Combat

You could describe it as live Tekken, but to appreciate this new cyborg gladiator sport, you need to see it in action. Here's your chance – this two minute video will give you a good idea of what UWM combat will feel like to watch ... and Loz Blain is ready to enter the first tournament in 2016.

Two expert martial artists, clad head to toe in high-tech articulated armor, going at each other full force with ancient and modern weapons, fighting to the virtual death. That's the concept behind UWM – the first bloodless bloodsport that can give its fighters an accurate, real time health bar.

BAE Systems is in the process of developing and testing a next-generation radar system for the Eurofighter Typhoon. The Captor E-Scan boasts a number of improvements over more traditional radar systems, including a wider field of regard, and the provision of advanced electronic warfare protection.

Sandia National Laboratories’ Rapid Adaptive Zoom for Assault Rifles (RAZAR) riflescope is capable of switching between high and low zoom magnifications at the touch of a button, allowing soldiers to concentrate on the battle rather than their scopes.

Sikorsky takes the wraps off the first of its two S-97 Raider helicopter prototypes. According to Sikorsky, this event marks the beginning of the armed reconnaissance ‘copter’s flight tests aimed at providing the US Army with its next generation of combat rotorcraft.

Last month, the US Navy cleared the Boeing Phantom Badger combat support vehicle for transport inside a V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.

The US Army’s Future Holistic Training Environment Live Synthetic program is a new approach to combat training that integrates various simulations into a single, remotely accessible system.

Uncontrolled hemorrhage (bleeding out) is responsible for 80 percent of combat deaths – people die because we can't plug a simple hole. Now RevMedX, a small Oregon startup, has developed an alternative approach to treat such potentially survivable injuries.

The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) and BAE Systems this week announced details of last year's first test flight of the Taranis unmanned combat demonstrator aircraft, which BAE bills as the "most advanced aircraft ever built by British engineers."

The US Navy's top SEAL, four-star Admiral William McRaven, is pushing hard for a modern suit of armor called the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS). Though not exactly an Iron Man suit, it's that ballpark.

A new smartphone-based system is able to determine the location of snipers.

TrackingPoint precision guided rifles make sniper-level accuracy available to the average shooter.