DARPA Completes Testing of Underwater Drone That'll Give Sharks Nightmares
6 May 2024, 12:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American research agency DARPA announced the completion of full-scale, in-water testing for the Northrop Grumman Manta Ray underwater drone
Video Shows AI-Piloted F-16 Take On Humans in First Real-World Man vs Machine Dogfight
23 Apr 2024, 09:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Military research agency DARPA released a video showing glimpses of a dogfight between and AI-piloted F-16 and human opponents
America Is Teaching Drones to Ressuply Ships at Sea and Get Out of Sticky Situations
10 Apr 2024, 10:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Boeing company Aurora Flight Sciences announced the completion of two tests on an autonomous system for ships, aircraft, and land-based vehicles
Plane With Diamond-Shaped Wings and No Control Surfaces to Fly in 2025
1 Apr 2024, 12:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American research agency DARPA announced it tasked private company Aurora Flight Sciences with making a plane with no control surfaces
DARPA Is Considering Putting Trains on the Moon, Needs Someone to Build It a Railway First
21 Mar 2024, 09:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Research agency DARPA tasked aerospace company Northrop Grumman with looking into the merits, risks, and costs of a lunar railway network.
Mach 9 Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine Survives Its First Long-Duration Test
13 Mar 2024, 08:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / America aerospace startup Venus announced it conducted its first long-duration test of the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) it is working on
Autonomous Helicopters Fly at One Another to See If They Can Dodge in Time
5 Feb 2024, 13:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA, DARPA and Sikosky test autonomous collision avoidance systems on two helicopters that flew on their own at the end of last year
U.S. to Beam Down Power Into Combat Zones Using Speed of Light Wireless Energy Web
13 Dec 2023, 09:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA's Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program moved into a new stage after Raytheon was tasked with building such relays
Lunarsaber Is What Humans on the Moon Will Call Their Fancy, 328-Feet-Tall Street Lights
8 Dec 2023, 13:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Honeybee Robotics says it's entry for the DARPA LunA-10 study is something called the Lunarsaber, technically a street light with extra capabilities
No, Those Are Not Drums Floating in Space, But DARPA-Backed Spacecraft Hubs
7 Dec 2023, 13:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the entries in the DARPA LunA-10 study is the spacecraft hub developed by Firefly Aerospace based on its Elytra spacecraft
DARPA's SPRINT X-Plane Will Be the Mother of All Vertical Lift Aircraft
28 Nov 2023, 09:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Research agency DARPA announced the four companies that will take part in the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies X-plane (SPRINT) program
DARPA Once Planned to Fit Cargo on Top of the Space Shuttle External Tank, CGI Shows How
27 Nov 2023, 14:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Space Shuttle was the source of many spaceship design ideas, one of them, the Hammerhead, callled for a fairing to be fitted on the fuel tank
Manta Ray Underwater Drone Testing Underway, Doesn't Quite Look Like What We Were Promised
2 Oct 2023, 08:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One of the Manta Ray drone contractors, PacMar Technologies, starts water testing of a prototype of the machine, looks different from renderings
America's Hypersonic Weapon Interceptor Now Cooking Over at Boeing
18 Sep 2023, 05:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aerospace giant Boeing announced its involvement in the DARPA Glide Breaker project, meant to give the U.S. intercept capabilities against hypersonic weapons
DARPA Teaching AI How to Decide Victim Priority in Mass Casualty Triage
16 Aug 2023, 13:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA is working on ways to teach an AI how to make fast and important triage decisions during mass casualty events and disaster relief
DARPA Names Companies Working on Insanely Capable ANCILLARY VTOL Drone
5 Jul 2023, 12:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA selects nine companies to advance with the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY drone project
These Two Designs Were Cleared for DARPA’s Liberty Lifter Flying Boat, Love the Twin-Hull
2 Feb 2023, 17:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA announced the names of five companies tasked with designing the Liberty Lifter ground effect airplane, first sketches released
American B-52 Fires Hypersonic Weapon That Can Cover 70 Miles Per Minute
1 Feb 2023, 14:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA, Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne tested for the second time the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, shot from a B-52
NASA/DARPA Want to Test Nuclear Fission Engines by 2027, Can They Bring Us to Mars?
25 Jan 2023, 00:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / If ludicrously powerful rocket engines are what you're after, science fiction tells us there's no better place to look than nuclear energy
DARPA Aircraft With No Wing and Tail Control Surfaces Moves Into Design Stage
18 Jan 2023, 11:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / DARPA and Boeing's Aurora are moving ahead with their research into the creation of an active flow control aircraft with no control surfaces