Aurora Flight Sciences is claiming a medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) flight record after its Orion unmanned aircraft completed a 80-hr flight last month.
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AFRL getting new supercomputer
A new SGI Ice X supercomputer will be installed at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
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Scorpion to get new landing gear
Textron AirLand recently disclose more information on the Scorpion test program during a talk at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on Jan. 14.
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Canadian-Israeli joint venture to apply Iron Dome technology on electrical grid
The Canada-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation is working apply the algorithms in Iron Dome’s control system to better monitor and control the electric grid.
P-8A to get sub-hunting UAV
HT to Military Aerospace. The U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research has awarded $8.9 million to BAE Systems to develop an unmanned aerial vehicle that will hunt for submarines after launching from the P-8A.