Rajesh Uppal

Rajesh Uppal

  • Joined: January 29, 2016
  • Articles: 3629

Ultrasound sensors becoming cheap, miniaturized and ultrasensitive leading to wide employment in automotive, healthcare, industrial, and electronics.

ultrasound

As the name indicates, ultrasonic sensors measure distance by using ultrasonic waves. The basic working principle of these sensors is based on echolocation, which involves transmission of ultrasonic waves to the target object, which reflects it back to the source after…...

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DARPA Angler project seeking autonomous deep-diving unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) for surveying and combat missions

U.S. Bluefin Completes Knifefish UUV 130712

Deep sea reach is important to Navies which can collect the information about enemy submarines as well as carry out their own operations undetected. China continues to make progress in deep sea exploration following the three-month mission of a new…...

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Reemergence of Underground Warfare, hard and deeply buried targets (HDBTs) Vs Earth-Penetrating weapons (EPW)

RNEP

Military studies have shown that adversaries have shifted to the use of underground bunkers to protect against the U.S. military’s precision strike capabilities that combine satellite navigation with guided missiles and bombs. To counter American precision strikes, China, Russia, North…...

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Rising cyber-attacks to Small and Medium Businesses( SMB or SME) and cyber security requirements

cybersecurity for small businesses

SMEs contribute to more than one third of GDP in emerging and developing economies and account for 34% and 52% of formal employment respectively. SMEs and young firms that experience rapid growth can have a considerable impact on employment creation…...

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Next Robot revolution is achieving Human-Like dexterous manipulation for home, Industry and Security

desterousrobot

Robots have already become an indispensable part of our lives. However currently, most robots are relatively rigid machines which make unnatural movements. In contrast, humans seem to be able to manipulate objects with our fingers with incredible ease like sifting…...

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Active and Passive Millimeter Wave imaging systems employed for security screening at the airports and finding landmines

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Electromagnetic waves in the millimeter-wave band  (with frequencies between 30 and 300 GHz, or wavelengths between 10 and 1.0 mm) have attractive characteristics. One of their features is the wider usable frequency band compared with waves in the microwave band or lower bands.…...

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Laser beam combining technologies are enabling High power Laser directed energy weapons on Trucks, Warships and Airplanes

beamcombining

Among the uses of Laser directed energy weapons (DEW) systems are providing very short-range air defense capability, close-in protection for naval vessels, counter-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and protecting friendly forces from mortar and artillery attack. Laser require a power of the…...

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US Navy’s SEWIP program continuously upgrading its shipboard electronic warfare system to keep pace with threats

NAVYSWEP

Naval Warships now faces wide spectrum of threats from air threats such as hypersonic missiles, ballistic and cruise missiles, rail guns, lasers , UAVs  and underwater threats like cavitating torpedoes.  One of the prime over water threat is from Anti-Ship…...

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Russia deployed family of killer robots, for combat and demining in Syria and for counter terrorism operations

syrianrussiarobots

Countries like US, Russia and china are racing to deploy combat robots and drones on the battlefield and are investing in their research and development to have a military edge over other countries. Various militaries are fielding unmanned systems for surveillance,…...

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Scientists creating tough and lightweight nanomaterials and nanoclusters for projectiles or armor

nanocrystal

Today’s generation of body-armour systems can provide protection at various levels designed to defeat most common low- and medium-energy handgun rounds. However, currently the highest-threat-level ballistic needs in the market are fulfilled by special, high performance ceramics that tend to…...

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