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Based on lessons learned in Ukraine, the US Army has announced that it’s abandoning its current modernization program for its M1A2 Abrams main battle tank in favor of a more fundamentally upgraded version called the M1E3.Continue ReadingCategory: Milit… Continue reading US Army fast tracks Abrams main battle tank modernization
At this week’s DSEI Defence exhibition in London, SpearUAV unveiled its Multi Canister Launcher (MCL) Viper system, which is bolted onto the outside of conventional and robotic military vehicles to launch Viper drones without exposing soldiers to harm…. Continue reading MCL Viper system gives military vehicles multi-drone launch capacity
Saab’s new Ultra-Lightweight Camouflage Screen (ULCAS) is a net that allows soldiers to hide from radar sweeps, while still being able to receive GPS signals and radio communications.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, TechnologyTags: Saab, camouflage,… Continue reading Saab camouflage net blocks radar but lets in GPS and radio signals
Under a UK Space Agency contract, Bangor University in Wales is developing a new nuclear fuel for the Rolls-Royce micro reactors that will power future crewed lunar outposts by 2030.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: Moon, Nuclear, Rolls Royce Continue reading Bangor University to develop tiny nuclear fuel for future Moon bases
A team of scientists led by University of Virginia professor Patrick Hopkins is developing a plasma “freeze ray” that will be less interesting to super villains than to engineers looking for ways to cool electronics in the vacuum of space.Continue Read… Continue reading Plasma pulses promise real-life ‘freeze ray’
It was second time lucky for Japan as it successfully launched its first lunar lander on September 6 at 23:42 GMT atop a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center 25 miles (40 km) south of Kyushu.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Successful liftoff for Japan’s first lunar landing mission
Lockheed Martin has successfully tested the latest in its family of missiles. Its next generation Extended-Range Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (ER GMLRS) reached a record 150 km (93 miles) at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.Continue … Continue reading Lockheed Martin tests ground-launch missile with double the range
India is furthering its bid to become a major spacefaring power with the launch of its first mission to the Sun, just as it winds down its first successful robotic Moon landing. On September 2, 2003, the Aditya-L1 solar probe lifted off atop the (PSLV-… Continue reading India launches its first solar mission as lunar rover goes to sleep
You may think that computer tape memories died out before Rubik’s cubes came in, but IBM and Fujifilm have teamed up to develop a record-breaking new sixth-generation tape storage system that can backup a whopping 50 TB of data.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading Tape lives! IBM and Fujifilm release record 50-TB memory tape
The fate of Russia’s failed Luna 25 Moon landing mission has been confirmed after NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) found a new impact crater at the estimated position of the lander’s crash shortly before its attempted landing.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading NASA orbiter finds crash site of Russia’s Luna 25 Moon lander