India has completed the development test-firing of its indiegnous Astra Beyond Visual Range Air to Air Missile (BVRAAM) this week.
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Category: Research
DARPA’s Flying Missile Rail
DARPA is showing an interesting project for a Flying Missile Rail (FMR) that carries at least one AIM-120 air-to-air missile and can fly on its own for 20 minutes at Mach 0.9.
Video: DARPA
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KSLV-2 launch animation
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has uploaded an animation showing the launch of KSLV-2, South Korea’s second carrier rocket.
Video gamers beat GA pilots at flying drones
A study by University of Liverpool found that video gamers are much better than general aviation pilots as operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
By United States Air Force [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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Second round of B61-12 qualification flight tests
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration announced on Aug. 28 that two qualification flight tests of B61-12 gravity bombs were carried out at Tonopah Test Range, Nevada on Aug. 28.
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