Ukrainian missile maker Fire Point has changed the published specifications of its FP-7.x anti-ballistic interceptor, now listing a combined infrared and radar seeker for the weapon instead of the infrared-only seeker it described earlier. The company posted an updated specification
  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 days ago

    Read that they use solid fuel, for various reasons, one being that liquin fuels are very cold and satellites can actually spot it when you “fill them up” before launch. Solid propellant makes it fireable in under a minute. From a normal truck too.

    They have also (but that was maybe the “9”) put several satellites in orbit as a test.

    Insane what they achieve.

  • hauke@lemmy.world
    6·
    16 days ago

    Good article respectively blog post. Compact, no blah blah and almost no ads. Thank you for sharing.

    • supersquirrel@lemmy.caOP
      5·
      16 days ago

      Yeah I don’t really consider defense-blog a “blog” despite their name. Sometimes articles are short but they are usually technically very informed and they contextualize the implications of the technical stuff well.