6+ hour, 50+ min ago   (212+ words) Interesting Engineering America’s New 9,700-Ton Destroyer Is Watching the Arctic With SPY-6 Radar USS Ted Stevens is America’s newest Flight III destroyer, combining the AN/SPY-6 radar with upgraded power and cooling systems as the U.S. Navy increasingly focuses…...

6+ hour, 31+ min ago   (175+ words) Interesting Engineering Russia Just Unveiled a Pantsir Built to Kill Drone Swarms. It Carries 48 Missiles. Russia’s new Pantsir-SMD-E is built around one problem: drone swarms. With a much larger interceptor load, it aims to keep air defenses fighting longer against…...

10+ hour, 55+ min ago   (196+ words) Interesting Engineering Japan’s Frigate Could Win the U.S. Navy Contract. But There Is a Big Problem The U.S. Navy wants foreign frigates, including Japan’s upgraded Mogami. But Japanese shipbuilders face a difficult question: build for America, or invest heavily in…...

14+ hour, 37+ min ago   (195+ words) Here’s a humanoid who apparently started kicking a customer in Russia, just because they pushed it a little and the video went viral. Just a day later, another video emerged of a humanoid pushing and kicking several people at a…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (429+ words) Latest mages show that China’s “WZ-X” drone has what appear to be stealth features, hinting at a role spying deep inside defended airspace. New images are circulating that appear to show China’s latest American B-2 “Spirit” looking stealth drone, the…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago   (530+ words) The debate over agentic mathematics has reached beyond mathematical proofs. A group of the world’s most decorated mathematicians is warning that the race to make AI solve difficult mathematics could damage the field it aims to advance. Twenty-five Fields Medalists…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (371+ words) The underwater vehicle was captured near the Strait of Hormuz by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Iran has claimed that it captured an American underwater drone, according to reports The underwater vehicle was captured near the Strait of Hormuz by…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (262+ words) The U.S. Army is investing $472 million to modernize the CH-47 Chinook, upgrading its avionics and digital systems as the 1960s-era helicopter heads toward the 2040s. The CH-47 Chinook first flew in 1961 and entered U.S. Army service in 1962. More than six decades later, the…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (191+ words) Interesting Engineering Did Iran Recover America’s 30,000-Pound Bunker Buster? Iran recovered an undetonated U.S. bomb in Yazd and claims another advanced weapon may have been recovered for study. Here’s what reverse-engineering either weapon could reveal. Iranian officials say an undetonated…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (548+ words) The latest ARAV-B flight adds another successful mission to a target family designed to reproduce changing missile threats. Kratos has flown its ARAV-B ballistic missile target during a multinational missile defense exercise around Hawaii. The target launched August 6 from the…...