Priority to Major Weapon Systems Cyber Security
The US Pentagon plans to reprogram $100 million toward uncovering cyber flaws in major weapon systems, according to budget documents cited by defensenews.com.
Defense Department...
iHLS to Raise $20 Million for a Homeland Security Fund
iHLS is on the process of founding a unique fund which will make investments in start-ups at the security technology and homeland security sector....
GPS Anti-Jamming Comes To UAVs
As unmanned aerial systems (UAVs) grow in popularity, so do the worries about them. In response, several anti-drone systems have hit the market, including...
The US Military Wants To Print Everything
Having the right tool for the right job is about half the recipe for success. Unfortunately, having the right tool at the right time...
Drone Crashes Into Plane At Heathrow Airport
A police investigation is under way after a passenger plane approaching Heathrow Airport was hit by what is believed to have been a drone....
Police Drones Vulnerable to Hijacking
We’ve have written at length on these pages about the dismal state of security in most consumer-grade tech products. For many manufacturers, it seems,...
DARPA’s Plan To Counter Radar With AI
China and Russia are hard at work to develop ever more capable radar systems, but the Pentagon has a plan to counter them with...
DARPA Demonstrates Mid-Air Collision-Avoidance System
With the rise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), so rises the risk of mid-air UAV collisions, whether with other unmanned craft, or worse, with...
IMI Wins US Army Tender to Supply Decoy Flares
IMI systems increases the US Army’s backlog. The U.S. Army has awarded IMI Systems a 5.7 million dollar contract to deliver decoy flares for...
Al-Qaeda Brought Down Jet With Surface-to-Air Missile
Al-Qaeda has acquired sophisticated surface-to-air missiles, the Independent reports. The weapons was then used to shoot down down an Emirati fighter jet in Yemen.
A...
Concerns Over Egyptian Airport Security Raised By Experts
Six months ago, a bomb was smuggled onto a Russian Metrojet passenger plane, which exploded of the Sinai peninsula, killing all 224 onboard. This...
Boom – The Startup That Wants To Go Supersonic
Concorde is dead in the water, but the dream of supersonic passenger flight is most certainly not. Boom is relatively fresh startup that is...
Risk From Small Drones Overblown, Research Shows
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been pushing for strong regulations to be put in place to protect commercial and private aeroplanes from...
First Look At The Airlander 10 Airship
The world’s largest aircraft, the Airlander 10, prepares to take to the skies. The airship is 25 percent larger than a Boeing 747 and...
IATA Chief: Drones Pose Real Threat To Civilian Aviations
Members of the general public operating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are a “a real and growing threat” to civilian aircraft, warns Tony Tyler, director-general...
This System Finds An Airport And Lands Autonomously During Emergency
Diamond Aircraft, a German manufacturer of small single- and twin-engine planes, has developed a technology that has the potential to save many thousands of...
Humanoid Robots Will Soon Work For Airbus
Airbus Group has just launched a Joint Research Programme (JRP) in cooperation with the Joint Robotics Laboratory (JRL) - a collaborative effort between Japan’s...
The “inspiration” for 9/11
Osama bin Laden was “inspired” to concoct the 9/11 plot during a chance conversation about a plane crash into the Atlantic Ocean. While discussing...
Intel Acquires Ascending To Break Into Drone Game
Semiconductor giant Intel has recently announced that it has entered an agreement to acquire Ascending Technologies, A German unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) software manufacturer....
FOD Barriers in Israeli Air Force Bases
An Israeli innovative system helps the air force to minimize the foreign object damage (FOD) to its aircraft.
The Israeli air force (IAF) has achieved...
Watch: This Solution Could Protect Planes Against Bombs
The recent downing of Russian Metrojet plane in Egypt has once again brought to the forelight a major issue facing modern airliners: planes are...
Watch This Drone Fly Almost 50 km/h While Avoiding Obstacles
One of the main issues facing drones these days is obstacle avoidance. “Everyone is building drones these days, but nobody knows how to get...
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This Combat Robot Just Fired Anti-Tank Missiles During Live Trials
Integrating heavy weapons onto compact robotic ground vehicles has become a growing focus for modern militaries, but the engineering challenge is significant. Small unmanned...
