Toyota Targets $1.7 Billion Selling Engines, Hybrid Systems Without Named Customers
US$1.7 billion a year is the scale Toyota is targeting from a new supplier business built around its next-generation combustion…
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Hubble Shows Comet 41P Reversed Its Spin and May Break Apart
Archived Hubble Space Telescope images show that Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák stopped rotating in its original direction and began spinning backward. The…
Iran’s 5,000 Military-Linked Agencies Imported $2 Billion Despite U.S. Blockade
A network of more than 5,000 agencies linked to Iran’s military imported at least $2 billion in hardware, explosives and…
Transportation Security Administration Plans Private Checkpoint Expansion Beyond 20 Existing Airports
The Transportation Security Administration plans to expand privately staffed airport checkpoints beyond the 20 airports already using them. Its new…
Brightline West Says Bankruptcy Won’t Affect $20.1 Billion Project Still Seeking Funds
Brightline West says the bankruptcy restructuring of its Florida sister company will not affect the planned $20.1 billion railway between…
Earth-Sized Telescope Measures Wind-Bent Cygnus X-1 Jets at 10,000 Suns’ Power
A stellar wind supplied the measuring tool. As jets streamed from the black hole in Cygnus X-1, wind from its…
Los Alamos Raises Nuclear-Core Output as Safety Board Reports Restricted Access
Los Alamos National Laboratory is increasing production of plutonium cores for nuclear warheads at the same time its independent federal…
Taiwan Says 66-Fighter F-16V Schedule at Risk as Two Weapons Slip to 2028
Taiwan has funded 66 new F-16V fighters and received the first two, but it still cannot count on completing the…
Unserviceable Boeing 737 Engines Sell for $7 Million Amid Cargo Squeeze
An engine unable to fly would ordinarily appear to be a liability. In today’s constrained air-cargo market, however, unserviceable CFM…
Ukrainian Drone Strikes Bring Hour-Long Fuel Lines to 50 Russian Regions
A relatively stable gasoline price means little when the pump is dry. Reported Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian refineries contributed…
Boeing Posts Quarterly Loss Despite Record 737 MAX Delivery Pace
Boeing’s record 737 MAX delivery pace did not produce a quarterly profit. In its third-quarter results released October 27, the…
Pentagon’s $1.1 Billion Drone Program Trails Ukraine’s 6-7 Million Output
Ukraine is projected to manufacture six million to seven million small first-person view drones this year, while the Pentagon’s $1.1…
US Army Asks Industry for Up to 8,000 Lower-Cost Missiles Within Two Years
Eight thousand missiles within 24 months: That is the potential opening requirement behind a U.S. Army market survey for an…
Former Air Force Vice Chief Says Tejas Mk-2 May Miss Frontline Window
India’s Tejas Mk-2 could arrive after its value as a frontline fighter has substantially faded, according to recently retired Indian…
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…
Greece Signs $3.5 Billion Achilles Shield Deal for One Defense Network
The core of Greece’s new Achilles Shield is not any single missile interceptor. It is the command and control architecture…
New York Replaced Tappan Zee While 140,000 Daily Vehicles Kept Moving
The central constraint was traffic: New York had to replace a roughly three-mile Hudson River bridge carrying more than 140,000…
Project Orion’s 4,000-Ton Spacecraft Would Have Needed 800 Nuclear Explosions for Orbit
Eight hundred nuclear explosions were calculated to put one Project Orion spacecraft into Earth orbit. The proposed vehicle weighed 4,000…