Israel will heavily modify their F35 fighters and could adapt stealth and other F15 Silent Eagle modification to all of its older F15 fighters

April 7, 2017April 7, 2016 by Brian Wang

Israel is working with Lockheed Martin and the F-35 Joint Program Office to maximize autonomy of its planned stealth fighter force, including its own command, control, communications and computing (C4) system, indigenous weaponry and the ability to perform heavy maintenance in country rather than at predetermined regional overhaul facilities. Once the first F-35Is arrive here …

Blue Origin has third reusable rocket landing

April 7, 2017April 4, 2016 by Brian Wang

New Shepard flew again on April 2, 2016 reaching an apogee of 339,178 feet or 103 kilometers. It was the third flight with the same hardware. We pushed the envelope on this flight, restarting the engine for the propulsive landing only 3,600 feet above the ground, requiring the BE-3 engine to start fast and ramp …

Science advances towards improved quantum technology

April 7, 2017March 6, 2016 by Brian Wang

Andrea Morello and colleagues report a demonstration of Bell’s inequality violation for a pair of qubits embedded in silicon. Bell’s inequality was introduced by physicist John Stewart Bell during the 1960s. A violation of the inequality by a pair of quantum objects placed far apart from one another is a demonstration of the nonlocal nature …

Ultralight metallic microlattices being developed to reduce the mass of Spacecraft for Deep space exploration

April 7, 2017January 4, 2016 by Brian Wang

HRL Laboratories is developing new ultra-lightweight materials for future aerospace vehicles and structures under NASA’s Game Changing Development Program. These new materials can enable NASA to reduce the mass of spacecraft for deep space exploration by 40 percent and are necessary for the journey to Mars and beyond. Led by Dr. Tobias Schaedler, HRL’s team …

China reveals updated J-31 Gyrfalcon stealth fighter

April 7, 2017September 29, 2015 by Brian Wang

China has unveiled an updated version of the J-31 “Gyrfalcon” fighter jet, which is expected to be marketed internationally within the next five years, reports the Beijing-based Sina Military Network. An updated model of the J-31 — a single-seat, twin-engine, fifth-generation stealth multirole fighter developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation — was recently on display …

India’s Modi looks to Elon Musk Tesla batteries to boost solar electricity

April 7, 2017September 28, 2015 by Brian Wang

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Tesla Motors this weekend, he will most seeking Tesla batteries to help boost solar electricity in India India receives 5-7 kilowatt hours per square meter for 300 to 330 days of the year. India has a target of 100 GW of solar power by 2022. Currently India has 276 …

China’s 096 Nuclear Sub has specs comparable to the US Ohio Submarine

April 7, 2017May 1, 2015 by Brian Wang

There are some reports that China deployed the 096 nuclear submarine. In 2014, a huanqiu.com report stated a US military officer said it was quite probable that China has completed its deployment of six 096 submarines. It is also reported that an 096 submarine launched a JL-3 SLBM from the Yellow Sea and successfully hit …

New NIST Technique Can See Nanoscale ‘Tree’ and Microscale ‘Forest’ Simultaneously

April 7, 2017March 22, 2015 by Brian Wang

A close-up view of an individual tree won’t tell you much about what’s going on in the forest, or even what’s going on in the tree’s upper branches. The same goes for studying nanoparticles. What is happening in one small area might not be indicative of what’s going on with the nanoparticle as a whole. …

Graphene can make improved fuel cells

April 7, 2017March 21, 2015 by Brian Wang

Graphene, a strong, lightweight carbon honeycombed structure that’s only one atom thick, holds great promise for energy research and development. Recently scientists with the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures, and Transport (FIRST) Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC), led by the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, revealed graphene can serve as a proton-selective permeable …

Unique Graphene Nanopores with Optical Antennas for DNA Sequencing

April 7, 2017November 9, 2014 by Brian Wang

High-speed reading of the genetic code should get a boost with the creation of the world’s first graphene nanopores – pores measuring approximately 2 nanometers in diameter – that feature a “built-in” optical antenna. Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have invented a simple, one-step process for producing these nanopores …