On July 25, 2000, an Air France Concorde ran over a piece of titanium debris while taking off from Charles de Gaulle International Airport. Minutes later 113 people perished in a ball of fire.
Most airports rely on visual inspections to keep runways clear of foreign objects and prevent what ...
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XX25 powers a MiTAC V100 rugged laptop.
(Credit: UltraCell)A California company has introduced a 25-watt mobile fuel cell system designed to power a ruggedized laptop computer for up to 14 hours at a time using a single 250cc cartridge.
The XX25, as it is called, internally generates fuel cell-ready ...
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(Credit: darpa)DARPA has released some tidbits of information in a briefing on how one might build a propulsion system that combines a Constant Volume Combustion (CVC) engine and a full-scale turbine engine to accelerate a hypersonic jet to multiple Mach.
It's called the Vulcan, and it's a ...
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(Credit: USCG)You can't really say you have a private beach until you've installed a SM 2000 Underwater Surveillance System by Kongsberg to keep out the riffraff.
The system is designed to protect commercial piers, government and military vessels, cruise ships, terminals, and other high-value assets, but it'
... Comments (No responses yet)(Credit: USCG)You can't really say you have a private beach until you've installed a SM 2000 Underwater Surveillance System by Kongsberg to keep out the riffraff.
The system is designed to protect commercial piers, government and military vessels, cruise ships, terminals, and other high-value assets, but it'
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(Credit: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)New environmentally friendly, nitrogen-based explosives could deliver more of a bang while being safer to handle than traditional charges, according to chemists at the University of Munich in Germany.
When detonated, common explosives now used in military and industrial applications such as TNT and RDX ...
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Panda's bigger siblings, like the X-Hawk pictured here, promise to change the way we look at everything from taxis to ambulances.
(Credit: Urban Aeronautics)An Israeli company has conducted the first in a series of test flights on the Panda, a new ducted-fan, unmanned aerial vehicle prototype that ...
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Multiple Kill Vehicle in simulated action.
(Credit: U.S. Missile Defense Agency)Lockheed Martin said this week it has reached an important milestone in the development of one piece of the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System (PDF) puzzle: an interceptor missile capable of taking out multiple enemy ICBM warheads....
Comments (No responses yet)SRI International has announced the development of a wall-climbing robot that uses a new electrical adhesive technology called "compliant electroadhesion" that can stick to anything from brick to glass--even damp, dirty glass.
(Credit: SRI International)Electroadhesion, or electrically controlled electrostatic attraction, is an electrically controlled adhesion technology that induces an ...
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(Credit: Thales UK)Thales UK released photos of the new Watchkeeper UAV maiden flight in Northern Israel after permission to publish the pictures had been blocked for three weeks because of political considerations, according to industry press reports.
The Watchkeeper, a fully autonomous (including automatic takeoff and landing) unmanned aerial ...
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