The phrase "offensive technologies" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to refer to technologies that are used to combat or attack an enemy, such as in warfare or cyber security. For example: "The military is investing heavily in offensive technologies to keep its troops safe."
As a consequence, the materials used for arrowheads tended to be a step behind those used for other offensive technologies.
Not all defense work is about building offensive technologies.
The wider challenge for the field is that all artificial intelligence research is equally applicable to offensive technologies as it is to improving the human condition.
We are in the midst of one of those historic shifts when offensive technologies are cheaper and more powerful than defensive ones.
Development of the offensive technology of war was not as constrained by technological and economic limitations as was defensive weaponry.
Every breakthrough in offensive technology eventually inspires a matching advance in defence.
The organization describes itself as providing "effective, easy-to-use offensive technology to the worldwide law enforcement and intelligence communities".
Such offensive technology is patently obvious, and researchers are free to decide whether they want to participate or not participate in such endeavors.
Offensive weapons technology has spread far beyond the old nuclear club, and there has been steady progress in learning how to shoot down missiles from land, sea and space.
Perhaps the answer is not in regulation but in scaling back offensive cybersecurity technology, similar to what we have done with nuclear weapons in the past.
In an continuing race of offensive and defensive technologies, dissident groups abroad were flooding the country with e-mailed newsletters, but these have been largely suppressed.
