BHarat bandh: in different states
The Indian Navy has signed a deal with an Israeli firm Smart Shooter for the procurement of an unspecified number of fire control systems to counter the growing threat of drone attacks. The system also has the ability to improve a soldier s accuracy and speed of hitting targets. As per a report in the Print, this is an initial order put forward by the Navy, while the Army and Border Security Forces (BSF) are separately negotiating their deals with the same Israeli firm.
As per an official statement released by Smart Shooter, the Indian Navy has handed over the contract to the company to supply its SMASH Fire Control Systems. The contract includes the supply of SMASH 2000 Plus fire control systems from Smart Shooter, which will be mounted primarily on AK-47 and AK 203 rifles. SMASH is a kind of device for electro-optic vision.
An illustration of the Smart Shooter system in action (Captain Fred Warmer)
Michal Mor and Shir Ahuvia joke about how army officials are always slightly stunned when they meet them for the first time two knowledgeable women coming to sell them an artificial intelligence-based shooting device that makes rifles smart, more accurate and deadlier.
“It once happened that after presenting our technology, a senior engineer asked me: How do you know all of this? Is your father a rocket maker?” Mor, the CEO of the startup Smart Shooter, said with a laugh.
“It is very hard to break stigmas,” she said in a Zoom interview with The Times of Israel, but she and Ahuvia, VP Product at the firm, are doing it slowly and relentlessly, she said. “People who get to know us don’t question our abilities anymore.”
New strategy wants to counter increasingly complex drone threats January 7
The Pentagon has released its strategy to jointly counter increasingly complex drone threats worldwide. Photo illustration via Epirus. WASHINGTON The Pentagon released a new strategy Jan. 7 to counter increasingly complex small drone threats, one that focuses on establishing a common threat picture, architecture and protocol across the services. The new strategy also sets up stronger coordination between other federal agencies in the homeland as well as with allies and partners abroad. Drones are getting cheaper and easier to use and acquire. Small drones run the gamut from being nuisances in the wrong air space at the wrong time to being deadly, aiding adversaries in serious operations such as lasing targets for fires or collecting intel or becoming a weapon itself. Technology development in autonomy and artificial intelligence is making swarming drones even easier to coordinate and integrate in
New strategy wants to counter increasingly complex drone threats January 7 The Pentagon has released its strategy to jointly counter increasingly complex drone threats worldwide. Photo illustration via Epirus. WASHINGTON The Pentagon released a new strategy Jan. 7 to counter increasingly complex small drone threats, one that focuses on establishing a common threat picture, architecture and protocol across the services. The new strategy also sets up stronger coordination between other federal agencies in the homeland as well as with allies and partners abroad. Drones are getting cheaper and easier to use and acquire. Small drones run the gamut from being nuisances in the wrong air space at the wrong time to being deadly, aiding adversaries in serious operations such as lasing targets for fires or collecting intel or becoming a weapon itself. Technology development in autonomy and artificial intelligence is making swarming drones even easier to coordinate and integrate i
December 1, 2020
Iran claims Israel used a remote-controlled weapon to kill the country’s top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, on Friday.
The country’s security chief Ali Shamkhani said the attackers had “used electronic equipment” when Fakhrizadeh’s car came under fire on the east of the capital Tehran.
In what seems to be a Hollywood-style killing, the attack seems to have been carried out using either a remote-controlled gun or weapons “controlled by satellite”, BBC reported quoting the Iranian media. Shamkhani also claimed that no actual human assassins were involved.
His assertion, experts say, makes sense. In fact, Israel has tested many such weapons, which can be fired using a remotely controlled “joystick,” with the actual gun turret installed miles away from the target.