Posts Tagged ‘military’

Wonderful Things: V2 engine

The V2 rocket engine was developed in Germany in the early 1940s. The engine was far bigger than any other rocket engine built before, making the V2 rocket the first long range missile used in World War 2. Propelled by an alcohol and liquid oxygen fuel, V2 had a range of over 320km and travelled at about [...]

Introducing… Robolobster!

Not entirely new, Robolobster has actually been in the works for some years. Is this not just the coolest/weirdest sounding technology ever? It’s a mechanical lobster that scurries along ocean floors, seeking out and detonating buried bombs. Scientists developing an underwater mine-detecting robot realised that nature had already done all the work in ‘designing’ a [...]