The Engineer's Perspective

These Interceptors will form the Basis of Golden Dome for America

Brilliant Swarms from Booz Allen is the latest iteration in the Evolution of Space-Based Interceptors

Aug 12

AI is now being used in Beyond Range Air-to-Air Combat

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Aug 4

July 2025

From Aerospace to Inner Space: Engineering Intelligence That Augments the Humanity In Us.

Applying Aerospace Principles to the Architecture of Adaptive Intelligence

Jul 14 • 

Marc Yap

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June 2025

How 14 bombs changed history: The largest non-nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal was just used in the largest stealth bomber strike in…

Operation Midnight Hammer

Jun 25

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This is how the U.S. Air Force will counter Drone Swarms

Expanded to include an infrared guidance seeker, Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II (APKWS II) transforms standard 2.75-inch (70mm) Hydra unguided…

Jun 17

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May 2025

This Was The First Shootdown of an Aircraft by an Unmanned Surface Vehicle

Ukraine's Magura-7 drones ambushed Russian Su-30 Flanker jets over the Black Sea, with two successfully firing AIM-9Ms to achieve the first-ever aerial…

May 26

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April 2025

Japan has mounted a railgun onto a ship for testing.

The advanced railgun uses electromagnetic energy to launch projectiles at hypersonic speeds of over 5000 miles an hour.

Apr 22

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These Vehicles will be key to China’s invasion of Taiwan

The Shuiqiao (水桥, "water bridge") class vessel are designed to form modular floating bridges for military operations, and appear to have been developed…

Apr 14

The First Fighter Jets Outfitted with AI

The U.S. Air Force via the VENOM program will lead the world's air-forces into a new era via AI-driven systems in the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Apr 8

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Brilliant Swarms: Strategic Missile Defense for the 21st Century.

A 21st Century update to the 1980s concept of "Brilliant Pebbles", Brilliant Swarm combines the concept of launch detection and kinetic interception in…

Apr 4

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This Missile System has China Worried.

The U.S. Typhon Missile System has been placed in the Philippines. A mobile, missile platform that uses SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles, Typhon allows the…

Apr 1

March 2025

NGAD's manufacturer was announced, and its design is...interesting.

Just like how the B-21 mirrored Northrop's earlier B-2 designs, the F-47 is an evolution from some of Boeing's earlier stealth designs

Mar 28

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