The Anti-Swimmer Torpedo
Technology An unmanned undersea vehicle targets combat divers Thinking of going for a swim? Keep an eye out for the Reusable Unambiguous Swimmer Warning Vehicle, a torpedo that can hunt down any...
View ArticleNavy Dolphins Searching For Mines Uncover Sunken 19th Century Torpedo
Science It's only the second torpedo of its kind ever found. Dolphins have been used for 50 years to help the U.S. Navy echolocate mines. That project is going away in 2017 (to be replaced by robots)...
View ArticleChina's Future Submarine Could Go The Speed Of Sound
Technology Thanks to a gas bubble and a liquid lubricant The submarine of the future may come to America in a super fast bubble, traveling under water. Researchers at China's Harbin Institute of...
View ArticleThis Could Be The Combustion Engine That Works On Venus
Space Torpedo technology from the 1920s could fuel future spaceflight In the depths of space, when even starlight can’t be relied on, spacecraft need some form of long-lasting, chemical energy to...
View ArticleThe Warship To End All Battles
Military Britain's naval elite design their ideal stealth ship In 1906, the Royal Navy rendered all other battleships obsolete when it unveiled the HMS Dreadnought. This past summer, British naval...
View ArticleBetter Air Bubble Generation Could Lead To Faster Submarines
Military It's a gas Superfast submarine technique improved.
View ArticleUnmanned Boat Fires Torpedo In Apparent First
Military The hunt for bot October Robot boat fires a torpedo…
View ArticlePentagon Study Scrutinizes The Future Of Autonomous Robot War
Military A potential minefield Pentagon considers deadly autonomy…
View ArticleThe mystery of a spooky Confederate submarine might finally be solved
Military We may finally know what killed Civil War soldiers on the Hunley. The first submarine to take down an enemy vessel was found with its crew still sitting at their battle stations. What killed...
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