16+ hour, 21+ min ago   (212+ words) Interesting Engineering America’s New 9,700-Ton Destroyer Is Watching the Arctic With SPY-6 Radar USS Ted Stevens is America’s newest Flight III destroyer, combining the AN/SPY-6 radar with upgraded power and cooling systems as the U.S. Navy increasingly focuses…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (429+ words) Latest mages show that China’s “WZ-X” drone has what appear to be stealth features, hinting at a role spying deep inside defended airspace. New images are circulating that appear to show China’s latest American B-2 “Spirit” looking stealth drone, the…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (231+ words) The F-16 is getting Viper Shield, a digital electronic warfare system designed to detect and counter electromagnetic threats, with 233 systems ordered by eight allied nations. The F-16 has been flying for decades, but the threats it faces today are far more advanced…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (509+ words) The technology powers a Navy jammer targeting enemy defense networks. Marotta Controls, a US aerospace and defense contractor, will be supplying technology for two subsystems on the US Navy’s Next Generation Jammer–Low Band (NGJ-LB) program. The NGJ-LB is an…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (168+ words) Interesting Engineering US Army Orders $51M Switchblade 600 Drone for Long-Range Strikes The U.S. Army is buying another $51 million in Switchblade 600 loitering munitions, including Block 2 with improved autonomy, navigation and resilience for contested battlefields. The U.S. Army is expanding its loitering-munition arsenal with a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (388+ words) The Virginia facility has laid groundwork for nationwide hydrogen drone production. Hydrogen-powered drone manufacturing is expanding across the United States as Heven AeroTech opens a 56,000-square-foot production facility in Winchester, Virginia, establishing its first East Coast site and launching a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (431+ words) Advanced reactor developers preparing for U.S. military installations now have a new cybersecurity team built around the unusual demands of those projects. OSC Global and InfraShield have launched Janus Cyber, an initiative focused on securing reactors through design, regulatory authorization and…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (620+ words) Mara’s Spike uses AI-guided 8.8-ounce (250-gram) interceptors to cheaply defend troops and infrastructure from FPV drone swarms. San Francisco-based Mara has secured $7 million in funding to help flesh out its proprietary counter-drone system called “Spike.” Specifically designed to counter drone…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (83+ words) Interesting Engineering Allied governments provided financial backing for the project. Recently, spectators at Ukraine’s Independence Day parade witnessed the public debut of the Magura MV11, claimed to be the first drone “aircraft carrier” in the world, as it navigated the Dnipro…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (534+ words) The U.S. Army is pushing for smaller, more capable thermal sensors that could power future drones. Teledyne FLIR OEM will help the U.S. Army develop smaller, cheaper, and more capable thermal imaging technology under a new modernization initiative. The company has joined…...