The Low-Altitude Threat Just Met Its Match
The rapid spread of small drones on the battlefield is exposing a persistent weakness in traditional air defense: low-altitude coverage. Quadcopters and loitering munitions...
A Plug-and-Play Laser Defense for Modern Threats
Drone threats at sea are becoming more frequent and harder to manage. Small, low-cost UAVs can be launched in large numbers, forcing naval forces...
This Radar Watches the Entire Sky at Once to Catch Drone...
As small drones become faster, cheaper, and more numerous, traditional radar systems are facing a growing challenge. Most electronically scanned array (ESA) radars detect...
Meet the Worm-Inspired Robot Built for Places Wheels Can’t Reach
Traditional robots are typically built around rigid frames, motors, gears, and joints. While this design works well in structured environments, it becomes less effective...
Half Vehicle, Half Robot: Meet the New “Centaur” Machine
Robots designed for industrial inspection or emergency response often face a tradeoff. Wheeled platforms can move quickly and efficiently over long distances but struggle...
Tiny Thermal Sensors Could Give Military Drones Much Better Night Vision
Drones increasingly need to operate at night, through smoke and in other conditions where conventional cameras struggle. Thermal imaging can solve that problem by...
Smart, Scalable, Mobile: The Next-Gen Turret System
A new modular turret system designed for lightweight military vehicles could reshape how ground forces respond to aerial and ground threats. Developed as part...
The Race to Build Cheaper Drone Killers Just Got a New...
The rapid spread of small drones has created a growing challenge for air-defense forces. Many of the drones now used for reconnaissance, targeting, and...
Will Remote Identification be Compulsory for Drones?
Millions of the agile and affordable quadcopters and other drones have already been sold in the United States. Anonymity is already not an option...
Full Autonomy While Keeping Man-in-the-Loop: Insights from Future Forces Conference
The message from the intriguing Future Forces Conference held today was that armies are already adopting full autonomy technologies while keeping man-in-the-loop. The conference,...
Huge Potential for Drone Delivery of Medical Supply
Delivering medical cargo and supplies has been one of the lifesaving missions of unmanned aerial vehicles. Early public acceptance of drone delivery networks in...
NASA Advances Urban-Setting Drone Tech
The need to reliably know a drone’s location horizontally and vertically is critical to ensure safe operations in urban air traffic corridors. The use...
Solution to Helicopter-Surface Ship Communication Problem
U.S. Navy shipboard communications experts needed a digital datalink, an electronic connection for the exchange of information, to enable the naval helicopter to share...
Coronavirus: Recruiting Startup Innovation. IHLS Looking for New Technologies to...
The State of Israel is making all the efforts to block the spread of the coronavirus. Now, iHLS is addressing the technology and startup...
Drones Use AI System to Find Lost Hikers
Three engineers from the University of Glasgow designed and built an AI-based drone system to help search efforts for hikers lost in the wilderness.
While...
Counter-Terror Exercise with Drone Swarms and Robot Dogs
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s (SCO) “Interaction-2024” joint counter-terrorism exercise recently included the use of robot dogs and drone swarms. This exercise reportedly aimed to...
Revolutionary AI-Led Air Defense System
Anduril Industries, a leading defense technology firm based in Southern California, has been awarded a significant $250 million contract by the US Department of...
Switchblade UAVs Enhance the Army’s Precision Strike Capability
AeroVironment has been awarded a $55.3 million contract to deliver its Switchblade loitering munitions to the U.S. Army as part of the Directed Requirement...
Air Force Eyes Equipping UAVs With Cruise Missiles
The U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) is moving forward with plans to transform existing unmanned platforms, like the MQ-9 Reaper, into long-range...
Combat-Tested Threat Detection AI to Be Integrated into Drone Platforms
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)...
When Fighters Retire, Some Come Back as Target Drones
Modern air forces face a growing challenge in evaluating new air-to-air weapons: missiles must be tested against maneuvering, fighter-size targets, not simulators or scaled-down...
The Frightening Evolution: When a Suicide Drone Becomes an Air Hunter
Imagine a quiet night, its stillness broken only by a familiar, monotonous hum – the ominous sound of Shahed loitering munitions. Ground forces have...
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Soldiers Could Soon Wear Battlefield AI on Their Wrists
Modern soldiers can receive information from drones, sensors and other units, but getting that data to the person who needs it becomes difficult when...
