Military

Lockheed Martin demos 50kW anti-aircraft frickin' laser beam

Updated Looks like a reboot of SWIV

Science26 Jan 2023 | 108

Seven smuggled US military tech for Moscow, say Feds

Nuclear, hypersonic hardware is one thing, but you can probably keep the quantum computer stuff, Vlad

Cyber-crime14 Dec 2022 | 5

US Air Force reveals B-21 Raider stealth bomber that'll fly the unfriendly skies

'Digital bomber' will bring 'peace through deterrence'

Security03 Dec 2022 | 185

Israel sets robotic target-tracking turrets in the West Bank

Military says they'll save lives on both sides as tensions escalate

Security18 Nov 2022 | 89

What's that, Lassie? Boston Dynamics is suing its robot dog tech rival?

The way your computerized canine walks down the stairs looks familiar to us, claims MIT spinoff

Legal15 Nov 2022 | 20

Waferscale, meet atomic scale: Uncle Sam to test Cerebras chips in nuke weapon sims

Thermonuclear warheads, so hot right now

AI + ML18 Oct 2022 | 6

Microsoft HoloLens proves to be a headache for US soldiers

Eyestrain, nausea not entirely dealt with, military brass remain committed to AR

Personal Tech13 Oct 2022 | 18

Lockheed Martin taps silicon photonics tech to build better weapons of war

Let the battle against latency begin

Systems13 Oct 2022 | 3

Inmarsat gets $1b from US Navy for 10 years of satellite data

Outsourcing national defence didn't work so well in Ukraine

Off-Prem13 Oct 2022 | 3

Top of the Pops: US authorities list the 20 hottest vulns that China's hackers love to hit

Microsoft has four entries on list of shame, Log4j tops the chart

Security07 Oct 2022 | 4

If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynamics

Maybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications

Science06 Oct 2022 | 73

NSA super-leaker Edward Snowden granted Russian citizenship

He always wanted to fight in the military – are his draft papers on the way?

Bootnotes26 Sep 2022 | 77

Spotted at industry confab: Quadcopter equipped with Brit missiles Ukraine is so fond of

Updated BAE falls over itself to stress it's only a hypothetical serving suggestion

Offbeat26 Sep 2022 | 19

US Army drone crashes hours ahead of breaking flight duration record

Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr nosedives after more than 64 days aloft

AI + ML23 Aug 2022 | 52

Russian military uses Chinese drones and bots in combat, over manufacturers' protests

Testimonials from Russian generals not welcomed by DJI or Unitree Robotics

Security17 Aug 2022 | 46

US Space Development Agency invests $1.3b in missile tracking satellites

Northrop Grumman, L3Harris Technologies to build the 28-satellite constellation for warning, tracking

Science19 Jul 2022 | 5

Behold this drone-dropping rifle with two-mile range

Confuses rather than destroys unmanned aerials to better bring back intel, says Ukrainian designer

Bootnotes27 Jun 2022 | 38

Nothing says 2022 quite like this remote-controlled machine gun drone

GNOM is small, but packs a mighty 7.62mm punch

Edge + IoT16 Jun 2022 | 44

Beijing needs the ability to 'destroy' Starlink, say Chinese researchers

Paper authors warn Elon Musk's 2,400 machines could be used offensively

Security25 May 2022 | 132

Pentagon opens up about its database of 400 smudges that may or may not be UFOs

'We're open to all hypotheses, we're open to any conclusions' says official

Bootnotes17 May 2022 | 28

US Army may be about to 'waste' up to $22b on Microsoft HoloLens

Updated Will soldiers actually use these goggles? Asking for a watchdog

Bootnotes26 Apr 2022 | 81

DARPA says US hypersonic missile is ready for real world

A new arms race emerges

Science06 Apr 2022 | 67

Massive cyberattack takes Ukraine military, big bank websites offline

What geopolitical standoff could this possibly be linked to?

Security15 Feb 2022 | 66

Leaked footage shows British F-35B falling off HMS Queen Elizabeth and pilot's death-defying ejection

Video Parachute snagged on ship's bows

Security30 Nov 2021 | 167

US Air Force puts Godzilla in charge of autonomous warfare effort with Project Kaiju

Pulls Mothra, Mecha Rodan, King Ghidorah, Kumonga, and even King Kong along for the $150m ride

AI + ML14 Sep 2021 | 15

Military infosec SNAFUs: What WhatsApp and bears in the woods can teach us

Column One can’t spell shit without IT, but for Pete's sake it doesn't need to be in your endpoints

Security07 Jun 2021 | 20

US Army develops natural-language voice-command AI for robots, tanks, etc. For search'n'rescue. For now

Judge, JUDI, and executioner?

AI + ML21 Apr 2021 | 32

Forget Terminators, says US military, the next-gen AI battles will hinge upon net infrastructure, not killer robots

Databases, info pipelines, software... 'that is where the fight of 20 years will be won'

AI + ML10 Sep 2020 | 24

Raytheon techie who took home radar secrets gets 18 months in the clink in surprise time fraud probe twist

Be careful about bunking off when you're billing your hours to a government

Security24 Jul 2020 | 78

US Air Force wants to pit AI-powered drone against its dogfighting hotshots in battle of the skies next year

Fliers v fine-tuned code, who will win?

AI + ML09 Jun 2020 | 66

Quit worrying about killer robots, they are coming whether you like it or not – and they absolutely will not stop

The only winning move is not to play, as a wise computer said

AI + ML15 May 2019 | 108

Air Force intel bod Daniel Hale charged with 'leaking top secret drone documents' to journo

Soldier's pilfered docs provided basis for robo-aircraft news reports, say US prosecutors

Security09 May 2019 | 10

While Google agonizes over military AI, IBM is happy to pick up the slack, even for the Chinese military

Big Blue insists it's only for good ol' fashioned research

AI + ML12 Apr 2019 | 15

We asked the US military for its 'do not buy' list of Russian, Chinese gear. Surprise: It doesn't exist

El Reg drills into banned technology with Freedom-of-Info request

On-Prem16 Nov 2018 | 21

Fitness app Polar even better at revealing secrets than Strava

+Comment 'I spent a year hiding in shrubs, and they just … publish their daily runs'

Security09 Jul 2018 | 34

Boffins urge Google to drop military deal after Googlers storm out over AI-based super-drones

Hey, don't be evil!

AI + ML15 May 2018 | 43

AI, AI, sir: British Army chiefs visit Silicon Valley hypelords

Comment Nice. But what about the UK firms MoD's spending £800m on?

Science13 Apr 2018 | 3

White House: Is it OK to hijack, shoot down, or snoop on drones? Er ... asking for a friend

And with no public scrutiny? D'ya think that's possible?

Legal09 Apr 2018 | 50

Shhh! Don’t tell KillBots the UN’s about to debate which ones to ban

Next Monday is a fine moment for bad bots to come back through time and change history

Science05 Apr 2018 | 40

British military spends more on computers than weapons and ammo

Shows where wars of the 21st century will really be fought...

Legal07 Mar 2018 | 48

Massive US military social media spying archive left wide open in AWS S3 buckets

Dozens of terabytes exposed, your tax dollars at work

Security17 Nov 2017 | 66

Dick move: Navy flyboy flings firmament phallus for flabbergasted folk

Highway to the donger zone

Bootnotes17 Nov 2017 | 92

US Air Force resumes F-35A flights despite not knowing why pilot oxygen systems failed

Take a deep breath. You might have to hold it for a while

Legal21 Jun 2017 | 46

Security company finds unsecured bucket of US military images on AWS

You're only as secure as your suppliers and some military contractors look to be well leaky

Security01 Jun 2017 | 31

Pentagon trumpets successful mock-ICBM interception test

If they know where it comes from and how fast it's going: America defends against itself

Science31 May 2017 | 70

Brit telcos will waive early termination fees for military personnel

Good news for those posted to Benbecula or Mount Pleasant?

Networks28 Mar 2017 | 14

US military drone goes AWOL, ends up crashing into tree 623 miles away

Vid Army baffled as Shadow goes invisible

Science02 Mar 2017 | 55

Make America, wait, what again? US Army may need foreign weapons to keep up

Putting the US of A first could require arms from Europe

Bootnotes23 Jan 2017 | 114

US Marines seek more than a few good men (3,000 men and women, actually) for cyber-war

From the phones of Montezuma to the servers of Tripoli

Security14 Jan 2017 | 27

British military laser death ray cannon contract still awarded, MoD confirms

Sound familiar? Yes, you read it on El Reg last July

Security05 Jan 2017 | 71

Chinese chap in the clink for trying to swap US Navy FPGAs with fakes to beat export ban

15 months for fishing chips

Security07 Nov 2016 | 12

Daesh-bag hacker gets 20 years for harvesting US military kill list

Cross-border Kosovan cuffing leads to long stretch inside

Security27 Sep 2016 | 12

SpaceX is go for US military GPS sat launch, smashes ULA monopoly

Nothing like some healthy competition

Science28 Apr 2016 | 38

Want a job in security? Lock down US military's supermarkets

American officials fear commissaries will fall to hackers

Security08 Apr 2016 | 10

The next Cuban gristle crisis: US Navy warship powered by beef fat

Blubber-burning battleship is moo-ving with the times

Bootnotes22 Jan 2016 | 140

VMware finds back door for US military mega-deal, but Nutanix, Citrix protest again

Small deal with US Army expanded, and set alarms ringing

SaaS11 Dec 2015 | 6