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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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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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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.
Iran has supplied Syria with a new type of unmanned aerial vehicle, Bellingcat concludes. Iran is believed to have supplied the Shahed-123 UAV which is easily identified from its landing skids.
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Source: Bellingcat
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries unveiled its ATD-X stealth demonstration to the press at its plant in Komaki today. The dimensions of the aircraft are 14.2m long, 9.1m wide and a height of 4.5m. The aircraft has been designated as X-2.