Ukraine Tests Four Interceptors but Lacks Mass-Produced Answer to Faster Drones
Ukraine has field-tested four prospective interceptors for Russia’s faster, jet-powered Shahed-type drones, but it has not confirmed that any candidate…
NASA Launches Roman Telescope to Survey Cosmos 1,000 Times Faster Than Hubble
NASA has launched the $4.3 billion Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, beginning a mission expected to survey broad regions of…
USS John F. Kennedy Completes Sea Trials, but Delivery Work Remains
The U.S. Navy’s delayed newest supercarrier has completed acceptance sea trials, but USS John F. Kennedy is not yet delivered,…
Rainmaker Says Alaska Drones Triggered 19 Million Gallons of Precipitation
Rainmaker says its cloud-seeding drones caused approximately 19 million gallons of precipitation during a three-hour operation on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula….
Army’s $46 Million Chaparral Contract Shifts Focus to Field-Ready Autonomy
Elroy Air’s Chaparral cargo drone is moving beyond the basic question of whether an autonomous vertical-takeoff aircraft can transport a…
Modified Gulfstream IV Returns After Seven-Year Overhaul for 30-Year Mission
A Gulfstream IV has returned to MIT Lincoln Laboratory after a seven-year conversion that turned the business jet into a…
General Dynamics’ $533 Million Army Factory Reportedly Produced No Usable Shells
The U.S. Army paid General Dynamics $533 million for an automated artillery factory in Texas that reportedly failed to produce…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Again Hits 430,000 MPH, Future Under Review
At about 430,000 mph, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe covers roughly 120 miles every second. The spacecraft matched that record during…
Ukrainian Drone Strike Leaves All Major Lukoil Refineries in Russia Offline
A Ukrainian drone strike has halted crude processing at Lukoil’s Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez refinery in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region, leaving all of…
FAA Moves to Fire Two LaGuardia Controllers Who Left Tower Without Backup
The Federal Aviation Administration is moving to fire two LaGuardia Airport air traffic controllers after determining that they left about…
Pentagon Raises F-35 Acquisition Estimate $51 Billion to $536.2 Billion
The Pentagon has raised the estimated cost of acquiring the planned U.S. F-35 fleet and its engines by $51 billion,…
Lockheed’s $58.6 Billion Patriot Expansion Cannot Quickly Refill Inventories
The central problem in the reported $58.6 billion Patriot production framework is time. U.S. inventories have reportedly fallen to 25%…
Golden Dome’s 7,800 Satellites Drive $1.2 Trillion 20-Year Cost Estimate
$1.2 trillion over 20 years. That is the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate for developing, deploying and operating a notional Golden…
U.S. Threat Assessment: 16,000-Plus Foreign Systems Could Target America by 2035
More than 16,000 foreign delivery systems could be capable of targeting the United States by 2035, according to the 2026…
Ukrainian Drone Attacks Push Russia to Record Seaborne Gasoline Imports
Russia is a major crude-oil exporter, but repeated Ukrainian drone attacks have disrupted its refineries enough to make the country…
Zaporizhzhia Loses Grid Power for Over a Week, Has 10 Days’ Diesel
Six shut-down reactors at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant still need continuous electricity for cooling, but Europe’s largest nuclear facility…
Federal Regulators Investigate GM V8 Failures After Recall Repairs in 997,743 Vehicles
Federal regulators are examining reported failures of General Motors’ 6.2-liter V8 after some engines had already received recall repairs. The…
Ukraine Says Four-Day Russian Barrage Nears 1,500 Drones, Pressuring Interceptor Production
Nearly 1,500 drones in four days is the figure now defining Ukraine’s interceptor-production challenge. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia launched…