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Lockheed Martin has increased the power of its laser weapons to half a megawatt
(ORDO NEWS) — Lockheed Martin has announced that it has upgraded its 300kW laser system to 500kW under a new contract with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Development (OUSD (R&E)). The move is part of the second phase of the High Energy Laser Weapon Scaling Initiative (HELSI), which aims to increase the power of solid-state laser weapons to deal with larger, heavier and more…
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Lockheed Martin showed renderings of the sixth generation fighter
(ORDO NEWS) — The military-industrial company Lockheed Martin has presented new illustrations showing, presumably, the sixth generation fighter, created as part of the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. The images show fueling a tailless stealth fighter from an LMXT tanker aircraft, which also exists only as a concept so far. The NGAD aircraft is made according to a tailless aerodynamic configuration and includes an elongated fuselage sharply tapering towards…
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Lockheed Martin’s X-59 plans to break the sound barrier again
(ORDO NEWS) — NASA aircraft designers intend to break the sound barrier again. This time around, engineers plan to take a completely different approach that will one day allow passengers to travel distances through the air at supersonic speeds. The Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST (Quiet Supersonic Transport) is an experimental supersonic aircraft that is expected to fly at 1,510 kilometers per hour, at an altitude of 17 kilometers, generating a…
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New laser weapons from Lockheed Martin ready for use in the US
(ORDO NEWS) — One of the largest military contractors of the Pentagon, Lockheed Martin, is ready to present its new development to the department. The HELSI combat laser has a power of 300 kilowatts. At the end of August, Lockheed Martin began installing combat lasers on American warships. Now it’s the turn of ground transportation. What is known about the new weapon Lockheed Martin has donated a sample of the…
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GM and Lockheed Martin to develop electric lunar rovers
(ORDO NEWS) — General Motors and Lockheed Martin have announced plans for a series of electric lunar rovers for future space missions. It was announced that batteries developed by GM will be tested in space at the end of 2022. The companies have also set an ambitious goal: to test a prototype vehicle on the Moon by 2025. According to the project, the new electric lunar rover can be operated…
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Americans tested their HAWC hypersonic missile from Lockheed Martin
(ORDO NEWS) — DARPA, the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Lockheed Martin and Aerojet Rocketdyne successfully conducted the second test flight of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) hypersonic missile. The United States did not immediately report this test, so as not to cause political tension, but now decided to talk about how they successfully tested their own hypersonic missile. There are a number of different types of hypersonic…
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Lockheed Martin unveils new ‘Doomsday Plane’ concept
(ORDO NEWS) — At the Sea-Air-Space Exposition, Lockheed Martin showed the concept of the next “doomsday aircraft” EC-130J. So-called doomsday (or doomsday) aircraft are vehicles designed to serve as a mobile command headquarters for the top military leadership of the United States in the event of a nuclear war. Today, the US Navy uses the Boeing E-6B Mercury for this purpose. Now there are 16 such aircraft, which can coordinate…
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Lockheed Martin will create a rocket to deliver Martian samples to Earth
(ORDO NEWS) — NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin Space a contract to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle. With its help, they want to deliver Martian samples to Earth for study. The researchers hope that the mission will bring us closer to answering the question of the existence of life on the Red Planet. NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin Space a contract to build a small “Martian” Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV)…
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Lockheed Martin will build a rocket and bring soil from Mars
(ORDO NEWS) — The novelty will be the final part of the ongoing project to study the Red Planet.Soil samples from Mars will arrive on Earth in the 2030s using a rocket from Lockheed Martin The Perseverance rover with the Ingenuity helicopter, which landed on the Red Planet in early 2021 and have continued their scientific program since then, should receive “support” in the coming years from the Mars Ascent…