Ukraine Prioritizes Four Interceptors for Jet-Powered Shaheds, but Scale Is Unclear
Ukraine says it has four potential interceptor-drone designs for faster, jet-powered Shahed-type aircraft, but the program remains caught between a…
Pentagon Raises F-35 Acquisition Estimate $51 Billion After Years of Declines
The Pentagon now estimates that developing, modernizing and acquiring the planned U.S. F-35 fleet will cost $536.2 billion, up $51…
Russian Shahed Drone Attack Reportedly Cut Power to 300,000 in Mykolaiv
More than 300,000 electricity customers reportedly lost power in Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region after a large Russian attack using Shahed-type drones…
After 21 Ukrainian Drone Strikes, Russian Refining Hits Reported 20-Year Low
About 3.8 million barrels a day: That is the estimated average volume of oil processed by Russian refineries in August…
Boeing’s $131.2 Billion F-15 Contract Is a Ceiling, Not Spending
Boeing now holds an F-15 production and support contract with a $131.23 billion ceiling, but the government has not ordered…
Ukrainian Drone Strike Halts Russia’s Fourth-Largest Refinery in Kstovo, With Restart Unknown
A Ukrainian drone strike has stopped crude processing at LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez in Kstovo, Russia’s fourth-largest refinery by capacity. Three industry sources…
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Push Russia to Import Gasoline and Refine Abroad
Russia’s strength as a major crude-oil producer is colliding with a different industrial reality: crude in the ground does not…
Fifth Ukraine Drone Shutdown at Russia’s NORSI Refinery Leaves Lukoil Offline
Five shutdowns in less than five months have turned Lukoil’s NORSI refinery into a measure of cumulative industrial disruption. Reuters…
Dover’s C-5M Engine Tool Could Cut Rigging Labor From 200 Hours to 16
Two hundred labor-hours versus 16: that is the potential maintenance reduction behind a six-gauge engine-rigging set developed at Dover Air…
Euclid Finds Most Distant Quasar, Revealing a Billion-Sun Growth Problem
A black hole with roughly a billion times the sun’s mass was already powering a brilliant quasar when the universe…
Ukraine’s €2 Billion Patriot Request Could Mean 190 to 580 Interceptors
Ukraine’s proposed €2 billion Patriot budget carries an unusually wide range of possible outcomes: roughly 190 to 580 PAC-3 Missile…
TI’s Dual-Axis EV Current Sensor Cuts Error Without Busbar Modifications
Coreless current sensing presents traction-inverter engineers with a mechanical contradiction: removing a magnetic core can reduce size and weight, but…
Jaunt Chooses Passive-Cooled Drone Batteries to Reduce Cooling Mass and Complexity
Removing pumps, coolant lines and other liquid-cooling hardware can simplify an aircraft battery installation, but it also shifts more responsibility…
Army Told 173rd Airborne Brigade to Drop Drone Focus; Lawmakers Demand Answers
The U.S. Army has directed a battalion in the Europe-based 173rd Airborne Brigade to stop specializing in drone warfare and…
USS Abraham Lincoln Reaches Thailand After Eight Months Without a Port Call
USS Abraham Lincoln sustained an exceptionally long combat deployment, but that availability came with pressure on approximately 5,000 crew members,…
LUX-ZEPLIN Records One Possible Dark-Matter Interaction, but Confirmation Needs More Data
Nearly a mile beneath South Dakota, the LUX-ZEPLIN detector recorded one particle interaction that researchers cannot convincingly explain with known…
Drone Attack Stops Russia’s Kirishi Refinery With Half Its Capacity Already Offline
A drone attack reportedly stopped all crude processing at Russia’s Kirishinefteorgsintez refinery on August 30, even though the two units…
GM V8 Failures After Recall Repairs Prompt Probe of 997,743 Vehicles
Federal safety regulators are examining reported failures of General Motors’ 6.2-liter V8 after recall remedies, expanding the inquiry to 997,743…