SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The University of Notre Dame opened the doors to a new Mach 10 quiet wind tunnel Saturday, a first-of-its-kind facility that adds to the Defense Department’s capacity to research and test hypersonic capabilities.
Hosted by the Notre Dame Turbomachinery Laboratory, the 3,000-square-foot lab space is home to a quiet wind tunnel able to simulate hypersonic flight at speeds up to Mach 10 — or 10 times the speed of sound.
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The Air Force’s Spectrum Warfare Wing wants to introduce more realistic electromagnetic spectrum training to better prepare airmen for the dynamic, contested and congested fight the military anticipates against sophisticated adversaries in the future.
To do so, the air service is looking to adopt live, virtual and constructive training, which allows the military to be able to insert replicated and simulated capabilities in live training environments for a more realistic feel for warfighters.
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A sailor assigned to a nuclear submarine scaled the wall of a burning building to save an entrapped woman Tuesday, an act caught on video.
Nuclear Technician Petty Officer 1st Class Gabriel Nagy-Journey, a sailor assigned to the USS Albany in Norfolk, was driving home from work when he heard a woman screaming about a fire in the nearby apartment building in Norfolk, Virginia.
He joined a group standing next to the burning apartment building, just beneath where an elderly woman was leaning out of a second-story window, with smoke billowing out.
A lot happens every day. Alliances shift, leaders change, and conflicts erupt. With In Brief, we’ll help you make sense of it all. Each week, experts will dig deep on a single issue happening in the world to help you better understand it. *** This weekend, Russia signed into law a strategic partnership agreement with North Korea that includes a mutual defense provision and strengthens security ties between the two countries.
As insiders hustle to realize high-stakes efforts to accelerate the military’s adoption of advanced uncrewed capabilities — including Replicator — the Pentagon is increasingly buying integrated software enablers to equip such systems with the capacity to link up and work together autonomously.
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks shed new light on this work in a press release Wednesday.
Pete Hegseth, whom President-elect Donald Trump has nominated to serve as defense secretary, is a Fox News host who served in the National Guard and who has been a vocal critic of women in combat roles, diversity and inclusion efforts in the military, and other policies that he’s decried as “woke s—t.”
Currently a Fox News host, Hegseth was commissioned as an infantry officer in the Army National Guard in 2003, ultimately becoming a major.
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