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Flash Lidars have applications from Situational awareness, collision avoidance to improved battlefield visualization, line-of-sight analysis and urban warfare planning.
January 17, 2022
LIDARs are rapidly gaining maturity as very capable sensors for a number of applications such as imaging through clouds, vegetation and camouflage, 3D mapping and terrain visualization, meteorology, navigation, and…
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China, North Korea and others developing Super-EMP and other Electromagnetic Weapons, posing serious threat to civil society
January 14, 2022
The electromagnetic pulse commonly abbreviated as EMP, is a high-intensity burst of electromagnetic energy caused by the rapid acceleration of charged particles, can be produced by intense solar storms or…
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Unmanned Ground Combat robots or UGVs technology requirements an trends
January 5, 2022
An unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is a vehicle that operates while in contact with the ground and without an onboard human presence. hey are the land counterparts of marine and…
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Security forces require throwable robots that can send video of inside buildings
January 1, 2022
Cities have become the new battleground and Hybrid or Urban Warfare the greatest threat being waged by ISIS to Boko Haram to Hamas to Ukraine rebels. The terrorists resort to…
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Molecular nanotechnology
December 25, 2021
The amount of information trafficking internet nowadays is enormous and will increase further in the near future. It can be expected that in the next decennia the current technologies to…
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Quantum cryptography race creating new records in distance and data rate for building practical National Quantum Networks
December 14, 2021
Information security is becoming more and more of a critical issue not only for large companies, banks and defense enterprises, but even for small businesses and individual users. However, the…
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New Satellite test facilities required due to large Commercial and Military thrust on Microsatellites and Nanosatellites
November 29, 2021
As of May 2021, there are about 4,300 active artificial satellites currently orbit Earth. We rely so much on satellites for so many things in our lives, and we count…
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China’s Military-Civil Fusion strategy boosting its technological and Military Innovation and Defence preparedness
November 25, 2021
China is making rapid advancements in many technologies thus narrowing its gap with the western world. Former US energy secretary Steven Chu has even observed that China is ahead of…
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Mobile User Objective System(MUOS) fully operational for U.S. DOD’s military satellite communications in Mountains, Jungles, Urban areas and Arctic
November 12, 2021
Satellite communication is a technology that is used to transfer the signals from the transmitter to a receiver with the help of satellites. Communications via satellite have the unique characteristic…
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Single-crystal turbine blade technology for aero engines, dominated by US now mastered by China and India
October 29, 2021
In 2018, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) named the Pratt & Whitney single crystal turbine blade an historic mechanical engineering landmark. These blades, which can be found in many…
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Blockchain disrupting Industries from healthcare, IoT to Cybersecurity
October 29, 2021
Bitcoin and other virtual currencies are made possible by what’s known as blockchain technology. Blockchain technology is a digital ledger that consists of distributed, decentralized and often-times public data capable…
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US DOD employing Synthetic Biology based on Self-assembly for on-demand bio-production of new materials for military
October 26, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic, while demonstrating the nation’s vulnerabilities to biothreats, has also shown the fragility of the supply chain. The United States relies on foreign suppliers for a number of…
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