The incidents of cyberwarfare are ever increasing, targeting more and more countries and becoming legitimate. Part of the Ukrainian power grid was attacked by hackers, causing blackouts; US accused Iranians of attempting to hack into the control-system of a dam. Russia was also suspected for cyber-attack on Turkey following the …
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New Materials for Warships include carbon and glass fibre, aluminium, syntactic foam, copper and graphene
To date, different types of carbon and alloy steels have proved to be the main materials of choice for naval ship construction around the world. While composites, titanium and aluminium alloys have been utilized for making hulls of smaller vessels such as patrol boats, these materials do not meet the …
Read More »DARPA CommEx developed cognitive radio technologies that maintain communications even under severe jamming environment
Russia, has displayed jamming and spoofing capabilities in the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Syria in the last several years. The use of Russian technology in these conflicts demonstrated that Russia retains advanced electronic warfare capabilities. Russia has deployed Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) and SIGINT aircraft, such as the Il-20, …
Read More »DARPA’s M3IC developing critical magnetic components for future AESA based radars, communication and electronic warfare systems
Next-generation radar systems are critical to providing situational awareness of the entire networked battlefield. Active Electronically Steered Array (AESA) antennas have revolutionized the performance of modern radars, communication and electronic warfare systems by greatly reducing the maintenance costs and failure rates, enhancing scanning speed and accuracy, more resistant to interference …
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