Without Getting in Line of Fire
Airmen with the US 96th Security Forces Squadron are now in possession of Throwbots, wheeled micro-robots that can roll into unsafe areas and transmit...
Robot mannequin technology to test army suits against chemical warfare
A robot mannequin with the power to walk, march and mimic the movements of a soldier has been unveiled by the British Ministry of...
Wearable Technology for Monitoring Warfighters Health
Getting a clear picture of military force readiness requires, among others, updated information about the health of warfighters. The military health system currently struggles...
Disposable Supply Drones Will Reach Danger Zone
A promising supply drone is under development. Essentially an unmanned cargo container, the drone is one of a number of related projects the Marine...
ISIS: Main developments in Iraq
Low-intensity fighting continued this week at the various battle sites, with no significant developments. ISIS’s efforts to establish its military and administrative control over...
A 360° Shield in the Sky: New System Targets Drones, Jets,...
Air defense systems are facing a growing challenge as threats become more diverse and complex. Modern forces must deal simultaneously with drones, cruise missiles,...
Prayer Apps Hacked, News Sites Hijacked: Cyber Warfare in the Iranian...
Modern conflicts no longer unfold solely on physical battlefields. Alongside kinetic strikes, digital infrastructure has become both a target and a weapon. The opening...
Portable Secure RF Terminal Developed for Military
Wireless connectivity that civilians often take for granted, is not as simple to obtain in the military, where preventing the enemy from intercepting messages...
Reinventing Missile Defense for a Changing Threat Landscape
For more than two decades, homeland missile defense has relied on an interceptor architecture originally fielded in the early 2000s. That system was designed...
Documenting Football Game from 25km Distance: Elbit Unveils New Imaging System
Elbit Systems unveils the next generation of its Advanced Multi-Sensor Payload System (AMPS NG), a new long range airborne intelligence system.
Packed in the widely...
Egozi: Israel and Cyber War
By Arie Egozi
For Russia, Syria was a huge war laboratory. Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said that the experience gained by the Russian defense...
iHLS TV Weekly Report – January 6 2015
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In this weekly report (January 6 2015):
DARPA Taking Inspiration from Birds of Prey to Develop Agile UASs
An Israeli missile...
China Develops New High-Power Microwave Weapon
Chinese researchers have reportedly developed a cutting-edge high-power microwave (HPM) weapon capable of generating electromagnetic pulses equivalent to the energy released in a nuclear...
This Military Vehicle Just Got a Major Power Boost for Mountain...
Operating military vehicles in mountainous terrain presents a unique engineering challenge. As altitude increases, air becomes thinner, reducing the amount of oxygen available for...
Blink and It’s Airborne: The Ultra-Fast Tactical Drone
Modern combat environments are placing increasing pressure on response time. Small drone threats can appear with little warning, leaving operators with only seconds to...
Israeli made systems for u.s cost guard
Over the past five years, the U.S Coast Guard's budget for acquiring assets such as fixed-wing aircraft and various cutters has "fallen short of...
Learning from Bees to Navigate in GPS-Denied Environments
How do you navigate when your GPS system fails? A new, virtual reality system for GPS denied environments mimics nature, and could eventually provide...
An armed C-130? The French go for it
A French company is offering the country's air force to equip its Lockheed Martin C-130 transport aircraft with smart weapons.
Sagem has a proposal to...
A Smart Bandage Can Use Engineered Cells to Speed Up Healing
Chronic wounds remain one of the more difficult problems in regenerative medicine. In many cases, the body fails to maintain the immune and signaling...
Anti-Submarine Warfare Enhanced by Autonomous Tech
Autonomous vehicles will replace manned teams in the middle of the ocean. An autonomous team of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) equipped for Anti-Submarine Warfare...
Augmented Reality Headsets Being Tested for Armored Vehicle Crews
China is advancing the use of augmented reality (AR) in its ground forces, with new headsets designed to improve visibility and combat efficiency for...
New Robotic Platform to Serve as Testbed
Doctrine for armed uncrewed vehicles working alongside armed humans is still new across the world, and testbeds are a valuable way to explore what,...
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Synthetic Threats Bring New Complexity to Real Air Combat Training
Large-scale air combat exercises face a practical limitation: creating a realistic battlefield can require dozens of aircraft, support platforms and air-defense systems operating simultaneously....
