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India successfully tested its X-37B-clone, the Reusable Launch Vehicle Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), on May 23. The vehicle reached an altitude of 65km before descending at Mach 5 to make a water landing in the Bay of Bengal.
Photo: Indian Space Research Organization
Frustrated with a lack of photographic and video evidence showing reckless Chinese and Russian intercepts of U.S spy planes, the Naval Research Laboratory has come to the rescue with a prototype Common Airborne Situational Awareness (CASA) camera pod.
Photo: NRL
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The U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command brought its High Energy Laser Mobile Test Truck to Fort Sill, Oklahoma in April and the test bed was able to shot down “a large number of UAVs and quad-copters” plus a laptop.
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An official from Russian Helicopters told RIA Novosti that the company’s Mi-24K testbed will soon test speeds in excess of 240kts.
Flight Global interviewed Hirofumi Doi, manager of Japan’s Future Fighter Program at the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA), and Doi said the X-2 demonstrator will fly around 50 flights.
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