Rajesh Uppal
July 19, 2019 Electronics & EW
318
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 receiving the initial wave. The ultrasonic sensors detect the exact …
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Rajesh Uppal
July 15, 2019 Navy & Maritime, Unmanned & Autonomous Systems
1,578
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 underwater glider in the South China Sea, which experts said …
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Rajesh Uppal
July 13, 2019 Army & Land, Geopolitics, Strategy & Technological Rivalries, Weapons & Munitions
1,984
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 Korean, and Iran began burying facilities and hardening them with …
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Rajesh Uppal
July 4, 2019 Cyber & IW, Industry & Market Dynamics
275
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 and productivity growth, including through innovation, heavy investments in human …
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Rajesh Uppal
June 30, 2019 AI & IT, Security & Threat Management
350
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 through a bunch of keys in the dark, tossing and …
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Rajesh Uppal
June 28, 2019 Electronics & EW, Security & Threat Management
3,047
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. Another feature of using the millimeter-wave band is the fact …
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Rajesh Uppal
June 27, 2019 Photonics, Weapons & Munitions
4,399
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 order of 100 kW, to be employed as directed energy …
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Rajesh Uppal
June 27, 2019 Electronics & EW, Navy & Maritime
1,555
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 Missiles type of guided missiles mostly of the sea skimming …
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Rajesh Uppal
June 26, 2019 Army & Land
2,527
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, intelligence, logistics, or attack missions to make their forces or …
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Rajesh Uppal
June 26, 2019 Army & Land, Nanotech
304
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 be very costly, fragile for standard handling, extremely heavy and …
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