An A-10C Thunderbolt II assigned to the 75th Fighter Squadron performs a low-angle strafe during the Hawgsmoke competition at Barry M. Goldwater Range, Ariz., June 2, 2016. (Senior Airman Chris Drzazgowski/U.S. Air Force).
The Air Force plans to retire its legendary A-10 Warthogs within the next five years and it’s still not clear how the service will be able to provide troops on the ground with the level of close air support that the A-10 brings to the fight.
Mike Brown, the former director of the Defense Innovation Unit, is hopeful senators will support a proposal by House lawmakers to create a $1 billion fund to support the acquisition and fielding of “hedge” capabilities for the U.S. military. And he told DefenseScoop that Ukraine should serve as a “proving ground” for commercial technologies that the Pentagon might want to buy.
Poland received the first shipment of US-made Abrams advanced tanks on Wednesday, its defense minister said, as the country strengthens its military capabilities in the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Warsaw authorities ordered 366 Abrams tanks from the United States, with the first batch of 14 tanks that arrived in the port city of Szczecin.
“The first tanks are already on Polish soil; it is an important day for the Polish army,” Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak told reporters.
The shipment is part of a $1.
The Department of State has made a decision approving a possible military sale to the Government of Canada of P-8A aircraft and related equipment at an estimated cost of $5.9 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency has today delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this potential sale.
As digital intrusions and physical attacks on critical infrastructure intensify, the Office of Naval Research, Saab and Purdue University are set to collaboratively develop advanced artificial intelligence capabilities that can automatically pinpoint and make sense of threats in complex scenarios to bolster the military’s situational awareness.
ONR awarded a $13 million grant to Saab for its Threat and Situational Understanding with Networked-Online Machine Intelligence (TSUNOMI) program, of which roughly $4.3 million is expected to filter to Purdue as a four-year subcontract.
The Defender returns to Portsmouth after ten years at sea and is preparing for a refit that will allow it to perform at its best.
The Royal Navy’s HMS Defender, an iconic destroyer, has concluded its first chapter and is about to undergo a two-year revamp.
After a decade of operations, the ship’s renovation will include advanced upgrades to its propulsion, missile systems and other components, ensuring its continued effectiveness in safeguarding the seas.
After ten years of tireless service, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender has returned to her home port of Portsmouth.
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Special operators and other personnel from across the U.S. military recently concluded an exercise focused heavily on preparing them to conduct guerilla warfare and other tasks deep behind enemy lines. Some of the scenarios featured what looked to be a mock Russian S-300 or S-400 surface-to-air missile system and what might be stand-ins for kamikaze drones, pointing to direct influences from the fighting that is happening right now in Ukraine.
America’s AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air missile, better known as the AMRRAM, is a radar-guided missile carried by a variety of fighters to engage enemy aircraft at beyond-visual ranges. The Air Force lists the AMRAAM’s range as 20+ miles, which, in terms of the weapon’s latest iterations, could be a contender for understatement of the […]
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Early this morning, just days after Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) leader launched, then aborted a mutiny against Moscow, The War Zone caught up with the head of the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Directorate (GUR) for his assessment of the situation and more.
Maj. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, in his second interview with us since November, told The War Zone when Ukraine became aware of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny operation and how it affected operations on the battlefield.
Lithuania is purchasing two NASAMS systems as donations to contribute to the air-defence of Ukraine, in a deal with Kongsberg worth $10.7m.
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