The US and Britain began launching strikes Thursday against Houthis-linked targets in Yemen — just days after the Iran-backed rebels carried out their largest attack to date on shipping vessels in the Red Sea. The Houthis had targeted 27 commercial ships to date. The most recent (on Tuesday) Houthis attack used 18 drones and three …
Hermeus has completed testing of its first fully-integrated vehicle, Quarterhorse Mk 0. This non-flying prototype acted as a ‘dynamic iron bird’ for the company by validating all major aircraft subsystems in a real-world environment. Hermeus’ first flight vehicle, Quarterhorse Mk 1, is actively being built and scheduled to fly in 2024. Mk 0 is the …
The conflict between Israel, US and Iran has not been a direct war. Tehran has increasingly utilized non-state actors to expand its regional influence and achieve its strategic objectives in the Middle East. However, Iran is vulnerable to minorities and groups inside Iran. More than half of Iran’s population are non-persian ethnic minorities—Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Arabs, …
DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control. The award is Phase 3 of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. The X-65 flight is controlled by using jets of air from a pressurized …
Anduril Industries is a new American defense company that specializes in autonomous drone systems. They excel at artificial intelligence, software, drones and robotics. Anduril’s major products include unmanned aerial systems (UAS), counter-UAS (CUAS), semi-portable autonomous surveillance systems, and networked command and control software. Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey created the Oculus Rift which was sold to …
Scientists at the forefront of hypersonic weapons research in China say they have a more powerful revolutionary air-breathing engine. The “revolutionary” air-breathing engine could lift an aircraft from a runway to more than 30km (18.6 miles) into the stratosphere and continuously accelerate it to 16 times the speed of sound. The longest intercontinental flights would …
SpaceX had the fifth Falcon Heavy of 2023 Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It is carrying the US Space Force X-37B spaceplane. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers …
All systems are looking good and weather is 90% favorable for tonight’s Falcon Heavy launch of USSF-52. Launch should be in less than an hour. All systems are looking good and weather is 90% favorable for tonight’s Falcon Heavy launch of USSF-52. The webcast will go live ~15 minutes ahead of liftoff → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK pic.twitter.com/vO0Cl3UVdy …
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, recorded ignition of a full-scale Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine combustor, which was fired for a record 251 seconds and achieved more than 5,800 pounds of thrust. NASA has stated their intention to create a 10,000 lbs thrust engine. Rotating detonation engine could be up to 25% more …
The U.S. military’s X-37B space plane is set to launch Thursday, Dec. 28 in the evening on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. The spacecraft has a four-hour window starting at 7 p.m. to take off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The SpaceX Falcon heavy is at pad 39A to prepare for tomorrow’s launch. Falcon …
The US Space Force and military will spend $15-30 billion over the next 5 years to deploy next generation satellites, drones, ground sensors and other global systems to track and monitor and defeat hypersonic missiles. Hypersonic missiles will go two to six times faster than regular missiles. Hypersonic missiles will move at 1.5 to six …