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Jet-powered Geran-5 model proves Kremlin’s military is also capable of innovation

ARX Robotics wants to ‘access industry muscle we already have’ to meet soaring demand for unmanned military vehicles

{loadposition bannertop} {loadposition sidebarpub} Australia has demonstrated that its P-8A Poseidon can launch the AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile, with the Department of Defence confirming on 11 September 2026 that an RAAF aircraft successfully struck a target with LRASM during RIMPAC 26. Although the combination is not yet operational, it could give Australia a long-range platform able t…

{loadposition bannertop} {loadposition sidebarpub} Australia has declared Initial Operational Capability for the U.S.-made JASSM-ER and LRASM on its F/A-18F Super Hornets , giving the RAAF operational long-range strike options against defended land and maritime targets. The move deepens U.S.-Australian combat integration and expands allied stand-off strike capacity in the Indo-Pacific. The capabi…

Introduction Point a garden hose at your car, press your thumb over the end, and the water leaves faster. Narrow the opening, and the water exits faster. That's the intuition almost everyone carries about nozzles, and for an ordinary garden hose, it's a useful one. A rocket nozzle works differently. It narrows to a waist in the middle, the throat , and then flares back open toward the exit. And i…

Choosing what orbit to put a satellite in always comes with trade-offs. When it comes to Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO), between 100-450 km, there are distinct advantages. Remote sensing cameras can take better pictures, comms and radar require less power, and atmospheric drag will automatically clean up dead satellites. But there’s also a cost - air friction requires any satellite in this orbit to …

{loadposition bannertop} {loadposition sidebarpub} Northrop Grumman officially opened the East Gate 3 manufacturing facility in Layton, Utah, to expand production infrastructure for the United States Air Force B-21 Raider stealth bomber program. The 845,000-square-foot campus expansion supports simultaneous low-rate initial production and flight testing to accelerate aircraft delivery schedules. …

{loadposition bannertop} {loadposition sidebarpub} The US Army awarded Northrop Grumman a $4.838 billion contract to sustain full-rate production of the CIRCM laser-based missile defense system through 2035. The agreement secures long-term protection for Army helicopters against infrared-guided missiles while supporting fleet expansion and future system upgrades. CIRCM is fielded on AH-64 Apache …

Starting this fall, students interested in conducting aerospace research will be able to earn a PhD in aerospace engineering from the Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design. UT San Antonio will be one of just four universities in the state offering a PhD in aerospace engineering, joining Texas A&M, the University of Texas at […] The post UT San Antonio launches aerospace engineering …

High Density Vertiplex The High Density Vertiplex (HDV) subproject is responsible for the development and evaluation of a reference automation architecture that addresses scalable and efficient aircraft operations, flight and airspace management procedures, and vertiport operations in high density vertiplex environments. HDV is a sub-project of the Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) project under the In…

The world leader in Uncrewed Aircraft Systems, General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) is pleased

Through a new collaboration between NASA and the National Football League (NFL), the agency will soon bring America’s strengths in space exploration and aeronautics innovation to the football field. NASA will conduct flyovers, astronaut appearances, and fan engagement at NFL games across the United States as part of its new Inspiration Tour. “This is the […]

I am trying to model the behavior of a rocket using Simulink. I use Newton and Euler's laws to compute the accelerations based on the forces and torques on the rocket. I am using two coordinate systems: The flat-Earth coordonate system, that I will denote $E$ ; The rocket frame, $B$ . Let us say that two forces are acting on the rocket: The thruster's force, expressed in $B$ ; The gravity, expres…

{loadposition bannertop} {loadposition sidebarpub} SPEEL PRAHA will showcase an integrated avionics portfolio at Future Forces 2026, giving military operators a modular path to replace legacy cockpit and recording systems without redesigning entire aircraft architectures. The approach could extend the operational utility of ageing fleets by improving flight-data management, night operations, main…

{loadposition bannertop} {loadposition sidebarpub} General Atomics has presented Wildfire as a long-range modular combat drone configured to carry two LRASMs or four JSMs while competing to succeed the MQ-9 Reaper under the U.S. Massed Modular Aircraft program. The design shifts the Reaper mission set toward lower-cost distributed operations built around stand-off weapons, massed employment, and …

Scientists have designed a lightweight aluminum material inspired by eggshells that could one day help protect spacecraft from fast-moving pieces of space debris. Nearly one million pieces of debris larger than 1 centimeter are believed to be orbiting near Earth. These fragments can travel at extremely high speeds, so even a relatively small object can […] The post Eggshell-Inspired Aluminum Shie…

Roshan Eapen, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, has been selected as one of seven people nationwide to receive NASA's 2025 Early Career Faculty Award, a competitive honor that supports innovative research aligned with the agency's technology and exploration goals.

The maintenance of thousands of masonry bridges across the UK is set to be revolutionised