Rocket-Powered Bell X-2 – Fast and Dangerous

The Bell X-2 (nicknamed “Starbuster”) was an X-plane research aircraft built to investigate flight characteristics in the Mach 2–3 range. The X-2 was a rocket-powered, swept-wing research aircraft developed jointly in 1945 by Bell Aircraft Corporation, the United States Air Force and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to explore aerodynamic problems of supersonic flight and to expand the speed and altitude regimes obtained with the earlier X-1 series of research aircraft. Continue reading

Spanish Navy Acquires Marine Instruments M5D-Airfox Drone

The Spanish Navy has closed with Marine Instruments, a Spanish company developing and manufacturing marine technology, the purchase of three M5D-Airfox UAV systems. This acquisition, valued at 1 million euros, represents the culmination of the national and international exercises that the maritime UAV system has been carrying out with the Navy since 2021 and which, phase by phase, it is successfully completing. Continue reading