The Russian Ground Forces are expected to receive up to 100 third-generation T-14 Armata main battle tanks (MBT), by 2020 and not the old plan for 2500 new tanks by 2020. The T-14, an armored vehicle based on the “Armata” universal chassis system, is one of the world’s first battle tanks to feature an unmanned …
Russia has new 25-ton Armata based platform for new armored personnel carriers. They are known as Kurganets and be replacing BMP and BMD and MT-LB and other types of tracked armored platforms currently in service, providing a more maneuverable and better-protected platform. Kurganmashzavod is expecting to launch serial production of the new family in 2021, …
Hours after the North’s sixth nuclear detonation, an announcer on its official Korean Central Television declared: “The hydrogen bomb test was a perfect success.” Earlier monitors measured a 6.3-magnitude tremor near its main testing site, which South Korean experts reportedly said was nearly 10 times more powerful than the 10-kiloton test carried out a year …
In 2015, Maj. Park Sung-man of the South Korean military said the United States estimates between 6,000 and 8,000 subterranean facilities have been built in North Korea. In 2012, the US intelligence community estimated over 10,000 potential underground facilities exist worldwide, with the majority of them unidentified and the expectation that their numbers will continue …
The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency has launched a study of innovative ways to counter advanced missile threats such as ultra-high-speed maneuvering hypersonic missiles. The agency recently released a request for information that will seek to identify weapon concepts for defense against future advanced threats such as hypersonics, he said. The responses are due Friday and …
Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell is among the largest and most influential anime and manga franchises of the past twenty-five years. Shirow seems to have captured one of the most believable post-singularity futures. A lot of the main focus is the world building and the visuals. Details is all about the how the AI, …
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories nuclear fusion Z Machine are adding tritium to the fuel to boost power The introduction of tritium is of high technical interest because a 50/50 mix of tritium and deuterium — the two isotopes of hydrogen — emits 80 times more neutrons, and 500 times more energy, than deuterium alone. …
The Government of Dubai is planning to build Hyperloop infrastructure in the near future between two great global cities, Dubai and Fujairah City in the neighboring Emirate of Fujairah. The government aims to reduce the transportation time between these two cities to 10 minutes. Build Earth Live 2016 challenges participants to imagine and design the …
Eddie Braun completed Evel Knievel’s Snake River Canyon jump on September 16, 2016, in Southern Idaho. He flew 2000 ft high, accelerating up to 430 MPH in just 3.9 seconds. https://www.facebook.com/EvelSpiritRocket/ Eddie Braun spent 3 years and around 1.6 million dollars of his own money, funding this project. Building and designing the steam powered rocket, …
There was a 45 year Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY). It has transformed how gifted children are identified and supported by the US education system. As the longest-running current longitudinal survey of intellectually talented children, SMPY has for 45 years tracked the careers and accomplishments of some 5,000 individuals, many of whom have gone …
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) had their 2016 symposium on August 23-25, 2016 At 50 minutes of the video is the David Kirtley, MSNW, LLC, Magnetoshell Aerocapture for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters talk No upper limit to insertion velocity Magnetic drag can be 1000 of times more. Magnetic field can be tens …