Up Media reports that Taiwan is seeking to improve the Tien Chien 1 short-range air-to-air missile by improving its off boresight and kinematic capabilities.
Testing of the Gremlins air-recoverable unmanned air vehicles has been disrupted after an earthquake on Jul. 5 damaged the flight termination system at the test range.
NASA has deployed an approximately 30-mile-long array of specially-configured microphones in the Mojave Desert as part of a flight series in preparation for the X-59’s testing.
One of multiple microphone stations used in the CarpetDIEM flight series, which gave researchers valuable lessons learned in preparations to deploy a similar array for the quiet supersonic X-59. Prior to community overflights, X-59 will undergo an acoustic validation phase, during which NASA will deploy the array of specially-configured microphones to measure the X-59’s thumps, in order to verify that they are as quiet as predicted.
Credits: NASA Photo / Lauren Hughes
The Air Force Research Laboratory and DZYNE Technologies Incorporated has figured out a way to convert a general aviation aircraft into an unmanned platform without making permanent changes to the plane.