Northrop Grumman to Develop Stand-in Attack Weapon for USAF
The United States Air Force (USAF) has contracted Northrop Grumman for its planned Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW)- an air-to-ground weapon designed to clear enemy...
Securing Industrial Robots – New Approach
Used in many industrial operations, robots – a key component of Industry 4.0 – represent yet another type of endpoint in operational technology (OT)...
Robots Revolutionize Base Security
The capabilities of a semi-autonomous robotic dog were demonstrated to a US security unit as a potential enhancement to base security. The Quad-legged Unmanned...
Boeing to Supply US Air Force With “Bunker Buster” Bombs
The United States Air Force has awarded Boeing with a $21.6 million contract to supply and maintain the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). Also...
A Robot Arm Would Catch UASs in Mid-Air
US DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) has initiated a new project - its SideArm research effort seeks to create a self-contained, portable apparatus able...
Innovation In Soft Electronics – OLED
Development of fully 3D printed OLEDs can potentially be used for applications in soft electronics and wearable devices. In a groundbreaking new study, researchers...
Tactical Tool for SWAT Teams
A new drone platform, the LEMUR, will help SWAT teams locate, isolate, and communicate with suspects. A ruggedized and durable composition combined with an...
Selfies to Provide Strictest Level Authentication
Cybercrime will become one of the greatest threats of our time, and this is particularly true for banks and insurers, who will increasingly look...
Bio-Inspired Technology Makes Drones Resilient to Collisions
Systems designers have developed a new bio-inspired strategy for making quadcopters and other drones resilient to collisions.
Current crash-protection designs for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)...
Using a Drone for Underground Exploration
An innovative drone technology can explore hidden spaces. The European Space Agency (ESA) has been testing equipment, techniques and working methods for missions with...
Innovative Ring Shaped Drone in Development
A startup from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) has developed a new kind of ring-shaped drone which uses just two propellers...
New Anti-UAV Gun will Land UAVs without Harming Them
As the use of commercial drones becomes more and more wide, drone countermeasures are needed in order to confront intruders.
Although it looks like...
One Simple Physics Trick Powers These Shape-Shifting Robots
Robots are often limited by how they move. Wheels struggle with obstacles, legs require complex joints and control, and propellers add weight and energy...
Did Iran Gain Control over American UAVs?
Iran claims that it managed to obtain control over "seven to eight drones" flying over Syria and Iraq.
Back in 2011, an Iranian cyberwarfare unit...
High-Power Microwave Antennae Against Aerial Threats
Raytheon is building a rigid, transportable, directed microwave energy aerial defense system for the US Navy and Air Force.
The system consists of two high-power...
Communication Between Units and Robots Successfully Demonstrated
Manned-unmanned teaming, 5G communications were among the technologies shown at a demonstration performed in Latvia in September. The event reflected the ways defense forces...
Exceptionally Advanced Aerostat to be Deployed at Northern Israel
At the end of several years of development and manufacturing efforts, IAI in collaboration with the Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) at the Israeli...
COVID-19 Tech: Touchless Button Press
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced all of us to maintain social distancing from each other and refrain from touching surfaces in public spaces. These...
Marines Testing Compact Anti-UAV Laser Weapons
It seems hard to imagine the future battlefield without any UAVs flying around. Drones have become such an integral part of warfare that it...
Tactical Drone for Indoor Use Unveiled
A tactical intervention drone intended for indoor use was launched by the Belgian company Sky-Hero. The Loki Mk2 drone is designed for civil protection...
Emergency Vehicles to Help Map Radiation Threat in City
A radiation threat detection system was successfully tested recently by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
DARPA’s SIGMA program—whose goal is to prevent...
iHLS TV – mass viewership, OSCE drone in Ukraine, new US...
In this Weekly Report (23 September 2014):
iHLS TV receives mass viewership through cooperation with the Shalom Show
OSCE to deploy a UAV in Ukraine
US Army...
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Future wireless networks are expected to handle far more than faster internet speeds. Emerging 6G concepts aim to combine communications with sensing and AI-driven...
