US Navy Tests Networked Robotics Ships and Drones in Mock Combat Operations

In 2022, Ukraine flew Turkish made Bayraktar TB2 drones near Russia Black Sea flagship the Moskva. The drones had been effective against Russian armored vehicles and artillery. They distracted radar operators and then the Moskva was hit and sunk by Neptune missiles. The review of images following the strike of the two Neptune anti-ship missiles …

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Giant satellites in high low-earth orbit to provide internet directly to smartphones

Rob Hoyt of Tethers Unlimited presented “In-Space Recycling and Manufacturing” at the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group Presentations. The FISO (Future In-Space Operations) Telecon Series hosts the presentations. As of August 2015, Dan Dumbacher, former Deputy AA of HEOMD at NASA HQ and Director of the Engineering Directorate at MSFC, as well as a …

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US Strategic Command General thinks there is potential and some movement towards North Korean denuclearization

General John Hyten says the prospects for the potential denuclearization of North Korea are moving in a positive direction since the Singapore summit. He is the Commander, United States Strategic Command. USSTRATCOM is responsible for strategic deterrence, global strike, and operating the Defense Department’s Global Information Grid. US Strategic would actually launch nuclear weapons if …

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In Situ processing lets researchers preview results of long run exascale simulations as they are running

The SENSEI in situ processing project takes aim at a set of research challenges for enabling scientific knowledge discovery within the context of in situ processing at extreme-scale concurrency. This work is motivated by a widening gap between FLOPs and I/O capacity which will make full-resolution, I/O-intensive post hoc analysis prohibitively expensive, if not impossible. …

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Ships and Planes that dominate the US Military budget until 2030

The US has been Spending between $150-220 billion per year on military modernization. This does not include war budgets for MRAPs or field armor upgrades. Many programs were canceled because of cost overruns or other reasons which meant less of an actual modernization or buildup of equipment. Several major programs dominate the US military budgets …

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Chinese J-20 production version spotted

The fourth low production rate copy of the Chinese J-20 stealth fighter has been spotted The J-20 will fly at up to 1305 mph The appearance of LRIP aircraft suggests that the type is nearing introduction into service with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force. A number of J-20s have been seen on satellite imagery …

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Rice makes light-driven nanosubmarines

Each of the single-molecule, 244-atom submersibles built in the Rice lab of chemist James Tour has a motor powered by ultraviolet light. With each full revolution, the motor’s tail-like propeller moves the sub forward 18 nanometers. And with the motors running at more than a million RPM, that translates into speed. Though the sub’s top …

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War and Peacetime Profiteering Update – Gerald Ford Aircraft Carriers over budget, years behind schedule and technologically doomed on arrival

The Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier is now $6 billion over budget and will fall years behind schedule. The program is now $6 billion over budget, according to a review by McCain’s staff. And while the lead ship is expected to be delivered next year, the second ship in the fleet is five years behind …

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Granular gel as a 3D writing medium to create fragile and complex things like artificial jelly fish and can write and grow living tissue cells

University of Florida Researcher Angelini came up with the idea to use microscopic hydrogel particles as a medium for 3-D printing of soft matter. These particles are 99.8 percent water and 20 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. He found that he could manufacture soft materials into shapes more fragile than anything …

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