Robot Cheetah DARPA Terminator

DARPA’s M3 Robotic Cheetah set a new land speed record for legged robots. The Robot Cheetah was able to gallop at 18 mph on a lab treadmill.

Testing of a free running cheetah robot prototype is planned for later in 2012. The cheetah robot was developed by Boston Dynamics.

The robot’s movements are patterned after those of the cheetah in nature, increasing its stride and running speed by flexing and un-flexing its back on each step.

DARPA video demonstration of M3 Cheetah Robot:

DARPA – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, supplies technological options for the entire Department of Defense and is designed to be the technological engine for transforming DoD.

Ground robots have already saved many lives and preventeds thousands of injuries in military explosive disposal missions.

Robots may more effectively assist soldiers across a greater range of missions.

DARPA’s M3 – Maximum Mobility and Manipulation program seeks to create and demonstrate significant scientific and engineering advances in robot mobility and manipulation capability.

Maximum Mobility and Manipulation or Terminator? Unleash the hounds.

Dong Feng 21-D Chinese Missile Worlds First ASBM DF 21-D

The US Department of Defense has reported that China is developing the world’s first land-based anti-ship ballistic missile [ASBM]  named Dong Feng 21-D.

 [DF 21-D] has a range from 1200 up to 1900 miles [3000 km] depending on its payload and other factors. The DF 21-D ballistic missile warhead may travel along at a hypersonic speed of 15,000 MPH.

The US Navy is unrivaled in its ECM [Electronic Counter Measures] capabilities, but this is the first real threat in some time.

If its targeting system proves accurate, the Dong Feng 21-D [DF-21D] is the first weapons system capable of targeting and destroying a moving aircraft carrier with a single strike warhead from long-range, land-based mobile launchers.

The Dong Feng 21-D is a deterrent to Supercarriers from any intervention in the Taiwan Strait.  

And the USA can no longer assume naval supremacy as it has since the end of World War II.

The American way of life is a little less safe today.