5+ hour, 43+ min ago   (212+ words) Interesting Engineering America’s New 9,700-Ton Destroyer Is Watching the Arctic With SPY-6 Radar USS Ted Stevens is America’s newest Flight III destroyer, combining the AN/SPY-6 radar with upgraded power and cooling systems as the U.S. Navy increasingly focuses…...

5+ hour, 24+ min ago   (175+ words) Interesting Engineering Russia Just Unveiled a Pantsir Built to Kill Drone Swarms. It Carries 48 Missiles. Russia’s new Pantsir-SMD-E is built around one problem: drone swarms. With a much larger interceptor load, it aims to keep air defenses fighting longer against…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (429+ words) Latest mages show that China’s “WZ-X” drone has what appear to be stealth features, hinting at a role spying deep inside defended airspace. New images are circulating that appear to show China’s latest American B-2 “Spirit” looking stealth drone, the…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (434+ words) The new partnership aims to adapt powerful pulsed lasers designed for fusion energy into potential military defense systems. RTX Ventures has invested in laser fusion company Xcimer Energy to develop pulsed-laser technology for potential use in US military directed-energy systems....

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (191+ words) Interesting Engineering Did Iran Recover America’s 30,000-Pound Bunker Buster? Iran recovered an undetonated U.S. bomb in Yazd and claims another advanced weapon may have been recovered for study. Here’s what reverse-engineering either weapon could reveal. Iranian officials say an undetonated…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (485+ words) The supersonic aircraft could test hypersonic payloads and air-launched rockets. Starfighters Space, a space company operating the world’s only commercial fleet of flight-ready Mach 2+ supersonic aircraft, and Vaya Defense and Space, the privately held developer of the patented Vortex-Hybrid rocket…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (548+ words) The latest ARAV-B flight adds another successful mission to a target family designed to reproduce changing missile threats. Kratos has flown its ARAV-B ballistic missile target during a multinational missile defense exercise around Hawaii. The target launched August 6 from the…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (229+ words) The new technology is being leveraged to overcome obstacles and facilitate the safe passage of follow-on forces. “A breaching mission can be executed most effectively with truly autonomous vehicles,” said Byron Boots, co-founder and chief executive officer of Overland AI....

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (231+ words) The F-16 is getting Viper Shield, a digital electronic warfare system designed to detect and counter electromagnetic threats, with 233 systems ordered by eight allied nations. The F-16 has been flying for decades, but the threats it faces today are far more advanced…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (397+ words) The system warns pilots as Chinooks approach their flight limits. The U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Boeing a $55.4 million contract to equip MH-47G Block II Chinook helicopters with an advanced flight-control augmentation system. It is designed to reduce pilot workload…...