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At NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, Rolls-Royce has begun testing of the F130 jet dual-engine pods that will power the US Air Force’s B-52H Stratofortress heavy bomber fleet for the remainder of its service life into the 2050s.Continue Readi… Continue reading Rolls-Royce begins testing of last engines for the US B-52 fleet
As part of its Project Sunrise for ultra-long-distance international flights, Qantas is showing off the new Business Class and First Class seats that will be installed in its future Airbus A350-1000 fleet and that convert into little staterooms to make… Continue reading Qantas installs stateroom seats for ultra-long-distance flights
A Russian rescue ship has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), allowing three stranded Russian and American astronauts to return to Earth a few months after a coolant leak disabled their own spacecraft.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Rescue ship for stranded astronauts docks with ISS
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the bloody fighting that has continued for the past year has not only overturned many of our preconceptions about geopolitics, it’s given a powerful kick to technological innovation in both the military and civilian sph… Continue reading Lessons to be learned as Ukraine war shifts defense priorities
The US Marine Corps has decided to purchase Northrop Grumman’s all-in-one Next Generation Handheld Targeting System (NGHTS) that packs a suite of day/night targeting sensors in a 10-lb (4.5-kg) package and can operate in GPS-denied areas.Continue Readi… Continue reading US Marines to get Northrop Grumman NGHTS four-in-one targeting device
Lockheed Martin has secured a contract worth a potential US$2 billion to install Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) hypersonic missile launchers on the US Navy’s three Zumwalt-class destroyers by the middle of the decade.Continue ReadingCategory: Militar… Continue reading US Zumwalt destroyers first to get hypersonic missiles under new deal
BAE Systems Autonomous Pacific 24 (AP24) Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) has taken a major step from development to deployment, the robotic naval vessel being awarded Lloyd’s Register Unmanned Marine Systems Certification for its design and construction.Co… Continue reading BAE System’s robotic boat gets world-first Lloyd’s certificate
A unique Lockheed Martin fighter jet trainer called the VISTA X-62A has become the first tactical aircraft to be controlled by artificial intelligence, taking to the air for over 17 hours during a test flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California i… Continue reading AI takes control of tactical aircraft for over 17 hours in world first
With an eye to taking autonomous flight to the next level, the US Air Force has awarded a contract to Reliable Robotics to study how to turn multi-engine transport jets into robotic aircraft that can handle all aspects of a flight by themselves, from t… Continue reading US Air Force looks into flying robotic multi-engine jet transports
A Cold War story has come to an end as the largest ever submarine is put out to pasture. According to the Russian state news agency TASS, the Dmitry Donskoy, the first of the gigantic Typhoon submarines and the last still in service, has been officiall… Continue reading Largest ever submarine heads for Russian scrapyard