Russia’s CHETRA-PM has been awarded with an honorary diploma for its contribution to the implementation of Russia’s national interests in the Arctic and on the continental shelf at the International Forum “The Arctic: Present and Future” that was held on December 10-11, 2014, in St. Petersburg. The CHETRA-Caravan project received recognition of the expert community.
Sunday, December 21, 2014 10:37 AM

Chinese defense industry has developed a non-lethal anti-riot system, directed-energy microwave weapon, which can be used in anti-pirate and anti-terrorism operations. The WB-1 Anti-Riot Denial System can cause unbearable pain without injury by projecting millimeter-wave beams onto a human body to excite the water molecules under the skin, according engineers of the Chinese Defense Company Poly Technology. Saturday, December 20, 2014 06:10 PM

The U.S. Army plans to launch two stationary blimps next week to better protect the Washington, D.C. area from cruise missiles and other possible air attacks. The aerostat, part of the "Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor" system, referred to as JLENS for short, is a nearly 250-foot blimp-like vehicle that will stay aloft for a three-year evaluation period.
Friday, December 19, 2014 09:42 AM

MineWolf Systems successfully delivered the runway clearance solution to the Government of Pakistan in 2014. The customer has procured the Mini MineWolf (MW240) platform with a range of attachments to fulfill different operational tasks; all of which are related to the clearance of explosive remnants of war.
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Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:23 AM

The Russian army performs some military tests with new all-terrain vehicles Trekol SUV and GAZ-3344 in the Arctic Region. Russia tested the vehicles on the Arctic peninsula of Rybachiy, 200 kilometers from Murmansk, Russian Defense Minister said December 15, 2015.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014 08:06 AM

The Small Arms Grenade Munition (SAGM) round -- a 40mm counter-defilade, air-bursting grenade designed for both the M203 and M320 launchers -- will undergo evaluation in July 2015. The SAGM round has been under development by the Joint Service Small Arms Program at the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center, or JSSAP-ARDEC, since January 2012.
Saturday, December 13, 2014 01:17 PM

The new 4x4 Armoured vehicle Personnel Carrier (APC) KrAZ Cougar, designed by the Defense Company Streit Group has one more time save lives of Ukrainian soldiers after one of the Ukrainian Border Guard Cougar APC was ambushed and under fire of light machine gun.
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Thursday, December 11, 2014 09:27 AM

German Company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, a leader in the European market for highly protected wheeled and tracked vehicles launches a new modernized version of the Terrier, a light wheeled armoured vehicle personnel carrier. The first version of the Terrier has been jointly developed by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann of Germany and the Defence Vehicles Division of IVECO of Italy.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 03:38 PM

Dr. Joseph Conroy, an electronics engineer at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, known as ARL, part of the Research, Development and Engineering Command, works with robotic systems that can navigate by leveraging visual sensing inspired by insect neurophysiology.
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Friday, November 28, 2014 04:12 PM

BAE Systems has been refining the electromagnetic railgun that it’s been developing for the U.S. Navy. Deployment of a prototype system is scheduled for 2016, but BAE is already looking forward to what might be possible as the technology scales up in power and scales down in size. The first target might be a railgun for the Army’s next-generation Future Fighting Vehicle.
Friday, October 28, 2014 10:10 AM

The Ukrainian army has take delivery of new armoured truck used to transport soldiers on the battlefield. Under the name of Raptor, the new armoured trucks were delivered to the Ukrainian national guard troops fighting pro-Russian separatists in the east.
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Friday, October 28, 2014 09:27 AM

Researchers at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center are developing technologies for a pocket-sized aerial surveillance device for Soldiers and small units operating in challenging ground environments.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2014 08:12 AM

Panasonic launched one of the world’s most rugged 5 inch handheld tablet with data and voice capabilities last month at the Euronaval 2014 Naval Defencse Exhibition in Paris, France. The Toughpad FZ-E1 (Windows Embedded 8.1 Handheld) and FZ-X1 (Android TM) devices bring together the best of the handheld, smartphone and tablet market in the most rugged.
Thursday, November 6, 2014 08:55 AM