The Battlefield Is Full of Invisible Signals—This Device Finds Them
Modern battlefields are increasingly crowded with radio-frequency signals. Drones, aircraft, ships, communications equipment and electronic warfare systems all transmit across the electromagnetic spectrum, creating...
Israeli Drone Company Heads to Wall Street at a $1.5 Billion...
As militaries and security organizations deploy growing numbers of drones, robots, and autonomous systems, a new challenge is emerging: each platform comes with its...
The Battlefield’s Newest Weapon Doesn’t Fire a Shot—It Makes Decisions
Modern military operations depend heavily on the electromagnetic spectrum. Radar systems, communications networks, GPS signals and electronic warfare equipment all compete for access to...
The Next Defense Against GPS Jamming Could Be Quantum-Based
Modern military operations depend heavily on satellite navigation, secure communications and precise timing. That dependence creates vulnerabilities: GPS and other satellite signals can be...
This Surveillance Drone Can Take Orders Directly From a Crewed Aircraft
Maritime surveillance requires military forces to monitor enormous areas while identifying ships, submarines and other potential threats as quickly as possible. Crewed patrol aircraft...
This Technology Gives Autonomous Drones Better Eyes in the Sky
Flying autonomously through complex environments requires more than knowing where a drone is. The aircraft must continuously understand what surrounds it, distinguish open routes...
This Drone Can Patrol Hundreds of Kilometers of Critical Infrastructure
Inspecting pipelines, power lines and transportation corridors presents a difficult logistical problem. These assets can stretch for hundreds of kilometers through remote terrain, making...
This Quantum-Inspired Tech Tests Thousands of Drone Designs at Once
Designing an efficient drone propeller involves far more than choosing the right diameter or number of blades. Small changes in blade geometry can affect...
This Solar-Powered Drone Could Watch the Battlefield for Weeks
Persistent surveillance is one of the biggest challenges in modern military operations. Conventional drones are limited by battery capacity or fuel, requiring frequent landings...
Four Times More Processing Power—Without a Bigger Drone
Small military drones are taking on increasingly complex missions, from reconnaissance and target tracking to autonomous navigation and coordinated swarm operations. Yet many of...
A Missile No Heavier Than a Laptop Takes Aim at Drone...
The rapid spread of military drones has created a growing problem for air-defense forces. Many attack drones are inexpensive to produce, yet they are...
What If Cell Towers Could Secretly Hunt Drones?
Countering small drones has become increasingly difficult as unmanned aircraft grow smaller, cheaper, and more numerous. Traditional radar systems can detect many aerial threats,...
New AI Tracker Locks Onto Drones in Under a Second
The growing use of small drones on the battlefield is creating new challenges for military forces. Detecting an incoming unmanned aircraft is only the...
Autonomous Robot Boat Combines Surface and Aerial Surveillance
Maritime surveillance often requires both surface vessels and aerial drones to maintain awareness over large areas. While drones provide a much wider field of...
This Drone Doesn’t Carry Weapons—It Hunts Electronic Threats
Modern battlefields are saturated with electronic activity. Radars, jammers, drone control stations, communications systems, and other emitters constantly transmit radio-frequency signals that can reveal...
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Every new generation of wireless technology places greater demands on the chips inside smartphones, base stations and connected vehicles. As 5G evolves toward 6G,...
These “Smart Surfaces” Could Make 6G Faster—and Harder to Hack
As wireless devices continue to multiply, the radio spectrum is becoming increasingly crowded. Smartphones, connected vehicles, industrial sensors, wearables and countless other devices all...
A New Antenna Design Helps Satellites Fight Back Against Jamming
As military and commercial operations become increasingly dependent on satellite communications, protecting those links from interference has become a growing challenge. Modern electronic warfare...
Meet the Supersonic Drone Hunter Built for Modern Battlefields
The rapid growth of military drone operations is exposing a major weakness in traditional air defense. While medium-sized unmanned aircraft used for reconnaissance and...
Scaling Up Drone Production to Reduce Dependence on China
Commercial drones have become a standard operational tool for military and law enforcement forces in recent years, but their widespread use raises a strategic...
One Flight, More Than 50 Drones: A New Counter-Drone Weapon Emerges
Defending against drone swarms has become one of the biggest challenges facing modern militaries. Traditional counter-drone weapons often destroy one target at a time,...
New Counter-Drone Weapon Uses Edge AI Instead of Jamming
Small drones are becoming faster, more autonomous, and increasingly resistant to traditional countermeasures. Many counter-drone systems rely on electronic jamming or cyber techniques, but...
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