Category: Research
X-2 out for its first taxi test
The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries X-2 stealth demonstrator carried out its first taxi test at Nagoya Airport this morning.
Hackers claim to have taken control of NASA’s Global Hawk
A group of hackers calling themselves AnonSec claimed that they had managed to upload a file containing a flight plan into computers that control NASA’s Global Hawk.
By Tony Landis [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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AFRL issues RFI for fighter laser weapon system
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has posted Request For Information (RFI) notice asking the industry to come up with a podded laser weapon system that can destroy missiles directed at stealth fighters and bombers.
Graphic: Northrop Grumman
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Pentagon working on an arsenal plane
In a preview of the 2017 defense budget during a breakfast event at the Economic Club in Washington, D.C., U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter revealed that the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office is working on developing an arsenal plane that an older generation flying platform into a flying launch pad for a range of conventional payloads.