A Seahawk USV participates in a U.S. Pacific Fleet exercise, April 2021. (CMCS Shannon Renfroe/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy is moving swiftly to integrate and deploy unmanned surface vessels, with three ...
The Navy was not planning to unveil a new class of ship last year, much less two, but November and December brought the cancellation of a frigate program, the launch of another, and the comeback—at ...
For the first time, physicists in China have virtually eliminated the friction felt between two surfaces at scales visible to the naked eye. In demonstrating "structural superlubricity," the team, led ...