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After all the crashing and burning of Imperial Germany’s Zeppelins in the later part of WWI – once the Brits managed to build interceptors that could hit their lofty altitude, …read more Continue reading The “Tin Blimp” Was a Neither Tin Nor a Blimp: The Detroit ZMC-2 Story
It’s a blustery January day outside Lakehurst, New Jersey. The East Coast of North America is experiencing its worst weather in decades, and all civilian aircraft have been grounded the …read more Continue reading What One-Winged Squids Can Teach The Airship Renaissance
The US Navy and Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s unique FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP) has been saved at the last minute from the breaker’s yard. Scheduled to be scrapped in Mexico, it was purchased by undersea design company DEEP.Continue Re… Continue reading Flipping FLIP ship saved from scrapyard at last minute
Saronic, a defense-technology company based in Austin, Texas, has announced the Corsair, its largest autonomous surface vessel yet. It’s a 24-ft (7.3-m) sleek ship with customizable capabilities that can be deployed in “the thousands” for the US Navy.C… Continue reading Defense contractor announces its largest swarm-capable ocean drone yet
Ocean Energy has deployed its 826-tonne wave energy converter buoy OE-35 at the US Navy’s Wave Energy Test Site off the coast of the island of Oahu ahead of it being hooked up to Hawaii’s electricity grid.Continue ReadingCategory: Energy, ScienceTags: … Continue reading Revolutionary grid-scale wave energy generator deployed in Hawaii
There are few things in this world that are literally unique. One of these, in the true sense of the word, is the FLoating Instrument Platform (FLIP), which was a floating barge built for the US Navy that regularly sank itself on end for science.Contin… Continue reading Remembering FLIP, the US Navy’s self-sinking research ship
Lockheed Martin’s paradoxically famous/secret Skunk Works has released the first image of its futuristic stealth tanker aircraft designed to refuel US and allied warplanes at long distances close to combat zones sometime in the 2040s.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Lockheed Skunk Works releases first images of its innovative aerial tanker
Demonstrating that semi-autonomous weapons are the mainstay of the future and not an oddity, the US Navy and Lockheed Martin have completed a test of four Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASM) simultaneously in flight with minimal human guidance.Contin… Continue reading Four long-range anti-ship missiles team up in historic test
There’s a saying among recreational mariners that the word “boat” is actually an acronym for “bring out another thousand”, as it seems you can’t operate one for long without committing …read more Continue reading How to Properly Patch Your Iowa-Class Battleship
The US Navy and US Air Force have tapped Raytheon to design, build and test two high-power microwave antenna systems. These will be used in field-grade directed energy weapons to counter aerial drones and similar threats.Continue ReadingCategory: Milit… Continue reading Raytheon to build microwave weapon antennas for US Air Force and Navy