🛳️ US Navy launches world’s 1st unmanned air warfare center, China creates super-strong gold by punching holes in it, Japan on possible 9.1-magnitude megaquake alert

The US Navy has installed the world’s first Unmanned Air Warfare Center (UAWC) aboard USS George HW Bush (CVN 77), where Air Vehicle Pilots (AVPs) will control future MQ-25 Stingray airborne operations.

This major installation was a multi-year effort coordinated across multiple ship availability periods and the ship’s deployment schedule.

The CVN-based control room, the UAWC, includes software and hardware systems that comprise the first fully operational and integrated Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control System (UMCS) MD-5E Ground Control Station (GCS). For more on this development, check out today’s Must-Read.

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🛳️ World’s 1st unmanned air warfare center launched aboard USS George HW Bush

UMCS is the system-of-systems required for the MQ-25 air vehicle command and control and is critical to the unmanned aircraft refueler’s operations.

“CVN 77’s UAWC lays the foundation for how the U.S. Navy will operate and control unmanned aircraft, and perhaps other unmanned vehicles, with UMCS,” said Unmanned Carrier Aviation (PMA-268) Program Manager Capt. Daniel Fucito.

“These systems will initially support the MQ-25 but also future unmanned systems such as Collaborative Combat Aircraft that comprise the Air Wing of the Future.”

🥇 China claims to have created 100% super-strong gold by puncturing holes in it

Chinese scientists have unveiled a novel method to produce pure gold that combines lightweight properties with remarkable strength.

This innovative approach, developed by researchers at the Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, involves forming uniformly small pores within the solid metal.

The implications of this research could significantly impact the aerospace, automotive, and consumer electronics industries, where there is a pressing need for materials that are both strong and lightweight.

🌊 Japan megaquake could raise 33-foot tsunami, kill 320,000, evict 9.5 million

Scientists in China have warned that Japan is at serious risk of a mega earthquake from a fault line off the country’s east coast.

The potential earthquake poses a threat to millions of lives and could be devastating to the global economy, scientists from the Seismological Society of China warned in a video posted online.

In the video, Gao Mengtan from the Institute of Geophysics at the China Earthquake Administration explained that a partial rupture within the Nankai Trough, the origin of the recent earthquake, could trigger a magnitude 8.5 quake. Meanwhile, a complete rupture could lead to a magnitude 9.1 earthquake.

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