North Korea Reveals Warship It Says Outscales Last Year’s Destroyer
North Korea has published the first photographs of a new warship under construction at Nampho Shipyard, exposing enough of its…
Materials & Manufacturing
Virginia-Class Submarines Need 300-Plus China-Linked Mineral Component Types
More than 300 critical component types in each Virginia-class submarine contain antimony, gallium, germanium or tungsten, according to a new…
Destinus Builds Nearly 300 Ruta Missiles Monthly, but Logistics May Lag
Nearly 300 Ruta cruise missiles a month is the production rate Dutch-headquartered startup Destinus says it has reached in Europe….
Anduril Plans US-Made Laptops With Local AI for Sensitive Data
A company known for military weapons and drones is moving into work laptops. Anduril and Qualcomm have unveiled BlueChip, a…
Samsung Chip Profit Jumps 15-Fold, Next Year’s Data-Center Memory Sells Out
Samsung Electronics has reached an unusual point in the artificial-intelligence hardware cycle: its quarterly semiconductor operating profit jumped 15-fold to…
3D-Printed Thermal Cloak Makes Complex Objects Disappear From Infrared Images
Heat entering the new composite does not take the direct route through its center. A precisely shaped aluminum lattice conducts…
Türkiye Shipwreck’s Hull Vanished, but 4,700-Year-Old Trade Jars Survived
A wooden trading vessel believed to have sunk off southern Türkiye as much as 4,700 years ago has effectively disappeared,…
Sole-Source Supplier Dispute Halts Boeing 777 Freighter Production for Nearly Two Months
A small Florida supplier became the stopping point for one of Boeing’s largest cargo-aircraft lines. A commercial dispute with Vaero,…
Polar Semiconductor’s Rationed Helium Supply Puts Chip Production at Risk
A gas commonly associated with balloons has become a production constraint at a U.S. chip factory. One of Polar Semiconductor’s…
Chicago O’Hare Opens Vote to Name 50-Ton Rock Found Beneath Airfield
Fifty tons of dolostone sat roughly 30 feet beneath Chicago O’Hare International Airport until excavation crews encountered it during construction…
Navy Advances Printed Drone Structures, but Load-Bearing Power Paths Remain Unproven
A conductor embedded inside a composite laminate must do more than carry current. It must remain electrically isolated while the…
Yazaki Bamboo Composite Targets 50% Lower Carbon, but Durability Work Remains
Yazaki’s bamboo-filled polypropylene has cleared a stated automotive flammability requirement, but the more difficult qualification issue remains open: reliable performance…
Beehive’s 40-Part Frenzy Engine Faces a 10,000-Unit Manufacturing Test
Beehive Industries has reduced its Frenzy turbojet to roughly 40 parts, including bolts and washers, but consolidation alone does not…
ORNL Prints Three-Arm Nuclear Vessel, but Qualification Remains the Hard Part
Printing the shape is not the same as proving the pressure boundary. Oak Ridge National Laboratory has built a roughly…
Air Force Flies C-17 With Robot-Formed Panel After Tooling Shortage
The difficult part of replacing one damaged C-17 nose panel was not forming the metal. It was justifying the dedicated…
Airbus and Boeing Test Faster Composite Curing, but Assembly Remains the Bottleneck
Removing the autoclave will not, by itself, make composite airframes suitable for single-aisle production. Airbus and Boeing are evaluating lower-infrastructure…
Infinite Composites Adds Automation for Larger, Faster-Built Space Tanks
Building a large composite propellant tank starts with controlling thousands of meters of reinforcement, resin and barrier material as one…
NASA Cuts Rocket Thrust Chamber Weight Over 40% by Eliminating Joints
More than 40% is an unusually large mass reduction for mature rocket propulsion hardware. NASA achieved that reported reduction in…