squirrels Are Winning The Cyber War

By Kelsey D. Atherton

China Gaofen 4 Spy Satellite
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Gaofen 4, The World’s Most Powerful GEO Spy Satellite, Continues China’s Great Leap Forward Into Space

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

China laser weapon blinding
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Chinese Soldiers Have Laser Guns

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

Did North Korea Really Test A Hydrogen Bomb? Here’s How We’ll Find Out
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Did North Korea Really Test A Hydrogen Bomb? Here’s How We’ll Find Out

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Robot Inspects Suitcase
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German Researchers Are Developing A Bomb Squad Robot That Sees Inside Suitcases

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Space Defender: Interview With Air Force Lt. Gen. John W. Raymond
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Space Defender: Interview With Air Force Lt. Gen. John W. Raymond

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DARPA Wants To Turn Small Ships Into Drone Aircraft Carriers
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DARPA Wants To Turn Small Ships Into Drone Aircraft Carriers

By Kelsey D. Atherton

China Builds Its Own ‘Wild Weasel’ To Suppress Air Defenses
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China Builds Its Own ‘Wild Weasel’ To Suppress Air Defenses

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

LS3 Robot At RIMPAC Exercises
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Marines’ Robot Mule Is Too Loud For War

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Chinese Stealth Fighter J-20 Starts Production
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Chinese Stealth Fighter J-20 Starts Production

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

Ammunition Explosion Iraq
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Earthquake Monitors Used To Decode Massive Ammunition Explosion

By Mary Beth Griggs

The Last Fighter Pilot
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The Last Fighter Pilot

By Kevin Gray

Air Force Global Hawk
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Air Force Will Let Enlisted Pilots Fly Global Hawks

By Kelsey D. Atherton

U650 amphibious UAV China
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Amphibious Drone Makes First Flight

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

These fighter jets inspired the aircraft in ‘Star Wars’
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These fighter jets inspired the aircraft in ‘Star Wars’

By Kelsey D. Atherton and Grennan Milliken

Raytheon Pitches New Weapons To Fix ‘Star Wars’ Military Flaws
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Raytheon Pitches New Weapons To Fix ‘Star Wars’ Military Flaws

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Drone footage of the China Iraq CH-4 drone HJ-10 missile hitting the target
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Iraq’s New Chinese Drone Draws First Blood

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

Terror on Twitter
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Terror on Twitter

By P.W. Singer

China’s New Trio Of Urban Combat Robots
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China’s New Trio Of Urban Combat Robots

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

RevMedx XStat
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FDA Approves Gunshot-Staunching XStat Invention For Civilian Use

By Mary Beth Griggs

Watch The USS Zumwalt’s First Tests At Sea
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Watch The USS Zumwalt’s First Tests At Sea

By Kelsey D. Atherton

America’s Most Futuristic Warship Is Boldly Going Out To Sea
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America’s Most Futuristic Warship Is Boldly Going Out To Sea

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Giant New Supply Ship Extends China’s Reach At Sea
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Giant New Supply Ship Extends China’s Reach At Sea

By Jeffrey Lin and P.W. Singer

Turret
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Video: Sunken Seaplane Was One Of The First Victims Of Pearl Harbor

By Mary Beth Griggs

Watch Technicians Take Apart And Rebuild A U-2 Spy Plane
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Watch Technicians Take Apart And Rebuild A U-2 Spy Plane

By Kelsey D. Atherton

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