Geo-politics

U.S. military leaders plan to spend $2.45 billion next year on unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) procurement and research, with the RQ-4 Global Hawk, MQ-9...

The use of false passports by two passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which crashed a couple of days ago have highlighted the fact...

Israeli academia and industries invest in the development of UGVs, with the unmanned vehicles being ideal for security * Armies around the world, including...

Articles and issues discussed in this episode: A new Israeli ground-based security system for mega-events Israel's new gas reservoirs: Tempting targets for terror Chinese researchers develop smart...

When it comes to air defense, you have to be one step ahead of your opponent, quickly adapting to changing situtions At the beginning of...

An IDF drone crashed over the Gaza Strip during a routine patrol this morning, probably due to a technical malfunction. This isn't the first...

Two Los Angeles gang members are taking part in the Syria’s civil war, raising security worries on the West Coast ABC News reports that a...

Hezbollah has 200 Iranian drones, Recent Russian announcments saw the beginning of a national drone project and China wants more armed UAVs Hezbollah currently has...

Two future aerial defense threats Israel will have to deal with are combat UAVs and cruise missiles. Additional current and future threats are the...

World militaries are very familiar with ground and airborne radars. A relatively new type of radar is carried as a payload, installed under floating...

New in the Israeli Police helicopter wing: Soon the aircraft will also be used to fight fires. The Internal Security Ministry recently published a...

According to various cyber security experts Israel is about to face two organized, large scale cyber attacks in the following weeks, on March 10...

Israeli skies are under constant threat of rockets, missiles and mortar fire, launched by terrorist organizations and aimed at cities and towns Israel has developed...

A non-disclosure agreement that police departments around the country have been signing for years with the maker of a cell-phone spy tool explicitly prohibits...

Printing parts for a weapon is one thing – and there’s ample proof-of-concept about to show that 3D printers will only get better at...

Static surveillance balloons or blimps are considered almost standard equipment for monitoring borders, facilities, areas and army bases. Similar to unmanned aerial vehicles, modern...

Russian troops in Tajikistan have received surveillance drones designed for “terrain reconnaissance and detection of radioactivity,” the Russian military has announced. “The UAVs have...

Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring affordable Internet access to the 5 billion people in the...

A new advanced security system is being evaluated by the Israeli Diamond Exchange, identifying guests using facial recognition and body language analysis. The initial...

Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) aerostats have surpassed more than one million flight hours of ISR work in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to an...

By Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Dany Shoham Efforts to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons capability are running months behind schedule because the Syrian president is playing...

U.S Government IT leaders believe continuous monitoring and advanced analytics can help agencies better understand their networks and security. According to Information Week the new...