Wireless sensor network (WSN) is an emerging technology that shows great promise for various applications both for mass public and military. The sensing technology combined with processing power and wireless communication makes it lucrative for being exploited in abundance in future. In many important military and commercial applications, it is critical to protect a sensor network from maliciou...

Accurate and stable frequency reference sources are critical for commercial, navigation, military, and scientific space applications. Each piece of flight hardware has requirement-types that are generic such as size, weight, power, and reliability, and requirement-types that are specific to the hardware function. The key requirement-types for frequency reference sources are phase noise and stab...

Logistics mainly involves the management of physical distribution systems. The first significant applications of logistics were developed in the military sector. Modern military operations require constant mobility and consume large amounts of supplies. Although military logistics first developed in the Nineteenth Century (O’Sullivan and Miller, 1983), it was in World War II that logistics theo...

Toxin weapon research, development, production and the ban on its uses is an integral part of international law, with particular attention paid to the protection against these weapons. In spite of this, hazards associated with toxins cannot be completely excluded. Some of these hazards are also pointed out in the present review. The article deals with the characteristics and properties of natur...

Wireless sensor networks can be used by the military for a number of purposes such as monitoring militant activity in remote areas and force protection. Being equipped with appropriate sensors these networks can enable detection of enemy movement, identification of enemy force and analysis of their movement and progress. The focus of this article is on the military requirements for flexible wir...

Achieving a high level of reliability is of utmost importance in military applications. A given military grade part is extremely more expensive than its commercial counterpart. This great price difference is mainly due to the differences in design, manufacturing and the quality of parts used in commercial versus military products. Moreover, design of military grade products is much more difficu...

Composite materials are often more practical in use for different military applications. These materials provide interesting results especially through their good strength properties, corrosion resistance and low specific weight. These materials have various structures. Any defect of these materials usually has a more complicated and other form than in metals and that is why methods and diagnos...

War is the father of all things, Heraclitus believed. The military’s demand for better weapons and transportation, as well as tools for communication, detection and surveillance has driven technological progress during the past 150 years or so, producing countless civilian applications as a fallout. The military has invested heavily into high-energy physics, materials science, navigation system...

Quad rotor is a renowned underactuated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with widespread military and civilian applications. Despite its simple structure, the vehicle suffers from inherent instability. Therefore, control designers always face formidable challenge in stabilization and control goal. In this paper fuzzy membership functions of the quad rotor’s fuzzy controllers are optimized using nat...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed by a large number of sensor nodes, which are usually small in size and are deployed inside or close to some phenomenon of interest. Moreover, since usually there is no need for regular or predefined deployment, the sensors can be placed over irregular or inaccessible areas. Therefore, according to [2], it is expected that the sensors possess self-org...