TECHNOLOGY

Türkiye’s Bayraktar AKINCI combat drone has successfully test-fired the domestically developed Winged Guidance Kit 82 (KGK 82), further expanding its advanced operational capabilities. The unmanned aerial vehicle took off from a flight test…

The private Japanese space company Space One saw its "Kairos" rocket fail for the third time on Thursday after a self-destruct order was issued mid-flight. The rocket lifted off from Spaceport Kii at 11:10 a.m. local time but experienced a…

Japan-based SkyDrive Inc. successfully conducted the first demonstration flight of its “SD-05” flying car in Tokyo. The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft flew for about 3.5 minutes over Tokyo Bay, covering 150 meters…

The National Transportation Safety Board released a simulation of last year’s mid-air collision near Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. that killed 67 people. The cockpit-view reconstruction shows the military helicopter was…

A female drone operator is playing a leading role in Türkiye’s first unmanned combat aircraft program, Bayraktar KIZILELMA. Elif Ergin, the KIZILELMA drone operator team leader at Baykar, also trains operators for the AKINCI and…

South Korea announced it has successfully completed all planned flight tests of its domestically developed KF-21 fighter jet. The Defense Acquisition Programme Administration (DAPA) said around 1,600 test flights have been conducted since…

The Turkish Armed Forces’ Land Forces Air Defense Command is playing a key role in Türkiye’s air defense with its domestically developed Steel Dome systems, including Hisar-A, Hisar-O, and Korkut. Based in Konya, the command uses…

South Korea’s Arirang 7 satellite was successfully launched aboard Arianespace’s Vega-C rocket from French Guiana, KASA announced. The satellite reached its planned orbit 44 minutes after liftoff, with first contact confirmed by KARI.…

Türkiye’s Bayraktar KIZILELMA became the world’s first unmanned combat aircraft to hit a jet-powered aerial target with a beyond-visual-range (BVR) missile. In a landmark test over Sinop, KIZILELMA detected a high-speed target using…

ASELSAN’s first Space-based IoT satellite, LUNA-1, was successfully launched from California aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 as part of the Transporter-15 mission. About an hour after liftoff, the satellite entered a 510-km sun-synchronous orbit,…