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Crane for small ships to launch 900 lb UAVs and Parafoil for 500 meter long antennas and sensors

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DARPA aiming to share breakthrough, low-cost technologies to improve launch and retrieval of unmanned aerial systems and maritime situational awareness. DARPA and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR), seeks to give forward-deployed small ships the unprecedented capacity to serve as mobile launch and recovery platforms for medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial systems (UAS). These …

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Super-Critical Water-cooled Reactors

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Supercritical water cooled nuclear reactors are one of the generation four reactor options. In June 2014, China announced their plan to produce a 1000MWe demonstration SWCR known as SCR-1000, with commissioning scheduled for 2022-2025. China is currently collaborating with Euratom on fuel qualification tests for the SWCR. BTW – It is not that China is …

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New Night Vision Goggles that look like Ballastic Eyewear, Railguns and other ONR Future Force Technology

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The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is helping to shape the future force by investing in science and technology research to support tomorrow’s advanced defense capabilities. 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 …

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Alex Jessup Detailed Future Soldier Concept Art and the real military TALOS and Warrior Web projects

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U.S. Special Operations Command is moving on to Phase 2 in the development of its “Iron Man” exoskeleton that would give Special Forces troops head-to-toe bulletproof protection while allowing for fluid movements. Socom has issued a grant to Ekso Bionics, a robotic exoskeleton company and one of the companies that worked on the first phase, …

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Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket has first development test flight

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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle as it makes its first developmental test flight. Yesterday Blue Origin flew the first developmental test flight of our New Shepard space vehicle. Our 110,000-lbf thrust liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen BE-3 engine worked flawlessly, powering New Shepard through Mach 3 to its planned test altitude of 307,000 …

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New Armata Tanks and Variants Seen at Parade Rehearsal, First Redesigned Russian Tanks since 1970s

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The Russian Ground Forces’ new suite of armoured vehicles have been officially revealed for the first time by the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), ahead of their formal debut at the 9 May Moscow Victory Day Parade. The new vehicles are principally clean-slate designs and represent the biggest change in Russia’s armoured fighting vehicle families …

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Saudi Arabia King Salman Abdulaziz order elite troops deployed against Yemen

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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Abdulaziz on Tuesday ordered the deployment of an elite ground unit in the country’s ongoing campaign against Yemen’s Shiite Houthi militant group, Saudi’s official news agency has reported. King Salman has issued a royal decree to deploy National Guard Forces in its ongoing military operation against Yemen’s Houthis – a campaign …

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Russia printed mouse thyroid gland and are targeting a functioning bioprinted kidney in 2018

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Skolkovo biomed cluster resident 3D Bioprinting Solutions has announced the successful printing of a mouse’s thyroid gland. 3d Bioprinting Solutions is targeting functional printed kidney scheduled for 2018. If confirmed, it would reportedly be the world’s first synthetic construction of a complete, transplantable living organ. “This is undoubtedly a breakthrough in the world of regenerative …

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DARPA 2016 Includes 150 kilowatt laser live fire tests

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DARPA has its 2016 budget. High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) HELLADS program had funding of 26.6 million in 2014 and 14.1 million in 2015. Description: The goal of the HELLADS program is to develop a high-energy laser weapon system that will provide an order of magnitude reduction in weight compared to existing …

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The Fastest spacecraft ever launched is 3 months from Pluto

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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is three months from returning to humanity the first-ever close up images and scientific observations of distant Pluto and its system of large and small moons. “Scientific literature is filled with papers on the characteristics of Pluto and its moons from ground based and Earth orbiting space observations, but we’ve never …

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