Underwater explosive devices, such as improvised explosive devices (IED), offer a high-risk threat within the maritime domain. An attack on ships in harbours, coastal infrastructure, such as locks and quays, by underwater explosives could have a detrimental effect on infrastructure functionality and …

Satellites are an increasingly important tool in modern warfare and, as such, there is a renewed interest in developing anti-satellite weapons, as well as in assessing the vulnerability of satellites to being intercepted. In 2007 China used a modified ballistic missile to intercept a defunct Chinese …

Orienting paper about kinetic non-lethal weapons. One of its purposes is to help the non-specialist reader better understand scientific and technological aspects of these new weapon systems. Physical parameters and experimental methods are reviewed. Performance tests of two existing non-lethal weapon …