Bell Helicopters’ entry for DARPA’s SPRINT contest. (Bell Helicopters)
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected a second competitor for Phase 1B of its Speed and Runway Independent Technologies (SPRINT) programme, the agency announced on 28 May.
Phase 1B is intended to mature Bell Helicopters’ design through preliminary design review (PDR). A conceptual image of Bell Helicopters’ SPRINT design shows an unmanned, twin-engine tiltrotor aircraft.
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The Beechcraft CT-156 Harvard II, better known as the T-6A Texan II, that the Royal Canadian Air Force uses for some of its pilot training. The Texans will be replaced by Pilatus PC-9s under the new FAcT deal. (Janes/Pat Host)
The Canadian government has awarded SkyAlyne a CAD11.2 billion (USD8.1 billion) contract for the Future Aircrew Training (FAcT) project to train Canadian pilots and aircrew, the country’s Minister of National Defence Bill Blair announced at the CANSEC show on 29 May.
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Of the nearly 1,000 jets in American Airlines’ fleet, Cedric Rockamore’s favorite may be one very special Airbus 321 dubbed “Flagship Valor.” The airplane, wrapped in patriotic colors, has the words “Medal of Honor” emblazoned on the side and depictions of the United States military’s highest decoration.
“We get a lot of requests from different communities, but we found it fitting at American to do Flagship Valor as a tribute for our men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice,” said Rockamore, American Airlines’s Chief Diversity Officer, to We Are The Mighty.
Palantir was awarded a $480 million deal by the Army for its Maven Smart System prototype, the Pentagon announced Wednesday.
The U.S. military has recently been using this type of artificial intelligence technology in the Central Command area of responsibility in the Middle East, according to a February news release from the Kentucky National Guard.
A wave of excrement and trash-filled balloons launched by North Korea into its southern neighbor Tuesday highlights concerns about how they could be deadly if filled with explosives, incendiary devices, radioactive materials, or chemical weapons.
As hundreds of the balloons began landing, South Korea’s military deployed “chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear response teams and bomb disposal units to collect the objects for a detailed analysis,” South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported Wednesday.
(U.S. Army photos/Task & Purpose composite image).
The Desert Warrior Week 2024 combatives championship came to a close on May 23 and one of the competitors is blowing up on social media. Staff Sgt. Diane Kancauski ate a hard slap to the face like it was breakfast and returned the favor via a double-leg takedown during the final round of the championship.
“So the first smack was the one that kind of dazed me,” Kancauski said. “So after he did that, I looked at him and I took the line from the movie ‘White Chicks’ and said ‘My turn.
Earlier this month, the White House announced its intention to place marijuana in a less restrictive class of drugs. The move reflects a significant legal and political shift, as well as public sentiment – today, more than eight in 10 Americans believe marijuana should be legalized for medical or recreational use. It has also once again thrust the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) into the public spotlight – any discussion about marijuana inevitably involves DEA. But the agency’s mission is much broader, more complex, and impactful than many realize.
Given the proliferation of development of hypersonic boost-glide guide vehicles among various countries these days, it’s easy to forget that the technology actually began to emerge in the early Cold War period. During the 1950s, McDonnell Aircraft’s experimental Alpha Draco missile played a critical role in verifying the basic principles of hypersonic boost-glide vehicles, which are now a major component of the hypersonic arms race that only began recently.
The short video clip below shows one of the three Alpha Draco missiles developed by McDonnell being launched in 1959.