Directed-Energy Weapons: Technical Advantages
Technical overview of directed-energy weapons—lasers, high-power microwave systems, and particle beams—covering capabilities, deployment, counter-UAS roles, limitations, and development.
Technical overview of directed-energy weapons—lasers, high-power microwave systems, and particle beams—covering capabilities, deployment, counter-UAS roles, limitations, and development.
Escort jamming in airborne electronic warfare: mission principles, radar main-lobe/sidelobe effects, jamming pods, historical platforms, and networked future trends.
Technical overview of F-35 sensor and avionics: EOTS (TFLIR), DAS, helmet-mounted displays, MADL/Link-16 datalinks and weapons integration.
Technical overview of COFDM for drone communications, covering video transmission, multipath mitigation, RF linearity challenges and digital predistortion.
Overview of detection vs. stealth, focusing on radar and infrared detection, key stealth materials and structural approaches, and supplier profiles.
Technical overview of airplane windows: why rounded openings and multilayer panes mitigate stress concentration in pressurized cabins, plus structural and cost trade?offs.
Technical overview of ELTA airborne radars: AESA radar fire-control, SAR/GMTI reconnaissance and maritime patrol systems, plus missile-warning and DAA modules.
Examines Russia-Ukraine multi-domain operations and proposes a technical roadmap for collaborative detection and guidance, emphasizing full-domain holographic situational awareness.
Overview of IAI UAS family, detailing Heron MALE platforms, tactical and VTOL systems, ground control (UCS/MOIC) and training for ISTAR and persistent surveillance.
Technical overview of ground vortex formation, visibility, hazards to engine intakes, and mitigation methods including design and operational measures to reduce debris ingestion.
VTOL UAVs enable rapid post-earthquake damage mapping and command support: multi-payload sensors and high-resolution imagery improve damage identification and planning.
Overview of YOLO-based small-object detection (L-YOLO) and fundamentals, history, innovations, and future directions for UAV flight control algorithms.