Consider 35 pounds of metal moving at Mach 5.8. Ten shots per minute. 1,000 shots before the barrel wears out under the enormous pressures. That’s the devastating firepower the Navy railgun program aims to deliver in the next two years,…
Consider 35 pounds of metal moving at Mach 5.8. Ten shots per minute. 1,000 shots before the barrel wears out under the enormous pressures. That’s the devastating firepower the Navy railgun program aims to deliver in the next two years,…
Boeing has begun working on a new software load that will unlock new operational capabilities for the long-serving F-15C Eagle and F-15E Strike Eagle, as it fends off an F-15C/D retirement proposal by the U.S. Air Force. Renaissance Services helps…
DZ Sokol, Managing Partner of Renaissance Services, will be presenting information on PERFECT-3D at the RAPID conference in Pittsburgh on May 9 (http://www.rapid3devent.com/) . He will be joined by Ben Rampulla of PCC Structurals where they will provide a case…
Marines at Camp Pendleton will get to field-test more than 50 different new technologies next month ranging from palmtop mini-drones to self-driving amtracs, from wireless networks to precision-guided mortar shells. Plus there will be plenty of classified systems the Marines can’t talk…
Boeing is close to unveiling the 737-9, the second member of its new CFM Leap-1B-powered MAX family. The first aircraft is set for rollout at the end of the month and will likely make its first flight in April. The test…
ATR is digitizing the design drawings for the ATR 72 regional turboprop, a four-year endeavor that shows how 3-D digital mockups have become all-important, even for an aircraft in service for three decades. Renaissance Services helps companies with their design…
Having announced partnerships with Carbon and HP last year, pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) have now outlined plans to integrate 3D printing into the development of medical devices. Johnson & Johnson have just revealed a new partnership with Aspect…
Robot boats are getting smarter fast. Two years ago, on the James River, the Office of Naval Research dropped jaws with a “swarm” of 13 unmanned craft that could detect threats and react to them without human intervention. This fall,…
NASA has decided to ease humans back to the Moon in a free-return flyaround trajectory on the first flight of the Orion crew capsule with astronauts on board, instead of going directly to the lunar orbit where it plans to…
Manufacturers and MRO service providers are striving to offer documentation, video conferencing and augmented reality via mobile devices so maintenance technicians can receive off-site support from a database or live experts. The use of smartphones and tablets has become so…