"These Are The New Weapons That The Pentagon Wants..." Topic
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| Tango01 | 03 Feb 2016 10:54 p.m. PST |
…For Tomorrow's Wars. "Defense secretary lays out his vision for the next decade's killer capabilities in 2017 budget preview. Smarter smart bombs, mini railguns, and swarming robot boats to watch man-made islands are a few of the key technology areas that Defense Secretary Ashton Carter sees as vital to U.S. military superiority in the next decade. In a preview of the Pentagon's upcoming 2017 budget request, Carter said military research and development spending would rise to $71.4 USD billion from last year's $71.3 USD billion request.) Carter also listed areas where the Defense Department was already seeing "returns" on R&D spending through the Strategic Capabilities Office, or SCO. "I'd like to tell you about a few projects SCO has been working on that we're funding in the budget," he said. "Some you may have heard of, and some we're talking about here for the very first time" he said…"
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| tkdguy | 04 Feb 2016 12:17 a.m. PST |
Maybe some of it will be viable within a decade. I expect most to take a little longer than that. |
| Tango01 | 04 Feb 2016 10:35 a.m. PST |
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| Lion in the Stars | 04 Feb 2016 11:36 a.m. PST |
The smarter smart bombs shouldn't be too hard, we've had TV-guided bombs since the 1960s, and DSMAC on Tomahawks since the 1970s or early 80s. |
 Legion 4   | 04 Feb 2016 4:03 p.m. PST |
No T2s programmed to go after islamic terrorists ? |
| Lion in the Stars | 04 Feb 2016 7:08 p.m. PST |
Build a Shortbow UAV with the targeting app on a smartphone, open the app, take a picture of the target, BOOM! Load the app onto the smartphones of the guys we like in the Middle East, they'll do all the work for us! |
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