cold war ii

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

Hello and good day to everyone. This thread was created in order to gain info about the new Italian army MBT and IFV projects currently in development. Background: Since 2023, Italy started to look for new solutions for modernize it's armored compartments. The program aim to acquire two type...

Siderius is a Italian company that works on Micro sat launcher that brings 10~13 kg payload into orbit design as reusable single stage to orbit rocket using Kerolox engines View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cq1WOT8e4 source https://www.sidereus.space/eos/

View: https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1818080247754948968

View: https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1816784858573664586 https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/advanced-weapons/cannon-based-air-defense Appears to be using XM913, 50mmx228mm

https://www.twz.com/land/secret-service-wants-new-sniper-rifles

So, our new security manager was talking about bringing in Crowdstrike where I work. Hopefully this idea will now be kiboshed after Crowdstrike deployed an update which 1) made Windows servers and desktops crash 2) rendered Windows servers and desktops unable to boot The only fix is to boot...

The Norwegian Navy seems to be circling in on a few options for their new multirole frigates to replace the Nansen class. View: https://twitter.com/JUitdeketting/status/1814370088583086517?t=vNTJSQAK8fIzGqBC2yZnkw&s=19

Hey Y'all; just saw this, NASA wants fresh ideas for recycling garbage on the moon News By Samantha Mathewson published 18 July 2024 With crewed Artemis launches on the horizon, NASA is searching for sustainable solutions for waste management during long-term missions on the moon...