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This Huge Jet Drone Doesn’t Just Fly—It Brings Backup

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Modern air defenses are increasingly challenged by the growing use of unmanned aircraft, but the rapid evolution of drone swarming threatens to complicate this...

A Game-Changing Ocean Watchdog That Never Sleeps

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Critical undersea cables and energy pipelines have become increasingly attractive targets for adversaries, particularly as naval competition intensifies in the North Atlantic. Recent Russian...
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This One-Way Drone Moves More Like a Missile Than a UAV

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As short-range air-defense systems improve, many unmanned aircraft are being intercepted long before they reach their targets. Slow propeller-driven drones, even in large numbers,...

A Helping Hand for Drones on the Move

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Launching and retrieving drones normally requires a stationary platform, clear airspace, and operators with line-of-sight control. These constraints limit how quickly drones can be...
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A Billion Reasons Investors Are Betting on Israeli Defense Tech

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Israel’s security landscape has increasingly depended on rapid technological adaptation, but until recently, defense-focused startups struggled to attract significant investment. The year 2025 marks...

Self-Charging Humanoids Step in for Border Duty

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Border checkpoints are under increasing pressure to manage rising traveller volumes, evolving security demands, and labor-intensive inspection routines. Many of these sites operate around...

New Scanner Spots Drone Parts Inside Bags

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As drones become cheaper, smaller, and easier to modify, security teams face a growing challenge: many threats do not appear in the sky—they arrive...

Major Funding Boost Accelerates Hydrogen-Powered Drone Tech

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Long-endurance unmanned aircraft have traditionally faced the same limits: batteries restrict range, combustion engines add noise and heat, and payload capacity often forces trade-offs...
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Next-Gen Battery Targets the Needs of Laser-Based Weapons

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As high-power lasers move from experimental concepts to practical counter-drone tools, one technical bottleneck continues to slow progress: power. Directed-energy systems require fast, intense...
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From Cargo Mule to Combat Robot: A UGV Upgrade

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Modern battlefields place growing demands on unmanned ground vehicles, which are increasingly used not only for logistics but also for frontline support. Traditional armored...
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New Counter-Drone Tech Captures, Not Destroys

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Unauthorized drones have become a persistent security challenge for airports, stadiums, prisons, and other sensitive locations. These sites increasingly rely on perimeter sensors, but...

Low-Cost Hypersonic Missile Could Change the Game

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Hypersonic weapons have traditionally been associated with long development cycles, specialized materials, and extremely high production costs. These factors have limited their deployment and...
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New System Uses Lasers to Power Drones Mid-Flight

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Drones today are limited by a simple constraint: batteries. No matter how advanced the airframe or onboard sensors are, endurance remains capped by how...

Aerial Cat-and-Mouse: Interceptors Race Against High-Speed Drones

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Ukraine has faced a growing challenge as Russia introduces faster, more resilient loitering munitions designed to overwhelm conventional air defenses. The latest threat, the...

Autonomous Drone Brings New Tech to Tracking Submarines

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Locating submarines has always been one of the hardest challenges in maritime security. These vessels rely on stealth, operate across vast ocean areas, and...

Drones Gain a Brain: Unified Autonomy Takes Shape

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Modern militaries increasingly rely on unmanned aircraft to perform reconnaissance, strike, and electronic warfare tasks. But as these missions grow more complex, the challenge...

Autonomous Combat Drone Responds to Pilot Commands in Real-Time Flight Test

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In a recent demonstration that signals a turning point in air combat technology, a manned fighter jet successfully controlled an unmanned combat drone during...

New Anti-Drone Defenses Added to Battlefield Flamethrower

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Russian forces have increasingly found themselves challenged by small, inexpensive drones that can spot, track, and strike armored targets with surprising accuracy. This shift...
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All-Terrain Robot Aims to Transform Farming and Frontline Operations

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A new generation of unmanned ground vehicles is blurring the line between agricultural automation and defense technology. The Thor robot, developed by Spanish deep-tech...
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Smart Charging Pads Could Sustain Robots Anywhere

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Supplying power to robotic explorers on other planets has always been one of the hardest problems in space engineering. Rovers operating millions of kilometers...
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AI Goes Underwater — and It’s on Patrol

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India’s Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has unveiled a new class of man-portable autonomous underwater vehicles (MP-AUVs), designed to make mine detection faster,...
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Technology Trend Review from Milipol (Paris 2025) – A High-Level Snapshot...

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Written by Or Shalom Milipol Paris 2025, held in Paris on November 18th-21st, 2025, presented an impressive high-level snapshot of the entire homeland security and...

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A New 3D View of the World Built for Preparedness and...

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Understanding how people build, expand, and occupy space has become a strategic priority for governments and emergency planners. Yet most global datasets still represent...