Military UAV breaks flight time record
The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper and variants of the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) recently achieved flight-time milestones, their manufacturers announced.
According...
Microsoft Admits: Windows 10 Spying Cannot Be Stopped
Windows 10 constantly calls home - a lot. Back in August, Ars Technica reported on a list of features in Microsoft Windows 10 that...
A growing demand for UAS for maritime missions
The Israeli defense contractors which manufacture unmanned air systems (UAS) are responding to the growing demand. As Israel aerospace industries (IAI) and Elbit systems...
New honeycomb tire for security forces
Tires are akin to that old nursery rhyme that begins with "For want of a nail the shoe was lost" and ends with "For...
Armored Fighting Vehicles: Poland to fortify its MRAP vehicles with Israeli...
The MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected) vehicles the U.S gave the Polish Special Forces are fitted with Israeli-made armor.
The U.S is helping Poland equip...
Will the U.S. Air Force develop a new bomber?
Super-secret next generation bomber that could one day fly without a pilot is in development under a heavy secrecy curtain.
The U.S ministry of defense...
DHS to rely on big data to protect critical infrastructure, networks
DHS officials responsible for protecting federal civilian networks and critical industries from cyberattacks have recently referred to this issue. They said they are going...
Communicating under water – a revolutionary Israeli development
Dolphins communicate under water using sound waves that travel great distances. Now, human beings can also communicate under water, using a small device, attached...
Is the Taranis UAV operational?
Britain’s Taranis unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was dubbed the most advanced, albeit the most top secret platform in the whole world.
The Taranis unmanned aerial...
Pakistan’s new cruise missile
Pakistan tests another self-developed cruise missile.
Reportedly, last Monday (local time), Pakistan conducted a successful flight test of the indigenously developed Air Launched Cruise Missile...
Converted Prop Guns Are Assassins’ Weapon of Choice
Prop guns are converted to deadly weapons. Blank-firing guns make for fun movie props and nice showpieces. But with the right tweaks, they can...
U.S Marine Corps wants new unmanned tank
The Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory hopes that a machine gun toting robot can one day provide more firepower to foot patrols. Qinetiq's Modular Advanced...
From cocaine in banknotes to airport bomb detection: chromatography
What could detecting cocaine on bank notes possibly have in common with airport screening?
As some of us just noticed over the holiday season, some...
“Movie-Style” Surveillance and Operations vehicles
You are standing by a white, shiny, family car. This car looks just like the car next door.
You are going past a new SUV,...
iHLS TV Weekly Video Report – February 17th 2015
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In this weekly Video report (February 17th 2015):
Cyber attacks on drones
The Iranian nuclear crisis and the U.S. administration
A new...
New: autonomous reconnaissance vehicle
A wide range of services and agencies – military and security forces, HLS and so on – find themselves relying on intelligence gathering and...
Smart Perimeter Fence: Innovations and Developments
New sensing technologies provide smart fences with the capability to locate intrusion with accuracy of few meters.
Critical sites can be secured today by a...
The SIMON is a rifle grenade designed to breach through doors
Simon says... very loudly...
Anti terror units around the world are using Rafael's Simon breaching system.
The SIMON is a rifle grenade designed to breach through...
A special Israeli package – Harop and Lora
Israel aerospace industries (IAI) is offering some of its potential customers a package that will include the company's Harop loitering munition (LM) and the...
Israeli counter terror expertise to Kenya
Ten Israeli security firms have offered to provide security consultancy, intelligence and counter-terrorism expertise to Kenyan government and private security following a series of...
Burglars using drones
Police in the UK are now seeing incidents were burglars are scoping out potential targets using off-the-shelf consumer drones.
Suffolk Constabulary has confirmed that there...
Israeli system intercepts cloud-stored data
Nowadays, everything is available at the palm of our hand. Nevertheless, these amazing capabilities, combined with our instinctive fear of the "Big Sister Syndrome"...
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The Battlefield Vehicle of the Future May Drive Itself
Modern military ground operations are increasingly moving toward autonomous systems capable of operating in contested environments with reduced risk to personnel. However, developing military...
