early 2020s

"Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, is producing a Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator (HEX), a fully-autonomous hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing (eVTOL) prototype. With a maximum gross weight of more than 7,000-pounds, the uncrewed aircraft will serve as a flying test-bed to evaluate...

Looks like ULA could be up for sale this year. Blue Origin would seem the natural purchasers but I am not sure that would be such a good thing. View: https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1630974915674243082...

The United States and her allies are sending significant quanties of munitions to Ukraine. This is in response to what Russia calls its "special operation" and most others call the Russian Invasion which escalated in February 2022. Here is a link to the Wikipedia page of military aid to...

This month's Navy News magazine contains a chart showing the Royal Navy''s equipment and its usual monthly maps of where ships are. The Queen Elizabeth is being refitted in Portsmouth while Prince of Wales is being repaired in Scotland. Of the six T45s based in Portsmouth only Dauntless, Duncan...

LOL. Looks like this company didn't shy away from getting a bit creative with the naming scheme, because of course a drone that proudly displays a "SEXBOMB" livery traveling at hypersonic speeds while the surface temperature of its skin raises sounds sexy :D...

https://spacewatch.global/2022/10/esa-plans-to-demonstrate-low-earth-orbiting-pnt-satellites/ LEO-PNT. Credit: ESA

https://spacewatch.global/2022/11/fcc-chairwoman-rosenworcel-announces-plan-for-a-space-bureau/ I have a feeling that this is pretty much Dead On Arrival, but we'll have to wait and see.

does someone have another photo of this ship model The one that appeared in indo defense 2022 expo yesterday and other information about equipment he used?

As NASA has now decided to continue on with this mission, now targeting a launch in late 2023 I thought it should have its own separate thread. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-continues-psyche-asteroid-mission

Innovaero developing sovereign loitering munition for Army https://innov.aero/

How is this possible? The Department of Defense is always asking for more money. I think I'd fall over dead if I ever heard a DoD official say, "We're asking for less money this year." https://apnews.com/article/earnings-ad492e449fe65c0ca1844612726abbfc

https://breakingdefense.com/2022/10/lightning-in-a-bottle-inside-the-origin-of-the-armys-future-robotic-fleet/ ORIGINAL CAPTION: The Project Origin vehicle, a surrogate for Army Robotic Combat Vehicles, is seen at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana, in September 2021...

Starting a new thread on the Royal Navy’s Type 32. First some messages from the Type 31 GPFF thread:

https://www.thinkdefence.co.uk/2022/09/replacing-an-icon-options-for-the-british-armys-land-rover-fleet/

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2022/10/11/germany-awaits-frances-signal-on-new-sub-hunting-planes/

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/xzln4a/german_manufacturer_rheinmetalls_autonomous/

Via Slashdot: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-rail-politics.html (Registration or subscription may be required)

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/05/arm_job_cuts_hit_uk/

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-63157883 Intended by the U.S. authorities as a 'Pour encourager les autres' moment, it would seem.