These “robo-shorts” could be a valuable add-on to the equipment of the light-infantry

With a 9 percent metabolic rate reduction for walking and 4,5 percent for running, this system can aleviate a bit of the burden for our dismounted soldiers.

science.sciencemag.org

A South Korean approach to mitigate their “lack” of military personnel

In order to mitigate the effects of their continuing decline in recruitment South Korea envisions to deploy BioBots by 2024


DAPA (Defence Acquisition Programme Administration ) plans to deploy robots inspired by humans and insects by 2024, after which it will look towards biobots that draw inspiration from birds, snakes, and various marine creatures.

Because everybody needs a Ninja Bomb

According to the Wall Street Journal, the US Military and CIA claim to have developed a precision bomb that will cause virtually no collateral damage… Rather than exploding, the R9X missile can smash its way through anything in its path “as if a speeding anvil fell from the sky.” To give things a more dramatic feel six blades deploy out of the sides of the Ninja Bomb just as it hits in order to maximize its destruction…

Is this the contact lens to augment troops’ visual capabilities in the field?

Drones for organ transport

New ways to avoid AI surveillance.

Could be usefull once integrated in to a (less flashy) camouflage pattern.

More info in this paper from KU Leuven : Fooling automated surveillance cameras: adversarial patches to attack person detection

Tesla develops the hardware for self driving

Important takeaways:
– Tesla considers LIDAR as a bad technology for self driving
– Tesla cars and the required neural networks for self driving are becoming very good because they collect a lot of data and can retrain the networks for all kind of exceptions. This is for Defence a enormous problem because we operate in a non structured world where very little structural data acquisition is being done… so even with the best hardware, we probably won’t be able to have self driving vehicles that can operate cross country and in the unusual conditions we find in operations.

HAPS a cheaper and more flexible way to replace satellites.

High Altitude Pseudo Satellites (or Platform Stations) can provide surveillance and/or (much needed) bandwith for battlefield communications. and come in many shapes

for more info on military applications : HAPS White paper

Fire Control Unit for 40mm underbarrel grenade launchers

Already chosen to become part of the Infanterist der Zukunft – Erweitertes System (IdZ-ES) for the German Army, this would greatly improve the “first shot hit rate” for our grenadiers.