Defense

Modern infantry units are carrying more equipment than ever before. Alongside weapons and ammunition, soldiers now operate radios, batteries, sensors, protective gear, and targeting...

As wireless systems push toward higher frequencies and wider bandwidths, one technical bottleneck keeps resurfacing: the hardware itself. Radio-frequency (RF) switches are essential for...

Preparations are finished for the opening of the International Aviation and Space salon in La Bourget , near Paris. This is an undisputed summit...

Small tactical drones have become essential tools on the modern battlefield, but they often come with trade-offs. Many systems are either too expensive to...

Following the proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) in the military realm, the American Navy is hoping it can employ its own unmanned vehicles...

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions revealed a rendering of its anticipated and highly advanced drone “Thanatos”. Many countries are turning to more drone-based warfare, with...

Stratolaunch, a California-based aerospace company, has secured a significant $24.7 million contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to support the testing of...

After a concluding series of experiments for the advanced interception system David’s Sling, which was completed successfully last December, the Administration for the Development...

Despite military advances in the field of armor improvements, DARPA's newest tank concept is based more around evasion. The Ground X-Vehicle Technology (GXV-T) program is...

A new series of phishing attacks has been attributed to the hacker group UAC-0185, with the latest targets being Ukrainian defense companies and security...

In the U.S. and around the world, it has become clear that today's global security environment demands agile, close-range solutions that protect warfighters and...

An Israeli collaboration will develop unique technologies for investigating and handling cyber events. Mellanox will join the Israeli Cyber Companies Consortium (IC3), the consortium...

Monitoring vast maritime areas has become one of the harder problems for modern air forces. Surface vessels can blend into sea clutter, operate far...

One of the biggest obstacles to deploying very small autonomous robots is navigation. As machines shrink, the hardware required to determine position and direction...

Modern artillery systems are increasingly expected to operate in heavily contested electronic environments where satellite navigation signals may be disrupted or denied entirely. At...

The more drones enter our lives, the louder the calls for anti-drone technology. At the recent US Navy League Sea Air Space Exposition two...

Low-cost drones and coordinated swarms are rapidly eroding the effectiveness of traditional air-defense methods. Missiles are expensive, guns have limited coverage, and both can...

Robots intended for complex natural environments face a familiar problem: rigid bodies and fixed-color surfaces make them easy to detect and limit their ability...

A new scalable counter-unmanned air vehicle (C-UAV) system has been unveiled by Finmeccanica’s systems and sensors house Selex ES at DSEI 2015. Known as Falcon...

Armies worldwide are beginning to use more and more AI-based modules, which raises the risk of adversaries poisoning those modules and sabotaging the algorithms,...

Artificial intelligence continues to dominate global venture capital flows, but its rise is not occurring in isolation. According to recent Crunchbase data, funding growth...

Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence has unveiled new details about Russia’s V2U unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a combat UAV powered by artificial intelligence. The drone, which...