My $80 Smartwatch Costs A Third Of An Apple Watch — And 'Outperforms In Every Way'

This smartwatch is the kind of device that does its job well, without making you wonder why you didn’t just spend hundreds ...
FLYING Magazine

Military Moves One Step Closer to Self-Flying C-130J

The U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) is one step closer to flying the C-130J Super Hercules—one of its workhorse tactical airlift and transport aircraft—with zero human input.
Air Force Technology

Merlin advances C-130J autonomy programme with successful PDR

Merlin Labs has completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for its C-130J autonomy programme in collaboration with the US USSOCOM.
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The day the largest plane ever landed on an aircraft carrier

Few people believed it could be done. In the early 1960s, the U.S. Navy faced a growing logistics problem as aircraft ...

130th Airlift Wing returns from Horn of Africa deployment

Families lined the runway at the McLaughlin Air National Guard Base in Charleston Thursday to welcome home the airmen of the ...
Inside Defense

Merlin wraps preliminary design review for SOCOM C-130J autonomy program

Merlin Labs has completed a preliminary design review to enable C-130J Super Hercules with the firm’s autonomous pilot for U.S. Special Operations Command, the company announced today. “This approval ...
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The C-130 landing at Camp Duc that should have been impossible

Camp Duc’s mission flipped from routine resupply to a collapsing evacuation with almost no warning, and the airfield turned into a trap. Orders to stop were reversed, loading plans broke down, and ...