The U.S. government has approved the potential sale of over a thousand loitering munitions, also known as kamikaze drones, a mix of Switchblade 300 and ALTIUS 600M types, both of which have been used in combat in Ukraine, to the Taiwanese armed forces. Large numbers of relatively cheap kamikaze drones would give Taiwan extremely valuable additional capacity to […]
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Spacecraft Takes Close Up Video of the Sun, Revealing Otherworldly Hellscape
Sunny Side Up The European Space Agency has released an incredible video of the Sun’s roiling surface, taken by its Solar Orbiter last year from a front-row vantage point. The dynamic video shows strands of energized particles leaving the star’s lower atmosphere in the form of “coronal rain,” with small eruptions of plasma dotting a […]