Hackers: A Real Threat to Unmanned Vehicles
By Shai Rud
A few days after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, members of the hacker group Anonymous annoucned that they intend to hack...
IDF Drone Crashed over Gaza
An IDF drone crashed over the Gaza Strip during a routine patrol this morning, probably due to a technical malfunction. This isn't the first...
ADME Conference: The Rising Drone Threat
Hezbollah has 200 Iranian drones, Recent Russian announcments saw the beginning of a national drone project and China wants more armed UAVs
Hezbollah currently has...
ADME Conference: New Threats – UAVs and Cruise Missiles
Two future aerial defense threats Israel will have to deal with are combat UAVs and cruise missiles. Additional current and future threats are the...
ADME Conference: Balloon-Mounted Radar
World militaries are very familiar with ground and airborne radars. A relatively new type of radar is carried as a payload, installed under floating...
New, Fuel-Efficient UAS Propulsion System
UAS propulsion systems, as we mentioned in a previous article, are both essential to the industry and very difficult to develop. Main industry trends...
New Israeli Tech for Surveillance Balloons
Static surveillance balloons or blimps are considered almost standard equipment for monitoring borders, facilities, areas and army bases. Similar to unmanned aerial vehicles, modern...
Russia To Deploy Drones In Tajikistan
Russian troops in Tajikistan have received surveillance drones designed for “terrain reconnaissance and detection of radioactivity,” the Russian military has announced. “The UAVs have...
Facebook To Acquire UAV Developer
Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring affordable Internet access to the 5 billion people in the...
1 Million Flight Hours for U.S. Aerostats
Persistent Threat Detection System (PTDS) aerostats have surpassed more than one million flight hours of ISR work in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to an...
Israeli Private UAS Draws Attention of Special Forces
A new mini hovering UAS is creating interest in special forces around the world
The air frame's main function is to provide a sturdy, well...
iHLS TV – Rogue Snipers, Downed UAVs and WiFi Viruses
Articles and issues discussed in this report:
New system for launching and retrieving ship-based UAVs
Iranian hackers infiltrate U.S. Navy networks
German Army UAV attrition rates revealed
New...
Russia Believes in UAS
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has announced a program to spend about 320 billion rubles (US $9 billion) by 2020 on military UAVs.
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Germany Saw Record UAV Losses
The German Army has reported a record attrition rate of UAV's in the last decade.
LUNA losses = 56
Aladin = 23
Mikado = 4
KZO = 18
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Same Platform, New Capabilities
Elbit Systems is expanding the potential market for its unmanned air systems (UAS) by adding different sensors. The Israeli company is enhancing that way...
iHLS TV: Cyberspace Evolved
Articles and issues featured in this broadcast:
Are F-35 figher jets vulnerable to hackers?
The Obama administration's new cybersecurity framework
The U.S. Marine Corps is evaluating a...
The Government vs. Flower Deliveries
This conflict will surely be faced in the coming years by many organizations – firms that will want to use UAS and will face...
Robots from the Israeli Desert
If you ask Dr. Amir Shapiro, director of the Robotics Lab at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Ben Gurion University, what's a robot, he'll...
iHLS TV: Advanced Israeli UAV Unveiled
Articles and issues featured in this episode:
Protecting the Electric Grid
Money Laundering and Terror
American UAVs Soar Again
Advanced Israeli UAV Unveiled
Hackers Will Access the Biometric Database
Bystanders...
Israeli Unmanned Helicopter Back on Track
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is again investing in an effort to develop an unmanned version of a manned helicopter.
Almost two years after a joint...
Israeli Team to Train Asian UAV Operator
Three Israeli companies have teamed to enable an Asian customer of Israeli made unmanned air vehicles (UAV) to better train its soldiers in the...
The Eye in the Sky that Sees Everything
Camero launches Xaver AID, Airborne Imaging Drone, an airborne structure-penetrating life detection system.
The Xaver AID (Airborne Imaging Drone) is a tactical unmanned VTOL (Vertical...