20+ hour, 45+ 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…...

20+ hour, 26+ min ago   (175+ words) Interesting Engineering Russia Just Unveiled a Pantsir Built to Kill Drone Swarms. It Carries 48 Missiles. Russia’s new Pantsir-SMD-E is built around one problem: drone swarms. With a much larger interceptor load, it aims to keep air defenses fighting longer against…...

21+ hour, 15+ min ago   (945+ words) The US still flies a supersonic trainer, an electronic-warfare jet, and even an aircraft designed to play the enemy. Supersonic flight is often associated with experimental aircraft, futuristic fighters, and Cold War-era icons. Yet the US still operates a surprisingly…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (195+ words) Here’s a humanoid who apparently started kicking a customer in Russia, just because they pushed it a little and the video went viral. Just a day later, another video emerged of a humanoid pushing and kicking several people at a…...

1+ day, 23+ 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…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (262+ words) The U.S. Army is investing $472 million to modernize the CH-47 Chinook, upgrading its avionics and digital systems as the 1960s-era helicopter heads toward the 2040s. The CH-47 Chinook first flew in 1961 and entered U.S. Army service in 1962. More than six decades later, the…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (271+ words) USS Idaho (SSN-799) is the U.S. Navy’s newest Virginia-class attack submarine and eighth Block IV boat, bringing advanced stealth, surveillance and multi-mission capabilities to the fleet. The U.S. Navy has just added its newest Virginia-class attack submarine to the fleet. USS…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (191+ words) Interesting Engineering Did Iran Recover America’s 30,000-Pound Bunker Buster? Iran recovered an undetonated U.S. bomb in Yazd and claims another advanced weapon may have been recovered for study. Here’s what reverse-engineering either weapon could reveal. Iranian officials say an undetonated…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (548+ words) The latest ARAV-B flight adds another successful mission to a target family designed to reproduce changing missile threats. Kratos has flown its ARAV-B ballistic missile target during a multinational missile defense exercise around Hawaii. The target launched August 6 from the…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (189+ words) Interesting Engineering The Abrams Has a Problem: So Army Is Redesigning To Make It Smaller, Smarter & Lighter The M1A2 Abrams is evolving. The U.S. Army’s M1E3 program aims to deliver a lighter, more efficient and adaptable Abrams for future battlefields while retaining its…...