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In 1964, Lockheed Skunk Works Built a ‘SR-71’ Drone That Hit Mach 3 and 95,000 Feet — Almost of Today’s Fastest Drones Can’t Break 400 MPH
13+ hour, 23+ min ago (856+ words) Besides being the winning number in the game of blackjack and the legal drinking age in the United States, the number 21 also has significance in the world of aviation. Right now, the B-21 Raider sixth-generation stealth bomber is nearing its entry…...
The Trump-Class Battleship May Get an Electromagnetic Railgun After All — General Atomics Says It Never Stopped Working on the Technology
15+ hour, 25+ min ago (619+ words) Back in January, Nick Bucci, the Vice President for Defense Systems & Technologies at General Atomics (GA) Electromagnetic Systems, was asked during the Surface Navy Association symposium about the possibility that the new Trump-class battleship would still be equipped with an…...
The Avrocar Flying Saucer Was Designed to Hit Mach 3 — It Reached 35 MPH and the Program Was Killed
17+ hour, 54+ min ago (791+ words) The Avrocar program was one of the most unusual aircraft ever built. We visited it last year at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force and it stopped us in our tracks, to say the least." It was a 1950s Canadian-American…...
The X-43A Flew at Mach 9.6 and 110,000 Feet — No Air-Breathing Aircraft Has Gone Faster in the 22 Years Since
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (1143+ words) NASA's X-43A was a small, unmanned experimental hypersonic aircraft. It was part of the Hyper X program that set world speed records in 2004 by flying past Mach 9.6 (nearly 6,400 miles per hour), using an air-breathing scramjet engine." Measuring roughly 12 feet long, the…...
The Pentagon Spent $22,000,000 Studying Extra Dimensions, Warp Drive, and the Paranormal: Here’s What They Found
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (545+ words) A Popular Mechanics article published on Friday reported that scientists believe "they can explain dark matter by positing a particle that links to a fifth dimension." While the conception of a "warped extra dimension" dates back to a physics model…...
The 5 Letter Word That Makes the Ford-Class Aircraft Carrier Worth Every Penny
1+ week, 9+ hour ago (875+ words) The Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, also known as EMALS, pioneered by the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers, has been both a promise-filled and controversial aircraft launching system." Though it has promised to greatly improve sortie rates for American aircraft carriers " some…...
A Chernobyl Fungus Learned to Eat Radiation: DARPA Wants to Use It to Grow Military Structures in Space and the Pentagon Is Training It to Detect Secret Nuclear Tests
1+ week, 1+ day ago (779+ words) Nearly 40 years ago, in April of 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history took place at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what was then the Soviet Union, but is part of what's now Ukraine." As described by the Nuclear Regulatory…...
In 1958 a U.S. Bomber Dropped a Nuclear Weapon off the Coast of Georgia: 68 Years Later the Pentagon Still Can’t Find It
1+ week, 2+ day ago (829+ words) A recent report on a Cold War-era Soviet submarine wreck in the Norwegian Sea found that radioactive material continues to leak from the vessel decades after it sank, prompting questions about the potential long-term environmental risks tied to abandoned nuclear…...
Russia Built a Drone from Plywood and Foam That Costs Less Than a Single Orlan-10: The Molniya Now Runs Windows 11, Starlink, and AI Vision
1+ week, 2+ day ago (784+ words) The War in Ukraine has sparked an accelerated arms race between Russia and Ukraine to field the most drones possible. Much focus has been devoted to Ukraine and its impressive drone operations; however, Russia has also been making strides to…...
A Sunken Russian ‘Titanium’ Nuclear Attack Submarine Is Leaking Radioactive Material
1+ week, 3+ day ago (952+ words) British defense researcher Jack Buckby examines the chilling deep-sea legacy of the Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets. Sunken in the Norwegian Sea since 1989, the wreckage continues to leak radioactive isotopes from its corroding nuclear reactor, highlighting the enduring environmental hazards of abandoned…...