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Laser wall will shoot down rockets from Gaza.
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| Israel Set To Deploy National Laser Shield | Steve Trimble
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced a plan on Feb. 1 to deploy a “laser wall” in the country’s south later this year to shoot down rockets from Gaza.
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| Daily Memo: Airlines Face Up To Rising Fuel Costs | Helen Massy-Beresford
As Europe’s airlines look beyond the omicron coronavirus variant to what they hope will be a successful summer season, fuel is in focus, as jet fuel prices reach record highs. |
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| A Close-Up Look At GE Aviation's GE9X Turbofan | | The General Electric GE9X is a high-bypass turbofan developed by GE Aviation exclusively for the Boeing 777X. The first engine test took place in March 2016 and it first flew on March 13, 2018. |
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The Future Of Digital Twins
February 4, 2022 10.00 EST | 15.00 GMT | 16.00 CET
During the Apollo program, NASA created physical copies of rockets that were able to help engineers solve technical problems when an oxygen tank exploded. These early on-paper models led to the development of the digital twin, a way of having a computer-based platform that can mirror a physical product. And now the aerospace industry is developing digital triplets. Aviation Week Defense Editor Steve Trimble explains the history and sheds light on where the technology has been and where it is headed. |
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| In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Feb. 01, 2022 | | From news that a Kansas-based team plans to offer a tanker variant of a passenger-to-freighter version Boeing 777-300ER to the U.S. Air Force, to the delivery of a modernized sustainment tracking system to 14 U.S. and European bases by the F-35 Joint Program Office. Take a look at the daily roundup of aerospace & defense news. |
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| The Week In Defense, Feb. 2-9, 2022 | Jen DiMascio
A U.S. Air Force tanker contender; Belgium adds billions for defense; F-35’s new cloud-based logistic system; and F-15EX fires a weapon. |
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