The US Space Force located a tiny experimental satellite after it spent two-and-a–half decades missing in…
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The Air Force’s big new electric taxi flies at 200 mph
Today, members of the military and an executive from Joby Aviation used a giant pair of…
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What’s in the US military’s historic lost and found: nukes, jets, and drones
For roughly 24 hours, between the afternoon of September 17 and the evening of September 18,…
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Joby’s latest electric air taxi will head to an Air Force base for tests in 2024
Small planes have one propeller, bigger ones have two, and helicopters have a giant rotor on…
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The Air Force used microwave energy to take down a drone swarm
In the desert plain south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and just north of the Isleta Pueblo…
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What to expect from the US Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter jet
On May 18, the United States Department of the Air Force announced that it is looking…
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A new NASA study will put people through a brain-shaking ride in the Kraken
Pilots can experience forces while flying that punish their bodies, and they can also find themselves…
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Watch a giant military drone land on a Wyoming highway
On April 30, an MQ-9 Reaper drone landed on Highway 287, north of Rawlins, Wyoming. The…
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How fast is supersonic flight, and why does it create sonic booms?
To fly at supersonic speeds is to punch through an invisible threshold in the sky. Rocketing…
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This electric plane’s 2,000-mile journey is over. Now its Air Force tests begin.
On Wednesday, October 18, an electric aircraft powered by a single propeller flew into, and then…
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Futuristic aircraft and robotic loaders dazzled at a Dallas tech summit
Last week at a ranch outside Dallas, Texas, hundreds of people gathered to hobnob and discuss…
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