GKN Aerospace is leading the Smart Connected Shop Floor project as part of the UK’s Manufacturing Made Smarter Challenge. UK government and industry are jointly investing to support businesses to implement new technology to boost their manufacturing productivity.
BEALE AFB, Calif. — The U-2 Federal Laboratory successfully leveraged Kubernetes during a local training sortie on a U-2 Dragon Lady assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing at Beale Air Force Base, California, on September 22. This represents the first time Kubernetes has flown on an operational m…
SpaceX and L3Harris are building eight satellites for the U.S. Space Development Agency to detect ballistic and hypersonic missiles. Official SpaceX Photos [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons Each company will build four satellites each and deliver them by September of 2022. Operating from low Earth orbit, each satellite is installed with an overhead persistent infrared (OPIR) […]
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force says its Indo-Pacific Deployment 2020 task force has carried joint naval exercise with the Indonesian Navy west of Natuna Islands in the South China Sea. Photos: JMSDF Photos show JS Kaga and JS Ikazuchi underway together with KRI John Lie (358) and KRI Sutanto (377).
Japanese media Flash said that the Japan Air Self-Defense Force grounded its F-2 fleet for checks last month. By Toshi Aoki – JP Spotters [CC BY-SA 3.0 or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons The grounding took place after a F-2B was found to have a hairline crack on a wing after post-flight inspections was […]
Officials and military experts from Taiwan and the United States will meet via video conference to discuss which weapons would be best for the island’s self-defence as tensions escalate between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
During the 2020 US-Taiwan Defence Industry Conference, which is exp…