Author: Michael

Boeing Defense Australia

The nature of air combat is about to drastically change. The need to rapidly gain advanced and highly autonomous uncrewed aircraft that work collaboratively with crewed types is becoming an imperative for U.S. and allied air arms. Aging existing fighter aircraft and newer ones that are increasingly expensive to acquire and sustain, paired with pilot shortages and rapidly evolving threats abroad mean that the old way of doing the air combat business is becoming no longer sustainable.

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Boeing Defense Australia

The nature of air combat is about to drastically change. The need to rapidly gain advanced and highly autonomous uncrewed aircraft that work collaboratively with crewed types is becoming an imperative for U.S. and allied air arms. Aging existing fighter aircraft and newer ones that are increasingly expensive to acquire and sustain, paired with pilot shortages and rapidly evolving threats abroad mean that the old way of doing the air combat business is becoming no longer sustainable.

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A bill passed by the House Armed Services Committee would task the Department of Defense to assess the resiliency of its cyber operators.
During the committee’s markup of the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, an amendment offered by Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wisc. — who chairs the HASC subcommittee on cyber, innovative technologies and information systems — would require the DOD’s principal cyber advisor, the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness along with the principal cyber advisors of the services and the commander of U.S.

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A soldier write english phrases during a Pashto/English class, May 3, 2012, at Observation Post Mustang, Kunar province, Afghanistan.
(Staff Sgt. Trey Harvey/U.S. Army).

In a further sign that the U.S. military wants to forget that the Afghanistan War ever happened, the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in Monterey, California will cease teaching Pashto to service members and civilians after November.
Pashto is one of Afghanistan’s national languages and is used for official communications by the Taliban, which has controlled the country since the chaotic U.S.

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Hanwha Systems will partner with Leonardo to develop AESA radars for export. Hanwha Systems has earlier developed AESA radars for South Korea’s KF-21 fighter aircraft (pictured) in collaboration with the ADD. (Defense Acquisition Program Administration)
South Korea’s Hanwha Systems has signed an agreement with Leonardo to collaborate on the development and export of active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars for light combat aircraft (LCA).

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