New type of small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) has recently been introduced by the Israeli company Elbit. The portable, lightweight robot is designed to operate in an urban environment and is controlled by a single operator. Besides surveillance and reconnaissance ...
A group of students from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa developed a unique Unmanned Ariel Vehicle. The lightweight drone (less than 110lbs / 50kg) will be launched from special canister equipped with a rocket motor. The drone ...
A team of Students in the Technion’s Faculty of Aerospace Engineering in Israel have succeeded in developing a system capable of refueling one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) using another. The academic project might have very practical applications helping to extend ...
The Active Aeroelastic Wing flight demonstrator received the new designation X-53 on December 8th, 2006, four years after its first test flight in November 2002. The new experimental plane designation is another step in the development of this unique concept ...
A novel pen-like device, capable of rapidly detecting biowarfare agents on the battlefield, is being developed by a team of Israeli scientists at Ben Gurion University in the Negev. The BioPen or “Lab-in-a-Pen”, as it has also been dubbed, could ...
TATP – One of the most elusive explosives used in many deadly terrorist acts of the last few decades can now be identified by a recently developed, simple, and cost-effective pen-like device. Although modern terrorism preceded 9/11, many see it ...
On October 27th, 2006, The Boeing Company announced that its Airborne Laser (ABL) project had just moved a step closer to operational status, now anticipated in 2008. The modified Boeing 747-400F, equipped with several advanced laser technologies, is designed to ...
For several years, Fujitsu has been developing a new type of biometric technology expected to be more secure, reliable, and perceived as less intrusive than current biometric systems, which protect against bank card thefts, fraudulent financial transactions, and unauthorized entries. ...
Boeing Phantom Works, NASA, and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory are preparing a new scaled-down version of a remote-controlled blended wing body (BWB) aircraft dubbed X-48B for flight tests early next year. The large wing shaped prototype was build ...
Twin M hulled (the body of the craft below the outer deck) for greater stability, 24 m (80 ft.) long with a 12 m (40 ft.) beam, M Ship’s M80 Stiletto provides a rectangular deck area equivalent to a conventional ...