The Rafale was the first European fighter to use a radar with an electronically scanned antenna, in the shape of the Thales RBE2. Technologically interesting, and with some powerful capabilities ...

At the end of the Cold War, there were major revolutions in the technology used for aerial combat. The most visible one was stealth, with the iconic diamond shaped F-117 and B-2 stealth bombers and ...

Given the frequency and severity of truck crashes with stationary objects, Meritor Wabco is beefing up its radar-based collision mitigation system. And, as company officials demonstrated at Lone Star ...

Semi-Active Radar Homing Missiles are know for their limitations. Radar lock must be kept all the time, you can't attack more than one target at once. But can you launch more than one missile at the ...

The military use of radar has always had a yin-yang dynamic – as new forms of radar are developed, so too are new ways to jam them. A team of physicists at the University of Rochester has discovered ...

Like most waves in the electromagnetic spectrum, radio waves tend to bounce off of various objects. This can be frustrating to anyone trying to use something like a GMRS or LoRa radio in a dense city, ...

Traditional sonar and radar use an echo-based approach, and have been amazingly successful in sensing and tracking vehicles and objects under water, through the air, or even in space. The principle is ...

Passive radar systems have emerged as a transformative technology in remote sensing by exploiting non-cooperative illuminators such as GNSS, communication, television, and radio signals. Unlike ...

Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began ...