In the coming weeks, the Army will introduce an online marketplace where the United States’ allies and partners can quickly purchase American-made defense systems.
The Foreign Military Sales Marketplace will be open to 25 foreign nations “in a couple of weeks or a month-ish” and will initially feature unmanned aerial systems and counter-drone technology, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll told reporters Wednesday. The goal is to simplify the service’s current FMS process, thereby speeding up weapons sales to other countries and bringing more business to the U.S.
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More than a dozen agencies gathered at Fort Bragg last week to game-out a worst-case scenario for the North Carolina installation.
All at once, drones attacked; a nearby water treatment plant was hacked, launching a wave of E. Coli across post that sickened countless soldiers readying to deploy; and a municipal worker accidentally severed a fiber optic line critical for crisis communication while clearing debris.
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Russia’s Project 955A Borei-A class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine carries 15 Bulava intercontinental ballistic missiles — each armed with up to 10 multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) nuclear warheads. The 560-foot submarine displaces 24,000 tons submerged, runs on an OK-650 nuclear reactor and a pump-jet propulsion system, and reaches 30 knots submerged with minimal noise. The first Borei-A, Knyaz Vladimir, entered active duty on June 12, 2020 and is assigned to Russia’s Pacific fleet.
Europe’s flagship fighter jet program might need a reset, or at least Airbus thinks so.
The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), being spearheaded by France, Germany, and Spain, has been described as a “system of systems” built around a New Generation Weapon System.
FCAS Artist Photo Creation. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
FCAS Photo Artist Image. Image Credit: Creative Commons.
The plans would have crewed fighters, uncrewed remote carriers, and other platforms linked via a secure combat cloud.
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The next iteration of the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class fast attack submarine — Block VI — is designed to carry Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic weapons by 2028, operate Unmanned Underwater Vehicles like the Barracuda sea drone for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and hug the contours of the seafloor to evade enemy detection. The submarines will continue to use the Virginia Payload Module — the 80-foot hull insert that carries an additional 28 Tomahawk cruise missiles. Dr.
In November 2009, an Emirati pilot flying a French-built Mirage 2000 notionally shot down a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor during a joint wargame at Al Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates. The exercise included French Rafales and British Eurofighter Typhoons. The U.S. Air Force confirmed the single F-22 loss happened in close-quarters combat after the Raptor pilot made a tactical error. American pilots won six simulated dogfights against French Rafales and drew five more. The F-22 dominated almost every other engagement of the wargame.
Nobody asked Polaris to build a six-wheeled tactical vehicle that fits inside a helicopter, carries more payload than a Humvee, and can launch loitering munitions before the enemy figures out it left the ground. Then again, nobody had to; however, maybe there were some clues.
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Customers started showing up with problems their four-seater couldn’t solve, and Polaris answered the only way an engineering company knows how: Slap an extra axle on it.
The MRZR Alpha 6×6 is a pre-production prototype, technically speaking.
Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet pitched the F-55 Ferrari concept — a supercharged F-35 incorporating technology from the company’s failed sixth-generation fighter demonstrator — after losing the Next Generation Air Dominance program to Boeing’s F-47 in 2025. The F-35 took more than 20 years and over $1 trillion to develop, and its current readiness rating sits at barely 50%. The Technology Refresh-3 upgrade required for the full Block 4 modernization is years behind schedule.