Infantry Systems

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...

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...

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...

The German armed forces are replacing their assault rifles. Two companies, Rheinmetall and Steyr Mannlicher, have joined forces to manufacture and market the RS556...

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...

The Future Forces Conference and Exhibition, organized by iHLS for already the fourth year,  will present the trends and the most advanced solutions to...

The missions the modern military is faced with are variegated and diverse. They require soldiers to possess a wide set of capabilities, tools, and...

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...

John Bassett, an experienced security consultant, believes combat robots are rapidly becoming “a reality” of modern day warfare. This claim comes after, according to...

Meet the the world’s first inherently armed tactical combat robot. World’s first? Well, it must be an Israeli invention. General Robotics Ltd., an Israeli high-tech...

  Exoskeletons, wearable external skeletons, are efficient solutions for tasks requiring movement or lifting objects with increased strength and endurance in the military and industrial...

Illustration A US defense contractor has provided the US Navy with two Fortis exoskeletons. The National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) has ordered a pair of...

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...

US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) science and technology is looking for equipment that weighs less, is more flexible and comes at an affordable price....

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...

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...

The havoc above ground is obvious, but the details of what happens below ground are harder to see. Physicists have developed techniques that enable...

  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,...

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...

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...

Two specialist UAVs designed specifically for counter-terror operations were showcased by the French company CM Drones at a recent international exhibition. The company promoted...

The U.S. Army launches several competitions to define its future robot unmanned ground systems fleet, in a move that may transform the ground robotics...