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Army Researchers Search for Technology Solutions to Defeat Sand

Posted on November 7, 2016 by challer

At the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, scientists and engineers experiment with coatings in high-temperature environments with the goal of creating something — anything — that will cause sand to slide off the inside of a turbine engine the way an egg slides off a nonstick skillet.
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Students Fly Prototype of Potential Mars Airplane

Posted on August 24, 2016 by challer

Called the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars, or Prandtl-M, the small, remotely piloted glider aircraft flew Aug. 11 at Armstrong. It continues an effort that began last year with a mostly different group of students.
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Creating the Perfect Target

Posted on December 10, 2013 by jtozer

The Nevada Test and Training Range is the largest air and ground space available for peacetime military operations in the free world.
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Science Fiction: The Aperture For Science Future

Posted on February 1, 2013 by jtozer

We’ve been talking a lot about the future lately. Which makes sense. The future is kind of an “in thing” when it comes to science. But for as much as I love my gaming technology and directed energy weapons, there is one …
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Army Developing NextGen Surveillance Aircraft

Posted on December 17, 2012 by jtozer

Army scientists, engineers and program developers are making substantial progress building and integrating a technically sophisticated battlefield surveillance aircraft called Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System in a laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., service officials said. The initial …
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Navy’s Close In Weapons System

Posted on September 5, 2012 by jtozer

HEADPHONE WARNING! MK 15 Phalanx CIWS provides ships of the U.S. Navy with an inner layer point defense capability against Anti Ship Missiles (ASM), aircraft, and littoral warfare threats that have penetrated other fleet defenses. Phalanx automatically detects, evaluates, tracks, …
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U.S. Air Force Develops NASA’s New MUTT

Posted on April 19, 2012 by jtozer

NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center soon will have a new dog in the yard, and it’s a real MUTT. That’s short for the Multi-Use Technology Testbed, a small unmanned aircraft being developed by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to …
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Air Force modernization takes B-2 to North Pole

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Julie Weckerlein

by Kate Blais 95th Air Base Wing Public Affairs, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. A B-2 Spirit flew from Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., to the North Pole and back Oct. 27 on a mission to test the aircraft’s hardware and software …
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