News tagged with military technologies


Network turns soldiers' helmets into sniper location system

Network turns soldiers' helmets into sniper location system

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a platoon of soldiers fighting in a hazardous urban environment who carry personal digital assistants that can display the location of enemy shooters in three dimensions and accurately ...





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Organization analyzes how new war weapons will impact society

Organization analyzes how new war weapons will impact society

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the year 2009, when astronauts live in a space station, people send messages around the world with the touch of a finger, and diseases such as polio have virtually been eradicated from ...


Rutgers center sparks 'liquid bandage,' a new frontline wound treatment

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 07, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

The Center for Military Biomaterials Research (CeMBR), part of the New Jersey Center for Biomaterials at Rutgers University, has enabled the development of a breakthrough spray-on dressing for injuries. The trademarked GelSpray ...


Rare economic espionage case going to trial

Technology / Other

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two men accused of stealing computer chip blueprints - and trying to tap the Chinese government to help launch a startup built on the contraband - are becoming the first defendants charged with economic espionage ...


China picks first female astronaut candidates

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(AP) -- China's military-backed space program has selected 45 astronaut candidates, including its first women hopefuls, for a training program less than a year after the country completed its first spacewalk.


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Raytheon turns iPhones into battlefield tools

Technology / Software

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

US defense contractor Raytheon on Wednesday unveiled the first of what it said will be a series of software applications to make iPhones or iPod touch devices into battlefield tools.


Steps towards warship invisibility

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 29, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (42) | comments 4

Naval warships might look like all-powerful vessels but they are also highly vulnerable to being spotted by the enemy. That fear of being detected has led the military to develop new stealth technologies that allow ships ...


India To Set Up Military SBS System By 2007

Space & Earth /

created Aug 09, 2005 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

India is building up a satellite-based Military Surveillance and Reconnaissance (SBS) System, which will become operational by 2007.


Computer scientist aims for a better-networked military

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Patrick Crowley, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a one-year, $499,765 grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for ...


Fuel cells help make noisy, hot generators a thing of the past

Fuel cells help make noisy, hot generators a thing of the past

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 12, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Two core technologies developed at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - a fuel desulfurization system and a fuel reforming system - were instrumental in the demonstration of an ...


A new aircraft assembly and maintenance system will enhance reliability

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the CEIT-IK4 technological centre have developed an innovative support system for the assembly and maintenance of aircraft for the EADS-CASA aeronautics consortium. The new technique will particularly have ...



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