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June 5th, 2009 | Aviation Science and technology | Posted by Phil Ewing
Powerful new batteries mean this robot has even better endurance for high-stakes coffee-retrieval missions
Lots of high-tech developments this week in the naval services and elsewhere:
- The littoral combat ship Freedom, which is pretty high-tech, is set to make a port visit to Charleston, S.C.
- The Office of Naval Research has developed powerful new batteries to extend the lives of the bomb-disposal robots used to protect explosive ordnance disposal technicians.
- The Navy dedicated a new research lab at Naval Surface Warfare Center Corona, Calif., to the memory of a sailor killed in Iraq while operating with a SEAL unit.
- A giant Australian cargo plane was photographed swallowing not one, but two F/A-18 Hornets.
- The high-speed, low-drag experimental boat Stiletto is deploying to chase drug smugglers this summer.