From Strato Energetics: The Stinger is our first mass-produced mini-weapon. It’s fully autonomous with wide-field cameras, tactical sensors, facial recognition, processors that can react 100 times faster than a human, and its stochastic motion is an anti-sniper feature. Inside it are three grams of shaped explosives that offer just enough power to penetrate the skull and kill the target with surgical precision.
9-14-19 Drone attacks claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck two key oil installations inside Saudi Arabia on Saturday, damaging facilities that process the vast majority of the country’s crude output and raising the risk of a disruption in world oil supplies.
1-2-20 Iran’s top security and intelligence commander Qassim Suleimani was killed early Friday in a drone strike at Baghdad International Airport that was authorized by President Trump, American officials said.
9-28-20 A major conflict has erupted between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the long-disputed mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region, with casualties being reported on both sides after just two days of fighting. The Azerbaijani military says that its expanding drone fleet, which may now include Turkey’s increasingly popular Bayraktar TB2, has been particularly active already, destroying multiple Armenian mobile air defense systems, tanks, and other vehicles.
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9-29-20 China’s first independently developed unmanned helicopter that will focus on plateau operation successfully completed its maiden flight in a plateau region, a milestone that demonstrates the capability of this agile drone. The AR-500C prototype completed its first plateau flight at the Daocheng Yading Airport, which is the world’s highest civilian airport with an elevation of 4,411 meters, the state-owned Aviation Industry Corp of China (AVIC), the aircraft’s developer, said in a statement on Monday. This flight broke the record for the elevation at which a domestically built unmanned helicopter took off and landed. Unlike fixed-wing drones, a helicopter drone is more flexible since it does not require long runways.
9-26-20 The China-built Cauchari photovoltaic solar project in Jujuy Province, Argentina, the largest solar project in the country was put into use on Sat. The project is to bring self-sufficient electricity and an annual income of $50 million to the province.
The Cauchari solar project in Argentina’s northernmost province Jujuy is one of the biggest photovoltaic (PV) solar power projects in South America. Located at an elevation of more than 4km above the sea level, it is also the world’s highest-altitude solar power project. Construction on the 300MW Cauchari solar project phase one was started in October 2017, with an investment of £301m ($390m). The phase one was inaugurated after the completion of trial run in October 2019.
The 300MW Cauchari solar farm, with an estimated lifespan of 25 years, is expected to generate approximately 660GWh of clean electricity a year, which will be enough to power more than 160,000 households.
It is further planned for a 200MW expansion in the next phase to bring the total capacity to 500MW, which will be enough to meet the electricity needs of approximately 260,000 Argentine homes.
The 230 MeV superconducting cyclotron, in which 71 million proton beam clusters can be accelerated to about 60% of the speed of light per second, is continuously delivered. Such high-speed continuous proton beams provide new conditions for materials science and aerospace engineering for special materials, high-power devices, and radiation damage testing of space chips, as well as for radiobiological research on the biological effects of space radiation and DNA damage.
Guohwa No. 1, also known as CAP1400, is a large and advanced nuclear power model with independent intellectual property rights developed by China on the basis of the introduction and absorption of international advanced third-generation nuclear power technology and relying on the national large-scale advanced pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant major special project, with high safety factor, good economic performance and many innovative achievements.
China has completed the research and development of Guohe-1 国和一号 , a third-generation nuclear power technology with completely independent intellectual property rights. “As one of China’s 16 major science and technology projects, Guohe-1 represents the advanced level of third-generation nuclear power technology in the world today and is the latest achievement in China’s nuclear power technology research and development and industrial innovation.
9-27-20, “Jinghua” 京华号 extra-large diameter shield machine rolled off the production line in Changsha.
The shield machine is 150 meters long, weighs 4,300 tons and has a maximum excavation diameter of 16.07 meters.
This is China’s largest diameter shield machine developed so far, it will be involved in the construction of the sixth ring of the East Beijing reconstruction project after delivery.
A Chinese Long March-4B carrier rocket carrying two environmental monitoring satellites was launched from Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China’s Shanxi Province at 11:23 a.m. Sunday.
The new HJ–2A and HJ–2B satellites will replace the previous generation of environmental monitoring satellites HJ-1A and HJ-1B, to provide services concerning environmental protection, natural resources, water conservancy, agriculture and forestry,
Quadruped robot made by China’s Deep Robotics杭州云深处科技 The robot — powered by Huawei’s Atlas series AI processor — can run, jump & adapt to complicated outdoor environments such as grasslands and slopes, and can be used in education, military & industrial scenarios.
China successfully launched its HY-2C ocean-observation satellite into planned orbit on Monday afternoon via a Long March-4B carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in North China’s Shanxi Province. , forming a network with HY-2B and subsequent HY-2D satellites to carry out 24/7 all-weather high precision monitoring of maritime data.
A Chinese research team has implemented the world’s first quantum secure direct communication (QSDC) system. The breakthrough provides a promising solution to counter threats in the area of communication security.
Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences revealed at the 2020 ZGC Forum on Saturday that they have implemented the world’s first QSDC system.
The present system can operate with a communication rate of 4kb/s at a distance of 10 kilometers, bringing QSDC further toward practical applications.
Alibaba launched a cloud computer named “Wuying 无影” at its 2020 Computing Conference. The computer has no localhost or CPU, and all of its hardware is stored at the cloud end’s data center, reducing computing power by more than 50% if the cloud computer is widely used.
