This week, the US Army used a high-energy multipurpose laser to shoot down three drones near the US-Mexico border, which official reports claimed were “posing a physical threat to US military personnel and CBP partners,” referring to Customs and Border Patrol. The operation took place between the night of August 25 and the early morning
They stuffed a real-life ray gun into a 747 to shoot down ballistic missiles and stuck a laser on top of a Humvee to zap roadside bombs. For more than 50 years, the United States military and its researchers have tried to develop laser weapons. None of them panned out. But now, the US Army
A recent exam of hundreds of mobile apps marketed to U.S. military personnel found that more than one in eight contained software created by companies in China, Russia or other foreign nations, raising new concerns that adversary governments could collect data that reveals where service members live, work and deploy. According to researchers at Purdue
