cold war ii

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-hbzN-yJ1E https://www.draken.aero/

Most odd attack happened today in Lebanon. There are reports on exploding beepers throughout Lebanon allegedly targeting Hezbollah members. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-hezbollah-members-wounded-lebanon-when-pagers-exploded-sources-witnesses-2024-09-17/...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/09/japan-coast-guard-will-build-the-biggest-patrol-vessel-in-its-history/ Well a coast gard cutter arms race wasn't on my bingo card but here we are. To put this in perspective the current largest coast gard vessel is the Zhaotou-class patrol cutter at...

https://www.911memorial.org/connect/commemoration/23rd-anniversary-commemoration View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPQ7EeNO2M0 https://apnews.com/article/sept-11-anniversary-ceremony-children-reading-names-ed7dcd42524dca1c5098b6b3364aca91...

RTX has come forward and voluntarily admitted 750 violations of ITAR pertaining to leaks of military information between August 2017 and September 2023. This includes the VC-25 (Air Force One), F-22 Raptor, F-35 Lightning II and the B-2 Spirit stealth, B-1B Lancer and the F/A-18, F-15 and F-16...

The company Lumen Orbit want to put Data servers, to use the abundant solar energy, cooling, and the ability to freely scale up in space. launch of Prototype hardware is set for may 2025 launch of first micro data center in 2026 once Starship goes into commercial service they build the 5GW Data...

Ok, WTF? is all I can say about this brain fart of an idea! Is Australian Defence really so desperate for enticing recruits for it's headlong war against China to come up with such a pathetic metaphoric carrot, and is Thales so desperate for sales of their product? Seriously, the last thing the...

https://www.spacewar.com/reports/Air_Force_Awards_33_2_Million_to_Outpost_for_Development_of_Scalable_Earth_Return_Vehicle_999.html

Some interesting news regarding systems similar to JLENS (and other options) https://breakingdefense.com/2024/07/army-taking-wide-open-approach-to-high-altitude-platforms-smdc-chief/ https://www.twz.com/air/polands-plan-to-deploy-early-warning-radar-blimps-moves-forward 7 years after the...

Seems like we could use a more general thread for these military focused constellations. To start off, how many satellites do you think would be need for a "full" constellation. For example the us is looking to build up a hypersonic tracking constellation and that has a minimum size of 1258...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/08/china-launches-its-most-sophisticated-submarine-to-date/

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/08/hd-hhi-submarines-in-the-polands-orka-program/ This HDS-2300 is apparently a joint marketing effort with Babcock. Oddly enough, Babcock provides the weapons handling system. Not sure if that means it’s a British system? Specs: 2,300 tons...

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/nasas_asteroid_spotter_turned_off/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/neowise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-field_Infrared_Survey_Explorer Incidentally, there is a comet named in honor of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_NEOWISE

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/08/15/0145200/researchers-figure-out-how-to-keep-clocks-on-the-earth-moon-in-sync https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/13/nist_lunar_orbit_clocks/

https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Polish_Companies_Collaborate_on_In_Orbit_Satellite_Refuelling_Technology_999.html

Commercial drones can be easily weaponized. A Russian company makes portable drone detectors called Bulat. These units apparently scan the known frequencies in UHF and analyze the waveforms used by commercial drones, including the FPV ones, and warn the user about their transmissions in...

https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/sukhoi-unveils-modified-s-71-attack-uav-concepts Sukhoi has received approval from the Russian Defense Ministry to begin producing the S-71 air-launched UAV, which has undergone significant design changes based on lessons from the...

What? No pulse plasma rifle? And it walks funny. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SRVJaOg9Co

I tried searching, but wasn't able to find out if this was discussed before. And if this topic is in the wrong forum, could it be moved to the correct one, please? Anyway, I'm curious about Lockheed's Extensible Launching System for the Mk.41 VLS. Extensible Launching System What caught my eye...

https://www.twz.com/air/chinas-gigantic-airship-hangar-has-gotten-even-larger