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DARPA is asking universities for access to their tunnels ASAP, and it's because the US military thinks its next war will go underground

Aug 31, 2019, 18:44 IST

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency asked universities and colleges for underground tunnels to use for research.

While the Trump administration is increasingly looking to the skies and pressing for a Space Force, DARPA is focusing on operations underground.

The request comes out ahead of DARPA's Subterranean Challenge.

The urban circuit of the SubT challenge will take place in February 2020, hence the request for urban underground space.

The military has become more aware that it needs to develop technology and strategy to fight in an underground, urban setting.

The military has encountered underground facilities before — some Vietnam War-era special units explored tunnels dug by the Viet Cong.

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