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| Russia to set up it's own agency modeled on DARPA |
| 2012-02-20 |
| Posted by:Water Modem |
| #2 Correct me iff I'm wrong, but wasn't Russia = then-Russian PM Putin supposed to had done this already a few years back??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-02-20 19:00 |
| #1 Nothing succeeds like success. DARPA and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) have led the way in an s-load of amazing technologies. The US has long had a technology oriented scientific community, unlike the Soviet Union that was far more oriented to basic science. The US realized this created a gap between basic science and technology, which was to be filled by first creating ONR in 1946, and DARPA in 1958. It worked splendidly. The Vietnam War then gave the impulse and opportunity to field test innumerable technologies, and the agencies kept a steady flow going to the battlefield, giving the US a huge boost in practical war tech. Both agencies have websites, but post-911 they are far less inclined to release information about ongoing projects, which truly cover the gamut of anything that might be of military use or interest. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2012-02-20 13:06 |