May 13, 2020
Chinese PLA Choppers Spotted Near LAC; IAF Rushes Fighter Jets To Ladakh Border: Report
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: military
Last week, the Indian and Chinese troops were involved in a face-off along the LAC in north Sikkim.
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May 13, 2020
This Is Real: The U.S. Army’s “Flying Saucer” Exists
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: military
May 12, 2020
China fires underwater nuclear missile into spotlight with science prize
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: military, science
The JL-3, which could reach the United States if launched from the Chinese coast, is expected to be used to arm Type 096 submarines.
May 12, 2020
DARPA to begin launching Blackjack satellites in late 2020
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: military, satellites
WASHINGTON — The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to launch the first experimental satellites of the Blackjack program in late 2020 and early 2021, the agency said May 11.
DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office started the Blackjack program in 2018 to show the military utility of low Earth orbit constellations and mesh networks of low-cost satellites.
As many as 20 satellites will be launched by 2022.
May 12, 2020
Camcopter VTOL UAV Fully Integrated to French Navy LHD ‘Dixmude’
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: military
The French Armament General Directorate (DGA) announces that the Camcopter S100 VTOL UAV is now fully integrated with French Navy Mistral-class LHD Dixmude, stressing that for the first time in Europe, a rotary wing UAV is fully operational and connected to the combat system of a warship.
May 12, 2020
A Giant Piece of a Chinese Rocket Just Smashed Down to Earth in an Uncontrolled Fall
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: military, space
The remains of a giant segment of a Chinese rocket crash-landed in the Atlantic Ocean this week, representing the most significant uncontrolled descent of a piece of human-made space debris in decades.
The core stage of a Chinese Long March 5B (CZ–5B) rocket, which was successfully launched on May 5, spent several days in orbit as part of its mission, before re-entering Earth’s atmosphere and falling to Earth, splashing down in ocean waters off the west coast of Mauritania in northwest Africa.
The descent, which was eventually confirmed by the 18th Space Control Squadron, a unit of the US Air Force, was notable not just for its huge mass, but also for the extent of the window of uncontrolled descent, which had space-object trackers guessing just where and when the out-of-control rocket would eventually land.
May 11, 2020
How ships of the future could sail on bubble tunnel;
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: futurism, military
Circa 2015 what about a supercavatating supercarrier :3.
A boat is copying the tech behind a super-fast Russian torpedo by riding a foam tunnel through the water.
May 11, 2020
Live Nuke Still Missing In American Swamp
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: military, quantum physics
Quantum radar can find them.
The United States military takes extreme caution and protocol when transporting nuclear weapons, but that doesn’t mean accidents haven’t happened in the past. And a nuclear accident sounds like the worst accident of all time. Watch today’s new video where we dive into the mistakes of the military and uncover a story about a live nuke, still lost in an American swamp!
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May 11, 2020
Russian Rocket Disintegrates in Space, Leaving Orbital Debris
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: military, space
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced on Sunday that the tanks of a rocket that launched a scientific satellite back in 2011 have disintegrated in Earth’s orbit above the Indian Ocean.
The 18th Space Control Squadron of the US Air Force said on Saturday that it is now tracking 65 separate pieces associated with the rocket’s upper stage. “No indication caused by collision,” the squadron wrote in a May 9 tweet confirming the news.
“Currently we are working to collect data to confirm the quantity and orbit parameters of the fragments,” Russia’s space agency said in a statement, as quoted by Agence France-Presse.
May 11, 2020
Revealed: Plants Molecular ‘Alarm’ System That Protects Them From Predators
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: chemistry, military
Scientists uncover how oral secretions of the cotton leaf worm trigger defense responses in a plant.
In nature, every species must be equipped with a strategy to be able to survive in response to danger. Plants, too, have innate systems that are triggered in response to a particular threat, such as insects feeding on them.
For example, some plants sense “herbivore-derived danger signals” (HDS), which are specific chemicals in oral secretions of insects. This activates a cascade of events in the plant’s defense machinery, which leads to the plant developing “resistance” to (or “immunity” against) the predator. But despite decades of research, exactly how plants recognize these signals has remained a bit of a mystery.
