Russia Attached an Anti-Tank Guided Missile to a Civilian Drone
Videos on social platforms depict a Russian-converted civilian drone with a mounted Soviet-era anti-tank guided-missile (ATGM) launcher strapped to it and even show the...
Synthetic Threats Bring New Complexity to Real Air Combat Training
Large-scale air combat exercises face a practical limitation: creating a realistic battlefield can require dozens of aircraft, support platforms and air-defense systems operating simultaneously....
Revolutionary Approach for Delivering Cargo
Delivering cargo is a task that is usually completed through either planes, ships, trains, or trucks. What if there was an even more efficient...
Cooperation Accelerates Local Defense Industries
The Israeli defense industries have been actively participating in the Make in India initiative launched in 2014 and in other initiatives many years before....
Reusable Rocket Engine Hits Hypersonic Milestone
Hypersonic systems promise significant advantages in speed and responsiveness, but their development has been slowed by a persistent challenge: most propulsion technologies are designed...
Renowned UAV Changes its Path
Refueling aircraft during a mission in order to extend their range has always been a challenge. A new unmanned carrier-based tanker aircraft will help...
Top IDF Unit to Develop Technologies for Children with Autism
A unique technological initiative has been taken by the soldiers and graduates of the Israeli Air Force’s Ofek unit on behalf of children with...
New VTOL Vehicle Sets Benchmark with Successful Flight Tests
On September 6, Piasecki Aircraft Corporation achieved a significant milestone with the first flight of its Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System Demonstration Vehicle (ARES-DV) at...
How Ice Detection Is Moving from Reactive to Predictive
Ice remains one of the most underestimated hazards in transportation. On roads, invisible ice contributes to a significant share of weather-related crashes each year....
UAV health monitoring
The unmanned air systems (UAS) operated by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) have been strained to their limits during the month of fighting in...
New Achievement to Bell’s Tilt-Rotor
The new V-280 Valor tilt-rotor has completed another milestone, with its demonstrator flying in cruise mode, reaching 190 knots. Bell’s aircraft provides warfighters strategic...
The Race for Mach 6 Just Got a New Contender
Pushing aircraft and missiles beyond Mach 5 remains one of the most complex challenges in aerospace engineering. Current solutions typically rely on combining multiple...
Latest Pilot Helmets Provide Innovative New Point Of View
The U.S. Department of Defense is upgrading the "look and shoot" helmet displays used by F-35, F-15, F-16 and F-18 pilots. F-35s are getting the...
CH-53K Helicopter Performs Successful Air-to-Air Refueling
The CH-53K King Stallion helicopter aced an air-to-air refueling test this week, successfully demonstrating long-range logistics support capabilities for the U.S. Marine Corps.
The 4.5...
The Heron-1, flying in Afghanistan non stop
At the beginning of July, Israeli Aerospace Industries (IAI) Heron 1 unmanned air systems (UAS) logged its 15,000th operational flight hour in Afghanistan.
The three...
The Radar Upgrade That Could Keep a Cold-War Bomber Flying to...
Large strategic bombers were designed for a very different battlespace than the one air forces face today. Modern conflicts rely on dense sensor networks,...
US Spy Plane Deployed To Singapore
In another development in the so-far peaceful tit-for-tat dispute between China and its US-backed neighbours over territorial claims in South China Sea, the US...
China starting to export its military drones
As expected China's drones are slowly making their way to foreign markets around the world.
China demonstrated the ASN-209 multipurpose tactical reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles...
3D Printing UAV Parts – Benefits and Dangers
3D printing for everyday use is, for a while now, no distant dream. The field is so developed nowadays that it was only a...
UAVs No Longer Require Any Human Guidance
The Israeli air force (IAF) is in the process of enabling its large unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to perform in full autonomous mode in...
U.S. Unveils Game-Changing Missile as Part of Indo-Pacific Air Combat
New air-to-air missiles by the name of AIM-174B were deployed by the US Navy in the Indo-Pacific region. The AIM-174B, like other AMRAAM (Advanced...
Israel Interested in Acquiring New Fire Fighting Aircraft
Pressure is on for Israel to improve its fire fighting fleet. A new version of the Airbus C-295 is being evaluated. In the wake...
Latest
New Hardware Attack Exposes a Blind Spot in Secure Cloud Computing
Confidential computing is supposed to solve one of cloud computing's biggest security problems: how to process sensitive information on infrastructure operated by someone else...
