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US Military has two robot 'dogs', designed for pack carrying duties. Leave them together alone at night, and no doubt there'll be plenty more

DARPA waves money at independent developers again

Nowhere near as elegant as the space elevator, though

Seems the oft-mocked Segway has found a home in US law enforcement. Though I can't see the UK police taking them up; after all, they abandoned their rollerblades after people led them merry chases in

Haptic tactile communications for the military

USAF making plans for war in space. Again. Good SF technology ideas though.

More US military plans for the world above our heads. This time it's all about the tracking and communications jamming.

This looks like a good book...it'll be slipping on to the stock purchase suggestions list at work, methinks.

Defense Tech rounds up the methods that police are using in Germany to cope with a potential influx of violent morons.

DefenseTech examines inflated US bluster and hyperbole about North Korean mystery missile project.

Real life slowly catching up with science fiction, as always.

Bizarre anonymously funded TV ad attempts to discourage bombers in Iraq. The more I read articles like this, the more I'm convinced that J. G. Ballard has written me (and everyone else) into some real

USAF jet pilots get internet connections in their planes. But will they be rocking Firefox or IE, and how long before someone gets busted for surfing porn mid-mission? And will it be possible to spam

Strange, but apparently true.

DARPA's latest leftfield military project - the panopticon blimp!

A war journo at DefenseTech thinks a conflict with Iran is a bad move, if only because it might involve biting offr more than the US can chew at the moment.

Soldiers getting post-traumatic stress? The US military's solution - give them drugs and VR re-runs of their tours of duty. Maybe counselling might be a better move? Or, dare I say it, not sending the

Tinfoil hats at the ready! DARPA has some sneaky satellites on the move, and no-one seems to know for sure what they're for.

What's better than flying robots? Swarms of flying robots, that's what.

"Cyber agents will need to embody the ability to covertly travel across these mediums, constantly assessing the network layout, morphing itself as networks change, and remaining covert while main

DefenseTech compare ex-Navy man Heilein and space-cadet Dick for accuracy of prediction of the present time, as far as military tech is concerned. Dick emerges as the clear winner.

"...I’m just saying that it would be great if there were some way to guess ahead of time which ideas are really bad, and which are just a little silly." An amusing but to-the-point piece at

"Not just any frisbees, mind you. Robotic frisbees. Heavily armed robotic frisbees." The strange yet true world of military tech development.

Invisibility! Without a doubt, the military vaporware meme of the year so far. Here we go again

"Blue-green lasers have been discussed for a while as potential sub-talkers, with good reason. Seawater has a lot of organic junk floating around inside..." Which means blue-green is the ide