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...
Germany Tightens The Reins On Spy Service
The US National Security Agency (NSA) overstepped an intelligence-sharing agreement with Germany by requesting German technicians to snoop on allied governments‘ emails, a top-level...
Greece, Turkey Join NATO Cyber Defense Center
Finland, Greece and Turkey finalised their accession process to the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCD COE). The Greek Republic and the...
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...
More Problems For The Israeli Defense Industries In Asia
South Korea and Japan are aggressively targeting the Asian defense market, which had long been dominated by the US, the U.K., China and Russia.
Defense...
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...
China’s Counterspace Weapons
A report by the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission provides new details of China’s space-weapons programs, dubbed counterspace arms, that are aimed...
Australia Plans to Ditch Paper Passport
During a recent diplomacy-focused hackathon an all-digital passport was proposed. Currently, Australians have had access to ePassposrts since 2005. An ePassport functions as an...
IMI at Defense-and-Security 2015
IMI is displaying a number of advanced weapon systems at Defense & Security 2015, the Tri-Service Defense and Security Exhibition held in Bangkok, Thailand...
Swiss Researchers are Bringing Autonomy to UAVs
While current UAVs have no pilot on board, they still require a human operator. Weather and terrain conditions, as well as technical difficulties, can...
Boiling Tension in the South China Sea
Tensions are rising in the South China Sea. A large swath of maritime area, commonly known as the nine-dashed line, has been informally claimed...
What Are The Russian Operating In Syria?
The Russian Aerospace Force operating against the Islamic State militants in Syria are using the latest Su-25SM3 single-seat ground attack aircraft fitted with Vitebsk-25...
Drone Carrying Drugs and Blades Crash In US Prison
Officials in Oklahoma claim to have thwarted the first attempt in the state to smuggle contraband into a prison with an unmanned aerial vehicle.
A...
Turkey’s Police Turns To Local Market For UAVs
The Turkish police ordered six drones and four ground control stations, with deliveries scheduled for 2016, procurement sources said.
The tactical unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)...
Indian Security agencies Consider Buying Israel’s Aerial Surveillance Systems
Indian security agencies, National Security Guard and the Border Security Force as well as the Karnataka police, have considered buying balloon-based aerial surveillance systems...
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This AI-Powered Sensor Hunts Radar Signals Designed to Stay Hidden
Modern electronic warfare increasingly revolves around one challenge: finding signals that are designed not to be found. Advanced radar systems now use low-probability-of-intercept waveforms,...
