Mike Beaver's Future Technology Page

Interesting and Useful A - F F - K L - P P - Y Questions Articles and Find a Hypnotist Future Warfare Technology Aircraft
Spangdahlem units troubleshooting new F-16 upgrades (4/23/04) Boeing Previews UCAV System	X-45 Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV)
Armored Suits & Future Warrior Systems
Slow, Fat "Future" for Army (9/27/05: Defense Tech) Emerging Technologies Form Futuristic Uniform (12/08/04) On 22 July 2004 Army officials announced plans to accelerate the delivery of selected future combat systems to the current force.	(Global Security.org) These Objective Force / Future Warrior Systems are being developed at the Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Massachusetts. Here is another Objective Force Article.pdf.
Bombs
Sensor Fused Weapon.pdf - how to take out an entire tank column, or much of it, with a single weapon. This one has only been used once in combat; during the original Iraq push to stop one of Saddam's tank columns from advancing. It was dropped on the lead element of the tank column, took out a dozen or more tanks, and had the rest of the tank operators out with their hands up immediately.	Sensor-fused weapon (wiki) MOAB bomb testing is a 28 second video of the U.S. defense departments Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb tests (3/12/03: The Sydney Morning Herald)
Electro-Magnetics
Cruise Missiles Carrying High Power Microwaves	Just a Normal Town... recreating the electromagnetic pulse emitted by a nuclear explosion
Floating Technologies & Water Weapons
X-Craft / Littoral Surface Craft-Experimental (LSC(X)): Fast Sea Frame / Sea Fighter (FSF 1) USN Buys Australian (The 53 mph HSV 2 SWIFT Catamaran: 2/12/04) China; Submarine Type 094 and Kilo Class Projects Underwater sensor system could protect reservoirs, drinking water	Hagee seeks expanded at-sea combat staging (8/25/04) Floatograph Technologies Swelling interest in blimps (Washington Times: 6/28/04) LASH Out: A BLIMP-BASED SYSTEM FOR MILITARY SURVEILLANCE.pdf
Force Fields Force Fields and 'Plasma' Shields Get Closer to Reality Germs, Etc.
First step towards detecting exposure to bio-warfare agents WWII discovery may counter bioterrorists ELF-Electromagnetic Disease Transmission	Miniature spectrometer can detect biological hazards Hand-portable device detects biological agents
Guns
The Tavor Corner Shot - shoot around corners. SMALL PACKAGES, BIG BANG: Personal Defense Weapons (Part 2) Heckler & Koch's HK MP7A1 PDW New Humvee weapons system keeps gunner covered inside (2/8/04)	Mike O'Dwyer has designed an ammunition system which, for the first time, makes it possible to load a single gun barrel with multiple rounds and to fire each round either singly or in rapid succession. His company, Metal Storm has fielded a 36-barrel concept demonstrator, which demonstrated a maximum rate of fire of more than 1,000,000 rpm."
Institutes & Agencies
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency	The Moves Institute Naval Postgraduate School
Iraq
Troops in Iraq to Get Combined Lethal/Nonlethal Weapons System (9/14/04) speaks about a combined system using both the ADS and the LRAD technologies showcased below. ADS - Raytheon and the Air Force Research Laboratory have developed the ACTIVE DENIAL SYSTEM, a non-lethal, counter-personnel directed energy weapon. Global Security.org has additional information on the Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial System (V-MADS).	LRAD - Troops get high-tech noisemaker (CNN: 3/3/04) Also RNC-NYC: reported presence of long-range acoustic device (LRAD) at protests has links to a number of stories regarding long range acoustic devices. Jammers protecting troops in Iraq An Iraq success story: SAPI plates Marines to take popular Dragon Eye to Iraq "If We Run Out of Batteries, This War is Screwed." Meals-Ready-to-Eat (MRE) heating technology developed at RIT
Major Pages
News, Reviews & Articles on Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency [DARPA] Gyre: Tracking The Next Military & Technological Revolutions	Military Training Technology (Magazine) military.technology.hippo (links page)
Networks
Pentagon Envisioning a Costly Internet for War by repost (NY Times: 11/13/04)	Network Centric Warfare Ultra-wideband of Brothers
Projects
Cyber Warfare Integration Network (CWIN)	The MOVES Institute's Context Machine Project
Prototype Vehicles
Improving Survivability and Mobility: Concept Vehicle Illustrating New Options for Military Combat Vehicles to be Unveiled (9/12/05)	Future Combat System Prototype Vehicle Ultra AP and Ultra 3T Concept/Experimental Armored Vehicles for U.S. Infantry (Defense Review)
Ray Guns
COOL TECH THIS WEEK: Ray Gun Plans, Robotic Fish, Powered Exoskeleton Suits Laser shoots down large-caliber rocket (CNN: 5/7/04)	Focused energy weapons are nearing a production status. Microwave beam weapon to disperse crowds Airborne Missile-Killing Laser Takes Aim
Robots
Robotic Suit Could Create Super Soldier (5/15/2008) Robotic-vacuum maker, BU team up on antisniper device (10/4/05)	Robots Earning Stripes (11/8/04: Arkansas Democrat Gazette) Robot Plane Drops Bomb in Successful California Test, Boeing Says (4/18/04)
Search Engines
Patterns in Unstructured Data: Discovery, Aggregation, and Visualization The Great Library of Amazonia	Telcordia Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) Demo Machine Using Latent Semantic Indexing for Information Filtering
Security
SmarTruck II - brought to you by the Integrated Concepts & Research Corporation, which is a subsidiary of Koniag, Inc.. On the way--ATMs that recognize your face Ports using secure-container system - the system they are introducing is: Savi's: Asset Management System for Intermodal Containers	Panasonic Authenticam Iris Recognition Camera - John Daugman, Cambridge University (UK) teacher and researcher in computer vision, neuroscience, and pattern recognition; inventor of iris recognition. NASA is working with Atlanta Perinatal Associates on a prototype for portable fetal-heart-rate monitor that can transmit information over telephone lines without use of ultrasound.
War Games & Simulation
High Tech Army Tags	Pentagon developing system to track every vehicle in a city
Tracking
Quantico Marines Keep Training in Their Sights	Simulated Attacks Repelled In Antimissile War Game (3/17/04: Washington Post)
Other News & Articles
The Australia - New Zealand Defence Industry & Aerospace Report On-Line	What Is Smart Dust, Anyway? Powerful explosive blasts onto scene
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