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...
US Air Force Contract Raises Questions And Protests
Northrop Grumman has won the contract to build the US Air Force’s next-generation Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B). Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Air...
Spying Fuels Chinese Jets’ Development
Long gone are the days when China was so far lagging behind the West in technological development that it was barely even in the...
US Worried Over Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables
Every time you use the internet - watching videos, sending e-mails, browsing the web - data is being sent and received through an intricate...
Boeing Develops EMP Weapon
You may have thought that Boeing is all about airplanes, but the company has a less known department called Boeing Phantom Works. This department...
US Defence Firm’s Secretive Agreement With Iran
Details emerged this week of a secretive deal between GTT Communications Inc, a firm closely associated with the American intelligence community, and the Government...
The Future Of Anti-Submarine Warfare
Uk based Blue Bear Systems Research (BBSR) company is promoting its autonomous sonobuoy deployment (ASD) capability that enhances anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations.
The company sees...
A Drone That Ignites Fires To Prevent Wildfires
A new drone under development at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln could change the way wildfires are fought – and encourage the use of prescribed...
New Material to Protect from Electronic Surveillance
Conductive Composites, a small Utah company, has developed an extremely thin, flexible material, to shield from electronic emissions and electromagnetic pulses.
Beyond traditional network-penetration, novel...
South Korea Remains Under US Protection Against North
North Korea is an "up-close, dangerous and continuing threat,” said U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter at a news conference with his South Korean counterpart,...
Is Russia Already Fighting In Space?
The world’s major powers follow an unwritten rule when it comes to space exploration: no weapons in orbit. But lately the three leading space...
IS Oilfields Remain Operative Despite US, Russian Airstrikes
Oil sales — the extremists’ largest single source of continual income — are a key reason the Islamic State has been able to maintain...
The U.S Adapts The Israeli Layered Missile Defense System
The US has conducted a $230 million worth test of a layered missile defense system, which has the ability of Aegis and THAAD weapons...
Beneath The Surface: Internal Fingerprint Sensors
The Optical Society (OPA) reports that scientists from The Langevin Institute, Paris, France, have constructed a new fingerprint imaging system that peers inside the...
What More Could Unmanned Systems Do: Underwater Mine-detection
Singapore’s Microfine Materials Technologies has won a defense prize for collaborating with DSO National Laboratories to design and build an unmanned underwater vessel that...
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The Next Big Artillery Upgrade Could Be Putting the Gun on...
Towed artillery remains an important source of battlefield firepower, but modern counter-battery sensors and drones have made staying in one firing position increasingly dangerous....
