Weapons

Weapons

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has kicked off its Squad X Core Technologies program in a bid to try and improve...
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Russia has begun testing a ground-based electronic warfare system that is capable of protecting the troops and civilian facilities from an air and space...

The Turkish military is accelerating its drone development programme in response to increased incidence of ISIS mortar attacks across the border. Dozens of Turkish...
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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...
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Meet the Archer Artillery System: An international collaboration between Sweden and Norway designed to be a development geared towards creating an ultramodern self-propelled artillery...

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...

Sarin is a colorless, odorless liquid fatal even at very low concentrations. Serious sarin poisoning causes visual disturbance, vomiting, breathing difficulties and, finally, death....

Washington is putting serious effort into pushing smart gun technology forward. The White House has just released a joint report by the Defence, Justice,...

Another ISIS drone was downed last month, this time by an Iraqi soldier who’s either a top notch marksman or got extremely lucky. Whatever...

A new arms race is at hand, and it could break everything we think we know of the speed of sound. Hypersonic weapons capable...

"Seoul is aware that North Korea is prepared to launch a ballistic missile at anytime,” a South Korean military official says. And so it may...

By ARIE EGOZI Will a dual use weapon system appeal to foreign customers of the Israeli defence industries? The industries hope that it does and can...

Elbit Systems announced today that its Australian subsidiary, Elbit Systems of Australia (ELSA), was awarded a contract in an amount of approximately US$30 million...

China and Russia are hard at work to develop ever more capable radar systems, but the Pentagon has a plan to counter them with...

Iran’s Defense Ministry announced recently that the country plans to produce the powerful explosive Octogen to boost the penetration and destructive power of missile...
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Since bullets appeared on the scene a few hundred years ago, nothing has been the same. If once some chainmail or plate armour was...

The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working on a project that aims to launch volley of small drones from military aircraft...

Al-Qaeda has acquired sophisticated surface-to-air missiles, the Independent reports. The weapons was then used to shoot down down an Emirati fighter jet in Yemen. A...

By ARIE EGOZI The technologies involved in the development of new weapon systems are so complicated that the manufacturers use them "across the board" for...
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The missions the modern military is faced with are variegated and diverse. They require soldiers to possess a wide set of capabilities, tools, and...

The US Air Force is gearing up for large technology research, requesting some $2.5 billion for research in its budget for fiscal year 2017....

Radioactive materials are routinely used at hospitals for diagnosing and treating diseases, at construction sites for inspecting welding seams, and in research facilities. Cobalt-60,...