(Image via DARPA).
Picture a dune-buggy-like vehicle, equipped with all manner of sensors and other data-collection devices, rolling across some extremely harsh desert terrain in California’s Mojave Desert. In the driver’s seat? No one, because it is the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency vehicle, which completed its first round of testing in off-road environments earlier this month.
As the Army is moving towards what it deems a unified network, the transition toward a central delivery of services and network defense will be a critical aspect to realizing the service’s vision.
Two years ago, the Army charted down the path of a unified network, where the walls between the tactical and enterprise portions are broken down, forming a singular entity. Previously, there was a tactical instantiation for soldiers on the battlefield to communicate and share data and a separate enterprise portion.
According to information from Europäische Sicherheit & Technik (European Security and Technology), the 18 Leopard 2A6 main battle tanks supplied by Germany to the Ukrainian army are to be replaced by an equal number of Leopard 2A8 advanced tanks instead of the previously proposed Leopard 2A7+ models.
Germany is considering placing a major order for Leopard 2A8 tanks from the German company Krauss-Maffei Wegmann.
The Leopard 2A8 will be built on the Leopard 2A7HU chassis and will feature a new engine and active protection systems. In 2018, Hungary ordered 44 of these tanks.
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We have a direct follow-up to our recent post on a number of advanced MiG-29s belonging to the Egyptian Air Force that were captured by Sudanese militia forces at Merowe Air Base outside the country’s capital of Khartoum. Satellite imagery obtained by The War Zone shows at least one of these aircraft destroyed and it is likely that others are badly damaged or destroyed, as well.
Ukraine is fighting to retake the Crimean peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014, while facing geographic and military challenges in its ongoing war.
Crimea: a difficult target for Ukraine
Since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Ukraine has sought to recapture the peninsula. The Ukrainian government has been increasingly emphatic in asserting its sovereignty, despite its obstacles in retaking it.
In the first months of the war, President Zelensky considered the possibility of negotiating the situation in Crimea in exchange for an end to the conflict.
The Office of the Secretary of Defense is requesting $25 million in fiscal 2024 for a new-start program to drive the development of underwater drones, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies for operations associated with an enhanced trilateral security partnership among Australia, the U.K. and the U.S.
Announced in 2021, the AUKUS pact encompasses the three allies’ joint plan to generate a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines for Australia and other next-generation military capabilities to deploy and ensure advantage against adversaries in the Indo-Pacific region.
Over the past ten years, China has been striving to build significant naval aviation capabilities. After reconditioning, under the name of CNS Liaoning, the old aircraft carrier Varyag, acquired from Ukraine for 20 million euros in 2000, he built CNS Shandong, which participated in the recent siege maneuver against Taiwan with its air group.
As a reminder, these two aircraft carriers are in STOBAR [Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery] configuration, meaning their flight deck is equipped with a springboard to launch their J-15 “Flying Shark” fighters and arresting cables to recover them.
(Screenshot via Taran Tactical/YouTube).
We all know Keanu Reeves is a badass on screen, but did you know the guy famous for John Wick and The Matrix is pretty legit offscreen too?
Just check out this YouTube video shows the 51-year-old action star tearing through a 3-gun relay drill, and looking operator as fuck with a full beard and baseball cap.
Looks like Keanu has actual John Wick gunfighting skills — at least on the range, anyway.
The video by Taran Tactical is aptly titled “Keanu shredding” and was uploaded to YouTube on March 3, 2016.
The South Korean military claimed to have fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat that had crossed the maritime border between the two countries while pursuing a Chinese fishing boat.
The North Korean patrol boat crossed the so-called Northern Limit Line at around 11 am Saturday while pursuing the Chinese vessel in waters near the South Korean island of Baekryeong but withdrew immediately after a South Korean naval vessel fired warning shots, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff reported on Sunday.
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As fighting between rival government factions intensifies across much of Sudan, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, recently claimed to have taken control of an airbase in the north of the country where Egypt has deployed MiG-29M/M2 Fulcrum multirole fighter jets. The status of the jets and the airbase are currently unclear, with the confused situation being typical of the violence in Sudan, which has now reportedly claimed at least 97 lives and injured many more.
The RSF is currently engaged in fighting Sudanese military units loyal to Gen.
