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US engineering big upgrades for M1A2 SEP v4 Abrams tanks starting in 2021 to match Russian Armata and other new tanks

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The Army is now engineering a far-superior M1A2 SEP v4 Abrams tank variant for the 2020s and beyond –designed to be more lethal, faster, lighter weight, better protected, equipped with new sensors and armed with upgraded, more effective weapons, service officials said. Advanced networking technology with next-generation sights, sensors, targeting systems and digital networking technology …

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Tiny MEMS gravity sensor could detect drug tunnels, mineral deposits and trigger a commercial revolution larger than MEMS motion sensors

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A new device the size of a postage stamp can detect 1-part-per-billion changes in Earth’s gravitational field—equivalent to what the gizmo would experience if it were lifted a mere 3 millimeters. The technology may become so cheap and portable it could one day be mounted on drones to spot everything from hidden drug tunnels to …

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Breakthrough for customizing heat resistant ceramics into complex shapes for jet engines, ion drives and many other applications

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Researchers at HRL Laboratories, LLC, have achieved a new milestone in 3D printing technology by demonstrating an approach to additively manufacture ceramics that overcomes the limits of traditional ceramic processing and enables high temperature, high strength ceramic components. The researchers began with a vat of resin containing silicon, carbon and oxygen. They shone a pattern …

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China will upgrade supercomputer to 100 petaflops in 2016 instead of 2015 with applications like genomics and scramjet combustion

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System designer for the multiple iterations of the Tianhe machines, Dr. Yutong Lu, revealed that the Tianhe-2 supercomputer will be receiving its upgrade in 2016. However, due to the trade restrictions, they won’t be boosting their supercomputer with more Xeon Phi cores. Rather, the novel architecture they developed will deliver the system the extra 45 …

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Russia’s unmanned next generation fighter is being based off the MIG Skat Stealth UCAV prototype

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Russian designers are proceeding with development of an unmanned “sixth-generation” fighter jet, according to former Air Force chief Pyotr Deinekin. “The sixth generation of aircraft will most likely be pilotless. Naturally, we are actively working on this, “Deinekin said in an interview with RIA Novosti. Russian military aircraft maker MiG said in May it was …

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Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival 225

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The Nuclear Energy Blog Carnival 225 is up ANS Nuclear Cafe. Neutronbytes – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia plans to kick off a much talked about $80 billion program to shift 15% (17 GWe) of its electric generating capacity from fossil fuels to nuclear reactors. Bogdan Maglich says that the cause of 50 years of …

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60 minutes ran a segment claiming that Clean Technology has crashed and this has caused howling from those who support renewable power

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CBS has the script from “The Cleantech Crash” which aired on Jan. 5, 2014. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Shachar Bar-On, producer. Silicon Valley got Washington excited about it. President Bush was an early supporter, but the federal purse strings truly loosened under President Obama. Hoping to create innovation and jobs, he committed north of …

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High Speed Rail in China are an enabler of Super City Clusters

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China’s High Speed Rail Morgan Stanley has a 64 page analysis of high speed rail in China. China’s complete national coverage for its HSR network makes the economic case different than one off HSR lines in California. HSR is about half the cost of a comparable air ticket. There are environmental benefits. China does have …

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