Security guards and guns are a bad mix!
Yesterday’s murder of a Jerusalem lawyer and his daughter proves that guns in the hands of security guards spell danger rather than security.
A disgruntled...
Weaponized Drones Could Be Authorized for Police Use
Weaponized drones represent a future for policing — and could be a necessary option in moments when lives are at stake, as some lawmakers...
Gas Masks: Toward the End of the Line?
By Meir Elran and David Friedman
The emerging proposition in the Israeli defense establishment, reported recently in the media, to shut down the gas masks...
Terrorists could make dirty bombs containing Ebola
Will the Ebola virus become a "dirty bomb" of terrorists? Some experts fear that the answer is positive.
One of them is a Cambridge University...
Drone Payload Market Expected to Grow
UAVs carry onboard a variety of critical electronic systems. Types of payloads include EO/IR, Cameras, Synthetic aperture radar (SAR), Sigint, Elint, Comint, MPR, Laser...
German Ammunition Exports To Arab Region Increases
Although the overall German small weapons trade has decreased steadily falling by 42 per cent than previous year, Defense World reports that the small...
How Would The Future Battlefield Look Like?
The future battlefield is at the center of a new US Army study about the warfare over the next few decades. Soldiers can expect...
US Follows Islamic Terrorists’ Use of Explosive UAVs
Warfare against IEDs (improvised explosive devices) has been on the US Defense Administration agenda for a long time. Lessons have been learned also from...
Israeli Missile Defense System – A Model of National Defense
By Arie Egozi
The Israeli multi-layered system for missile and rocket defense is built as right as can be and is used as a model...
DHS To Test Bioterror Airflow in New York Subway
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will conduct a week-long airflow study, starting today, in portions of the New...
Hassan Rouhani and the Spiritual Leader: A New Style of Negotiations
By Ephraim Kam
Within just a few short weeks, using a sophisticated, complex, low cost move (the cost included having eggs and shoes thrown at...
US Navy’s Railgun Could Find Home On Stealth Warship
The US Navy’s experimental railgun - an electromagnetic projectile launcher - has been grabbing headlines and making waves ever since it was revealed that...
German Ammunition Missing After Flight To Mali
The German military has announced that a crate of containing hundreds of pieces of ammunition went missing during an Air France flight taken by...
Another chemical weapons attack reported in Syria
While the U.N. is "making preparations" to investigate the use of chemical weapons in Syria, there are signs of another attack. "The U.N. is...
An Iranian Developed Torpedo Armed Submersible Watercraft Worries Israel
By ARIE EGOZI
Israel is closely following the Iranian effort to develop a line of unmanned systems for sea applications.
Iran has unveiled a torpedo-armed watercraft...
U.S. to Destroy Syrian Chemicals at Sea
After failing to find a country willing to allow its territory to be used for disposing of Syria’s chemical weapons, the United States is...
Uniform of The Future – Breathable and Protective
In work that aims to protect soldiers from biological and chemical threats, a group of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists has created a material...
TEXTILE INNOVATIONS
Textiles are not considered by many as directly related to what is defined as military equipment. But textiles are far more then military uniforms....
iHLS TV – Insect Spies, Google Trouble and Robotic Cars
Issues and articles discussed in this episode:
U.S. researchers develop controllable insect spies
New Google software vulnerability revealed
New Israeli sniper rifle
Israeli robotic system turns vehicles unmanned
Ohio to develop state-wide standards for police use of deadly force
Ohio governor John Kasich has created a 12-member group of community and law enforcement leaders to help draft statewide standards on how police departments...
Smart Guns – for Use Only by Remote Authorization
During recent years, mass shooting incidents have become a possible threat in the US. New technologies offer innovative solutions to the illegal use of...
Military Sniping Record Broken by Special Forces
Canada has a reputation among Western military forces for the skill of its snipers, despite the small size of the Canadian Armed Forces compared...
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