Marine megadrone will have all the weapons, sensors of an F-35 and do everything a manned F-35 can do except displace the F-35 budget

The US Marines want a lot from the MUX drone platform which they plan to have operational capability by 2026. The future platform is a Group 5 which is the largest class of military drone. It will be equipped to fight from sea as well as land. Lt Gen Davis says this future drone will …

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Powerful rocket missions to Mars in 30 days one way and fast mission to other solar system destinations

ProjectRho has round trip space mission times based on three types of rocket missions and three levels of constant acceleration. It is a table of mission parameters calculated by Jon C. Rogers for the book Spaceship Handbook. Six trajectories are listed Three impulse (rocket) types and three constant acceleration brachistochrone types. “Impulse” means the spacecraft …

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Russia claims active protection system for Armata tanks can successfully intercept uranium core cannon shells which would make Armata invulnerable to other Tanks

Russia is claiming that the Afghanit active protection system (APS) mounted on Moscow’s powerful new T-14 Armata main battle tanks has been proven effective at intercepting depleted uranium-core armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) cannon shells. If Moscow’s claims are accurate, the new Russian active protection system would be a game-changing development in the realm of …

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Argonne researchers posit way to locally circumvent Second Law of Thermodynamics where entropy always increases

For more than a century and a half of physics, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that entropy always increases, has been as close to inviolable as any law we know. In this universe, chaos reigns supreme. But researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Argonne National Laboratory announced recently that they may …

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3-D wiring technique is progress to scalable quantum computers

Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo led the development of a new extensible wiring technique capable of controlling superconducting quantum bits, representing a significant step towards to the realization of a scalable quantum computer. “The quantum socket is a wiring method that uses three-dimensional wires based on spring-loaded …

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Insight on mechanism of unconventional superconductivity

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and partner institutions conducted a systematic investigation into the properties of the newest family of unconventional superconducting materials, iron-based compounds. The study may help the scientific community discover new superconducting materials with unique properties. Researchers combined innovative crystal growth, highly sensitive magnetic measurements, and the controlled …

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Possible extraterrestrial intelligence evidence – Peculiar periodic spectral modulations 234 solar type stars out of 2.5 million stars

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has analyzed 2.5 million stars and is seeing very short light pulses along with normal light spectrums from their stars. The brief light pulses seen at 234 out of 2.5 million stars is consistent with a high power laser (which our current technology is capable of making) and shining in …

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Remote control self driving kits will be added to the Abrams tank and other General Dynamics armored vehicles

General Dynamics Land Systems, maker of the Abrams tank and the Stryker armored fighting vehicle, is teaming up with Kairos Autonomi, a company whose kits can turn virtually anything with wheels or tracks into a remote-controlled car. Kairos seat robot that works a car’s controls just as a human would, and can be installed in …

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Boeing fears Spacex Raptor engine – CEO vows to put humans on Mars before Spacex but needs over $60 billion for Space Launch System

Boeing Chief Executive Officer Dennis Muilenburg sees a commercial space-travel market with dozens of destinations orbiting the Earth and hypersonic aircraft shuttling travelers between continents in two hours or less. And Boeing intends to be a key player in the initial push to send humans to Mars, maybe even beating Musk to his long-time goal. …

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JP Aerospace launches prototype balloon with the goal of eventually reaching 60 miles in altitude

JP Aerospace has the goal of sending balloons-to-space. In 2002, a balloon named BU60-1 reached a record 53.0 km (32.9 mi; 173,900 ft). Japanese researchers developed a 3.4 µm polyethylene film. Using a highly active Ziegler catalyst in the inflation manufacturing method, it was impossible to fabricate a film of less than 5.6 µm thickness. …

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Spacex Raptor engine is test firing and it will enable a big rocket to deliver 100+ tons to the surface of Mars

Elon Musk tweeted that the first test firing of the new Spacex Raptor engines have been performed. Chamber pressure is almost 3X Merlin, so engine is about the same size for a given area ratio Production Raptor goal is specific impulse of 382 seconds and thrust of 3 MN (~310 metric tons) at 300 bar …

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