Interview with Daniel Theobald, Inventor of the Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot

In March, I attended the National Defense Industry Association’s 2010 Ground Robotics Capabilities Conference & Exhibition. If you have not attended one of these NDIA events, they are a great opportunity to witness the give and take between the defense industry, the military’s internal development centers such as the U. S. Army’s Research, Development and [...]

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Weapons Technology and ‘Modernist’ Social Change

Richard Machowicz of Discovery’s Future Weapons offers an intriguing list of the “Weapons that Changed the World.”  The top ten includes the RPG-7, the JDAM, the B-52 bomber, the nuclear submarine, the Huey UH-1C attack helicopter, the S-75 Dvina high-altitude surface-to-air missile system, the F-117A stealth fighter, the AK-47, the ICBM, and the military industrial [...]

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