Science and Technology
Not so critical
Back in 2021, the Navy said that adding hypersonic missiles to its weapons mix was urgent at critical: The service previously described it as a critical capability that needed to be fielded before 2030. Four years later….apparently it isn’t really. The U.S. Navy has halted plans to acquire an air-launched, air-breathing hypersonic anti-ship cruise […]
High tech news
This first one blows my mind a little. Once thought impossible, the new sensor capabilities unveil the ability to follow energy from their beginnings as small-scale, meters-wide disturbances as they propagate over much greater distances “and potentially around the world,” according to Michael “Orbit” Nayak, program Manager with DARPA’s Atmosphere as a Sensor (AtmoSense) program. […]
Fired F-35 pilot speaks out
2023, an F-35 made the news when the pilot ejected from it in North Carolina and the plane flew pilotless for another 12 miles. You might be interested in the final outcome. COL Charles “Tre” Del Pizzo was flying the fighter, familiarizing in preparation to take command of VMX-1 squadron in Yuma, Arizona, starting […]
Boeing wins F-47 fighter contract, heads explode
The competition between Boeing and Lockheed Martin for the Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter (NGAD) is over, with Boeing taking first prize. During the Oval Office announcement ceremony, Trump displayed a poster showing the first glimpse of the F-47 design, revealing a forward fuselage and sharply swept back wings but no further design features. The […]
Crash update, DeepSeek warning
NTSB has released updated information on the January 30 crash between an Army Blackhawk and the American Airlines flight near Reagan airport in DC. One helicopter pilot thought they were at 300 feet and the other thought they were at 200 feet. The NTSB is not prepared to say exactly how high the helicopter was […]
Saturday New Tech
We mentioned the dual-band radar on the Gerald Ford yesterday – today we turn our attention to non-floaty toys. First up – the Marines are looking for a few good choppers hybrid planes Osprey replacements. A newly released U.S. Marine Aviation Plan shows the service is now looking at a successor to its MV-22 Osprey […]
Floaty Friday
We’ll start with a piece of good news. Darn near lost us a perfectly good handcar airplane back in November 2023. The plane in the scenario is an F/A-18E Super Hornet on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. On November 27, the pilot was coming in for a routine landing when one of the arresting wires […]
Hellhound in Army Competition
I am in awe of what science can do today – and the following helps demonstrate why. Cummings Aerospace is submitting a new drone for Army approval in its ‘loitering munition’ competition. Sounds kinda boring, huh? The company took its S3 version of its man-portable loitering munition out to the Pendleton Unmanned Aircraft Systems test […]
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