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DARPA has enlisted two teams, General Atomics with Maritime Applied Physics Corporation and Aurora Flight Sciences with Gibbs & Cox and ReconCraft, to develop designs for the Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect program.
Graphic: DARPA
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General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) flew a new survivable Air-Launched Effect (ALE) for the first time as part of a flight demonstration based out of the Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah, on Dec. 8, 2022. The ALE, known as Eaglet, was launched from a U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS). The Eaglet flight was jointly funded by GA-ASI and the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development (DEVCOM) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC).
Photo: GA-ASI
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Brazilian aircraft carrier Sao Paulo might be sunk off the coast of Brazil despite protests from the country’s Minister for Environment, Folha de São Paulo newspaper has reported.
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Christopher Stone, the former Special Assistant to the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy, has argued that the United States should develop its own fractional orbital bombardment systems (F/OBS) to counter China’s advances in this field of space weaponry.
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A Vietnam People’s Air Force (VPAF) Su-22 fighter has crashed while landing at Yen Bai airport in northern Vietnam on Jan. 31.
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