An early Tranche 1 Eurofighter Typhoon of the RAF. Eurofighter
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that “nothing is off the table” in response to a renewed call for fighter jets from Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky during a high-profile visit to the United Kingdom on February 8. Speculation rapidly began to grow about the possibility of the United Kingdom providing Kyiv with at least some of its older Eurofighter Typhoon jets.
A special operations troop call “good effects” over the radio after a precision strike on a target during the Special Operations Terminal Attack Controller Course at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, Nov. 2, 2020. (U.S. Air Force Photo.
There’s a new movie, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, coming out this spring about a former Army Special Forces soldier who travels back to Afghanistan to rescue a former interpreter who saved his life. In the trailer, we see Jake Gyllenhaal’s character with a beard, a baseball cap, Oakleys, and all the traditional operator accouterment.
Where’s the beef? (Task & Purpose photo illustration).
Out of all of the A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft in the U.S. Air Force’s fleet, an A-10 Warthog with the serial number 81-994 may be among the most unique for one simple reason: it’s the only aircraft we know of to sport kill markings for taking out a cow downrange.
Russian firearms were very outdated in the 19th century. So, to survive on the European battlefields, the Russian military turned to cowboy guns.
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This latest issue of Global Defence Technology once more brings you all the latest insight and analysis into the technologies, policies, and influencing factors in the defence space.
A year of war in Ukraine has left hundreds of thousands of military personnel injured or killed in fighting not seen on the European continent for generations, along with tens of thousands of pieces of military equipment destroyed and a Ukrainian national recapitalisation effort leveraging virtually every capability that its NATO supporters have to offer.
The Peregrine UAS, which comprises a Schiebel S-100 Camcopter and a Thales I-Master radar, will be deployed on board an RN Type 23 frigate in the Gulf from 2024. (Schiebel)
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Thales and Schiebel a GBP20 million (USD24.1 million) contract to supply the Royal Navy (RN) with a rotary-wing unmanned aircraft system (RUAS) to meet an urgent capability requirement (UCR) for enhanced situational awareness, principally in the Gulf region.
A U.S. Army Ranger Combat Medic conducts routine medical training during 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment’s task force training August 2019. (U.S. Army).
Combat medics could have a revolutionary new tool for saving lives if a recently-announced military research program is successful.
Missile Strike on Humanitarian Convoy in Zaporizhzhia
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According to Ukrainian officials, Friday saw more of the eerily consistent nationwide missile strikes that Russia has been conducting across the country for months. However, there was a noticeable uptick in the number of strikes Russia conducted on Friday with Moscow firing up to 35 S-300 missiles at Zaporizhzhia and the Kharkiv region. The escalated strikes caused additional power outages overnight across the country.
The US Army has announced the award of a requirements contract to AM General for the production of up to 20,682 Joint Light Tactical Vehicles (JLTV) and up to 9,883 JLTV trailers.
The total contract value is $8.66bn, and the follow-on production contract amounted to $230.8mn states the US Department of Defense.
The U.S. military is using the Defender unmanned underwater vehicle manufactured by VideoRay to search for debris from the Chinese balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina last week, DefenseScoop has confirmed.
The Department of Defense on Thursday released an image of a UUV being prepared for deployment by sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2, which is participating in the search effort. On Friday morning, a DOD spokesman confirmed to DefenseScoop that the platform in the photo is the Defender undersea drone.
Earlier this week, Gen.
