DARPA

Mar 8, 2023

DARPA created a hypersonic aircraft capable of Mach 20 speeds

While the world’s major powers are locked in an arms race to develop the best and most advanced hypersonic weapons, missiles capable of flying faster than Mach 5 and are…

Mar 8, 2023

Mar 3, 2023

Artificial Intelligence just flew an F-16 Fighting Falcon for the US military

While much of the public talk about artificial intelligence has been centered around ChatGPT, AI art, and whatever else is popular on TikTok these days, the U.S. military has quietly…

Mar 3, 2023

Mar 2, 2023

Companies are racing to create an injectable foam that stops internal bleeding

In 2012, the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research released a study that detailed the most prevalent causes of battlefield deaths between 2001 and 2011. They found that 91% of…

Mar 2, 2023

Feb 22, 2023

AI weapons are here and the US wants a code of conduct for using them

We may not be at the point where Terminator robots are going back in time and trying to kill other Terminator robots. We are also not yet to the point…

Feb 22, 2023

Sep 1, 2022

The Army developed a human catapult to launch Special Forces onto rooftops

Modern problems require modern solutions. One of the biggest modern problems, if one were to ask the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is that buildings are getting a little…

Sep 1, 2022

Dec 30, 2022

The 8 most painful non-lethal weapons

When the military doesn’t want to kill anyone but really needs to make sure they stay away, they turn to nonlethal weapons. Some of these weapons are painful enough that a gunshot might seem preferable. 1. The non-lethal claymore…

Dec 30, 2022

BYMiguel Ortiz

Nov 15, 2021

Watch DARPA recover its Gremlins UAV in midair with a C-130

In October 2021, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency successfully demonstrated the mid-air recovery capability of its X-61 Gremlin Air Vehicles. DARPA awarded Phase I contracts to four companies in…

BYMiguel Ortiz

Nov 15, 2021

Feb 16, 2021

8 technologies the Pentagon is pursuing to make super soldiers

As Captain America and Iron Man prepare for their civil war, they probably don’t realize they have competition coming from the U.S. military. The Department of Defense wants troops with super strength, telepathy, and immunity from pain. Here are 8 …

Feb 16, 2021

Apr 29, 2020

US military wants to deliver water to troops by sucking it out of the air

The US military is researching ways to capture moisture in the air and deliver it to troops as drinking water in arid environments, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed in a recent statement. DARPA, the Pentagon’s re…

Apr 29, 2020

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Apr 29, 2020

This robot Army working dog may one day accompany soldiers into combat

Army scientists have been working on a canine-like robot that’s designed to take commands from soldiers, much like real military working dogs. The Legged Locomotion and Movement Adaptation (LLAMA) robot is an Army Research Laboratory effort t…

BYMilitary.com

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

US military thinks its next war will be underground

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued a peculiar request over Twitter on Aug. 28, 2019, asking for underground tunnels to use for research — as soon as possible. Though DARPA’s request

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

DARPA wants to make you eat your own trash

Those mad bois over at the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency are at it again. This time, they want to create a system that would let you eat your own trash, and to be honest, you’d probably like it. (The system, not the taste.)

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

DARPA has a new voting booth, and it wants you to hack it

DARPA, the group behind the modern internet and stealth technology, is taking a big swing at hack-resistant voting booths. It has been working on new ways of securing computers and other electronic devices for years now in a program it cal…

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

Here’s the island where the Pentagon trains for a full on cyber war

Only a few have gone through the extensive background checks needed to access Plum Island — where a secretive branch of the US government runs exercises to prepare for all-out cyber war. The speck of land in the Long Island Sound, owned by t…

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

Here’s how the US would fair against a major cyber attack

Imagine waking up one day and feeling as if a hurricane hit — except everything is still standing. The lights are out, there is no running water, you have no phone signal, no internet, no heating or air conditioning. Food starts rotting in y…

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

DARPA wants AI to dogfight, but not for reasons you think

The futurists over at DARPA are pursuing a vision that most of us knew was coming: creating artificial intelligence that can outperform human pilots in dogfights, can survive more Gs in flight without expensive life support, and can be mass produced…

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

How DARPA wants to make your next vehicle safer, more lethal

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is known for its baller tech, from helping to invent the internet and Google Maps to developing artificial intelligence and drone swarms. For the last few years, they’ve been looking into how to make ve…

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

7 rejected X-rated military Valentine’s Day articles

There’s a running bit in the We Are The Mighty office that if all else fails we could always make porn. I like to bring it up during dry brainstorming sessions. I was feeling particularly amused by inappropriate humor last week during a meet…

Apr 29, 2020

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

How US troops could get climbing powers like Spider-Man

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is more apt to describe their new climbing technology to be more like geckos than Spider-Man. Despite being less awesome, DARPA’s comparison is much more accurate – but only because Spider-Man isn’t …

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

6 “creepy” DARPA projects that will save lives

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is known for both world-changing programs, like the internet, and creepy ones, like synthetic blood. Although it draws flack for creating multiple types of terminators, the Department of Defense’s “mad…

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

Watch this new Humvee wheel transform into tracks

DARPA has engineered a set of wheels that can turn into tracks while in motion in under two seconds. The Reconfigurable Wheel Track (RWT) allows vehicles to morph …