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Militaries employ ‘The mother of all bombs’ or MOABs for wiping out fortified ground targets and creating ‘shock and awe’
June 17, 2019
The US’s GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) is a precision-guided munition weighing 21,500 pounds and was dropped from a C-130 Hercules aircraft. The MOAB isn’t the heaviest non-nuclear bomb…
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New Magneto resistive materials enable ultrasensitive magnetic field sensors, brain-like computing chips and 3D magnetic memory
June 16, 2019
Magneto resistor is a type of resistor whose resistance changes when an external magnetic field is applied. In other words, the flow of electric current through the magneto resistor changes…
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Countries launch latest Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) which are more lethal and smart
June 15, 2019
Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) are surface-to-air missiles that can be carried and fired by a single individual or carried by several individuals and fired by more than one person…
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Researchers looking to fishes for designing biomimetic systems for flexible Armor, faster aircraft and camouflaging skin
June 6, 2019
It was in the oceans that life first evolved and where complex animals have thrived for over 600 million years. Marine animals survive in environments as diverse as tropical coral…
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Syria, became test bed for high-tech Russian weapons and leading to increased Russian arms sales and new arms race
May 5, 2019
The more than 6-year-old civil war in Syria has been a showcase for Russian-made arms. Russia has supported Assad and his forces, while the U.S. has helped moderate rebel groups…
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DARPA’s HI-MEMS (Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) created cyborg insects for military micro air vehicles missions
May 1, 2019
In 2006 the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) asked America’s scientists to submit “innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs.” The Hybrid Insect Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (HI-MEMS) program,…
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Curved image sensors for better resolution, and wide field of view cameras for cell phones to Miniature UAVs
April 26, 2019
Smartphone camera technology is growing in leaps and bounds in the past couple of years and continues to be a major point to differentiate their products. More and more technologies…
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UK unveils its new Sky Sabre air defense system integrated with CAMM, the next generation air defence missile designed for land, sea and air environments
April 20, 2019
Long range ballistic missiles, stealth aircraft, Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles and cruise missiles make up just part of the new and proliferating threat from the sky. Defence against this complex…
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DARPA CODE developing swarming UAVs to defeat A2/AD environments
March 30, 2019
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…
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Countries developing bomb disposal robots having exceptional level of versatility, dexterity and diversity
March 15, 2019
EOD operators or ammunition technical officers conduct some of the military’s most dangerous jobs, who has the daunting task of dismantling, defusing and disposing bombs and other explosive ordnance, often…
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UAVs are proving to be disruptive technology for disaster planning, response and relief operations
January 17, 2019
A disaster can be defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes, floods, accidents, fires, or explosions. It is a phenomenon that can cause damage to life…
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Graphene photonics for next generation optical communications, high speed Internet, Nanosatellites and ultrasensitive night vision for military
January 16, 2019
Cloud computing allows application software and services to be delivered from large server farms in data centers over the Internet. As more and more people use Cloud services, more and…
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