Saudi Arabia has signed a deal with Turkey to buy drones from Ankara in the “biggest” military contract in Turkish history. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan struggles to absorb foreign investment to revive the country’s battered economy.
The deal was finalized in the Saudi port city of Jeddah on Tuesday, a day after Erdogan, accompanied by an entourage of some 200 businessmen, arrived in Saudi Arabia on the first leg of his Persian Gulf tour.
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Although evidence of Russia using some kind of hastily fielded glide bombs during its war in Ukraine started to appear at the beginning of this year, for many months there was little information available about what was dubbed the “Russian JDAM.” Now, more details have emerged about the UMPK, or Unifitsirovannyi Modul Planirovaniya i Korrektsii, meaning unified gliding and correction module.
The United States will announce a new $1.3 billion military package to Ukraine in the coming days, Reuters reported on July 18, citing two unnamed US officials.
The weapons package includes air defenses, anti-drone systems, kamikaze drones, and ammunition. Among the systems and munitions the US plans to purchase for Kyiv are anti-aircraft defenses made by L3Harris Technologies (LHX.N) called Vehicle-Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment, or VAMPIRE.
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office wants innovators to come forward with artificial intelligence and other high-tech capabilities that could enhance satellite resiliency, according to an announcement about this year’s Hyperspace Challenge program.
The Hyperspace Challenge, which first kicked off in 2018, is a business accelerator funded by the Space Force and Air Force Research Lab in partnership with CNM Ingenuity — a nonprofit connected to Central New Mexico Community College.
UK Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace said the provisional layout of the Global Response Force is a light brigade and 16 Air Assault Brigade (pictured training in Morocco in late 2022), supported by a logistical support brigade. (Crown copyright)
The UK is forming a Global Response Force to “get there first”, according to the Defence Command Paper (DCP23) refresh published on 18 July. The force will bring together the UK’s deployed and high-readiness forces and draw on capabilities from all domains.
Since entering service in 2003, the Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon has been the backbone of combat air defense for the UK, flying more operational hours than ever before by 2022.
Eurofighters Typhoon covers a full spectrum of air operations, including aerial surveillance, peace support and high-intensity conflict.
The aircraft is now in the middle of its useful life and must evolve to remain relevant in the rapidly changing landscape of modern warfare.
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Members of the U.S. Senate are pressing the Department of Defense to adopt more uniform policies to limit the ability of third parties, including the general public, to track U.S. military flights via their Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast transponders. Senators have expressed particular concern about the current ease with which aircraft carrying senior officials can be monitored. If these measures become systemically implemented, it could severely limit the ability for the public to track aerial movements of U.S. military aircraft.
Former President Donald Trump’s plan to quickly end the war in Ukraine has been dismissed by military analysts who told Newsweek that ending the conflict will be a complex process that will take time.
In a recent interview, Trump said he could end the ongoing war in Ukraine within 24 hours and expressed his support for helping Ukraine in its fight against Russia. The former president has argued in the past that he could end the conflict in a single day, which earned him criticism from other Republicans and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
On June 27, 1923, the U.S. Army Air Service did something that had never been done before. 1st Lts. Virgil Hine and Frank W. Seifert used a gravity hose to pass gasoline from their DH-4B biplane to another DH-4B piloted by Capt. Lowell H. Smith and 1st Lt. John P. Richter. Since that first successful aerial refueling, the Air Force has mastered the art and used it to project air power for 100 years.
The art of aerial refueling began in 1923 (U.S. Air Force)
On June 27, 2023, the Air Force conducted flyovers across all 50 states to celebrate the 100th anniversary of aerial refueling.
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