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...
Drone Restrictions Could Be Lifted
Commercial drones could soon really take off, according to files “obtained from a government-sponsored committee,” the Daily Mail reports.
Currently, the US Federal Aviation Administration...
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...
A serious and shameful failure
By Arie Egozi
The indictment against a computer expert of the Islamic Jihad suggests a serious failure and complacency of the IDF and national bodies...
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...
New Technology Allows Tracking Drones On A 3D Map
The boom in the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry has brought with it a slew of problems. Safety concerns are prime among them. One...
WATCH: Anti-Drone Net Launcher
As drones have become cheaper and more popular, so have the risks associated with them grown proportionally. Last year, in a second incident of...
Cyprus Exploring Post By Drones
Cyprus could find itself on the forefront of technological progress if plans materialise to bring postal deliveries by drone to the Mediterranean nation. Post-by-drone...
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...
The Bottleneck in Big Data Use for Homeland Security
By Meidata
Big data has been at the forefront of intelligence, police, and even border control for a while. It is changing the way organizations...
The Fight For Mandating UAV Training
The US Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) think all unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) owners should be required to pass an online training course to...
Transportation of Tomorrow: Biometric Airports
Air travel now is so ridiculously cheap, the biggest obstacle to speedy travel is the congestion at checkpoints at airports. As more and more...
IAI Joins Effort to Supply Protection Against UAV’s
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has joined the wide effort to bring to the market an effective system that can detect and foil attacks by...
Israeli Technology Keeps Airports Safe From FOD
The Israeli developed RunWize system has been installed on the rebuilt runway of the Sea-Tac airport in Seattle.
The RunWize developed by X-sight includes FODetect,...
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....
Humans Still Most Important Factor In UAV Incidents
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) is using special training to improve the way Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) crews operate the system.
Crew Resource management...
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A New Quantum Breakthrough Could Change Signal Detection on the Battlefield
Modern military and civilian communications environments are becoming increasingly crowded. Drones, radios, sensors, satellites, electronic warfare systems, and wireless networks all compete for space...
