TECHNOLOGY

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,…

China has launched the Shenzhou-22 spacecraft on its first-ever emergency mission to return three astronauts stranded at the Tiangong Space Station. The Long March-2F Y22 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Launch Center at 12:11…

Türkiye’s Bayraktar KIZILELMA unmanned combat aircraft has become the world’s first UCAV to fly with an embedded electro-optical targeting system. The TOYGUN EOTS, developed by ASELSAN, was successfully integrated and tested at the…