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Via Slashdot: http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-plutonium-production-space-fuel-130314.htm

[IMAGE CREDIT: Gizmodo/ Piaggio Aero Industries] http://gizmodo.com/5985484/italian-jet-company-converts-passenger-plane-into-the-worlds-most-stylish-uav

Came across this over on MilitaryPhotos.net: [IMAGE CREDIT: Shepard Media] EDIT: Project Zero may come under the company's GRC3 development activity, or alternatively, GRC7.

DARPA Experimental Aircraft Program to Develop the Next Generation of Vertical Flight February 25, 2013 Higher speeds, increased efficiency, elegant designs are the focus of new VTOL X-Plane One of the greatest challenges of the past half century for aerodynamics engineers has been how...

Hi, The is the Brazilian hypersonic aircraft, named in tribute to the 14-bis Alberto Santos-Dumont.This aircraft is equipped with a scramjet engine, which is integrated into fuselage and has no moving parts.The operating principle is that, during the flight, the air is compressed by geometry...

CTV-01 test just occurred on 27 January 2013. No target involved. The EKV separated from the booster, and carried out a series of preprogrammed manouvers to validate that the problem which caused the last test in December 2010 to fail had been correctly identified and fixed. The test was...

Paging Mr. David Mace, Paging Mr. Greg Bear. Via Slashdot: DARPA wants to dot ocean floor with network of robotic pods that can spy, explore (NETWORKWORLD) http://www.darpa.mil/NewsEvents/Releases/2013/01/11.aspx...

Artist's concept of BAE Systems/Northrop Grumman Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) proposal to replace the United States Army Bradley fighting vehicle. Source: http://www.gizmag.com/bae-gcv-hybrid-tank/25113/

NH90 has been sized and conceived to be able to operate from any type of prepared or unprepared surfaces and to satisfy already in its basic design the entire specific feature requested by tactical transport requirements. Sharing common basis, only the on-board mission system differentiates the...

Putin Approves Bill to Create DARPA-Like Agency Oct. 17, 2012 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday approved a legislative measure to establish an elite military scientific research office similar to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, RIA Novosti reported. The...

Published on Sep 25, 2012 by LockheedMartinVideos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TMZSMtPhGI&feature=share&list=UUJWcF0ex7_doPdIQGbVpDsQ

Video of United States Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) concept by Vigor Industrial featuring an Ulstein X-bow. http://youtu.be/gdxQjfQpuoM Artist's impression of USCG Offshore Patrol Cutter by Vigor Industrial. Source: http://vigorindustrial.com/services/offshore-patrol-cutters-more

[IMAGE CREDIT: MoD (Japan)/TRDI] The new name seems to have been adopted sometime later on in 2011, as can be seen in this TRDI pamphlet (page 8 [pdf pg 9]).

First view of it. PS: Possibly not Armata afterall according to bmpd's blog: http://bmpd.livejournal.com/302442.html#cutid1 We will see.

MBDA mini cruise missile, 100km range, F-35B loadout 8x internally. http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/pictures-mbda-sharpens-spear-missile-design-for-f-35-integration-373453/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzqdoXwLBT8&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syA7ml64zY4&feature=plcp Not bad for a PR piece.

Via HP&CA, a new MOD concept for the Royal Navy: Detailed specs Joint Concept Note 1/12 This concept is probably DOA. Someone should have told the MOD that Transformation and the like is dead and buried. 'Systems not platforms' is what brought about such disasters as the LCS.

Govt may send PAC-3s to Okinawa / SDF readying for launch of DPRK rocket The Yomiuri Shimbun The government is considering a plan to deploy Patriot Advanced Capability 3 (PAC-3) missiles in Okinawa Prefecture for the possible interception of a rocket that North Korea will launch next month...

:o I'll let the gizmag article (via Slashdot) speak for itself: http://www.gizmag.com/startram-maglev-to-leo/21700/

From Wired.com: Navy’s Newest Robot Is a Mechanized Firefighter By Katie Drummond March 8, 2012 | 12:56 pm | Categories: robots Meet SAFFiR: Embedded sensors allow the 'bot to see through smoke, and sophisticated upper-body agility let the 'bot throw fire-squelching grenades. Illo: Naval...