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Stealth Technology In A Can Could Make Suicide Drones Invisible A Turkish defense startup claims it has developed a spray-on radar-absorbing paint coating that could reduce the radar signature of one-way attack drones without the exorbitant costs of traditional stealth materials, a capability once only reserved for major defense primes. Military and defense news outlet The Defense Blog reports that researcher Yunus İnce, along with colleagues at a small defense research firm, has developed a spray-on radar-absorbent material called "Kürşat 3.0." A Turkish startup claims it built a spray-on coating that makes...

US Tests Mach-5 Hypersonic Missile In Joint Army-Navy Launch Authored by Georgina Jedikovska via Interesting Engineering, The U.S. has carried out a successful launch of a hypersonic missile made to travel at speeds exceeding Mach 5, meaning over five times the speed of sound, which allows it to cover vas distances in a matter of minutes. A common hypersonic missile launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, on March 26, 2026. via DoW The launch of the common hypersonic missile, which is capable of covering more than 3,836 miles per hour (mph),...

El Nino Crushes Atlantic Hurricane Activity, Lowest Since 1941 The peak of the Atlantic hurricane season arrives next Thursday, yet by this point the basin would normally have produced multiple systems tracking through the Caribbean, the Gulf of America, and the open Atlantic. This year, however, a strengthening El Niño and record vertical wind shear are tearing apart disturbances before they can rapidly intensify. Bloomberg reports that only five short-lived tropical storms have formed this season, and none has intensified into a hurricane. The Atlantic has not recorded so little...