Aviation News
Defense One has a piece on how the Pentagon is spending $10 million to improve on the search for mobile missile launchers by teaching computers on how to filter them out from the surroundings.
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The Pentagon says North Korea tested two Musudan road-mobile ICBMs near the city of Wonsan on Apr. 28 and both failed. The first test occurred at about 6:40 a.m. local time and the second test was conducted 12 hours later at 7:26 p.m.
The head of U.S. Air Force Space Command, Gen. John Hyten, said he supports a proposal to let decommissioned Peacekeeper ICBMs be recycled as launch vehicles for commercial satellites.
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South Korea says North Korea tried to launch a BM 25 Musudan road mobile intermediate-range ballistic missile early this morning but the launch failed.
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The French National Institute of Geographic and Forestry Information (IGN) has awarded the Thales-Airbus Defence and Space consortium a six-year contract to produce maps for the French military.
By National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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