defense
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What Might Have Happened To The KRI Nanggala In Its Final Moments?
After a five-day search, wreckage from Indonesia’s missing submarine KRI Nanggala has been discovered at a depth of more than 800 metres in the Bali Sea. With no survivors from the 53-person crew — and no certainty the cause of disaster will ever be confirmed — the Indonesian Navy will need to decide how much…
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The Pentagon’s Plan To Pepper Space With Surveillance Satellites Is Taking Shape
New details have emerged about the Pentagon’s ambitious plan to build seven different defence constellations, the first of which will include hundreds of surveillance satellites that are expected to attain full global coverage in just six years.
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The British Military Is Launching A Major Test Of Unmanned Vehicles And Surveillance Drones
The British Army is carrying out a major, four-week test of 70 new technologies, “including unmanned vehicles and surveillance drones”, as part of its “Autonomous Warrior experiment”, the MIT Technology Review reported this week.
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DARPA Is Funding Time Crystal Research
You probably scratched your head last year if you read about time crystals, likely 2017’s most esoteric, widely covered popular science story. Even if you understood how they worked, you might not have known what use they could have. Time crystals, systems of atoms that maintain a periodic ticking behaviour in the presence of an…