"Will China's Next-Generation Supply Ship be Nuclear-Powered?"
"On September 6, 2018, China’s comprehensive supply ship Hongzehu (Hull 881) was honorably retired, marking that the Chinese Navy has entered a new era of modernization. With its retirement, perhaps the country’s next-generation...
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center's offering seems to be in the lead at the moment, development wise at least.
Russia's Khrunichev Center Develops Concept of Reusable Rocket (Spacedaily)
As you all know I attended FIAS2018 on business (see my photos of Tempest). Wondering into Hall 1 and spotted Lego space model competition on the South West Aerospace Forum, so stopped to drop ones card off. Noticed model of Virgin 747-800 and rocket underneath, thus the billboards advertising...
Scotland has beaten of competition from Newquay in Cornwall and Prestwick in Ayrshire to become the United Kingdoms first Spaceport. It will be announced at the Farnborough Airshow later this week. The Spaceport will be based in Sutherland in the Highlands...
A possible return to its Lunar roots for the venerable Soyuz spacecraft.
Russia's Soyuz Spacecraft Could Find New Life as a Lunar Taxi
https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a22074215/soyuz-lunar-station/
12:38 05/04/2018
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Roscosmos has developed a manned...
Turkish TAI has just showed concept drawing of HURJET advanced trainer/light attack plane.
This aircraft being developed with American SNC; which is also eleminated from USAF T-X contest
ARCA Space Corporation is a New Mexico-based aerospace company
It was founded in 1999 as a non-governmental organization in Romania by Dumitru Popescu
That want to build a SSTO that launch 100 kg (220lbs) of payload to low earth orbit.
it feature a linear Aerospike engine called "Executor" is...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjOxF52MiQ0
http://www.armyrecognition.com/french_army_france_wheeled_armoured_vehicle_uk/jaguar_ebrc_6x6_reconnaissance_combat_armoured_vehicle_ebmr_scorpion_technical_data_sheet_pictures.html
It's supposed to operate alongside the Panhard CRAB and the Griffon...
Via CDR Salamander:
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/fti-medium-size-frigates/
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/france-unveils-new-fti-frigate-ship-is-designed-for-the-french-navy-and-for-export...
They could skip the KC-Y competition and go straight to the KC-Z.
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/air-force-could-pursue-stealthy-penetrating-kc-z-tanker
Type 31 design Concepts
Note that there was a misprint in the original article which had the Type 26 as the Type 266.
IMAGE CREDITS: BAE Systems, via Janes.
I thought we already had a thread on Rolls-Royce's drone ship program, but either I misremembered, or else our search engine has gone feral again.
Anyway, here's a quick update on the program via gCaptain...
It's funny that there is always so much debate on every new weapons platform and program, and yet we are losing the biggest battle ever, right under our noses with little to no fanfare.
Millions of federal employees just became juicy espionage targets. This is the kind of thing that should have...
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