Andrew Tarantola
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Monster Machines: France’s New Ship-Defence Turret Is A Remote-Controlled Missile Launcher
The US Navy’s SeaRAM is far from the only ship-based missile defence turret sailing the high seas. French weapons manufacturer MBDA, in fact, has just begun testing a remotely controlled missile launcher of its own. One that finally moves the turret’s operator out of the line of fire.
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World’s Fastest Fibre Line Can Support An Internet’s Worth Of Data
Currently, the fastest commercially available fibre optic line tops out at 100Gbps. That’s super fast, sure, but isn’t nearly a wide enough pipeline for our increasingly interconnected systems. That’s why this new, multi-modal, fibre line is so exciting — it can pack 2550 times as much data into the same glass strand.
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US Special Force’s New Sniper Scope Works Like A Human Eye
Conventional sniper scopes may allow for superlatively long shots but they are far from perfect, requiring a time-consuming refocusing of the sights should the target (or shooter) have to move position. But with the new RAZAR scope from Sandia National Labs, that refocus is handled almost instantly with the push of a button.
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‘Starquakes’ May Be The Reason Behind Massive Solar Eruptions
In early 2009, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observed an unprecedented solar storm emanating from a distant neutron star with gigantic columns of magnetised flares stretching thousands of kilometres into space — only the third time such an eruption had been observed. Five years later, NASA boffins think they have figured out what’s triggered it.