Danger Room

The Navy talks about its drone helicopter the way Apple geeks gushed over the first-generation iPhone in 2007. But like that early iPhone, the Fire Scout is seriously buggy.

Four years ago, iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner left the company she helped turn into a chief supplier of bomb-disposing military robots. Now today, her new company has unveiled its brand new teeny tiny flying ‘bots.

Over the weekend, a group of 3-D printing gunsmiths took a partially printed rifle out to test how long its plastic parts survived spewing bullets. The result? Six rounds until it snapped apart.

Engineers working for the Assad regime in Syria have begun combining the two chemical precursors needed to weaponize sarin gas. International observers are now terrified that the Damascus government could use its nerve agent stockpile to slaughter its own people.

Stealthy, brainy, deadly flying robots aren’t just for Americans any more.

The world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier was a mainstay of the U.S. Navy for 51 years. As the U.S.S. Enterprise retires on Saturday, here’s a look back at this historic ship.

It had all the trappings of a classic Pentagon scandal. But the Army has just concluded that a flap over competing intelligence systems was the result of a bureaucratic screw-up.

The U.S. Navy has taken huge steps towards deploying the first carrier-launched robotic warplane.

Two successive presidents have failed to describe what an end to the 11-year-long war on terrorism actually looks like. But in a Friday speech, the Pentagon’s top lawyer offered precisely that vision.

It can be a little deceiving to think of Mexico’s drug cartels as simply gangsters. Instead, they’ve blurred the distinctions between organized crime and quasi-military insurgents, with plenty of firepower to back it up.

Israel’s defense chief sounded pretty ready to attack Iran when he stopped by the Pentagon Thursday. And it seems that the Iron Dome missile defense system helped provide that swagger.

Syria has been largely cut off from the rest of the internet — just as rebel forces are making some of their biggest advances yet against the Assad regime.

Think you can’t close Guantanamo Bay? A new congressional study prompted by a powerful Senator found up to 104 places inside the U.S. to put Gitmo detainees. It’s just going to take some major modifications.

The Senate on Wednesday threw a life raft to the Navy’s beleaguered plan to power its ships and jets with biofuel.

The Pentagon is facing its worst cash crunch in more than a decade. Yet it still somehow found the money to put a down payment on a $10 billion upgrade of its nuclear weapons in Europe — y’know, just in …

The shooting war between Israel and Hamas has stopped. But cyber attacks on Israeli and Palestinian websites have skyrocketed since last week’s ceasefire in Gaza took hold.

Iron Dome stopped a lot of rockets in this month’s Israel-Gaza war. But it won’t be able to stop Iran’s ballistic missiles. So the Israelis are already upgrading their missile defenses.

American officials are blaming Iran for recent attacks on the servers of western banks. But the hackers taking credit for the sophisticated distributed denial-of-service strikes say they pulled off the bank jobs without any government help.

Another sign of the U.S.’ entrenched counterterrorism shadow wars: The U.S. is now buying Yemen a fleet of manned spy planes, a big hardware upgrade.

Watch out, Vladimir Putin: China’s drone fleet is getting real. And judging from how Beijing is promoting its robots to the outside world, they’re aimed straight at Russia.