Aviation News
South Korea has reported some success with its Low-Cost Guided Imaging Rocket program and the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) said the guided 2.75 inch rocket could be deployed as early as next year.
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has invented a new way of making transparent spinel, a mineral that is tougher, stronger, harder than glass.
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U.S. Naval Research Laboratory/Jamie Hartman
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The U.S. Air Force has finally revealed one of the tests it will carry out on board the X-37B.
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According to the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office, the next X-37B flight will test an experimental propulsion system jointly developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and Space and Missile Systems Center.
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The X-47B successfully completes the first autonomous aerial refueling demonstration over the Chesapeake bay on Apr. 22.
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