mandag 18. mars 2024

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Space - USA gjør seg klar for total solformørkelse - Space.com

Solar eclipse 2024 weather prospects: Q&A with an expert

(M. Gunshor, UW/CIMSS)

Taking a deeper look into climatology and other factors to better understand an early outlook for eclipse weather along the path of totality on April 8.

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Droner - Oppfinnsomhet begynner hos ungdommen - Sjekk konkurranse i USA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

 




JPL Life

Student-Built Robots Clash at Competition Supported by NASA-JPL

Teams prepare for a playoff match

Hand-crafted robots, constructed over the past two months by 44 high school teams, duked it out at the FIRST Robotics Los Angeles regional competition. Read More

Dette er noe mange takniskinspirerte skoler kan ta lærdom av. Sjekk video her: https://tinyurl.com/23mmxed7

NATO bygger stor base nær Constanta i Romania - RBC Ukraine

 


Europe's largest NATO base to be built in Romania

Europe's largest NATO base to be built in RomaniaIllustrative photo (Getty Images)
AUTHOR: MARIA KHOLINA

Romania has initiated construction works to expand the military complex of the 57th Romanian Air Force Base Mihail Kogălniceanu. The largest NATO military base in Europe could be operational as early as 2040, according to TVR Info.

The Romanian government is investing nearly 2.5 billion euros into the project.

The vast military complex, resulting from the expansion of the Mihail Kogălniceanu base, will cover an area of ​​2,800 hectares and will contain facilities that were not previously present.

The project aims to strengthen the air infrastructure, including new runways, a new control tower, a beacon and radio navigation system, a flight simulator, and hangars.

Additionally, administrative and social buildings, schools and kindergartens, shops, restaurants, a cinema, and even a hospital will be established. The city will become home to 10,000 NATO servicemen, their families, and base support staff.

The base is expected to be fully operational by 2040.

US troops have been using the base since 1999, and it currently houses units of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States and allied fighter aircraft tasked with airspace protection duties.

Previously, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis officially announced his desire to run for the NATO Secretary General position.

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Dette bildet er interessant. En Rivet Joint og en Poseidon jobber sammen. Det kan bety målangivelse for ukrainske angrep mot Sevastopol området.

Loitering munition - "Avventende våpen" har stor sukseess for begge parter i krigen - UAS Vision video

 

 


Anduril Industries New Loitering Munition Altius 700M Hits All Targets in Successful Test


Anduril Industries has just released a
video  of the first end-to-end live fire test for ALTIUS-700M at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah in September which demonstrated flawless system performance with direct hits across six missions. Launched from a ground vehicle during the test, the munition displayed remarkable range capabilities, reaching up to 100 miles with a flight time of 75 minutes.

The Altius’s straight-wing flight configuration is reminiscent of both the larger Predator drone and various small UAVs seen on battlefields such as Ukraine, as well as the A-10 Warthog combat aircraft.

The Altius 700M brings unmatched payload capacity to the loitering munitions market, combining multi-domain launch, proven collaborative autonomy, and category-leading range with a larger, penetrating warhead to kill or disable armored targets and infrastructure.

The September event in Utah was the first opportunity for Anduril engineers to test the ALTIUS-700M with a live warhead. Following previous trials of subsystems and inert system testing, the system was integrated and fully-tested for the first time from launch to successful delivery of effects on target. Alongside Department of Defense partners, the ALTIUS-700M team successfully completed all test objectives and proved that the system was accurate and effective against the chosen target set.

 About 700M

ALTIUS is a family of modular, highly-configurable, and multi-platform launched effects designed for expeditionary deployment by air, ground, or maritime forces for a variety of missions. ALTIUS can be configured to perform intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and targeting (ISR&T); communications relay; cyber warfare; or kinetic strike. With industry-leading loitering time, extended range, and modular and open hardware and software architectures, ALTIUS is a comprehensive family of launched effects designed to collaborate to enable simultaneous mission execution to achieve complex mission objectives. ALTIUS has demonstrated its category-leading performance across deployments ranging from hurricane data collection to the battlefields of Ukraine, as well as through a series of test events, demonstrations, and exercises.

ALTIUS-700M brings category-leading payload capacity to the loitering munitions market. With a munition payload capacity of up to 33 pounds – comparable to an AGM-114 Hellfire missile – 700M delivers highly-precise, devastating strikes on large and armored targets, including tanks, vehicles, vessels, and infrastructure. With significant payload mass, high terminal velocity, and optional delayed fuze payload configurations, 700M can easily penetrate target walls to deliver maximum effect on armored targets. ALTIUS-700M offers up to 100 miles of range and 75 minutes of flight time, providing warfighters with longer standoff distance and increased loitering time on-station to locate targets and deliver kinetic effects.

ALTIUS-700M builds on the success of the broader ALTIUS family of systems. ALTIUS-M (600M and 700M) leverage a mature common software baseline and open system architecture to integrate with a range of payloads and mission software suites. By combining advanced autonomy capabilities with a simplified user interface, a single operator is able to control multiple ALTIUS simultaneously, with each asset tasked with a unique mission based on its individual payload capability. 700M ensures that the operator maintains decisive control over tasking and terminal execution, delivering devastating effects at extreme ranges without the constraints of laser target designation or the repercussions of fire and forget.

Anduril has invested more than $60M into a new 180,000 square foot production facility in Atlanta, Georgia to scale manufacturing of ALTIUS. Anduril has already designed, manufactured, and delivered hundreds of ALTIUS variants to U.S. Government customers over the past six years.

With unmatched payload capacity, best-in-class range, and advanced autonomy to execute coordinated strikes, ALTIUS-700M is the most lethal tactical loitering munition available today.

The expressed interest by the Army’s Project Manager for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PM UAS) in the non-munitions variant of the Altius (Altius 700) indicates a desire to expand the Army’s ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting) capabilities. An additional demonstration of the Altius 700 is scheduled for the end of fiscal year 2024, with a deployment decision expected in 2025.

Despite the demonstrated potential of the Altius 700M stealth munition, Anduril has kept details regarding the technology’s cost and its first customer confidential. However, the Dugway tests confirm the weapon’s advanced level of maturity, suggesting its upcoming integration into military forces.

As effective countermeasures against small drones evolve rapidly, notably in Ukraine, the Altius 700M positions itself as a potentially formidable weapon on the battlefield, combining precision, power, and adaptability. Future developments will determine its real impact on modern defense strategies.

Top Photo: Altius-700M loitering munition test showing the drone hitting a simulated Russian SA-17 surface-to-air missile launcher 


Ukraina - Dagens video fra X

 

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