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The Grid Compass is a family of laptop computers introduced in 1982 by the Grid Systems Corporation.The design for the Compass was rendered by Bill Moggridge.Owing to its clamshell design—the first in a portable computer—some historians credit the original Compass as the first ever laptop.
It has a multi-mission, multi-target precision-strike ability and can be launched from multiple air, sea, and ground platforms, including the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper. The Hellfire missile is the primary 100-pound (45 kg) class air-to-ground precision weapon for the armed forces of the United States and many other countries.
When installed on a bomb, the JDAM kit is given a GBU (Guided Bomb Unit) nomenclature, superseding the Mark 80 or BLU (Bomb, Live Unit) nomenclature of the bomb to which it is attached. The High Speed Low Drag Bomb is a series precision-guided munition used by Indian Air Force. It has 450 kg (990 lb) and 500 kg (1,100 lb) variants.
Speculation has grown that the U.S. used a secret Hellfire missile nicknamed the 'knife bomb' to kill Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri.
The AeroVironment Switchblade is a miniature loitering munition designed by AeroVironment and used by several branches of the United States military.Small enough to fit in a backpack, the Switchblade launches from a tube, flies to the target area, and crashes into its target while detonating its explosive warhead.
] Foster-Miller claims the Talon was used for a classified mission by US Special Forces in the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, [8] as well as in an EOD role. In Iraq, its standard role has been performing EOD and IED destruction missions. Its combat SWORDS version is now being used there as a guard protecting front line buildings from ...
The invention of the Fido explosives detector relied heavily on the invention of the amplifying fluorescent polymer (AFP) in the late 1990s. At the time, the use of fluorescent polymers in their solid state was difficult due to their significantly decreased sensitivity and fluorescence compared to polymers in solution. [6]
PackBot being demonstrated by the French military A PackBot used in explosive ordnance disposal training with US and Saudi Arabian forces in 2021. PackBot is a series of military robots by Endeavor Robotics (previously by iRobot [1]), an international robotics company founded in 2016, created from iRobot, that previously produced military robots since 1990.