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Europe's MALE RPAS, or Medium-Altitude, Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft System aims to end European reliance on American-made drones

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A combat drone developed by the Chungshan Institute of Science and Technology (NCSIST) is undergoing initial flight tests before it enters combat testing in June, a military source said on Thursday. Tests of the second-generation Teng Yun (騰雲), or “Cloud Rider,” prototype are being conducted after a previous version crashed in eastern Taiwan in February, delaying the drone’s development, the source said on condition of anonymity. The second-generation prototype being tested has been up...

"What we want is something that can go operate with [the B-21]," said Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall.

While still seeking customers in the US military, General Atomics president Dave Alexander says several unnamed international parties are interested in latest deadly remotely controlled aircraft.

In Richard "Dick" McCormack Dick, the energy world had a general who sometimes served as a foot soldier..

THE US is developing its most powerful laser weapon yet capable of blasting missiles and drones out of the sky following China's "round the world" nuk

The technology used in directed energy weapons, including lasers and high-power microwaves, is advancing, and warfighters are looking for ways to use it to their advantage on the modern battlefield. General Atomics and Boeing have recently been awarded a U.S. Army contract to create a 300 kW-class solid-state distributed gain high-energy laser weapon system that will exceed anything fielded to date.

NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock is working toward giving far-flung space explorers more autonomy when navigating. In a new paper published in the journal Nature, the mission reports progress in their work to improve the ability of space-based atomic clocks to measure time consistently over long periods. Known as stability, this feature also impacts the operation of GPS satellites that help people navigate on Earth, so this work also has the potential to increase the autonomy of next-generatio...

Magadia v. Wal-Mart Associates, Inc., No. 19-16184, 2021 WL 2176584 (9th Cir., May 28, 2021) - Summary: An employee lacks Article III standing to bring a PAGA claim in...