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The US Air Force has flight tested the Skyborg combat drone’s Autonomy Core System (ACS) for the first time. The “brain” of the autonomous Skyborg was installed in a Kratos UTAP-22 tactical uncrewed vehicle at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, and carri… Continue reading Skyborg combat drone’s “brain” flies for the first time
Boeing has spliced together the fore and aft sections of the first Boeing-Saab T-7A Red Hawk prototype advanced jet trainer in record time. Despite the two sections being built 4,500 miles (7,200 km) apart, they were perfectly matched and joined in und… Continue reading Built continents apart, sections of T-7A Red Hawk joined in record time
ESA is working on ways to make sharing unwashed underwear used in spacesuits a bit less horrible. The Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) will work with the Vienna Textile Lab on the BACTeRMA project to test textiles with improved anti-bacterial properties for… Continue reading ESA seeks ways to make shared spacesuit underwear more hygienic
Airtext has released a simple laser altimeter for small aircraft to make approaches and landings safer. The app-controlled Land-DAR (Land Distance and Ranging) is configured through an iOS or Android app and calls out altitudes as the aircraft descends… Continue reading Land-DAR uses lasers to improve safety of small plane landings
Rheinmetall has rolled out its latest generation of HX heavy military truck, the HX3. Boasting a thorough redesign of previous HX vehicles, it offers greater crew protection, better visibility and “future proofing” that will allow it to use crew-option… Continue reading Rheinmetall rolls out new-gen HX3 tactical truck line
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) robotic deep-space probe is returning from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. On May 10, 2021 at 4:23 pm EDT, the spacecraft began its 2.5-year journ… Continue reading OSIRIS-REx headed back to Earth with “abundance” of asteroid samples
The US Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Kairos Power have announced a new agreement to build Kairos’ Hermes low-power demonstration molten-salt cooled, pebble-bed reactor at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.Continue… Continue reading Kairos and TVA partner to build demonstration pebble-bed nuclear reactor
Dassault Aviation has taken the wraps off its latest business jet, the Falcon 10X. Still in development, the aircraft won’t be built for several years, but the company had a virtual rollout to highlight the design and many of the features of what it cl… Continue reading Dassault unveils Falcon 10X business jet with world’s largest cabin
Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) has won an £800-million (US$1.1-billion) contract from the Ministry of Defence to upgrade 148 of the British Army’s Cold War era Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks to Challenger 3 specifications. Work will begin this yea… Continue reading British Army to roll out upgraded Main Battle Tank in 2027
NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has successfully flown for the fifth time. The tiny autonomous rotorcraft lifted off from Wright Brother Field in Jezero Crater on the Red Planet for a 108-second flight that took it on a one-way trip to a new airfield … Continue reading Ingenuity Mars Helicopter makes first one-way trip on fifth test flight