Weapons

The US Army Research Lab has been increasingly focusing on fighting land wars against far more technologically sophisticated adversaries than it has in the...

The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO), U.S. Coast Guard in New York, law enforcement and rescue officials of all kinds, performed an exercise in which...

 A reshaping plan of the EU defense industries may create additional problems for the Israeli defense industries, according to the Israeli Defense Ministry officials. AFP...

The threat of bioterrorism is a major concern of the 21st century. As part of its counterterrorism practice, the U.S. government uses air and...

The U.S. confirmed today what Israeli sources have already reported: Syria is hiding parts of its chemical weapon caches. IHLS has published an article a...

The benefits of 3D printing technology are known, but less frequently discussed are the dangers. The open and accessible nature of the technology means...

Stop the Bleed is a national awareness campaign and a call to action. Initiated by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Stop the...

The U.S Army has begun distributing its new pistol, the Sig Sauer XM17 Modular Handgun System (MHS) to selected units, the first of them...

US sources have just leaked information that they are upgrading and testing the largest bunker-buster bomb in the US arsenal, powerful enough, according to...

Unmanned vehicles can be a life-saving solution for operations in areas attacked by unconventional weapons.  The Indian Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has...

The U.K. is testing a new simulator while investigating techniques to improve the accuracy of its sailors using machine guns on naval and auxiliary...

Poland is helping Mali to fight the Islamic rebels in its Northern region. Poland’s Ministry of Defense has supplied arms to the Malian Army, the...

Israeli companies continue to develop special weapon systems for urban warfare and anti terror operation in densely populated areas. The aim is to minimize the...

The United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has put out a request for information for a wearable SIGINT collection device as a way to...

Anti-aircraft missiles participate in a military exercise in the Baltics for the first time. The United States deployed a battery of Patriot long-range anti-aircraft...

The Syrian civil war has brought chemical weapons back to the center stage in terms of international arsenals and defense methods. The U.S. military...

By Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Dany Shoham June 30, 2014 was set to be the deadline for the complete elimination of Syria’s chemical weapon (CW)...

iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (28 October 2014): Ebola possibly weaponized Safe City projects US next generation bunker-buster bombs New Hovermast unveiled Euclid antenna pedestals

Soldiers operating at the future battlefield will have to be more agile and at the same time carry advanced equipment that might interfere with...

Iceland issued a red alert to civil aviation following signs of eruption at Vattnejökull. The airspace around the volcano was sealed off, but Iceland's...

By Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Dany Shoham In practical terms, if Syria were to fully be disarmed according to the Chemical Weapons Convention, this would...

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in the U.S. have been working for nearly a decade on methods to...