The Government of Dubai is planning to build Hyperloop infrastructure in the near future between two great global cities, Dubai and Fujairah City in the neighboring Emirate of Fujairah. The government aims to reduce the transportation time between these two cities to 10 minutes. Build Earth Live 2016 challenges participants to imagine and design the …
General Dynamics plans to test an Active Protection System (APS) system (Israeli Trophy) on the Abrams tank next year. The IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) Ground Forces Command declared the Trophy operational in August 2009. It was installed in an entire battalion of Israeli Armored Corps tanks in 2010. On March 1, 2011, stationed near the …
Truck maker Oshkosh is rolling out the much-awaited upgunned variant of its Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, meant to scout ahead of Army infantry. Adding a 30 mm chaingun to JLTV — much bigger than the normal 12.7 mm machinegun — fixes the biggest shortfall the vehicle had for the LRV mission. The first JLTV delivery …
Spacex and Elon Musk are developing the Interplanetary Transport System, the Raptor engine and the Falcon Heavy on spec. Spacex is mostly self-funding the initial development of those systems. Elon Musk is spending tens of millions per year on developing his Mars colonization plans and the hardware for it. This will scale up to $200-300 …
A star known by the unassuming name of KIC 8462852 in the constellation Cygnus has been raising eyebrows both in and outside of the scientific community for the past year. In 2015 a team of astronomers announced that the star underwent a series of very brief, non-periodic dimming events while it was being monitored by …
CTimes reports that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) said yesterday that the company will actively develop 5 nanometers process technology, while putting about 300 to 400 R and D personnel in developing more advanced 3-nanometer process, and toward the 1-nanometer manufacturing process. Dr. Mark Liu, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of TSMC, said that the original …
UK ministry of Defense has a crowdsourcing competition to find a system that would allow a single solider to control up to 20 drones at once, allowing a group of drones to track targets, map out unfamiliar areas for soldiers, run surveillance missions, or provide communications links between soldiers and their central command. The system …
New research has resulted in a new technique that measures the rapid process of liquid drops spreading on any surface. This is the first time this process has ever been measured,” says Mitra, whose team also performs breakthrough translation research in water quality monitoring. “Soon we’ll have new and improved products in water-repellant coatings, materials …
Iowa State researchers Liang Dong and Jiming Song are working on technology that could someday make a microwave invisibility cloak for stealth aircraft a reality. Along with assistance from Iowa State students, they’ve developed a flexible, stretchable, and tunable “meta-skin” that uses rows of small liquid-metal devices to cloak objects from radar by reducing the …
Gen. Mark Milley, the Army Chief of Staff, says the world is on the cusp of a fundamental change in the character of ground warfare. A revolution is perhaps five to 10 years away. The US Army is expecting to prepare to combat modernized militaries in Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. Milley foresees a …
General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) on 3 October unveiled a medium-weight tracked vehicle demonstrator called the Griffin that meshes elements of the turret and 120 mm cannon from the company’s M1A1/M1A2 Abrams main battle tank (63-72 tons) with its Ajax Scout Specialist Vehicle. The Ajax Scout is a 38-42 ton light tank developed for the …