Unmanned Systems

By ARIE EGOZI More countries want eyes up in the skies. This explains the growing demand for intelligence satellites . It also explains the Israeli...

China's new HGV, hypersonic glide vehicle, named  DF-17, in the form of ballistic missiles will not only challenge the defenses of the US but...

Red teaming is adapting an adversarial approach in order to encourage an outsider perspective. Organizations can get a view of themselves from the perspectives...

A battlefield-proven AI system originally deployed in Ukraine is being adapted for use on U.S. military drones. The Safe Pro Object Threat Detection (SPOTD)...

The first man arrested in the U.S with the assistance of a UAV was sent to prison. Rodney Brossart was sentenced to three years in...

Turkey plans to become a world leading UAS manufacturer. In an April 29 speech, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “We have reached that...

“Today’s robot’s primary limitation is power, strength and versatility. They can perform limited tasks for a certain amount of time. But it’s not really...

The IAMD conference has become the main meeting point of the international bodies who are dealing with the ballistic missiles threat. Israel is the only...

For mobile robots operating in the real world, knowing their exact position is not optional. Autonomous navigation depends on continuous, accurate localization. Yet satellite-based...

Though autonomous systems promise to bring to the undersea domain the kind of new capabilities and offensive punch that the aerial drone has brought...

Tijuana believes in unmanned air systems (UAS). The city plans to use UAS to monitor traffic, evaluate accident scenes, detect landslides and control wildfires. The...

Various models of drones have the same weak point: their battery. They are capable of flying for only around 15 minutes at a time...

As humanoid and quadruped robots move from research labs into public spaces, factories, and homes, their growing autonomy is creating a new class of...

OEM manufacturers don’t always get publicity from the major defense companies even when everyone uses their products. Euclid is a company that develops antennas and...

Researchers from Princeton and MIT have uncovered a method for intercepting underwater communications, challenging long-standing assumptions about the security of sonar transmissions. By using...

Modern ground forces face a recurring challenge: many critical tasks occur in places too dangerous or too unpredictable for soldiers to enter safely. Minefields,...

A family of multirotor loitering munitions, the QX range has been unveiled by a UAE-based company, EDGE. Built to launch in any environment or...

  Observation aerostats can supply impressive remote-controlled surveillance capabilities while keeping officers safe. The Hawk Eye observation aerostat was designed especially for stand-off, wide coverage...

Apache helicopters are already the beasts of the sky. They are powerful, ominous, and incredibly deadly. The US Army wasn’t content with that and...

A new technology could protect robots communication networks from malicious hackers. Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and their colleagues present...

  Vanilla Aircraft successfully completed first flight of the VA001 Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). This is, a 36-ft wingspan Ultra-Long Endurance (ULE) unmanned aerial vehicle...

A new development in the anti-uav field has been attracting much interest. A Lockheed Martin prototype laser weapon system proved that an advanced system...