Aviation Week & Space Technology - Defense Technology Edition

Responding to changing needs, U.S. Navy outlines “distrbuted lethality’ strategy, and plans to add firepower to Littoral Combat Ships.

Oil prices are not yet having an impact on Middle Eastern states, although that could change if the decline lasts for years.

China and Russia are looking at more displacement and power in their next-generation surface combatants.

Report notes that expanding computer power could allow navies to exploit detection techniques that were lab curiosities.

Wheeler is a critic of Pentagon acquisition failures, and the Pentagon never fails to supply him with material.

New Indian government and better relations with Israel presage greater military sales of Israeli defense technology to the Indian military.

Advances have been made in designing vehicles to withstand blasts from IEDs and mines, mostly through use of heavy armor and blast-deflecting underbodies.

The push is on by many Middle Eastern states to create more indigenous defense manufacturing opportunities.

Maintenance and repair and logistics soon could be among tasks completed by cognitive robots.

In just six months Germany’s defense industry has gone from top of the heap to deep in the dumps.

A plant-based DNA molecule used to mark microcircuit is reportedly robust. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) says this anti-counterfeiting process cannot be replicated, reengineered or digitally copied.

U.S. sailors train for anti-missile defense via a video game. Team play is said to improve collaboration skills, and the exposure to different threat environments gives novices a rapid introduction to threat assessment, tactics and decision-making.

Zhuhai airshow exhibits provide glimpse of China’s progress in UAVs, launchers and radar systems, but many details remain obscure.

Airbus DCIS will give NATO deployable headquarters communications capability

Security expert describes essential tactics to interdict terrorist attacks on U.S. soil from Islamic State and other radical groups and individuals

The integration of short targeting cycles—thanks to the introduction of streamlined networking solutions—allows the IDF to further improve its response time, bringing the time from detection to target kill to seconds and minutes rather than hours.

NATO simulation exercize Arrcade Fusion seeks to improve coordination of joint operations

Bold Alligator exercise helps U.S. amphibious forces to hone skills for humanitarian operations.

Eight years of research and development have produced a riflescope with a patented “adaptive zoom.

Darpa wants to weigh in on a tactical debate that could have a far-reaching impact on air operations

Researchers develop a proof-of-concept lidar prototype that improves the speed and accuracy of ocean scans and allows the collection and transmission of data in real time for production of high-resolution 3-D images.

Australia, other nations, mulling tradeoffs of various submarine battery and propulsion alternatives

New Talos combat suit for U.S. special forces would provide ballistic protection as well as monitoring soldiers’ vital signs

The U.S. Navy is moving toward replacing its Ohio-class subs, but funding, production and technology issues still loom

NATO Growler tests Russian SAM capabilities during exercizes in Slovakia