Defence

Elon Musk has wished luck to NASA's planetary defence mission DART in his typical cryptic style. The mission, launched on Wednesday, is set to give a non-threatening asteroid a small nudge to see whether it can change its direction. But the SpaceX and Tesla CEO, known to find fun in most serious situations, said he wanted the mission to avenge the devastation an asteroid caused on Earth that led to the extinction of dinosaurs which roamed this planet some 650 million years ago.“Avenge the dinosaurs,” Musk tweeted,…

The Silent Sentry is one among the 75 Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled defence products, which were launched by Defence Minister Rajnath Singh at the event 'AIDef' (Artificial Intelligence in Defence)' on Monday.Out of the total AI defence products launched, many have already been deployed while the others are in the process of being deployed.The Silent Sentry is a key technology developed by the design bureau of the Indian Army to plug the gaps in surveillance networks. They are rail-mounted robots to be used as…

Image Source : FREEPIK Twitter Twitter has reportedly hired Wachtell Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a firm which is notable enough to have its own Wikipedia page, whose founding partner- Martin Lipton, was credited for inventing the shareholder rights plan or known to be the ‘poison pill’ a shielding system that Twitter initially used to stop Musk’s attempted buyout. It was last Friday (8 July 2022) when Musk filed a document, in an attempt to cancel his $44 billion takeovers of Twitter. In response to the action,…

The NewSpace India Ltd (Nsil), the commercial arm of India's Department of Space, has agreed to transfer 'Optical Imaging System' technology to Paras Defence and Space Technologies Ltd.The Optical Imaging System was developed by Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro).The Nsil has executed a Letter of Intent with Paras Defence.According to Paras Defence, the technology will be transferred through a Technology Transfer Agreement for development, manufacturing, and sale of Optical Imaging System in India and abroad.The…

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur have developed a metal 3D printer for potential use across a range of industries like aerospace, defence, automotive, oil and gas, and general engineering, the institute said on Monday.All the components of this metal 3D printer, except the laser and robot systems, are designed and manufactured in India. The project's main objective is to reduce the cost of metal 3D printers and attract a broader range of users.Despite the fact that metal 3D printing…

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur, have indigenously developed a metal 3D printer for aerospace, defence and general engineering applications.According to officials, all the components of the metal 3D printer, except the laser and robot systems, are designed and manufactured in India.The project's main objective is to reduce the cost of metal 3D printers and attract a broader range of users, they said."Despite the fact that metal 3D printing technology started a few years after the launch of…

The global cost of cybercrime topped $6 trillion (roughly Rs. 4,63,52,100 crore) last year, as the coronavirus pandemic caused online activity to soar, the head of Italian defence, security and aerospace giant Leonardo said Tuesday."New cybersecurity threats over the last two years have been a 'collateral damage' of the COVID-19 pandemic and the acceleration of digitalisation it induced," Alessandro Profumo said at the opening of the Cybertech Europe 2022 conference in Rome."Cyberattacks have grown in number,…

Spanish authorities have detected Pegasus spyware in the mobile phones of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defence Minister Margarita Robles, the government minister for the presidency, Felix Bolanos, said on Monday. Bolanos told a news conference Sanchez's phone was infected in May 2021 and at least one data leak occurred then. He would not say who could have been spying on the premier and whether any foreign powers or Spanish groups were suspected of being behind it. "The interventions were illicit and external.…

SpaceX will delay the maiden flight of Starship, the spaceship designed to transport humans to Moon and Mars, as it is switching priorities to cyber defence and overcoming signal jamming, CEO Elon Musk said. The tech billionaire did not say what or who was causing these attacks on SpaceX. But Musk and his SpaceX-operated Starlink Internet satellite constellation has been assisting Ukraine to remain online after the Russian invasion. SpaceX has sent free Starlink terminals at the request of the Ukrainian government. Since…