Category Weapons & Munitions

Navy & Maritime, Weapons & Munitions

New Mine countermeasure technologies to detect and neutralize stealthy, smart and lethal sea mines

More than thirty countries produce mines, and twenty countries export them. Iran has reportedly laid several thousand naval mines, North Korea’s 50,000, China 100,000 or so, and Russia estimated quarter-million. Since World War II, sea mines have damaged or sunk…...

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Rajesh Uppal
June 14, 2018

Army & Land, Weapons & Munitions

U.S. Army developing smart munitions for future weapons like rail gun that can chase a Tank or a Fighter Jet

Gun-launched guided munitions are of tremendous interest to the U.S. Army. These technologies offer more accuracy, extended range through glide, more favorable terminal approach for lethality, and the ability to engage advanced threats like partially hidden (defilade) and moving ground and…...

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Rajesh Uppal
June 7, 2018

Army & Land, Weapons & Munitions

Future infantry squads shall be equipped with lighter, Safer, programmable but more lethal ammunition

U.S. Army small-arms experts recently laid out a blueprint of future small-arms goals that would equip infantry units with several new weapons, ranging from a new squad automatic rifle to a new shoulder-fired, anti-armor weapon. The service plans to equip…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 23, 2018

Electronics & EW, Navy & Maritime, Weapons & Munitions

Automated AI based soft kill countermeasures including electronic attack and cyber weapons will protect Warships from future missile threats

BAE Siren Naval Countermeasure Outfit DLH

Naval Warships now faces wide spectrum of threats from hypersonic missiles, ballistic and cruise missiles, cavitating torpedoes, rail guns, lasers and UAVs. Anti-Ship Missiles are guided missiles most of them of the sea skimming variety, and many use a combination…...

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Rajesh Uppal
February 1, 2018

Army & Land, Weapons & Munitions

US Army working on Next generation swarms of hyper precision munitions that can penetrate A2/AD environment and hit a wide variety of dispersed targets

One of the most important developments in the history of twentieth century warfare has been the emergence of the precision weapon: the weapon which can be aimed and directed against a single target, relying on external guidance or its own…...

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Rajesh Uppal
November 26, 2017

Biotech & Synthetic Biology, Weapons & Munitions

DARPA developing new technologies to counter biological weapon threats

Biological weapons achieve their intended effects by infecting people with disease-causing microorganisms and other replicative entities, including viruses, infectious nucleic acids and prions. The chief characteristic of biological agents is their ability to multiply in a host over time. …...

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Rajesh Uppal
August 15, 2017

Global Risks & Future Threats, Weapons & Munitions

Rapid deployment of Directed Energy Weapons is leading to search and development of counter directed energy technologies, techniques and tactics

Directed-energy weapons are among a handful of maturing disruptive or asymmetric technologies that could confer game-changing technological advantages both as a superior defensive capability and as an effective electronic attack option. US Navy’s 30-kilowatt Laser Weapon System (LaWS) on USS Ponce…...

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Rajesh Uppal
June 27, 2017

Army & Land, Weapons & Munitions

BAE’s M109A7 howitzer for enhanced survivability, maintainability, performance, responsiveness, and lethality to US Army

BAE Systems has won a $245.3m low-rate initial production (LRIP) contract from the US Army to continue building the M109A7 self-propelled howitzer (SPH) and M992A3 ammunition carrier. The M109A7 will replace the army’s existing M109A6 self-propelled howitzer, formerly known as…...

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Rajesh Uppal
November 17, 2015

Navy & Maritime, Weapons & Munitions

US is deploying Navy Platform SBX1 to trigger Earthquakes in North Korea, as HAARP weapon, is it pure speculation?

The US Navy’s Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX-1) a floating, self-propelled, mobile, active electronically scanned array radar station, is a part of Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency....

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Rajesh Uppal
November 6, 2014