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India carried out successful consecutive test-firing of its indigenous MPATGM

Posted on September 17, 2018 by alert5

India successfully test-fired its Man Portable Anti-Tank Guided Missile (MPATGM) on Sept. 15 and repeated the feat one day later at the Ahmednagar range.


Photo: India’s Ministry of Defence
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Flight test footage of Russia’s Altair UAV

Posted on September 10, 2018September 10, 2018 by alert5

Latest video footage from Russia’s Defense Ministry shows a third Altair UAV being tested.


Screengrab from YouTube
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F/A-18 wing folding using shape memory alloys

Posted on August 29, 2018August 28, 2018 by alert5

Engineers from NASA’s Glenn Research Center, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center and Boeing have successfully used shape memory alloys (SMA) to move a full-sized wing section of an F/A-18 Hornet.


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Japan reveals its research on railgun technology

Posted on August 6, 2018August 6, 2018 by alert5

Japan’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency has uploaded a video on research on various weapons technology including railgun. Starts from 08:00 of the video.

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France developing MICA NG

Posted on August 5, 2018 by alert5

France intends to replace the MICA air-to-air missile with a new MICA NG missile for its Rafale fighter. This was announced by Minister of the Armed Force, Florence Parly, last month.

MICA P1220883
By David Monniaux [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.0 fr], from Wikimedia Commons

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