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A detailed analysis by John Schilling at 38 North suggests North Korea is on the path towards getting a solid-fuel replacement for the upper stage of the Nodong medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM).
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Photo: Rodong Sinmun
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An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed by researchers from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory has proven that it can remain submerge in saltwater for two months and then launched into the air to carry out its mission.
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Credit: Johns Hopkins APL
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This person claims to have cycled to the China Flight Test Establishment at Yanliang airbase in Xi’an and no one there stopped him from taking pictures.
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Russia has carried out the first test of its hypersonic Zircon cruise missile. The weapon is slated to be fitted on the fifth-generation nuclear-powered Husky-class submarines.
By Shiv Aroor (http://livefist.blogspot.in/) [CC BY-SA 2.5 in], via Wikimedia Commons
Lockheed Martin’s CEO was quoted as saying at the company’s media day that the aerospace giant is “now producing a controllable, low-drag, aerodynamic configuration capable of stable operations from takeoff to subsonic, transonic, supersonic and hypersonic, to Mach 6.”
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