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Recent reports cover Boeing’s F-47 contract, laser-guided rockets fired from F-15E jets against drones, a new fighter engine and missile range tests, as well as the Golden Dome interceptor trials. Beyond defence, pieces look at the share of solar and wind among new US power plants, compensation for Trinity test victims and medieval leather goods unearthed in Norway.
Some items are lighter, such as a monarch butterfly saved by a wing transplant. Readers following defence technology should read the aircraft and missile stories together, since they overlap and complete each other. Figures quoted in the headlines, such as contract values or ranges, come from the sources cited in each report.
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IN A NUTSHELL Trinity Test victims in New Mexico are now eligible for compensation under a revised law. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) has…
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