It’s Official: Mustard Gas Has Been Used in Syria
Sulfur mustard has supposedly been disposed of in Syria over a year ago, when President Bashar al-Assad’s regime agreed to clear out its chemical...
New Microwave Absorber For Stealth Radar Cloaking
Microwave absorbers are a kind of material that can effectively absorb incident microwave energy to make objects invisible to radar; therefore they are commonly...
Keeping The Soldiers Safe: SAR Now Being Tested In Israel
As part of an ongoing effort of protecting soldiers from radiation caused by equipment and tools used by the military, the Israeli Medical Corps...
One Missile, Many Missions – The Revolution
ARIE EGOZI
This is a revolution: The importance shifts from the platforms to the systems they carry.
Rafael the Israeli company, that developed some of the...
Programming With The Enemy
In a cost-saving move, Pentagon contractors subcontracted their work to the Russians, a four-year probe concludes.
The probe was started in 2011 after John C...
The Physical Security Market Is Ascending To The Cloud
When the whole world is using the cloud, it comes as little surprise that even the most secured sectors will end up using it...
Cyber Attacks Can Now Kill
80s films where computers could kill will soon become a reality, judging by a new Pentagon project.
Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin are but...
Cold War Foes Sinking Deeper into Syrian Quagmire
Konstantin Bodragin
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter has presented President Obama with a plan to put boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq. According...
Terror In Turkey Awakens Local Defense Industry
Turkey has been in an uproar since last July, with violent outbreaks, protests and clashes between the Kurdish minority and police forces. This wave...
North Korea Is Jamming China’s Phone Signals
North Korea has stepped up its restrictions on cellphone reception along its border with China. Signals from Chinese cellphone towers increasingly are unable to...
TSA Lets Weapons Slip Through Screening 95% Of Cases
Since its creation almost 14 years ago, in the wake of the September 11 attacks, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has had one goal...
A Quadcopter System To Catch Drones Mid-Air
Landing fixed-wing UAVs is a problem, a big problem. The added weight from proper landing gear greatly reduces a drone’s range and operational capability,...
An Intelligence Operational Failure Foretold
Arie Egozi
The investigation of the Russian plane crash continues but all signs points to ISIS. Egypt is trying to reject the obvious conclusion and...
Poland Wants Elbit Systems’ Realistic Combat Training System
Elbit Systems has been chosen to deliver live combat training system and equipment to the Special Operations Forces (SOF) of Poland. The Combat Training...
IAI Unveils “TERRA” Radar System
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveils "Terra"- a dual-band radar system, for optimization of early-warning, detection and accurate tracking of very long range targets such...
Autonomous Buses Are Finally (Almost) Here
Autonomous cars and trucks, we are told, are just around the corner. Now, autonomous buses are, as well.
In a world-first, the Swiss city of...
How To Help A Battlefield Commander Handle The Flood Of Information
Olga Grosman-Ezrahi
The IDF is adjusting its land forces to cope with a "flood" of information from various sources, to turn what might be confusing...
RF Mapping Offers Intelligence, Communications Capabilities
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the third phase of its RF Mapping program, RadioMap,...
Egozi’s Fury – The Plane In Sinai And A Danger To...
Suspicions are increasing that a bomb was indeed placed inside the Russian passenger plane taking off from Sharm el-Sheikh, causing it to explode. This...
First “East of Suez” UK Naval Base In 40 Years Begins...
by Konstantin Bodragin
UK foreign secretary Philip Hammond and his Bahraini counterpart Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa held a groundbreaking ceremony last weekend,...
USA Fears The Enemy Within
The House Homeland Security Committee has released its Terror Threat Snapshot for November, and it paints an increasingly alarming picture.
The November snapshot focuses on homegrown...
Microsoft Admits: Windows 10 Spying Cannot Be Stopped
Windows 10 constantly calls home - a lot. Back in August, Ars Technica reported on a list of features in Microsoft Windows 10 that...
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A New Airborne Detection System Could Expand Underwater Tracking Capabilities
Detecting objects beneath the ocean surface remains one of the most difficult challenges in maritime sensing. Water limits the effectiveness of many conventional detection...
