Lockheed NGAD Fighter in a 3D Computer Model

Youtuber Pilot Photog has created 3D models of the Lockheed NGAD concept. Lockheed’s Ultimate Secret Projects (Skunkworks) team has just unveiled the silhouette and concept drawing of their next generation air dominance fighter, the NGAD. Pilot Photog has a groundbreaking 3D model and explore the incredible capabilities of this game-changing fighter. There is detailed look …

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DIU Speeding Up Low-Cost Hypersonic Testing

The DIU (Defense Innovation Unit) started the Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities (HyCAT) initiative in early 2023 to address the need for low-cost, high-cadence test capabilities for the hypersonic community. The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) and its mission partners are prototyping a suite of modern, low-cost, high-cadence, dual-use airborne testing platforms (vehicles) that provides …

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6th Generation NGAD Fighters are Based on Secret Billion Dollar X-plane Prototypes

There was a secret billion dollar US Air Force, DARPA and Navy X-plane program to explore future fighters that paved the way for the Next-Generation Air Dominance program, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall revealed at the POLITICO Defense Summit on Nov. 14. Kendall and other Air Force officials have previously said there were flying prototypes …

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DARPA Funds Breakthrough Rotating Detonating Engines

Rotating detonation engine could be up to 25% more efficient than traditional jet engines. This could make airplanes and missile faster or with longer range. Smaller weapons could reach the same speeds and ranges as today’s missiles. Rotating detonation rocket engines (RDREs) use detonation as the primary means of energy conversion, producing more useful available …

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New Self-Propelled Pillbot Will Replace Endoscopes

Endiatx PillBot™ and future Endiatx products will be true telemedicine. They will dramatically increase access to care while simultaneously lowering costs and increasing doctors’ effectiveness. Problem Many of the 11,000 in the US and 800,000 globally who die from stomach cancer each year are diagnosed too late for doctors to save their lives. They don’t …

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DARPA Developing Power Beaming to Enable Energy Web Dominance

DARPA selected RTX Corporation, Draper, and BEAM Co to design prototype lop wireless optical power relays. The Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program, aimed at revolutionizing energy distribution through airborne wireless power transfer. The optical energy relays designed in POWER’s phase one will be demonstrated on the ground. In the second phase, they will …

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UK Getting 15 Kilowatt Combat Laser for Armored Vehicles

United Kingdom armed forces will receive its first 15 KW laser weapon in October 2023. A subsidiary of RTX’s Raytheon UK, the high-energy laser weapon system will be integrated into the UK’s Wolfhound armored vehicle. The UK Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) Land Demonstrator Program has developed a 15-kilowatt laser to prevent aerial threats from unmanned …

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