A high-powered microwave weapon developed by Lockheed Martin was recently put through its paces at Yuma Proving Ground to evaluate its ability to defeat kamikaze drones, the Defense Department’s Joint Counter-small UAS Office (JCO) announced Thursday.
Lockheed’s Mobile Radio Frequency-Integrated UAS Suppressor (MORFIUS) — a tube-launched, fixed-wing unmanned aerial system — can fly close to small drones and attack them with high-powered microwave pulses, Col. Michael Parent, chief of the JCO’s acquisition and resources division, said during a teleconference with reporters.
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On Monday, July 10, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the Russian army destroyed two Ukrainian tanks, a T-72EA and a PT-91 Twardy, as well as an M113 armored personnel carrier (APC). This incident marks the first confirmed loss of PT-91 tanks donated by Poland.
The devastating attack by the Russian army dealt a heavy blow to the Ukrainian forces operating in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Among the casualties were Ukrainian T-72EA tanks, famous for their battlefield capabilities, and PT-91 Twardy tanks, donated by Poland to upgrade Ukraine’s armored forces.
Little Luxembourg is an easy target when it comes to criticizing NATO members who don’t spend enough on defense.
The Grand Duchy, one of the richest NATO countries and one of the first in Europe in terms of economic growth, currently spends 0.72% of its gross domestic product on its armed forces, according to the organization’s estimates for this year.
This places it at the bottom of the military alliance of 31 countries. However, the figures are deceiving, and that also applies to other members, such as Germany.
The future of the Wagner Group remains uncertain just over two weeks after its brief mutiny against the Russian Defense Ministry, but for now, Russia’s military is putting on a show of disarming the private mercenary organization – confiscating weapons, ammunition and other equipment.
The Russian Defense Ministry posted a video on Telegram on Wednesday showing a huge collection of military hardware that Moscow claims to have received from units of the Wagner Group. The video shows how heavy armored vehicles are loaded onto transport vehicles and how they are towed by trucks.
The Space Force’s Lt. Gen. Stephen Whiting has been tapped by President Biden to take over as head of U.S. Space Command, according to a congressional nomination notice.
Whiting currently serves as the first-ever head of Space Operations Command (SpOC) — the Space Force field command that acts as the Space Force’s primary service component to Spacecom. As an organization, SpOC is responsible for generating and sustaining much of the service’s space, cyber and intelligence capabilities.
A US Navy patrol plane flew over the delicate Taiwan Strait on Thursday after two days of Chinese military exercises in the south of the island, which Beijing considers Chinese sovereign territory.
China has been outraged by US military missions across the strait, most often by warships but occasionally by aircraft, claiming that China “has sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction” over the waterway.
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Kyiv’s forces have ha already received controversial cluster munitions promised by the U.S. last week, a top Ukrainian general told CNN Thursday.
“We just got them, we haven’t used them yet, but they can radically change [the battlefield],” Brig. Gen. Oleksandr Tarnavskyi, commander of the Tavria Joint Forces Operation, said in an interview Thursday with CNN‘s Alex Marquardt.
Air Force pararescuemen execute a static line jump from an MC-130P Combat Shadow over the Gulf of Tadjoura, Djibouti, March 21, 2013 (Staff Sgt. Devin Doskey/U.S. Air Force).
The Air Force has suspended reenlistment and retention bonuses and delayed permanent change of station moves because its personnel budget is running out of money.
“The funding shortfall resulted from higher than expected PCS [permanent change of station] costs as a result of inflation and the addition of recruiting and retention bonuses,” Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek told Task & Purpose.
Georgia, like Ukraine, was one of the contenders to join NATO. However, at alliance conferences, it is barely mentioned. Because?
This week, NATO leaders have met in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, to discuss security guarantees for war-torn Ukraine.
As Ukraine receives another future promise of NATO admission when “allies agree, and conditions are met”, Georgia is advised to “work on reforms.
Spencer Thomas is an Executive Vice President with First Veterans Mortgage and has spent the last two decades in the finance industry. But it was his time as a soldier which changed everything.
“I was the youngest of six kids and was an underachiever in high school. I never really pushed myself, but after my junior year I joined the Army Reserves through the SplitOps Program,” he shared.
Though Thomas set his sights on becoming a Marine, the Army won.