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SpaceX’s Next Starlink Launch Will Boost Three Hitchhiking Satellites to Orbit

In the coming weeks, satellite operator Planet will hitch a ride on one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets, sending up…

Ensuring the Reliability of Munitions

YUMA PROVING GROUND, AZ– Whenever the U.S. military fires an artillery round, the reliability of that round was meticulously proven…

Army Begins Testing Advanced Seeker for Precision Strike Missile

WASHINGTON — The Army has successfully completed its first open-air testing of an advanced multimode seeker, an upgrade to the…

New Cloaking Material Could Protect Buildings, Soldiers

Stealth technology, the idea of reducing the ability of the enemy to detect an object, has driven advances in military…

What Is LRAD? The “Sound Cannon” Used by Police Explained

As protests in response to the police killing of George Floyd continue to roil the country, Twitter has been abuzz lately with…

USS Nimitz Aircraft Carrier Deploys With Powerful New Infrared Sensor System

The supercarrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68), now America’s oldest operational aircraft carrier, just got an upgrade before she left port in Washington State to…

All-Electric Propulsion Payback Time Shorter Than Expected

Part of our ongoing series of webinars and the first in Riviera Maritime Media’s Maritime Hybrid, Electric and Fuel Cells Webinar…

New Soliton Laser Pulses Deliver High Energy in a Trillionth of a Second

Scientists have developed a new type of laser that can deliver high amounts of energy in very short bursts of…

Small Robotic Mule, Other Unmanned Ground Systems on the Horizon

FORT MEADE, MD — The Army plans to award a contract this month to produce hundreds of robotic mules that…

Super Material Provides Surprising Test Results in New Study

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, MD — Imagine discovering a material in the future that is so resilient that it can withstand extreme…

Pentagon Reshuffles R&D Priorities

HONOLULU, Hawaii — The Defense Department is shaking up its list of research-and-development priorities as the Pentagon builds new roadmaps for…

Watch This Ship-Mounted Navy Laser Shoot Down a Drone

The future of naval warfare arrived earlier this month when a U.S. Navy laser stationed aboard a ship shot down…