The Defense Innovation Unit's latest quantum sensing milestone shows aircraft can safely and accurately navigate vast stretches of ocean without relying on the same GPS that millions of civilians use to move through traffic.
DARPA wants a scramjet-powered missile that can fly more than five times the speed of sound and also evade advanced missile interceptors.
AI:The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is spearheading the development of a new scramjet-powered hypersonic cruise missile designed to fly at speeds exceeding Mach 5. This advanced weapon system aims to achieve the agility necessary to evade sophisticated modern missile interceptors, ensuring national security as global kinetic technology rapidly evolves against potential adversaries.Open
Army Sgt. Ryan Minton is putting the finishing touches on a drone detector that soldiers can wear like protective gear.
The recently ousted Ukrainian defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, an advocate for drone and robot warfare, says Ukraine’s tech-heavy strategy will persist.
Division and strife are undermining Ukraine’s already troubled war effort. The post The Meaning of Fedorov’s Firing appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign policy The Meaning of Fedorov’s Firing Division and strife are undermining Ukraine’s already troubled war effort. Photo by Tetiana Dzhafarova / AFP via Getty Images On January 14, 2026, Mykhailo Fedorov was appointed Ukraine’s minister of defense. Just six months later, he was dismissed. One of Fedorov’s principal tasks, bigger even than addressing the shortage of Patriot interceptors, had been reforming his country’s recruitment and mobilization system. But manpower shortages remain a chronic issue, forcing the government to resort to unpopular solutions like “busification” (the Ukrainian term…Open
The Gen 0 Deep Sea Expeditionary with No Decompression (DSEND) suit maintains a sea-level atmosphere, even at extreme depths.
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are developing the next generation of solid-fuel ramjet propulsion, addressing one of the field's most persistent challenges: understanding and predicting what happens inside an operating combustor.