Author: Michael

Somewhere in Ukraine, a crew sits in silence next to a launcher that could pass for a rooftop HVAC unit.
A radar pings. A Shahed is inbound, low and slow, grinding toward a power station at 185 kilometers per hour. The crew has roughly 12 minutes of battery life to find it, chase it, and kill it before their interceptor falls out of the sky like a four-kilogram brick.
That interceptor is called JEDI Shahed Hunter, and it might be the gnarliest multirotor drone ever built.
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AeroVironment on Wednesday unveiled Mayhem 10, the first in a new product line of unmanned aerial systems that the company plans to market to the Army and other potential customers.
Best known for its Switchblade family of kamikaze drones or loitering munitions, AeroVironment describes its new platform as an “autonomous, multi-role launched effects system” with payload flexibility that allows it to perform precision strike, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), electronic warfare, or communications relay missions.

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The Navy photographer who snapped a defining photo of the Artemis II astronaut crew’s return to Earth swears he wasn’t trying to create an iconic American image. In fact, he barely even recalls taking it.
“To be honest, I don’t even remember taking the photo,” Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class August Clawson told Task & Purpose. Clawson snapped the photo April 10 on the deck of the USS John P. Murtha after two Navy helicopters retrieved the Artemis crew from their Pacific Ocean splashdown, just as the sun began to set.

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