Flexible vehicle-arrest system stops cars involved in crime, terrorism
An Inderscience Publishers release reports that Pak Kin Wong and colleagues in the Department of Electromechanical Engineering at the University of Macau, in Taipa,...
The big bluff that helps the U.S. to climb down the...
Syria will not get rid of its mass destruction weapons. What started yesterday as a "diplomatic victory " is one of the biggest bluffs...
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Introduction
The need for high-resolution, efficient stand-off aerial observation for security surveillance and response cannot be underestimated. Whether for routine or explosive ground operations, decision-makers...
New System for Jamming Remote Controlled IEDs Activated Against Vehicles
While previous systems on the market are active, operating continuously, the MRJ is a reactive system that analyses intercepted signals and jams potential threats...
The American Jewish Federations’ security arm stresses awareness on High Holidays
Security awareness should be a primary consideration for synagogues during the High Holidays, the security arm of the national Jewish community said. This according...
V-22 Tilt Rotor Demonstrates Aerial Refueling Potential
The Bell-Boeing MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft has successfully completed an initial test performing as an aerial refueling tanker. Adding this capability to the tiltrotor...
Report recommends DHS take ownership for countering violent extremism mission
A changed terrorist threat landscape since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 means the Obama administration and Congress should implement a number of changes...
Putting tablets to the test
With the widespread proliferation of the Apple iPad and other tablets in the commercial world, it was only a matter of time before the...
Electro-Magnetic Pulse – an increasing danger
Islamic terror organizations supported by Iran, the same ones who keep planning massive terror attacks, are once again considering a type of attack that...
NATO armies to use new gear – IED jammers and mobile...
Netline Communications Technologies, a producer of high-end electronic warfare and spectrum dominance systems for defense forces and homeland security agencies, has won tenders to...
Russian Launcher Inserts Israel’s Amos-4 Satellite into Orbit
Amos 4 was built for Spacecom, a satellite communications service provider operating internationally from Israel. Amos-4 satellite was launched on August 31, 2013, 23:05,...
A few thoughts on the Israeli situation
By Arie Egozi
The world continues to hesitate when facing the horrors in Syria. Everything that could be said about Obama's “red lines” has already...
New systems improve voice recognition
Graduate students and researchers at the University of Texas Dallas have developed novel systems that can identify speaking voices despite conditions that can make...
Turkey is not protected against chemical weapons
The situation in Syria has created a great concern in Turkey that is totally exposed to chemical and biological threats.
Turkey borders three notoriously volatile...
Sharp rise in British drone use in Afghanistan
The British military fired nearly seven times as many missiles from unmanned drones in Afghanistan last year as it did five years earlier, according...
German ‘SmartRadar’ Demonstrates Surveillance Missions
An airborne ground surveillance radar developed by Cassidian (EADS’ defense and security division) was recently demonstrated in flight testing.
The new AESA-based radar is designed...
The Arab world and the Crisis in Syria
By Joel Guzansky
Unlike the determined and united response to Qaddafi in 2011 (as a result, among other things, of his attempts to physically harm...
India deploys first IRNSS navigational satellite in space
India successfully launched its first navigational satellite into orbit Monday July 1 2013, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota. IRNSS-1A, the first...
60-kilowatt laser to kill UAVs, rockets, and mortars
Laser weapons experts at Lockheed Martin Aculight on Bothell, Wash., will help the U.S. Army develop a 60-kilowatt fiber laser module for a truck-mounted laser...
New missiles will defend U.S. Navy ships
The SM-6 will provide U.S. Navy sailors and their vessels extended range protection against fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and cruise missiles...
UAE Drone Maker Plans to Convert Russian Superlight Choppers into UCAVs
ADCOM, an unmanned systems developer from the UAE is teaming with the Russian helicopter designer Berkut Aero design bureau to turn the Russian designed...
No credible or specific intel of threat tied to 9/11 anniversary
The government is aware of no credible or specific information that points to any terror plot tied to the anniversary of the September 2001...
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T-Dome: A Smarter Shield Integrating Air, Missile, and Drone Defenses
Modern air-defense systems face a common problem: sensors, interceptors, and command centers often operate in parallel rather than as a synchronized whole. This slows...
