A DARPA competition to build underground robot teams to assist troops enters its final challenge this week
Teams of civilians are testing their ground and aerial robots in places where troops would have difficulty going.
By Todd South
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Army team wants to put 3D models of target areas into soldiers’ goggles
“It might not be Call of Duty-level graphics and visualization. But it’s going to be darn good," said one Army officer involved in the effort.
By Kyle Rempfer
Marine arrested at airport after bomb joke in security line (no one laughed)
Who doesn’t make a good bomb joke when familial merriment is on the horizon?
By J.D. Simkins
The Army wants a way to map underground tunnels using ground robots and drones
The Army's Rapid Equipping Force expects models or prototypes ready from industry in 30 days.
By Todd South
Tunnel warfare will test the Air Force’s ability to spy — and bomb — a hidden enemy
The possible emergence of a new era of tunnel warfare will challenge the Air Force to think of new ways to find, and defeat, a hidden enemy.
10 things soldiers and Marines need when heading underground
This is what's on the wish list for underground operations.
By Todd South