The Aerospace Innovation Initiative is to develop prototypes for the next generation of air dominance platforms, X-plane programs. They will also work on a next-generation engine. The F-35 joint strike fighter was billed as one plane that can fit the needs of the Air Force, Navy and Marines, the next-generation fighter will instead be two …
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp, also referred to as Guantánamo, G-bay or GTMO (pronounced ‘gitmo’), is a United States military prison located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, which fronts on Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. At the time of its establishment in January 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said the prison camp was established …
We are heading into a take no prisoners war in the Middle East. The Islamic State released a video Tuesday showing a Jordanian pilot held captive by the group being burned alive. The release of the video came just days after the militants beheaded a Japanese journalist. Jordanian TV reported that the burning of the …
The U.S. health-care system was among the least efficient in the developed world two years before major changes from Obamacare began to go into effect. America’s health-care system ranked 44th of 51 nations assessed by Bloomberg, in terms of per person spending, life expectancy and health-care cost as a percentage of the economy. It’s an …
There are billions of tons of water ice on the poles of the Moon. Shackleton Energy plans to extract lunar water ice, turn it into rocket fuel and create fuel stations in Earth’s orbit. Just like on Earth you won’t get far on a single tank of gas, what we can do in space today …
Korean researchers have successfully developed sponge-like graphene aerogel electrode material using graphene and a polymer. This is a graphene battery. The newly-developed battery is ten times as small as existing ones, but can show the same product performance. A research team headed by Park Ho-seok, professor of the School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University, …
Huang Xuhua, China’s chief submarine designer, has told Shenzhen Satellite Television that China’s Type 091 Han-Class nuclear-powered submarine was designed and developed based on two toys from the United States. After Huang took over the position as chief designer of the Type 091 submarine from Peng Shilu in 1983, he argued that the linear-shape design …
There was a report from the Global Times and that was report was referred to by WantChinaTimes that China was nearing the construction phase for its second aircraft carrier. The Washington Post reported that the Global Times article and social media references to the start of construction for the second aircraft carrier have been deleted. …
Thirty-eight countries and regions worldwide plan to build high-speed rail lines and work mostly with China on the construction of those high speed rail lines. A global (across Asia, Europe, middle east and Africa) high speed rail network with total length of 93,000 kilometers (58000 miles), or 8.5 times the total length of high-speed railways …
China’s land reclamation efforts in the disputed South China Sea may eventually become the nation’s first island chain, allowing the nation to contain the US military facilities in Australia according to the Japan Military Review, a defense magazine based in Tokyo. The blueprint drawn by the Ninth Design and Research Institute of the state-run China …
Hidden away inside a world-class life sciences lab on Google’s campus, doctors are trying to change the way people think about their health. Google has been working on magnetic nanoparticles that would seek out cancer cells in the bloodstream and report back to a smart wristband. Google is using light signals to talk to the …