The benefits of using helium in children’s party balloons have long been recognised. The fact that it is much lighter than air and, unlike hydrogen, not flammable makes it ideal for the task. But what is almost certainly less well …
New innovative concepts for sonar can arise from studying how nature has solved numerous problems helped by millions of years of evolution. Here’s a question….what is the loudest animal on earth size for size? A blue whale (favourite answer of …
Cyber warfare has become the latest addition to the arsenal of countermeasures that the military operator must now consider alongside other force multipliers such as Electronic Warfare (EW). For hundreds of years we formed armies; when we learned how to …
The National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), published at the end of 2015, recognised that the UK is a global leader in science, technology, medicine, energy, and the creative industries. Many new ideas and funding …
Working with leading physicists in the UK, AWE scientist Colin Danson has been instrumental in the design, construction and operation of large‐scale laser facilities for over 30 years. He helped to pioneer the development of ultra‐high intensity lasers establishing world‐leading …
At the end of 2014, Dstl established an official presence on GitHub and released the source code for a web application called Ideaworks. This first project was a ‘pipe-cleaner’ - a way to see if it was even possible to release code using …
Despite the cold, I was excited. It was the first day we got to explosively test the prototypes that British industry had been developing, for what would soon become the Foxhound vehicle. The weather in the Northumbrian hills was below zero and …
Since 2009, I have been deployed three times to Afghanistan as a Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Operational Analyst in support of Operation HERRICK. Each deployment has been to a different headquarters – Kandahar Airfield, Main Operating Base Lashkar Gah and …
At the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory I am responsible for preparing a team of deployable analysts to meet future contingency needs following the drawdown of Operation HERRICK in Afghanistan. In my capacity as an analyst, I recently attended the 82nd Military Operational …