Category Defence & Military Systems

Militaries continue to enhance Short and Medium Range Air-to-Air missiles for achieving superiority in Dogfights

Over the past few decades, advances in electronic sensors, communications technology, and guided weapons may have fundamentally transformed the nature of air combat.  One of critical technologies was superior situational awareness (SA) when a pilot has a better understanding of…...

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Hydrophone and Hydrophone Array technology is enabler of Anti Submarine Warfare

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A hydrophone is an underwater listening device, just as a microphone is used to detect sound in the air. Hydrophone detects sounds in the water and converts the acoustic energy into electrical energy by detecting changes in pressure in the…...

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Aircrafts & Drones are becoming increasingly important for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) missions

Three decades ago, only a handful of major powers had effective submarine capabilities but, today, fleets in operation around the world are growing rapidly. Emerging superpowers, like China, can add naval capacity equivalent to a European country’s in the space…...

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Indo-Pacific Feuds are leading to competition in Submarines and Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) Capability

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Indo-Pacific today is evolving into a significant frontier in the international arena, with an unstable geopolitical equilibrium for sea dominance due to China’s expansionist plans.   South China and Asian Feuds are fuelling the race among nations to acquire Submarines…...

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Synthetic Biology is the core science for future Defence Technology, according to DARPA

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Synthetic biology is the application of science, technology and engineering to facilitate and accelerate the design, manufacture and/or modification of genetic materials in living organisms, as defined by the  European Commission. It envisions the redesign of natural biological systems for greater…...

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More Electric aircraft (MEA) and All Electric Aircraft to reduce carbon emissions, enhance energy efficiency and enable stealthy missions

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The civil global aviation market has experienced considerable economic growth in recent years and will keep increasing. It is estimated that around 1300 new international airports will be required, and the commercial aircraft fleet will double by 2050, with a…...

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British Army’s new Armoured Fighting Vehicle AJAX, will be its ‘eyes and ears’ on the battlefields

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Ajax is the British Army’s new multi-role, fully-digitised armoured fighting vehicle delivering a step-change in versatility and agility. The AJAX platform will be the ‘eyes and ears’ of the British Army on the battlefields of the future.  Ajax promises dramatically…...

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Militaries test Stand-off smart anti-airfield weapon (SAAW) to destroy enemy runways

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Anti-runway penetration bombs are systems involving bombs or bomblets designed to disrupt the surface of an airfield runway and make it unusable for flight operations.   India’s state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has successfully test-fired an indigenous stand-off smart anti-airfield…...

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DARPA’s WiSPER program developing next generation spread spectrum based military tactical radio to enable secure high-bandwidth RF communications

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U.S. military researchers are asking industry to develop secure radio frequency (RF) transmitter and receiver technologies to enable the next generation of secure military tactical radio systems. Tactical communications is critical requirement of  military communications in which information of any…...

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Nanotechnology enhanced weapons and Nanoweapons are growing Global Security Threat with potential to cause human extinction

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Nanotechnologies involve designing and producing objects or structures at a very small scale, on the level of 100 nanometres (100 millionth of a millimetre) or less.  It allows humans to play with the building blocks of the universe, exploiting the laws…...

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