Category Defence & Military Systems

New technologies enable Very Long Range Air-to-Air missiles to reach targets at longer ranges, with heavier payloads and with greater precision

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The Air-to-Air Missile (AAM) is a potent guided missile that changed the shape of aerial combat forever. Capable of destroying fast and maneuverable jet fighters at ranges sometimes exceeding 100 kilometers, these high-tech weapons dominate the skies. The  probability of…...

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US Army demonstrates Manned-Unmanned Teaming capability for gaining Air Superiority in A2/AD Environment

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US military is facing increasingly Anti-access /Area denial environment, a set of overlapping military capabilities and operations designed to slow the deployment of U.S. forces to a region, reduce the tempo of those forces once there, and deny the freedom…...

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Raytheon’s Excalibur is all weather smart artillery that triples the range and can strike moving targets with high precision

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The Excalibur smart artillery shell has a ruggedized Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite navigation receiver and uses satellite signals to help guide itself to its intended targets. It first was fielded in Iraq in 2007 for urban or complex-terrain engagements…...

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Rising threat of Social media as weapon to influence Politics, and sentiments and carry psychological warfare

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The past several centuries have largely been defined by physical security threats, requiring a nation’s military to physically respond with whatever means they have available. But as explained by Isaiah Wilson III—president of Joint Special Operations University—today we face “compound…...

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Next Quantum Cryptology (QKD) revolution is Quantum Communications between Drone and ground and between drones

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Quantum cryptography is an emerging technology in which two parties may simultaneously generate shared, secret cryptographic key material using the transmission of quantum states of light. A unique aspect of quantum cryptography is that Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle ensures that if…...

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Helicopter technology developments and trends driven by their rising employment in civil and military missions

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The helicopter is a type of aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more sets of horizontally revolving overhead rotors.  It has two rotors that spin several blades. A blade is a tilted airfoil, just like an airplane…...

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Modern Bigdata Battlefield requires rugged commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) Computers and Servers

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Military is increasingly looking to commercial ICT devices like Smartphones and tablets and they are rapidly making their way into military operations. Modern ICT devices can provide  “information superiority” to military by providing information with  greater timeliness, relevance, accuracy, and comprehensiveness than…...

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Joint Multi-Role (JMR) helicopter program demonstrations to mature technology for future vertical lift (FVL) program

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The US  Army is pursuing plans to develop a family of future vertical lift aircraft that will be able to perform a variety of mission sets. Key to that effort is a technology maturation program which has Bell and a…...

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Embedded AI or Tiny AI, the next revolution in embedded systems and Military internet of things (MIOT)

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The general definition of AI is the capability of a computer system to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition and decision-making. Machine Learning (ML) is a subfield of Artificial Intelligence which attempts to endow…...

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US DOD launch new innovation models and initiatives to sustain and advance America’s military dominance for the 21st century

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Decades of innovation — driven almost entirely by DoD and the Defense Industrial Base — have kept the United States at the forefront of modern military capability.  Further the free-market structure of the economy, vibrant venture capital ecosystems, world-class universities,…...

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