Wearable Device to Lighten Soldier Load
A new wearable device hopes to deliver supplies to US Marines and soldiers on demand, instead of leaving members of the armed forces to...
Advanced Tactical Loitering Munition Exposed
A remotely operated electro-optical, precise guided Loitering Munition(LM) designed to seek, locate and engage various targets for the tactical level corps will be exposed...
New Head Protection System Under Development
Military services tend to allocate resources for the constant improvement of soldiers’ personal security. Recently, US Airborne Soldiers played a vital part in the...
iHLS TV – Going global, Amazon’s drone store, new grenade launcher,...
In this weekly report (30 September 2014):
iHLS TV is going global to over 40 million viewers through the Shalom Show
Amazon to launch drone store
New...
Chemical Identification, Now a Basic Capability
FLIR Systems has recently announced the Griffin G510 Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (GC/MS). The device is essentially a first person-portable chemical identifier. The FLIR Griffin...
New Development in Armored Vehicle Manufacture in Europe
The armored vehicle Piranha 5 will be manufactured by the Romanian Ministry of Economy and General Dynamics in Bucharest.
Piranha 5 is a highly mobile...
Modular Assault Rifle to Be Adjusted for Various Missions
The German armed forces are replacing their assault rifles. Two companies, Rheinmetall and Steyr Mannlicher, have joined forces to manufacture and market the RS556...
Video Encoders Reach Battlefield
The growing demand for real-time imagery in the most demanding environments increases the deployment of more situational awareness systems in various types of military...
Leading Experts to Present at iHLS Future Forces Conference
The Future Forces Conference and Exhibition, organized by iHLS for already the fourth year, will present the trends and the most advanced solutions to...
Watch: The Modular UGV Of The Future
The missions the modern military is faced with are variegated and diverse. They require soldiers to possess a wide set of capabilities, tools, and...
HoverLite: New Intelligence gathering solution
Stark Aerospace, a U.S subsidiary of IAI, has unveiled the HoverLite tactical tethered hovering aerial ISR system. This is a new hovering intelligence gathering...
The New Battlefield
John Bassett, an experienced security consultant, believes combat robots are rapidly becoming “a reality” of modern day warfare.
This claim comes after, according to...
New lightweight Armor
Stark Aerospace has recently unveiled ProtectLite Armor, a cost effective lightweight, highly resilient, survivability solution at the 2014 AUSA Annual Meeting & Exposition, being...
The new division at Rafael will strengthen homeland defense development
The Land Division will focus on land systems development, including weapon systems, armored combat vehicle defenses, shoulder-launched systems and naval combat systems. The division...
Improving Personal Safety – On The Battlefield
One of the major research and development topics in the body armor market industry around the world today is the survivability component.
Body armor is...
Light and Affordable Technologies Sought for Special Operations
US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) science and technology is looking for equipment that weighs less, is more flexible and comes at an affordable price....
Growing interest in the (IMI) Hornet mobile mortar system
There is a growing interest in the "new generation" of mortars developed by Israel military industries (IMI).
Mortars have been part of land combat for...
The Pentagon’s New Offset Strategy Includes Robots
A few days prior to his resignation, Defense Secretary Hagel shed some light on the DoD's technological vision for the near and distant future.
In...
What happens below ground when a missile hits?
The havoc above ground is obvious, but the details of what happens below ground are harder to see. Physicists have developed techniques that enable...
New Material in The Armor Scene
Composite metal foams (CMFs) could drastically improve the strength of armor as well as increase shielding from radiation, heat and high-speed kinetic impacts. CMFs,...
Trucks from the Sky
Polaris Pitches DAGOR for ULCV
Truck makers have just submitted data to the US Army concerning potential candidates for the Ultra-Light Combat Vehicle. An army...
State of The Art Targeting Tech to Enhance Soldiers Capabilities
The US Army recently demonstrated a breakthrough in soldier weapons targeting. The development features a tiny, weapon-mounted thermal sight designed to communicate wirelessly with...
Latest
Drones Could Soon Navigate Collapsed Buildings Without Slowing Down
Flying autonomous drones through unpredictable environments remains one of the biggest technical challenges in robotics. In confined spaces such as collapsed buildings, industrial sites,...
